The Mamdani effect: Rekindling hope in a cynical city
Zohran Mamdani’s meteoric political rise in the New York mayoral race caught the imagination of the entire world.
4 November 2025, 14:00 PM
Opinion / The self-sabotaging president: Joe Biden’s broken legacy
Biden’s predicament must be considered in the context of the brutal political landscape in the Western world.
20 January 2025, 09:00 AM
Divided nation chooses US president in a bitter, closely fought race
Polls show a neck-and-neck race for the White House.
5 November 2024, 08:30 AM
Kamala rattles Trump, but how much will it matter?
Trump’s true calling might well have been to be a carnival barker (unkind critics may say a used-car salesman)
13 September 2024, 12:31 PM
Trump, now a felon, presents huge political challenge
Say what you will about former US President Donald Trump, but give him his due.
6 June 2024, 03:00 AM
Will the US and UK's support for Israel backfire?
There are growing signs of substantial public disaffection in these two nations which have been conspicuous in refusing to take Israel to task for its slaughter.
5 March 2024, 00:00 AM
Putin’s interview and the West’s extraordinary outrage
The media’s job to interview geopolitical adversaries.
13 February 2024, 01:00 AM
Trump’s impunity and the Republican Party meltdown
Trump is more a symptom rather than the cause of the current political crisis in the US.
5 February 2024, 15:00 PM
Demographics as Destiny: The Republican Conundrum
The Republican dominance in the House has been fuelled by the spectacular rise of conservative media which directly helped the rise of the Tea Party movement, a grassroots, non-college white protest against President Barack Obama's healthcare programme.
25 January 2016, 18:00 PM