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A week that shook a nation: anger burns as power of protests leaves Trump exposed Not for half a century has the US seen such large protests – and never with a president whose response has been so callous Protesters outside the White House. The fires lit by the killing of George Floyd ignited the […] More
History teaches that mass protests against oppression can lead either to liberation or brutal repression. This past week, Donald Trump bet his political future on repression. Much of the rest of America, on the other hand, wants to liberate black people from police brutality and centuries of systemic racism. As of this writing, it looks […] More
The president’s approval ratings have dipped sharply but he could still beat Biden Donald Trump returns to the White House after his visit to St John’s church in Washington last weekend. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP Voter disapproval of Donald Trump’s handling of the George Floyd protests and the Covid-19 pandemic, plus the accompanying economic meltdown, have […] More
The beleaguered president considers his re-election strategy •You can buy your own print of this cartoon Illustration: Chris Riddell More
WSU Tech stops first daughter’s commencement speech amid criticism of Donald Trump’s response to George Floyd protests Ivanka Trump at a cabinet meeting in mid-May. After the cancellation, she tweeted: ‘Cancel culture and viewpoint discrimination are antithetical to academia.’ Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images Ivanka Trump has hit out at “cancel culture and viewpoint discrimination” after […] More
In ordinary times, for the bulk of the American population, presidential election years resemble a period of deep moral sleep whose fitful dreams are stimulated by a media that plays a role not unlike that of the Freudian unconscious. It proposes various devices that include the tracing of candidates’ gaffes, the unveiling of reported scandals […] More
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprisingly participated in the virtual Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in May for the first time since he took office in 2014. Modi had skipped the 2016 and 2019 NAM summits, but his attendance in 2020 could signal a revival of this once-important alliance. The NAM, a Cold War-era grouping of […] More
Complaints about American decline have been commonplace since at least the Vietnam War era. In the late 1980s, declinism experienced an upsurge with the publication of “The Rise and Fall of Great Powers,” by Paul Kennedy, which warned of the dangers of imperial overstretch. Even America’s putative victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War […] More
