| Does US need special counsel to probe special counsel Mueller? Posted: 13 Dec 2017 02:15 PM PST ![Does US need special counsel to probe special counsel Mueller?]( "Does US need special counsel to probe special counsel Mueller?") Taking their cue from President Trump, some congressional Republicans are intensifying charges that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the 2016 presidential election is suspect because it is laced with pro-Democratic political bias. At one point Rep. Steve Chabot (R) of Ohio suggested that investigators on the Russia probe might as well wear uniforms.
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| People once at odds don’t try to even the score Posted: 13 Dec 2017 12:50 PM PST ![People once at odds don't try to even the score]( "People once at odds don't try to even the score") After he declared victory over Islamic State (ISIS) on Dec. 9, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi made an important promise. Mr. Abadi is now the latest world leader searching for national reconciliation and a healing of social wounds after the end of an armed conflict or the collapse of an authoritarian regime. In the West African nation of Gambia, a new president, Adama Barrow, plans to set up a truth commission to shed light on the human rights abuses committed during the two-decade rule of his dictatorial predecessor, Yahya Jammeh.
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| What Doug Jones's win means for Democrats Posted: 13 Dec 2017 12:15 PM PST ![What Doug Jones's win means for Democrats]( "What Doug Jones's win means for Democrats") Doug Jones, the Democratic lawyer who snatched a historic Senate win in Alabama on Tuesday, is a man of high ideals. In 1977, when he was still in law school, the young Alabamian skipped contracts class with a friend to watch then-Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley prosecute the first trial of the 1963 bombing of the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham. Mr. Baxley faced a defense lawyer who was the son of a Birmingham city mayor – two titans going at it.
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| Graceless: Women warned off politics in Zimbabwe Posted: 13 Dec 2017 10:49 AM PST ![Graceless: Women warned off politics in Zimbabwe]( "Graceless: Women warned off politics in Zimbabwe") During his 37 years as Zimbabwe's prime minister and president, Robert Mugabe ordered the massacre of thousands of political opponents, ran the country's economy into the ground, and instilled a culture of political violence and paranoia that will likely long outlast him. "Robert Gabriel Mugabe's legacy, though it was being chipped at in the end, was not being tainted by his own hand," declared the state-owned Herald newspaper the day after Mr. Mugabe's resignation.
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