Hatred can overcome diplomacy when it comes to US presidential campaign trail

Donald Trump has not only proven that negative campaigning works, he has proven that vulgar personal abuse works too, writes Terry Prone

New Year resolutions fell by the wayside over the past couple of weeks, as New Year resolutions do. The only reason for the existence of the wayside is as a reception area for New Year resolutions.

As those resolutions were face-planting by the wayside, our mainstream media was awash in newly released material from the national archives. For the most part, these were official documents: Recordings of formal meetings and other reports. Not that many recorded phone calls, in sharp contrast to what emerged in Washington last week.