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The fall of Boris Johnson: Any democracy should look to his case and ask if it is enabling Machiavellian leaders
Boris Johnson’s resignation as prime minister is not just a portentous political event. His time in office –…
Johnson Quits After Record Rate of Resignations
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced his departure from office following a record number of ministerial resignations.…
Ukraine as a ‘borderland’: A brief history of Ukraine’s place between Europe and Russia
One interpretation of the name “Ukraine” is borderland. This needs to be taken seriously. Borderlands are all about…
The Communist Party claims to have brought prosperity and equality to China. Here’s the real impact of its rule
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is in full swing for the 100th anniversary of its founding this week,…
NATO Defense Expenditure
World leaders are descending on Brussels for the first in-person NATO summit since the start of the pandemic.…
G7 Showed That Post-Trump, The World Has Shifted
What a difference a year makes in international diplomacy. A year ago, then-US President Donald Trump was obliged…
G7 Is More United But Not Effective Enough To Tackle The World’s Biggest Problems
When the UK hosts the G7 summit in Cornwall between June 10 and 12, it will be the…
World’s Worst Pandemic Leaders: 5 Presidents And Prime Ministers Who Badly Mishandled COVID-19
COVID-19 is notoriously hard to control, and political leaders are only part of the calculus when it comes…
Is Pandemic Isolation Pushing People Towards Extremism?
Right-wing extremists are taking advantage of COVID-19 restrictions and conspiracy theories to radicalise and recruit new supporters While…
Jerusalem: The Politics Behind The Latest Explosion Of Violence In The Holy City
The recent violence at the al-Aqsa mosque/Temple Mount area and in the Old City of Jerusalem has spiralled…
Israel-Palestinian Violence: Why East Jerusalem Has Become A Flashpoint In A Decades-Old Conflict
Weeks of tensions between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces in East Jerusalem have boiled over in recent…
Press-Shy Presidents?
U.S. President Joe Biden is giving his first press conference today after 64 days in office. While the…
What’s In The $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Package?
President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package cleared its final hurdle in Congress on Wednesday despite no Republicans voting…
The Countries With The Most Women In National Parliament
Today marks International Women’s Day, an important occasion to highlight key strides made by women around the world. Despite…
What can people in wealthy nations do to fix COVID vaccine ‘apartheid’?
It was heartwarming to see 90-year-old Briton Margaret Keenan becoming the first patient in the world to get the SARS-CoV2…
Relief or stimulus: What’s the difference, and what it means for Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus package
The Biden administration and Congress are fast-tracking a US$1.9 trillion coronavirus package that includes aid for states, cities,…
Why Indian farmers are so angry about the Modi government’s agricultural reforms
India’s farmers have been protesting since the autumn, with a growing intensity that culminated in a violent breaching…
COVID-19 And Geopolitics – 5 Lessons From Past Pandemics
Did yellow fever change the course of US history? Would global cooperation on diseases exist today without the…
Joe Biden Sends A Clear Message To The Watching World – America’s Back
Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path Two weeks after the storming…
Unity Is Impossible Without Accountability
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. took the oath of office shortly before noon Eastern time on Wednesday, and…
Why Do Presidential Inaugurations Matter?
As one president’s term ends and another begins, there is a ceremony. Its importance is one of symbolism…
The age of Trump is over. Now the US must tackle its polarisation
In the past 20 years, hostility – fermented in a dislike and distrust of different groups – has…
Is impeaching President Trump ‘pointless revenge’? Not if it sends a message to future presidents
House Democrats have introduced an article of impeachment against President Trump, charging him with “incitement of insurrection” for…
This Is America
We’re not asking you to shoot them like you shoot us, we’re asking you to NOT shoot us…
Nearly Half of Republicans Approve of Capitol Riot
The U.S. Capitol building was stormed by an angry pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6. Overall, five people died as a…
How does the 25th Amendment work, and can it be used to remove Trump from office after US Capitol attack?
A day after President Donald Trump incited supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol, Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer called…
Domestic Terrorism: A More Urgent Threat, But Weaker Laws
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Biden Won. Now Comes the Hard Part
The election is over. Joe Biden won, and by bigger popular vote and Electoral College margins than Donald Trump did…
‘Once you engage in political violence, it becomes easier to do it again’ – an expert on political violence reflects on events at the Capitol
Editor’s note: Ore Koren is a scholar of civil conflict and political violence. Before the November 2020 election,…
The Psychology Of Fairness: Why Some Americans Don’t Believe The Election Results
The electoral votes have confirmed Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election. The presidential electors gave…
Bills, Debts Top Uses For Stimulus Checks
Another round of checks are set to be distributed to Americans soon, as a new $900 billion stimulus…
15 Countries Sign World’s Biggest Free Trade Deal
15 countries signed the world’s largest free trade deal over a video link on Sunday which was the…
Red State, Blue State: How Colors Took Sides In Politics
When Americans hear some pundits projecting a “blue wave,” they understand that this is a prediction of a…
Six Charts That Reveal America’s Deep Divides
The 2020 race to the White House has been the most divisive for a generation. The campaign has…
How White Became The Color Of Suffrage
During her victory speech, Kamala Harris, the first woman to be elected vice president of the United States,…
Biden Wins – Experts On What It Means For Race Relations, US Foreign Policy And The Supreme Court
The American public has had its say and for the first time in a generation denied a sitting…
US Elections 2020: Congress Could Select The President In A Disputed Election
President Donald Trump’s campaign is challenging results of battleground states with lawsuits, hoping to litigate its way to…
How Every U.S. State Has Voted Since 1976
As Americans go to cast their votes, considerable uncertainty remains about which candidate will be elected president. However,…
Even If Biden Has A Likely Win, Leading A Deeply Divided Nation Will Be Difficult
Let’s assume Joe Biden narrowly wins the electoral college, and the Trump team lodges a series of court…
For Donald Trump, His Defeat Will Be Fake News
Trump threatened to deny his defeat and challenged the ballot box because it probably won’t accommodate his desires.…
Who Invented The Electoral College?
The delegates in Philadelphia agreed, in the summer of 1787, that the new country they were creating would…
What It’s Like To Lose A Presidential Election
The American public may not find out who wins the presidential election on Nov. 3 or Nov. 4…
Here’s How US Presidents Get Elected (It’s Not By Winning The Most Votes)
If Americans could vote on their presidential electoral system, polls suggest they’d dump it. In the meantime, if all goes…
How The Electoral Votes Are Distributed
The result of the U.S. election hangs not on the total number of votes received by each candidate, but rather…
Everything You Need To Know About The US Election
Nov. 3, 2020, is election day in the United States, and Americans across the country have already started…
American Suburbs Radically Changed Over The Decades – And So Have Their Politics
Suburban voters in a number of areas are considered critical swing voters. The growing political stakes reflect the…
Trump’s COVID-19 Diagnosis: What Lies Ahead Could Include A Constitutional Crisis Over Succession
Since Donald Trump was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for COVID-19 treatment on Oct. 2,…
World Leaders Who Contracted Covid-19
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he and his wife, Melania Trump, have contracted the coronavirus after traveling…
How Presidents Have Shaped The US Supreme Court – And Why The Choice Of Its Next Justice Is So Crucial
After the death of the supreme court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, President Donald Trump finds himself with an…
How Influential Are Economic Policies On The US Presidential Election Odds?
The US election is heating up with incumbent Donald Trump fighting to ‘win four more years’ against Democratic…