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In this week’s edition of “Policlips Now,” we’re highlighting the best political clips you may have missed while you were working. Whether it was Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) crude Bill…
NEW YORK — The Boston Globe has been lucky the past three presidential election cycles, with Massachusetts’ then-Sen. John Kerry or former Gov. Mitt Romney in the race. The Globe’s…
“This unprecedented move threatens to undermine the important bipartisan approach toward Israelwhich as a long standing supporters of Israel troubles us deeply,” the senators wrote. They invited the prime minister…
ROME — For the past month, as Greece once again emerged as a threat to the global economy, a new generation of populist Greek leaders vowed to shatter Europe’s austerity…
Instead, as his star rises among conservatives and he moves toward a 2016 presidential bid, Walker is insisting those questions are a media-manufactured sideshowand he’ll have nothing to do with…
Mariam Ghani’s apartment is a map to her layered identity. Books rise from floor to ceiling, black binders of redacted Guantánamo Bay interrogations sharing shelf space with critical theory and…
ISTANBUL — “You are free to throw snowballs at this window,” the signs say in the Kadikoy district on the Asian side of Istanbul, and not because the shopkeepers here…
WASHINGTON — Apple has ended its relationship with a lobbyist in Alabama who had a record of opposing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people while serving in the…
Race is an absurd illusion with material consequences, a paradox that makes it slippery to discuss. (In the words of author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “race only matters because of racism.”)…
Would Barack Obama have been elected president without David Axelrod? That question is less far-fetched than it may seem. To be sure, Obama is a man of prodigious talents —…
The Grammys are February 8, and while LGBT artists have always been well-represented in music, there are some genres that don’t get their due. Take punk rock—born out of 1970s…
HONG KONG — East Timor’s prime minister, Xanana Gusmão, submitted his resignation Friday, as the government begins a political restructuring meant to ease the young country’s often-fraught politics. – Though…
ROME — Less than two weeks after taking power in national elections, Greece’s leftist-led government now is taking Europe. Fashion critics in London are debating whether the Greek finance minister…
LONDON — Presidential politics can be a humbling business. Local renown is revealed, uneasily, to be just that: It translates poorly onto a bigger stage, allowing a man accustomed to…
WASHINGTON — President Ronald Reagan remains a venerated figure in American politics, even as folks on the left have been taking a more critical look at his economic legacy in…
The two-time candidate and his camp insist that the 2016 version is, at long last, the real one. But other Republicans think they already know the authentic Mitt. Read the…
After a two-year hiatus from politics, unemployment trutherism made its return to the Republican campaign trail on Monday, making a brief appearance alongside Rick Perry at an Iowa breakfast. According…
Machiavelli once said that “politics have no relation to morals.” But do politics have any relation to fashion? It’s a question that continues to rattle the very foundations of this…
In case we need any reminder that gun politics can be over the top, there’s the recent report that gunmaker PARA USA regrets supplying weapons to the action flick “Taken…
Wendell Ford, a former governor and U.S. senator who was the dominant figure in Democratic politics in Kentucky for 30 years, has died. He was 90. – Copyright 2015 The…
His frontal assault on the open secrets of New York political power has been a genuine shock to the state’s politics and even to its press, who missed the secret…
These are all the hot topics around the “Inside Politics” table this week: 1. What Obama’s trip to India reveals about his SOTU agenda President Obama says he’s on the…