There are times when, as a politician, you have to hold your nose, to smile politely and get on with it. Yesterday, in New Zealand’s parliament, was supposed to be one of those times. My Green party colleagues and I were asked to support a government motion to congratulate Donald Trump on winning the US Read more
It has been an upsetting week. Expectations got turned upside down, uncertainty about the future now abounds and (in the opinion of most New Zealanders at least) what was right and reasonable lost out to what most appealed to the great unwashed, no matter how plausible or truthful. Donald Trump is now the president-elect of Read more
The annual Al Smith Dinner – a charitable event – has been messed up this year by Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump. For the past 70 years the Al Smith Dinner has raised money for children in honor of the honorable Catholic politician Al Smith. Smith was elected the Governor of New York four times Read more
By now most of you must have heard the leaked tape where Donald Trump explains to Billy Bush that he often kisses women without permission and grabs them by their genitals as they both die with laughter at how funny that is. I was pretty upset about that tape, but not because I am a Read more
When Donald Trump disparaged the parents of fallen Army Capt. Humayun Khan, he didn’t just pick a fight with the Khans. He now faces the ire of hundreds of Muslim American women. It started when Trump responded to the Khans’ appearance on Thursday (July 28) at the Democratic National Convention. During that appearance, Humayun Khan’s mother, Read more
From time to time, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton invoke their respective Christian faiths as something that animates them and informs their world views. But unlike Republican and Democratic presidential candidates in the recent past, such as Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush, who were comfortable discussing their religious beliefs, the major party nominees in Read more