The Gulf Arab states will welcome the end of Obama's administration. But there are no guarantees that Trump will be a better partner.
Trump promises politics in its naked form: the seizure of power for his clan, and be damned with all the rest. As the centre ground collapses, we must not cling to it.
A deep and spreading sense of disorder lay at the heart of the bizarre election campaign and, with Donald Trump's election, it may never really end.
Many predict we face the end of a globalized liberal era with Donald Trump in the White House. But he could take a pragmatic stance, paradoxically similar to that of Obama.
Under the president-elect, America's military can expect more of everything. What then?
“Gift 5: For progressives, it means that they can more adamantly and unabashedly demand ‘greater good’ candidates from their parties.”
As the US prepares for president Trump, anyone who cares about human rights should be alarmed that he has pledged to restore torture as one of his top five priorities.
Can we be entirely immune to his charm? Can we not, even for a moment, be seduced into being reassured by our association with him?
“Trump is the logical culmination of a culture: the narrator of a democratic apparatus that has come to conceal itself behind the mother of all TV shows: the US Presidency.”
"One option is to dismiss Trump’s win as irrational. This, we should remember, is how many on the left responded to the rise of inter-war fascism in Europe."
I voted for President Obama in 2008 and 2012, and now President Trump in 2016. Here are my reasons.
Trump offered white voters the illusion they could prosper. We have to offer all our people a way to move forward together and save the planet.
