politics”

Biden’s relief plan looks good for progressives but if he goes back to the wimpy politics of the Obama era it will never happen

US President-elect Joe Biden recently unveiled a new COVID-19 relief proposal as his Democratic Party prepares to take control of…

3 years ago

Trump’s flirtation with politics is over. His legacy is an America beset by divisions, rancour and a huge degree of instability

As the US Congress prepares to formally endorse Joe Biden as president on January 6, there is speculation about what…

3 years ago

2020: The year that may have finally broken American politics, and perhaps the USA itself

Between the pandemic and the government response to it, the ‘fiery but mostly peaceful’ race riots, and the controversial presidential…

3 years ago

Forget the racial politics, Pixar’s first black-led movie, ‘Soul’, isn’t about being black – it’s about being human

‘Soul’, the new film from esteemed animation studio Pixar that premiered on the streaming service Disney+ on Christmas Day, has…

3 years ago

‘It is a political movement’: British minister in row as fans boo ‘divisive woke politics’ of Black Lives Matter kneeling (VIDEO)

Defender Mahlon Romeo was furious and striker Colin Kazim-Richards responded by lifting his fist as some supporters at London club…

3 years ago

Twitter and Facebook transformed US politics into a shouting match. Has it saved their monopoly status, or doomed it?

Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg must have felt a bit like Dr. Frankenstein as they were pulled between…

3 years ago

Muslim boycott threats and politics play out in attacks on ‘mentally ill’ Macron as he ups the rhetoric against Islamists

President Emmanuel Macron brought down the wrath of Islam upon his own impeccably groomed head this weekend but amid all…

4 years ago

Amy Coney Barrett vows to keep politics out of law, but Democrats & Republicans have other ideas as confirmation hearings begin

The Senate Judiciary Committee meets on Monday to get the ball rolling on Coney Barrett’s nomination process. In her opening…

4 years ago

Let’s face it, US politics is just a showy soap opera laced with enough nepotism and corruption to make a banana republic blush

There was an American show that ran on pretty much every TV set in the whole wide world in the…

4 years ago

Use of AI & digital ads in politics shows it’s a snake oil world of deception, manipulation & contempt for ordinary people

There is nothing particularly new about political advertising. It has been with us for decades. But this year’s US presidential…

4 years ago