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Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 17, 2021
After four years of Trump, some scientists are treading into politics
Among the things that most inflamed scientists was Trump's rejection of the wide body of research establishing climate change, which he has called a hoax.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 17, 2021
Trump lashes out at Mitch McConnell in deepening feud between top Republicans
'Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again,' Trump said in a statement.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Feb 16, 2021
Advertisers on U.S. TikTok flock back as Trump's threats recede
Accused by the Trump administration of being a front for the Chinese government, TikTok's ad business looked bleak last July.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 16, 2021
For Trump, no conviction, but a historic repudiation
One thing that Trump made clear was that nothing in the constitutional system makes presidents respect the U.S. political system and respond to that system's incentives.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 16, 2021
Trump's impeachment faced partisan doom
Trump may have escaped being convicted by Congress for instigating a murderous mob attack on America's Capitol, yet it seems clear that he will be held accountable for it in history.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 16, 2021
Pelosi keeps up pressure over Capitol riot with 9/11-style panel
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress must create an independent Sept. 11-type commission to investigate the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol now that former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial has ended.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 15, 2021
Trump: Was he a would-be dictator or not?
The Italian leader Trump resembles most is not the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini but rather Silvio Berlusconi, the scandal-prone former prime minister.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 14, 2021
For Trump, an escape, but not an exoneration
Having failed to convict, Democrats hope that the trial nonetheless made it implausible if not impossible for Trump to ever run for president again as he has hinted he might do.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 14, 2021
Trump is acquitted for second time even as seven Republicans vote to impeach
With most of Trump's party coalescing around him, the 57-43 tally fell 10 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 13, 2021
Trump lawyers portray impeachment trial as Democratic score-settling
Donald Trump's lawyers said on Friday that Democrats had provided no evidence the former president incited last month's deadly U.S. Capitol riot and had used his second impeachment trial to settle political scores.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 12, 2021
Republicans unmoved as Democrats use Trump's own words in case against him
GOP Senator Lindsey Graham, one of Trump's closest allies in Congress, suggested the prosecution was futile, with most of his Republican colleagues already decided against conviction.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 12, 2021
Anti-Trump Republicans face major challenge in launching third party
The resistance to a third party among some of Trump's toughest Republican critics underscores the extreme difficulty of such a political revolt.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 11, 2021
Trump’s environmental policies killed thousands of people, scientists say
The Trump administration deliberately harnessed racism and class animosity to push policies that caused hundreds of thousands of American deaths, according to The Lancet.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 11, 2021
Dozens of former Republican officials in talks to form anti-Trump third party
Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party, four people involved in the discussions said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2021
Biden can break from Trump and Obama on Iran
Biden has space to pursue an Iran policy that is neither a reaction to Trump's nor a straightforward continuation of Obama's.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 10, 2021
Trump’s Senate trial moves forward after vote on constitutionality
The move clears the way for arguments to begin on whether Trump incited an insurrection by inflaming the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last month.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 7, 2021
Biden plays Deng’s card against Xi
Chinese officials are clearly disappointed that he doesn't seem to be thinking of China and did not mention China during his inaugural address.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Feb 6, 2021
Biden's message to Beijing: Don't expect U.S. to ease up over South China Sea and Taiwan
The U.S. Navy conducted its first “freedom of navigation operation” in the disputed South China Sea on Friday and, a day earlier, its first transit of the Taiwan Strait.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 6, 2021
Biden says Trump should not receive intelligence briefings
U.S. President Joe Biden said his predecessor, Donald Trump, should not receive the intelligence briefings that are typically given to former presidents because of his "erratic behavior.”
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 5, 2021
Trump got a space force. Biden should get a cyber force.
To use a military analogy, the initial attack on SolarWinds was a carpet-bombing, which had immediate (if undetected) effects across the entire field of battle.

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