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.
Free advice for Trump from a fellow American citizen and Palestinian who lives and works under Israeli military occupation.
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.”
Far away from the closed-off politics of Washington, a trip through rural America reveals some very different sources of empowerment.
“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.
Much left-wing commentary would have us believe that Trump’s elevation signals the end of days. But the many who feel marginalised by the relentless march of neoliberalism may beg to differ.
Discussing climate-linked migration as a “threat” requires adopting the premise that migration is a threat. And perhaps even that migrants themselves are a threat.
“In between bouts of rage and pessimism, today I also felt something else coming to the surface. Curiosity.”
