Politics

Let’s face it: American politics, as we know it, is over.

The future seems to free the mind from reality’s restraints and let the imagination soar. Yet it has also proven full of political pitfalls.

Court rulings and legislative action signal growing resistance to mid-decade redistricting pushed by Republicans ahead of the midterms.

A Hillary Clinton presidency would symbolically break the glass ceiling for women in the United States, but it would be unlikely to break through the military-industrial complex that has been keeping our nation in a perpetual state of war — killing people around the world, plenty of them women and children.

To steal an election that uses electronic voting machines, you just need a good hacker. To steal an election that uses paper ballots, you need people with wheelbarrows.

It may not improve much next year, if House Republicans have their way.

It is a mistake to brush off a primary with huge significance.

Congress can be bought today as it was bought then.

How can we explain the autocrat’s enduring spell over the Republicans? And how might it impact upon the midterm elections due to take place in a few months’ time?

If convicted, the former congressman could face decades in prison.