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Truth to power: Ebrahim Rasool speaks his truth quietly, yet is heard loudly. Photo: Wikipedia

Subtle magic of an itinerant statesman

Rasool is perhaps one of the few South African political figures able to articulate the global consequences of misused narratives

  • Library
7 min read
President Donald J. Trump Speaking to supporters in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Photo: Trump Facebook Page

MAGA set to shape US foreign policy for years to come

This policy did not emerge in a vacuum; it is part of a larger wave of populism reshaping global governance

  • Eyaaz
4 min read
Like US President Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk saw migrants as intruders who must be removed, and the homeless as lazy people. Photo: Schneyder Mendoza/AFP

The fault lines of Charlie Kirk’s socio-political and theological nationalism

The American right-wing Christian nationalist, media personality and ally of Donald Trump’s MAGA movement was shot dead on 10 September

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The pathological hatred Trump inspires on the left and the quasi-religious devotion he commands on the right reflect tensions within American democratic culture. File Photo

Why Trump is more dangerous than just being a tyrant

Donald Trump’s actions and those of his acolytes are remarkably similar to those employed by Hitler

  • Eyaaz
12 min read
US President Donald Trump. Photo: Supplied

Welcome to America

I find myself in Trump’s MAGA, which is more accurately MAWA – Make America White Again

6 min read