Ronald Reagan
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Jack Teixeira joins the league of America's infamous whistleblowers, hackers: What happened to them?
Vibhutisanchala •A 21-year-old US air force official identified as Jack Teixeira has been arrested as a suspect for the largest intelligence leak in a decade. The investigation evokes memories of other prominent whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning
An American Scandal: Trump's hush-money deal and other controversies of US presidents
•Donald Trump is the first president to be indicted. However, he is not the only to be dogged by legal and ethical scandals
On this day: Historical events that occurred on 30 March
Trendingdesk •After the signing of the Treaty of Fez on 30 March, 1912, France established its protectorate over Morocco. US President Ronald Reagan was shot and severely injured by John W. Hinckley Jr. on this day in 1981
What you know about the Carters may be wrong. Here’s why
•Misconceptions take an especially strong hold where US presidents are concerned — sometimes to their advantage, sometimes not. As former President Jimmy Carter receives home hospice care at the age of 98, misconceptions about his life are coming into focus as well
John Hinckley Jr, who shot Ronald Reagan, released after 41 years
•US District Court Judge Paul L Friedman in Washington said he would free Hinckley on 15 June if he continued to remain mentally stable in the community in Virginia where he has lived since 2016
From The First Lady, Gaslit to Anatomy of a Scandal, women in US politics are stepping out of their shadows
Archita Kashyap •These stories, from Julia Roberts-starrer Gaslit on Lionsgate Play to The First Lady on Voot Select, have ensured that the political wife will not be viewed as a doormat.
Succession Season 3 first impression: An addictive spectator sport and one of TV's great horror stories
•Being rich, on Succession, does not look fun. If anything, it is aggressively anti-fun, as if fun itself were just a tatty concept for the lumpen masses who crowd the family’s amusement parks.
Imran Khan paints Pakistan as victim of US ungratefulness in address to UNGA
•Khan said Pakistan’s aid to the US cost 80,000 Pakistani lives and caused internal strife and dissent directed at the state, all while the US conducted drone attacks.
Showtime docudrama on Ronald Reagan rests on conspicuous parallelisms between his and Donald Trump's presidencies
•The Reagans, a four-part documentary streaming in India on Voot Select, is a consistently revisionist enterprise, resting on the premise that Ronald Reagan has been treated far too well by history — that he is seen today as an exemplary president.
'Unelectable' Bernie Sanders leads race for Democratic nomination, but faces much sterner test against Donald Trump
•Bernie Sanders is now the front-runner to win the Democratic nomination. Yet note that in the betting markets, Sanders is the leader to win the nomination but President Donald Trump is favoured to then win reelection in November