By early April, the number of anti-coup protesters killed at the hands of police and soldiers in Myanmar had passed 550. The military, unable to appease the resistance movement with its promises of elections in a year’s time, has both escalated its use of violence and shifted to a more unbridled […]
An English-led disaster has emboldened others to get out. By Brent Peabody A hundred years ago, Northern Ireland was established, and with it the current shape of the United Kingdom. That familiar form has survived World War II, the Troubles, and no fewer than three referendums on Scotland’s political status. But […]
Nine months ago world leaders were queueing up to declare any Covid-19 vaccine a global public good. Today we are witness to a vaccine apartheid that is only serving the interests of powerful and profitable pharmaceutical corporations while costing us the quickest and least harmful route out of this crisis. […]
In politics what should happen and what will happen are usually distinct questions. One involves questions of problem-solving and of morality. The other is an equation in which the variables are the self-interest of the actors involved. As regards Donald Trump, who after losing an election incited a mob to […]
When you lose, it is good and healthy to know why. In the First World War, the conflict that defined our modern world, the Germans lost because of the overwhelming force assembled by their enemies on the Western Front. After the Americans entered the war, German defeat was a matter […]
By Molly Ball The car horns blared as Joe Biden took the stage just before 1 a.m.—not to proclaim victory, but to urge his supporters not to lose hope, no matter what President Donald Trump might say. “We believe we are on track to win this election,” the former Vice President told […]
This election is about whether the majority of white Americans can do the right thing — for the first time in modern history By Umair Haque There’s a simple question that needs to be asked if you really want to make sense of the upcoming American election. Are American white […]
If US democracy is to survive, the removal of Trump and his enablers from office is not just desirable but essential. The contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden for the US presidency is more than a clash of competing visions – it is a vote on whether American democracy […]
Four years of deranged and unpredictable behaviour is proof that the current US president is uniquely unsuited to the job Donald Trump’s presidency has been a horror show that is ending with a pandemic that is out of control, an economic recession and deepening political polarisation. Mr Trump is the author of […]
By Reuben E. Brigety II In April 2013, when I was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, I accompanied former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Mayor of Atlanta Andrew Young to a meeting with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Then Secretary of State John Kerry had […]