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U.S. POLITICS

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 25, 2017
The Democrats are a lost cause
As long as the Democratic Party's leadership is owned by big-monied special interests, it will never give the people what they want and need.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2017
America's liberals want Republicans to not be Republicans
The U.S. left's criticism of GOP lawmakers for not breaking with Trump is hollow and self-serving.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 4, 2017
To comprehend Trump, read this
Three books and two magazine articles shed a lot of light on the U.S. president's baffling behavior.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 26, 2017
America's Russian-roulette presidency
There's no relief in sight for Donald Trump as investigators probe whether his compaign colluded with Russian efforts to tip the U.S. presidential election in his favor.
EDITORIALS
Jun 13, 2017
An extraordinary moment of political theater
Former FBI Director James Comey's testimony confirmed the dangerous inclinations of U.S. President Donald Trump.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 13, 2017
Comey's 'smoking gun' could take out Trump
If the American people think Donald Trump is a crook, they will have to vote to flip the House and the Senate from red to blue in November 2018 so impeachment proceedings can begin.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 6, 2017
Trump surrendering U.S. soft power
By withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, the U.S. has handed China a geopolitical gift by ceding global leadership to Beijing.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 30, 2017
What do the Democrats want? No one knows
Once the party of the working man, the Democrats have sold out to corporate America.
COMMENTARY / World
May 29, 2017
On the road to impeachment?
There are high hurdles in the way of impeaching a U.S. president, which is as it should be.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 17, 2017
Comey memo of Trump request describes a high crime
Right around now, the president is probably asking himself whether firing the FBI director was the right decision. And if he isn't, he should be.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2017
Trump voters' message: we exist
Donald Trump hasn't lifted a finger to help Rust Belters as president, but he did far more than the Democratic Party's elites during the election when he acknowledged their existence.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2017
Threats to liberal democracy
Benjamin Franklin's declaration 'the price of liberty is eternal vigilance' matters now more than ever in the age of Donald Trump.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 9, 2017
Why I'm still happy Hillary lost
Despite U.S. President Donald Trump's dangerous flaws, the world is still better off without Hillary Clinton leading America.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 9, 2017
Trump has a dangerous disability
Donald Trump's fathomless lack of interest in America's path to the present and his limitless gullibility leave him susceptible to being blown about by gusts of factoids that cling like lint to a disorderly mind.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2017
Donald Trump's unexamined life
Ignorance of one's own ignorance — is Trump's most troubling characteristic.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 17, 2017
Why Trump is so hated by liberals
Pick a Trump outrage that's got liberals in a tizzy and you can find a similar policy they had no problem with when it was authored by Obama.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 29, 2017
Five things Democrats could do to save party
Republicans could come out of the Trump debacle stronger than they went in if Democrats don't act to avoid political irrelevance.
EDITORIALS
Mar 27, 2017
A bruising defeat for Trump, GOP
The failure of the GOP to advance its health care reform bill in Congress has undermined confidence in the party as an agent of change and tarnishing the reputation of the president as a man who can get things done.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2017
Is America's Democratic Party destined to split?
Growing friction between liberal Democrats and the party's center-right corporate leadership caste could spur a divorce.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 7, 2017
Trump has already shifted the media landscape
For the first time in decades, centrist and left-of-center media organizations and individual journalists in the U.S. face strong competition from the right.
Tokyo is the No. 2 choice for international students
The University of Tokyo. International students are increasingly flocking to Asia, with affordability being a particularly important metric.
Junglia, Japan’s newest theme park, opens in northern Okinawa
In Junglia’s Dinosaur Safari attraction during a media preview on Thursday, a casual drive through a habitat for the prehistoric creatures goes haywire when several Tyrannosaurus rexes break out of containment.
Extreme heat grips Japan, including even Hokkaido
The city of Obihiro in Hokkaido amid scorching heat on Thursday
‘Demon Slayer’ movie slashes its own box office records
“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle” is the first installment in a trilogy that's set to wrap the anime adaptation of Koyoharu Gotoke's manga about sword-wielding heroes fighting man-eating demons.
Ishiba rules out joint document on U.S. tariffs as deal's details trickle out
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a speech at an event in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Friday afternoon.
Behind the scenes: Inside Fuji Rock’s strategy for staying on top
In recent years, Fuji Rock has had fewer blockbuster performers and showcased more top-selling Japanese acts and international musicians' first-time performances in Japan.
Tokyo is the No. 2 choice for international students
The University of Tokyo. International students are increasingly flocking to Asia, with affordability being a particularly important metric.
Hall of Fame always held deeper meaning for Ichiro
Ichiro presents then-Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson with the bat he used to break the single-season hits record in 2004.
Japan leans into homegrown AI amid rising competition
McKinsey’s 2025 Technology Trends Outlook, published Wednesday, says that the use of “sovereign AI” is a trend gaining significant global traction, including in Japan.

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