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.

Michael Cohen on Donald Trump: ‘Racist, con man, cheat’

The president’s former personal attorney, on the cusp of doing hard time in a penitentiary for lying to Congress, once again tells Congress his story

February 27th, 2019

Can love propel a Democrat to the White House?

If U.S. politics is a sea of rage, Cory Booker and Tulsi Gabbard are swimming against the tide. It sets them apart but … there be monsters

February 22nd, 2019

Kamala Harris’s father is slamming her for making a ‘travesty’ of her Jamaican heritage

Allen Abel: Donald Harris’s rebuke over ‘pot-smoking joy seeker’ stereotype is one thing the Democratic presidential contender is disinclined to talk about. Another is her time in Canada.

February 18th, 2019

Donald Trump, builder of great walls and greater delusions

Allen Abel: In declaring a national emergency, the president veers from impromptu slam poetry to claiming he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. But, hey America, everything’s okay.

February 15th, 2019

Trump’s speech shows what’s really dividing Americans: their president

Allen Abel: If the state of the union is so happy and prosperous, why are the country’s politics so angry and noxious? Answer: the man at the rostrum.

February 5th, 2019

The Nancy walking all over Trump

Back as House Speaker after several years fighting a Republican majority, Pelosi has found her new political mission

February 5th, 2019

Donald Trump congratulates himself for ending a shutdown he started

Will it last, asks Allen Abel, or will Trump use the last bullet in his revolver to shoot himself in the foot?

January 25th, 2019

It’s Day 26 of the shutdown and U.S. government workers are lining up for food

Republicans and Dems both claim to sympathize, but the bureaucrats aren’t hungry enough for either side to stand down

January 16th, 2019

Trump is facing his new reality—and she’s holding a hammer

Allen Abel: The Democratic women of the 116th Congress are already a force to be reckoned with. But are they a force to banish Trump?

January 3rd, 2019

‘Halfway Trump’ is now America’s sorry condition. Will it get worse?

Allen Abel: Two years after his election, Trump is proving his personal creed that power is everything—and damn the cost to his country

December 20th, 2018

Will America recover from Donald Trump and the Reign of Lies?

Allen Abel: As the president’s hallucinatory world heaves and crumbles, Americans ponder what kind of country they wish to live in—and what kind of people they want to be

December 11th, 2018

At George H.W. Bush’s state funeral, every tribute seems a rebuke to Trump

Excellence, civility, intelligence, modesty: Words used to describe Bush Sr. recall what a U.S. president can be—and what the current one is not

December 3rd, 2018

Behold! Unhinged Donald Trump brings Christmas to Washington

Allen Abel: Even as the president tweets insults, Santa Claus is giving him the benefit of the doubt. So are a surprising number of voters.

November 29th, 2018

Praise Trump or die: How to get the Medal of Freedom in today’s America

Former NFLer Alan Page was the exception proving the rule, as Trump honoured Elvis, Babe Ruth and a hundred-million donor to Republicans

November 16th, 2018

These four Victoria Cross winners showed valour. Only one survived the war.

The mystery of why some men rush toward machine guns, instead of away. And the story of one young soldier who survived to have an ordinary life.

November 9th, 2018

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