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Donald Trump doubled down on his comparison to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died on Friday in an arctic penal colony and is widely believed to have been murdered by the government of Vladimir Putin. When speaking at a Fox News town hall on Tuesday evening, Trump grotesquely likened a civil fraud judgment against him to Navalny’s death. When asked by Laura Ingraham how he would come up with the $364 million in penalties, plus interest, in a New York judge’s Feb. 16 verdict, the ex-president replied:…

Trump vowed to appeal the $355 million fraud penalty handed down to him on Friday, after Judge Arthur Engoron found the Trump Organization liable for financial fraud and barred him from serving as a corporate officer or a director of a company in New York for three years. The former president took to his perch at Mar-a-Lago soon after to denounce the ruling. Trump accused Engoron of being “crooked” and of having built a “perfect company,” despite being penalized for overvaluing his properties and inflating his net…

Every lawyer, politician and historian in Europe and America remembers Nuremberg, the trial of surviving Nazi leaders after the second world war. Few remember Tokyo, the international tribunal that arraigned the surviving Japanese leadership. And yet Tokyo lasted for more than two years (1946-8), as against Nuremberg’s brisk 11 months (1945-6), produced a far taller mountain of documents and – in contrast to the German trial – found every single defendant guilty. The Tokyo judges intended to build on Nuremberg’s…

For Russia’s liberals, these are unhappy times. A decade or so ago, it was possible to imagine a better, brighter future without Vladimir Putin. Street protests would drive him from power, maybe. And after a dark period of authoritarian rule, Alexei Navalny – or another opposition figure – would bring the country back to democracy and common sense, the hope went.Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, this dream has died. Putin has transformed Russia into what he always wanted it to be: a totalitarian state. The last…

Although education should mainly revolve around encouragements, parents and other authority figures must also draw boundaries. Credit: Shutterstock Your toddler has just thrown a tantrum and you are grappling with how to respond: Is it okay to set boundaries by sending them off to their bedroom? As the summer approaches, psychologists and families are still divided over these questions, reviving the debate around constraint or…

Majella Kelly has found a subject to suit her voice – and what a voice it is, charged with images of Ireland that transport you there for better or worse, in sickness and in health, and in deepest trouble. The subject that dominates this not-to-be-missed debut is the discovery of an infant mass grave in Tuam, County Galway, the existence of which was only officially acknowledged in 2017. The wretched tale is that from 1925-1961, “fallen women” were sent to the inappropriately named Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, run by…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Corporal punishment should be prohibited nationally and supported by a public education campaign and greater access to parental supports, according to a new research paper. The three-tiered strategy to outlaw corporal punishment is outlined in the paper which reviewed laws in Australia allowing the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The logic that often underlies support for punitive approaches to crime, such as imprisonment, is a belief that an aversive experience will "put people off" or "teach them a hard lesson" about what they've done wrong. However, this has not proved to be true—and researchers at Flinders University are looking at ways that more positive messaging can change the attitude of transgressors.…

According to the research, corporal punishment during adolescence is associated with an increase in neural sensitivity to making errors and a decrease in neural sensitivity to receiving rewards.It is generally advised not to spank children due to the negative consequences that have been linked to corporal punishment in decades of research. These consequences include a decline in adolescent health and negative impacts on behavior, such as an increased risk for anxiety and depression. A recent study has examined how…

Credit: Village Roadshow What is horror if not a series of highly confronting images presented with increasing levels of gore and blood? David Edelstein coined the term “torture porn” for highly disturbing and confronting horror films around the main characters being subject to horrendous, well, torture. Saw became the face of the subgenre in the early 2000s, but the genre itself has been around much longer in slightly different forms. There are a few go-to elements of the “splatter” genre, with it consistently…