Vladimir Putin

Putin’s Revenge

Humiliated by the 1990s, Russia’s strongman is determined to win Cold War 2.0. He may be succeeding.

By MICHAEL CROWLEY

 

December 16, 2016

Twenty years before Vladimir Putin began his ingenious campaign to influence the U.S. presidential election, his predecessor as Russia’s president stood on a dark street near the White House. In his underpants. Looking for a pizza.

Donald Trump's Victory is a dark day for the world

Donald Trump

Donald Trump's Victory: a dark day for the world

This is a political and cultural cataclysm that few believed would really happen. It’s a bleak day for America, and for the pluralism and diversity the country has come to stand for 

Donald Trump / Un loco a cargo del manicomio

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he unthinkable is only unthinkable until it happens. Then, like the sack of Rome, it can seem historically inevitable. So it is with the global political earthquake that is the election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States. If he is true to his campaign pledges, which were many and reckless, Mr Trump’s win will herald America’s most stunning reversal of political and economic orthodoxy since the New Deal in the 1930s, but with the reverse effect. It halts the ailing progressive narrative about modern America and the 21st-century world in its tracks. It signals a seismic rupture in the American-dominated global liberal economic and political order that had seemed to command the 21st century after communism collapsed and China’s economy soared.

Steve Bell on the US election result – cartoon

Hillary, Bill and me / On growing up in the shadow of Monica Lewinsky

Monica Lewinsky

Hillary, Bill and me: on growing up in the shadow of Monica Lewinsky

Young women do understand the significance of the former secretary of state’s candidacy – but it’s the demonization of a guileless intern that has one writer reflecting on the Democrat’s complacency when misogyny hit close to home

Jean Hannah Edelstein
Sunday 21 February 2016 13.00 GMT

‘Who among us, when confronted by infidelity, has not felt the urge to place the blame on the guilty party who is not our partner?’ Photograph: Vin Ganapathy for The Guardian

Bill Clinton taught me about blow jobs. Indirectly, but: in early 1998, 16 years old, I lived in a sleepy semi-rural suburb in upstate New York, where I spent a lot of time reading mid-20th century British novels. My parents discouraged me from watching R-rated movies, we did not have cable television, and I hung out with a crew of girls who were, by and large, very good at math.

Bill Clinton looking up at his portrait during its unveiling at the Smithsonian Castle Building in Washington. Photograph: Haraz N Ghanbari/AP

Bill Clinton portrait artist hints at Monica Lewinsky scandal

Nelson Shanks: ‘I could never get this Monica thing completely out of my mind and it is subtly incorporated in the painting’

Alan Yuhas in Washington
Tuesday 3 March 2015 00.37 GMT

The artist responsible for a portrait of Bill Clinton in Washington’s National Portrait Gallery says he painted a hint of the Monica Lewinsky scandal on the canvas.

Nelson Shanks, of south-east Pennsylvania, told the Philadelphia Daily News that while painting a portrait of the former president, “I could never get this Monica thing” – meaning the president’s sexual tryst with a White House intern and subsequent lies about the liaison – “completely out of my mind and it is subtly incorporated in the painting”.

Hillary and Bill Clinton at Harkin Steak Fry in Indianola, Iowa, in September (2014). Photograph: Jim Young

White House push to defend Clinton during Lewinsky affair revealed

Documents released by the National Archives also touch on Whitewater investigation and former president’s last pardons


Associated Press in Washington
Saturday 11 October 2014 10.29 BST

The White House made a public push to defend the then president, Bill Clinton, during a series of investigations relating to his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky and other matters, according to thousands of pages of documents released by the National Archives.

The papers did not appear to reveal any new information that might affect a potential presidential campaign by Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Hillary Clinton memoir / We 'were broke' after presidency

Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton memoir: we 'were broke' after presidency

Launching her memoir, Clinton reveals debt caused by Chelsea's education and legal bills relating to Lewinsky affair

Associated Press in Washington
Tuesday 10 June 2014 09.07 BST

Hillary Clinton's family was "dead broke" and saddled with legal bills when she and her husband, Bill, left the White House, the former first lady has revealed.

"We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt," Clinton told ABC News at the start of a tour to promote her memoir, Hard Choices, which is released on Tuesday. "We had no money when we got there and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages, for houses, for Chelsea's education. You know, it was not easy."