I have not written about the US Presidential election since late June, owing to coverage of the Australian Federal election. The US election will be held on 8 November.

In July, following the FBI’s damaging report on Clinton’s emails and international terrorist attacks, Trump reduced Clinton’s lead from about six points to three....

Caster Semenya’s gold medal in the women’s 800 metres track event at the Rio Olympics may be supplemented, in coming months, by an upgrade from silver to gold for the same event at the London Games. Re-testing of biological samples from 2012 either has or will involve anti-doping cases being brought against numerous...

There are rare instances when there is value to a politician’s failure to deliver on a campaign promise. This is particularly true when the promise goes like this: I will kill 100,000 criminals if I become president. I will dump their corpses into Manila Bay for the fish to eat. Funeral parlours will be a booming industry. It will be bloody.

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