WITH 99 per cent of the votes reported, US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton led leftwinger Bernie Sanders by a nose in the Iowa Democratic caucus yesterday as Ted Cruz beat Republican rival Donald Trump.
Votes in several undeclared voting precincts were still being counted.
The Democratic race was so close in that tellers in six precincts were forced to toss coins to decide the result. Ms Clinton won them all.
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
The prospect of the Democratic Socialists of America member’s victory in the mayoral race has terrified billionaires and outraged the centrist liberal Establishment by showing that listening to voters about class issues works, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY


