Flames raised in Charlottesville reignite not only histories of nativist violence in America and Europe, but the bonfires that erupted on the "first 9/11" – Chile in 1973 – with the CIA-supported coup which overthrew Salvador Allende.
Anti-Trumpers harbour grief and anger about their defeat – this they couple with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Trump’s sins. But Democrats have provided no clear idea of how to move forward.
96 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Might Donald Trump, by dismantling a system of "soft power," preside over the most precipitous decline of a truly dominant power in history, one only recently considered at the height of its glory?
24 key national security issues that neither the Washington elite nor the media consider worth their bother.
Trump is an irrational projection and knows it. That’s why he can do absolutely anything and get away with it. Taking back control is scapegoating and aggression.
The multiplicity of harms can feel overwhelming. But with thoughtful coordination we can support each other to resist this administration's agenda and its global impacts.
Trump’s rapid surrender exposes what we all knew to be true: that his populism was a posture, not a policy. He has no interest in taking on the establishment.
Trump's administration has disdain for all rights, except, of course, the rights of corporations. Over the past 100 days, he has taken this enduring tendency to new extremes.
Alongside this year’s UN CSW, we asked women doing gender work across the globe how US President Donald Trump’s administration might affect their region.
“You all can defeat Trump next time, but not if you keep mocking us, refusing to listen to us. It’s Republicans, not Democrats, who will take Trump down.”
The Islamophobia industry uses lawfare to skew the conversation about Islam. Its fingerprints are on the President’s executive order.
At issue is due process, the rule of law and the division of powers that defines American democracy.
