Trump successfully mobilised voters who previously did not function as a group. Older white males gravitated to him. With his leering and hubristic bar-room campaign, he became their standard bearer
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John F Kennedy’s presidency was defined by Cuba, first in the botched Bay of Pigs invasion, then in the stand-off with Khrushchev in the Cuban missile crisis
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Barak Obama and Raul Castro at the Summit of the Americas A handshake and four simple words – “those days are past” – signalled a new era of diplomacy between the United States of America and Latin America. The…
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Lady Sings the Blues: Billie Holiday Some voices are so compelling you just have to stop and listen. The American jazz singer Billie Holiday has such a voice. Lady Day, as she became known, was a survivor. By the…
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