US politics
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.
Down on the Biden economy
Why do voters give Biden’s economy a lousy 36 percent approval rating?
The many tactics of climate change deniers
So what can be done to counter the cock and bull stories of this breed of climate change deniers?
The mugshot and the meltdown: Trump and US politics
The Republican problem is now a US problem.
Trump’s third indictment shows America’s real national security threat
Trump's latest indictment is the gravest of all. More so, it is the most important indictment ever to protect American democracy against anyone.
US politics and the Paris finance summit
The leaders at the Paris summit recognised the urgent need for a massive expansion of official development financing from the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs).
Biden to Democrats: Nominate me, whether you like it or not
With 2023 underway, Democrats in office are still dodging the key fact that most of their party’s voters don’t want President Biden to run for re-election.
'CONSPIRACY TO INFLUENCE US POLITICS' / Russian agent arrested
A 29-year-old Russian woman has been arrested for conspiring to influence US politics by cultivating ties with political groups including the National Rifle Association, the powerful gun rights lobby.
Trump defends Charlottesville response at raucous rally
US President Donald Trump revs up supporters with a defense of his response to a white supremacist-organized rally in Virginia and a promise to shut down the US government if necessary to build a wall along the border with Mexico.
Washington Post, NY Times win Pulitzer Prizes for work on Trump, Putin
The Pulitzer Prizes honors The Washington Post for hard-hitting reporting on Donald Trump's presidential campaign and The New York Times for revealing Vladimir Putin's covert power grab, praising their probing of powerful people despite a hostile climate for the news media.
US politics at a crossroads
The US Congress, made up of the Senate and the House, is where the real power lies. It controls the government's purse-strings and makes the laws.
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.
