By Bill Powell – Newsweek Grievance politics comes naturally to Donald Trump. Four years ago he rode populist resentment about illegal immigration, foreign trade, and culture-war issues like same-sex marriage and the “war on Christmas” all the way to the White…
InsightHungary!!! (*) Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki met in Budapest Thursday to discuss the European Union’s €1.8 trillion seven-year budget and coronavirus recovery package, which hit a roadblock after the two countries…
By Prof. Adam Tooze* With a slim majority in Congress, the president-elect lacks a solid base. The past teaches us what may happen President Trump’s efforts to overturn the outcome of the 3 November election, which appear to be over, provided his opponents with a source of…
By Simon Jenkins* – The Guardian The fact that the president cannot hold on to power shows the checks and balances are working Slowly, painfully, alarmingly, Donald Trump has been conceding the US presidency to Joe Biden. Over the weekend his close friend Chris Christie called…
By Mikael Klintman * – The Conversation When was the last time you told a lie? If you can’t remember, I’ll give you a clue.
By Nesrine Malik* – The Guardian US institutions have a record that is far too patchy to wager the country’s democratic future on What started on a golden escalator five years ago ended in the parking lot of a garden design company next to a sex shop and across the street from a…
by Cecilia Capanna Tomás Hirsch, independent Chilean parliamentarian, founder of Acción Humanista and two-times candidate for the Presidency of the Republic of Chile, explains how the Yes to the referendum on 25 October could run into traps that could affect the process of…
By Walden Bello* – Foreign Policy in Focus For many, Trump’s ouster is a relief. But his steadfast support among white voters puts his party on a crash course with democracy.
By Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback (*) – Independent Media Institute Neither political party has truly addressed the issue of economic security, which is why the country remains a house divided against itself While Joe Biden will be America’s next president, the 2020…
By Yanis Varoufakis* – The Guardian The discontent that swept Trump to power in 2016 has not gone away. To pretend like it has will only invite future disaster Normalcy and the restoration of a modicum of decorum to the White House: that is what many elite supporters of Joe…
