As Donald Trump appears to have achieved dominance among candidates in the election for the US Presidency, experts are probing the reasons for the real-estate mogul’s popularity. “Traditionally Americans try not to choose politicians with extreme views – those, who are expressing some extraordinary opinions but nowadays the situation is rapidly changing,” Nikita Zagladin, professor of Center... 

It does not take a pollster, partisan or psychic to see a harbinger of things to come in Massachusetts voters’ choice of a Republican to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. If Barack Obama’s next three years in the White House are anything like his first, he will surely be a one-term president. And for black America, that’s the good news. Because if history is any guide, the truly awful news is...