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The President’s Men: US President Donald Trump has made appointments to his cabinet of people who are obsequious to him, the writer says.

Trump’s whips and chains initiative

He has been ruling like a dictator, claiming wartime powers, circumventing the Senate and Congress

  • Eyaaz
7 min read
In a world at war where only hindsight will determine if and how deep into the weeds of a third global conflict the world has waded has painted the peace prize committee into a corner that if not the Houthi, then no one. (Wikimedia Commons)

Nobel Peace Prize’s credibility on the line – again

Should the peace prize committee embrace integrity, it would have few options to either confer the 2025 award on Yemen’s Houthi or admit defeat and cancel it.

8 min read
Reputational damage: The Filipina journalist Maria Ressa was the victim of deepfake technology that made it appear as if she were peddling an automated cryptocurrency trading programme. Photo: Ezra Acayan/Getty Images

Nobel peace laureate: ‘More money in lies than in truth’

Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa has taken up the fight against deepfake, a threat to journalism and democracy

  • Simon Allison
5 min read
Former United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger attends the ceremony for the Henry A. Kissinger Prize on January 21, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

Henry Kissinger, singular US diplomat, dead at 100

While Kissinger’s intellectual gifts were begrudgingly acknowledged, he remains deeply controversial for his ruthless philosophy of realpolitik

  • Des Erasmus
4 min read