The Trump administration slapped South Africa with a 30% import tariff, effective last August
In the fight are Patrick Soon-Shiong and Jeff Bizos, who put pressure on the editors of the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, X’s Elon Musk and Silicon Valley’s Peter Thiel
The US vice-president needs to come up with a message that resonates with the white middle and working class to win them over in this election
Two of the most unpopular presidential candidates ever are trying to remedy that by bashing each other
Turning his political vulnerabilities into punchlines and cheers at the event, he showed the daunting challenge his Republican rivals face
It’s a rocky road to a functional democratic future for the United States, but fighting injustice is a long-term task
Far-right Republicans and the conservative supreme court are working on a carefully laid plan to turn the US into a repressive regime
The US supreme court’s ruling on landmark abortion case will be felt most keenly by women
The Democratic Alliance leader rebuking cricketer Quinton de Kock would be this election season’s greatest triumph
The reactions to Elon Musk’s billionaire status are evidence that far too many South Africans have not fully grasped the destructive consequences of inequality. Entrepreneur Musk…
To those who lament the events at the Capitol on 6 January, saying, “This is not who we are”: unequal, undemocratic, duplicitous is precisely who we are
US President Donald Trump may have less than a fortnight left in office, but he’s not done yet — he may well be remembered for destroying the Republican party
The mere fact that one cannot confidently predict who the next president of the United States will be tells you a lot about American society.
Rarely have the stakes for the US and the world been as high as they are on the eve of the 2020 presidential election. If Republicans still stand for anything at all, they must…
The climate policies of both parties are constrained because they are far too wedded to the neoliberal economic systems
