Cruz sweeps all 34 Colorado delegates, making contested Republican convention more likely
Apr 11, 2016 09:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Yesterday, Ted Cruz won all 13 delegates that were awarded at the Colorado Republican state convention; he had earlier won all 21 awarded at Congressional District (CD) conventions. Cruz is also likely to do very well when...
U.S. Election Series: Bernie Sanders secures seventh consecutive win in Wyoming
Apr 11, 2016 08:50 am UTC| Commentary Politics
Democratic Partys second runner Bernie Sanders won every primary since Idaho on March 22nd and by winning Wyoming over the weekend, Mr. Bernie secured his seventh consecutive win against front runner Hilary Clinton. He...
Flawed GST system skews state transport projects
Apr 10, 2016 00:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Commitments by the Commonwealth Government to fund transport infrastructure in the states are invariably announced with fanfare, as state transport ministers celebrate the triumph of securing federal money for their...
US Election Series: Donald needs to trump New York
Apr 08, 2016 11:18 am UTC| Commentary Politics
Primaries in New York on April 19th, could either be biggest trump card of Republican front runner Donald Trump or it can very well be his biggest failure. After big defeat in Wisconsin to second runner Ted Cruz, where he...
Apr 08, 2016 09:53 am UTC| Politics
The performing arts and politics have an uneasy relationship. From Aristophanes satirizing the senselessness of the Peloponnesian War in Lysistrata to Shakespeare telling the story of Elizabeth Is grandparents in Henry...
What is a contested convention – and what would one mean for the GOP?
Apr 08, 2016 09:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The possibility that the Republican primary race could end in a contested convention is a journalists dream and one that the media has speculated on during every electoral cycle in recent memory. It was entertaining for...
Panama Papers will do little to dent the electoral ambitions of Le Pen and FN
Apr 07, 2016 05:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Marine Le Pen is among the latest prominent figures to be swept up in the Panama Papers scandal. But anyone hoping that this scandal can halt the rise of her far-right Front National movement has seriously underestimated...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects