Allen Abel

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Allen Abel has been writing for a living since the age of Linotype machines and molten lead. Now he has a 11-year-old daughter with her own iPhone.

America’s twin national pastimes, firearms and fastballs

Allen Abel in Washington: Spring means baseball and guns, and those U.S. obsessions were both on display in Trump’s White House Monday

March 12th, 2018

Fed up with Donald Trump’s crassness, these women are running for office as anti-Trumps

How three American women, angered by their president and the double standards of politics, are finding revenge as candidates for office

March 9th, 2018

Donald Trump’s Dotard Diplomacy

Allen Abel: Like Obama in Cuba and Nixon in China, now comes Trump’s opening for a high risk encounter that seems likely to yield little

March 9th, 2018

Absolut Trump: A week of chaos and contradiction

Allen Abel in Washington: A resignation, more scandal and a hotel ballroom speech so bad that applause lines are met with stunning silence

March 7th, 2018

Donald Trump’s pilgrimage for Billy Graham

Allen Abel: At the U.S. Capitol, the president, Congress and thousands of citizens mark the end of Billy Graham’s long crusade

February 28th, 2018

Donald Trump’s vacuous fix for school shootings in the face of grief and anger

Allen Abel on what the Parkland students told Trump: “I woke up to the news that my best friend was gone, and I can go into a store and buy a weapon of war?”

February 21st, 2018

An Olympic miracle: Is Korean reunification in the cards?

On the eve of the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, Allen Abel sets out across South Korea in search of a resolution to its decades-long estrangement from the North

February 5th, 2018

The presidential masquerade of Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech

Allen Abel: Trump strove to spin his 12-month whirlwind of lies, libel, and lunacy into a schoolboy’s field trip

January 30th, 2018

Brian Mulroney: Anyone expressing fear and anger over NAFTA is ‘uninformed’

Ahead of Trump’s speech to Congress, Mulroney struck a mostly optimistic tone about NAFTA in testimony to the Senate foreign relations committee, writes Allen Abel

January 30th, 2018

Someone cowers from their tablet smart home device.

Orwell’s ‘Big Brother’ is already in millions of homes. Her name is Alexa.

Smart homes and intelligent bots that cater to our whims may be convenient, but is it really worth being under surveillance all the time?

January 17th, 2018

On tax reform, Donald Trump gets it done—and takes a moment to gloat

Allen Abel in Washington on the tax bill and the pinnacle of Trump’s presidency—a day without scandal, tweetstorm or tantrum

December 20th, 2017

Donald Trump’s divisiveness could drive Dixie Democrats

Democrats can smell victory in the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. But don’t underestimate the Republicans.

December 11th, 2017

Roy Moore preaches to his choir

On the campaign trail in Alabama, Steve Bannon’s anti-establishment Republican forces believed in God—and Moore, their God-fearing candidate

December 6th, 2017

Roy Moore’s challenger, Doug Jones, attempts the impossible

Jones hopes to be the first Democrat elected to the Senate in a quarter-century. His hopes may rest on African-American voter turnout.

December 5th, 2017

Roy Moore’s Alabama faithful pledge their allegiance near the pulpit

Allen Abel reports from a tiny church in the Alabama county that voted more decisively for Trump than any other county in the nation

December 4th, 2017

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