Iowa was different this time – even if the outcome was as predicted
Jan 17, 2024 03:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Trounced, crushed, routed, dominated: Pick your verb to describe what former President Donald Trump did to his GOP rivals in the Jan. 15, 2024 Iowa caucus. The Conversation U.S. asked two scholars to analyze the results,...
US election 2024: Trump victory in Iowa caucus not as big as he may have hoped
Jan 17, 2024 03:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
News headlines reporting Donald Trumps victory in the Iowa caucus on January 15 give the impression of a much larger victory than should sensibly be drawn from this first expression of American electoral opinion in 2024....
Don't count Biden out: January polls are historically unreliable
Jan 16, 2024 09:34 am UTC| Politics
As 2024 begins, Joe Bidens hopes of being re-elected president of the United States look shaky. Recent approval ratings have him at 39 per cent, consumer sentiment on the economy sits near a 10-year low and early polls...
Jan 16, 2024 08:04 am UTC| Politics
In these days of the 24-hour news cycle, one can never know in advance, but Donald J. Trump seems likely to be the Republican Party candidate for president of the United States in 2024. With Trump facing four...
How Ecuador went from being Latin America's model of stability to a nation in crisis
Jan 15, 2024 04:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Ecuador was until relatively recently seen as one of the safest countries in Latin America. That reputation has surely now been destroyed. On Jan. 9, 2024, images of hooded gunmen storming a TV studio were broadcast...
US election: how a Trump victory could embolden Russia, China and Israel
Jan 15, 2024 04:15 am UTC| Politics
A potential second term as president for Donald Trump is likely to result in an America-first, America-alone foreign policy. The ramifications for the rest of the world could be huge, potentially endangering...
Smersh: why Putin has reinstated Stalin's notorious and much-feared anti-spy unit
Jan 15, 2024 03:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
A man under arrest by Russian internal security forces was seen confessing to a crime, in a video posted on January 2. He had been apprehended after allegedly posting a video on social media that purportedly showed air...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
The Mattei Plan: why Giorgia Meloni is looking to Africa
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight