Bored with kicking around Covid-19 like the political football it has become, the chattering class has taken on a new cause: why do so many people dislike the US president?

It would take several encyclopedia-size volumes to fully answer that question, but let’s try to be brief. Anointed by Barack Obama himself last year despite an abysmal primary performance, Biden slunk into the Democrats’ prime

The Americans are gone, the war is over, but the worst is arguably yet to come in Afghanistan.

The country is facing an unprecedented crisis. Afghan civilians have always disproportionately experienced the effects of war and they will now also disproportionately experience what may be an even worse peace – if one can even call it that.

Strained supply chains have become an economic drag on the world’s largest economy and a political risk for President Joe Biden