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Emboldened by the overturning of Roe v Wade, Western conservative movements are dialling up their Africa campaigns
ABORTION

No good will come of overturning Roe v Wade

The US supreme court’s ruling on landmark abortion case will be felt most keenly by women

  • Stefan Hippler
4 min read
AMY CONEY BARRETT

Richard Calland: Biden needs a senate win to limit Trumpism

Joe Biden doesn’t have the mojo needed to restore the US – so he needs a full house to appoint those who do, writes Richard Calland.

  • Richard Calland
8 min read
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO CORTEZ

Women hold key to first major vote of Trump era

Americans on November 6 will pick all 435 members of the House of Representatives and just over one third of the 100-member Senate

  • Elodie Cuzin
4 min read
Pawn: Brett Kavanaugh has been appointed to the US Supreme Court, but the writer says, even if he wasn’t, another clone from the conservative hive mind would have replaced him. (Jim Bourg/Reuters)
BRETT KAVANAUGH

Letters to the editor: October 12 to 18

Our readers write in about Brett Kavanaugh and the Mail & Guardian environment reporter

  • Letters
5 min read
“I differ with Ms Williams on a number of things, but on this one, we are together,” Manyi says. (Thapelo Morebudi/Sowetan)
BRETT KAVANAUGH

Kavanaugh swings US Supreme Court to the right

With the arrival of Brett Kavanaugh, the court comprises four liberals appointed by Democratic presidents and five conservatives picked by Republicans

  • Charlotte Plantive
4 min read
A protester holds a poster against the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh against a police barricade in front of the U.S. Capitol building. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
BRETT KAVANAUGH

US Senate confirms Kavanaugh to Supreme Court after divisive fight

Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a replacement for retiring justice Anthony Kennedy was controversial from the start

  • Michael Mathes
5 min read
Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Pool via Reuters)
BRETT KAVANAUGH

Kavanaugh poised for confirmation to US Supreme Court

If he wins confirmation, Kavanaugh will seal a conservative majority on the nine-seat high court for years to come

  • Michael Mathes
5 min read
Former Health MEC ?Qedani Mahlangu’s election into the Provincial Executive Committee has been called out for dishonouring the memories of those who have passed in the Life Esidimeni tragedy. (Felix Dlangamandla, Gallo)
ANTI SEMITISM

Reject the grotesque logic of oppression

We need to place feminist commitments at the centre of any truly progressive political project

  • Richard Pithouse
8 min read
Trump announced the emergency on Friday in order to bypass Congress, which approved only a quarter of the $5.6-billion he wanted for the wall in a spending bill. (Jim Bourg/Reuters)
BRETT KAVANAUGH

Trump: Kavanaugh sex assault allegations ‘totally political’

Brett Kavanaugh’s once straightforward progress to the nation’s highest court has been hit by two bombshell accusations of sexual misconduct

  • Sebastian Smith
4 min read
Brett Kavanaugh, who strongly denies the allegation, says he wishes to testify as soon as possible to clear his name following Ford’s claims that he attacked her at a 1980s high school party. (Alex Wroblewski/Reuters)
BRETT KAVANAUGH

Trump’s Supreme Court pick faces new sexual misconduct claim

Senate Democrats are now investigating a bombshell claim by Deborah Ramirez who says Kavanaugh exposed himself to her during a 1980s college party

  • Olivia Hampton
5 min read
BRETT KAVANAUGH

Professor speaks out about alleged sexual assault by Trump Supreme Court pick

​A college professor went public for the first time on Sunday to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault in the 1980s

  • Issam Ahmed
4 min read