Category Archives: Politics

Xi meets with Kim in North Korea as fate of US nuclear deal still up i...

June 24, 2019

Hong Kong (CNN)More than 15 months after Kim Jong Un traveled to Beijing and invited the Chinese President to visit Pyongyang, Xi Jinping has arrived in the North Korean capital for a two-day state v...

Iran claims it dealt ‘heavy blow’ to US ‘spy network...

June 24, 2019

Iranian National Security Secretary Ali Shamkhani pictured in Tehran on September 26, 2018. Tehran (CNN)Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence said on Tuesday that the country has managed to “de...

Trump Moves From Trade War Toward Currency War

June 24, 2019

President’s ECB tweets mark rare intervention by a U.S. leader He’s backed off ‘strong dollar’ policy of his predecessors Donald Trump on June 18. Photographer: Marco Bello/Bloomberg President Donald...

Why The Existential Crisis In Politics Is About Brands Not Policy

May 29, 2019

Westminster Photo by Shane Rounce on Unsplash There’s an existential brand crisis in politics right now, a crisis that is contributing to fragmentation and confusion in the two main UK parties and ma...

Trump Twitter Tantrum Could Trigger 20% Stock Market Crash

May 29, 2019

By CCN: The Obama administration pioneered the use of social media to engage directly with the American public, but President Trump’s unprecedented Twitter antics have proven that social media can ma...

The dangerous games politicians play with ‘identity’ and &...

October 29, 2018

Deignan: It’s naive to claim that the “unifying power of the American idea” has always been more powerful than “identity politics.” (Photo illustration by Pixabay) When ...

A Stacey Abrams win in Georgia may rewrite the political rule book for...

October 29, 2018

Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is greeted before speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists in Detroit. (Carlos Osorio/AP) The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports: Desp...

Inside Rodrigo Duterte’s raging war on drugs

July 31, 2018

In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs rages on, its death toll of 8,000 dwarfed only by the estimated million more condemned by the president’s ‘kill lists’. GQ reports from Ma...

5 legendary political bromances that shaped US history

July 31, 2018

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are the most recent example of an American political bromance. Reuters Politicians have alliances and rivalries in their own political parties, acr...

Five Takeaways From Macron’s Plan to Revamp French Business

June 22, 2018

President Emmanuel Macron set out the next phase of his plan to turn France into a “startup nation” on Monday. In a bill that will go to Parliament after the summer break, Finance Minister Bruno Le M...

100 years of secrecy: The story of America’s first swashbuckling...

April 20, 2018

(Photo: Trevor Hughes/USA TODAY) DENVER – A long-forgotten box of documents moldering in a garage has proven a treasure trove of history, telling the stories of the swashbuckling soldiers who first s...

‘Tortured and held for ransom,’ a child migrant’s st...

March 5, 2018

(CNN) Souleiman tells a harrowing tale. He says he left Guinea when he was just 17 years old, embarking on a treacherous journey that took him through three countries. Along the way, he says he was i...

JFK files: Code names for Soviet informants in U.S. named in latest ba...

December 7, 2017

WASHINGTON — The code names assigned to a series of informants on whom the FBI relied for information about Soviet intelligence activities were released for the first time, as part of the opening of ...

Nigerian Multi-Millionaire Gilbert Chagoury Receives National Honor In...

November 30, 2017

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has awarded Nigerian multi-millionaire business mogul Gilbert Chagoury with the national order of friendship medal ‘Igihango’, one of the highest national honors in th...

EARLIEST RECORDING OF JFK UNCOVERED: HEAR HIM SPEAK AS A 20-YEAR-OLD

May 21, 2017

What did John F. Kennedy sound like as a 20-year-old? Well, now we know. Archivists from Harvard University have just released a new audio file of the future president delivering a speech in 1937, wh...