By Judith Brouwer I will admit that I am a sucker for bad reality TV. However, if I ever imagined an episode starring Donald Trump and Kim Kardashian, I would have thought that it would be a vastly different arrangement than them discussing prison reform in the Oval Office. Tracing back Trump’s road to the…
‘’Amoral and Idiotic’’: Republican Heroism or Strategic Ploy?
by Jedidja van Boven In the words of a former White House official: it’s open season on the president. A sudden op-ed letter, written by an anonymous senior administration official working for the Trump administration, was published by the New York Times last Wednesday in a frantic government-press clash that is “unprecedented’’, as stated by…
The Grim Realism Underlying the Puzzle of North Korea
In recent weeks, the Hermit’s Kingdom – North Korea has raised the security concerns throughout the globe again. Following the belligerent verbal confrontation between Kim and Trump in August, North Korea’s KCNA just declared the country’s newest success in their hydrogen bomb test, posing new threats to the world’s security. However, the decade-long effort to…
US Elections 2016: Reactions from the UCR community
By Annick Wijnstra & Eden van der Moere For many it came as a complete surprise: Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump won the 2016 US elections. After 1,5 years of campaigning, debating, and polling, the battle between Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Trump has come to an end. A rather unexpected end: most preliminary…
The Flash #1: Apple, Burkini Law and U.S. Elections
While struggling with your first week, you might have missed some news stories worth reading. Luckily Tabula RASA is here to provide you with the biggest, baddest and most interesting headlines of the past week. Every piece is accompanied by a link to a full article to provide some background. Impeached Brazilian president Rousseff is…