By Doug Gordon – Newsweek By any objective standard, the 2022 election was a historically bad election for Republicans. While votes are still being counted and important races have yet to be called, the so-called “red wave” Republicans had spent months promising turned out to be…
Aditya Chakrabortty* – The Guardian Brexit didn’t change the party: austerity was as heartless under Cameron and Osborne as it is under Sunak What kind of government is this? You can almost see the puzzlement on pundits’ faces as they try to work it out.
By Martin Kettle* – The Guardian The US midterms have provided modest relief – but dilemmas facing US allies from Ukraine to the UK remain “It could have been a lot worse” will never be the most inspiring verdict on any election result, especially in a political and media…
UN expert groups (*) – Modern Diplomacy In a report issued on Tuesday, UN human rights experts outline how discrimination affects black boys and girls worldwide to the extent that they are not considered children, even in the eyes of the law. They said unresolved legacies of…
By Karl Mathiesen* – POLITICO US midterms show populism is now the ‘biggest obstacle’ to addressing global warming, say greens Delegates landing in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh for U.n. climate talks this week are a global elite bent on tearing down national…
By Sarah Glozer, Emily Jane Godwin and Rita Mota (*) – The Conversation For a man who made a fortune from electric cars, the Twitter takeover has turned into a fairly bumpy ride so far. Soon after buying the social media company for US$44 billion (£38 billion), Elon Musk said he…
Observer Editorial A Republican midterm landslide is the last thing a divided, angry America needs From one perspective, the historical significance of this Tuesday’s US midterm elections should not be overstated. Anticipated Republican gains, and a consequent loss of Democratic…
By Riccardo Petrella* “The only war worth fighting is the fight against poverty” – Jan Tinbergen, Nobel Prize winner for economics JUSTICE, SOLIDARITY AND DEMOCRACY NEED PEACE. Is this possible today?
Editorial – The Guardian The triumph of the far right, alarming enough in itself, could also see the destruction of judicial checks upon political power In some ways, Tuesday’s election looked drearily familiar to voters in Israel – inevitably so, as the fifth in less than four…
By Sonali Kolhatkar*- Independent Media Institute The world’s richest man has bought one of the world’s most popular social media platforms. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, is currently worth about $210 billion, and in November 2021 he was worth nearly $300 billion—an unheard-of figure…
