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Ian Buruma
By Ian Buruma - Nov 10,2024
NEW YORK — The American comedian Tony Hinchcliffe caused a scandal in the days before the US presidential election with his jokes at Donald Trump’s rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
By Ian Buruma - Aug 06,2023
NEW YORK — It should not make sense. Donald Trump has just been indicted on four criminal charges, including defrauding the United States and conspiring to deprive Americans of their voting rights.
By Ian Buruma - Aug 07,2022
NEW YORK  —  There can no longer be any doubt about the facts of what happened in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021.
By Ian Buruma - Apr 30,2022
NEW YORK  —  France is not the United States.
By Ian Buruma - Dec 08,2021
NEW YORK — One might well wonder what a pudgy teenager was doing roaming the streets of a Midwestern town with a semi-automatic assault rifle, claiming to be a defender of citizens and property.
By Ian Buruma - Sep 25,2021
NEW YORK — Two days before the Normandy landings in June 1944, Charles de Gaulle demanded the right to govern France after it was liberated by the Allies. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who detested de Gaulle, had no intention of agreeing to this.
By Ian Buruma - Jul 13,2021
NEW YORK — Amanda Gorman’s remarkable performance of her poem “The Hill We Climb” at US President Joe Biden’s inauguration touched millions. That was reason enough for a leading Dutch publisher to commission a prominent novelist to prepare a translation.
By Ian Buruma - Jun 13,2021
NEW YORK — Kaori Yamaguchi, an Olympic medalist in judo and an executive member of the Japanese Olympic Committee, made an astonishing statement — astonishing, that is, for an Olympic official.
By Ian Buruma - Feb 07,2021
NEW YORK  —  It is easy to underestimate Joe Biden. The new US president has been dismissed by some people on the left as a party hack, a trimmer, a holdover from a corrupt and broken establishment.
By Ian Buruma - Jan 09,2021
NEW YORK — Anyone who was surprised by the mayhem in Washington, DC, has not been paying attention for the last four years.

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