Trump’s new Ambassador to Israel: “There’s really no such thing as a Palestinian” by Vijaya Chandrasoma The re-election of Donald Trump to a second term of...
By Anura Gunasekera About 20 years ago, I used the same title, in a writing dealing with Mahinda Rajapaksa’s triumphant ascent to power, published in an...
JRJ’s SAARC Summit speeches (Excerpted from Men And Memories by JR Jayewardene) At the Third SAARC Summit Meeting in Nepal on November 2-4, 1987, 1 had...
(Excerpted from the autobiography of MDD Peiris, Secretary to the Prime Minister) In June 1975, the Prime Minister was honoured by the international community with two...
by Rajan Philips More than the actual numbers, it is the extent of the NPP’s sweep, from north to south and from west to east that...
By Krishantha Prasad Cooray The people of the United States of America elected that country’s 47th president on November 5, 2024. Donald Trump, who had served...
Trump’s proposed cabinet appointments short on quality, long on slavish loyalty by Vijaya Chandrasoma Last week, in the despair I felt in the aftermath of the...
By Uditha Devapriya Last week’s presidential election was doubtless one of the most consequential in US history. Though the outcome was not predictable – most polls...
Wijayananda Dahanayake Prime Minister and Minister of Defence and External Affairs (September 1959 — March 1960) (Excerpted from Rendering Unto Caesar by Bradman Weerakoon, Secretary to...
by Rajan Philips Donald Trump did not simply win a second presidential election. He crushed Kamala Harris and the top-down electoral coalition that she was hurriedly...