Trump’s April 2025 tariff blitz ignited market chaos and deepened rifts within his own coalition. Beneath the turmoil lies a battle between technocrats, ultranationalists, and anti-imperial populists, all vying to reshape — or destroy — American global power.
As American hegemony unravels, the Global South must resist both nostalgia and passivity. Multipolarity won’t arrive on its own — it must be built through struggle.
Trump’s trade war is framed as a battle with China — but its fallout is exposing just how little power African economies have in a rigged global system.
Javier Milei rose to power promising freedom — but his government is unleashing economic violence, criminalizing dissent, and testing the limits of Argentina’s democracy.
As US aid falters, the crisis of liberal internationalism deepens. What comes next when even its strongest institutions can no longer hold the facade together?
Asylum seekers from Africa are caught in a growing crisis at the US-Mexico border, as Trump's policies leave them in legal limbo and unsafe conditions.
Musk’s outrage over land reform in South Africa isn’t about fairness — it’s about fueling right-wing paranoia and preserving economic privilege.
The US president’s executive order on South Africa isn’t about fairness — it’s a cynical ploy to stoke racial paranoia and shore up his right-wing base.
As economic crises deepen, right-wing fearmongering and racial scapegoating thrive — masking the real struggle for economic justice.
The humanitarian industrial complex should be dismantled — but not by a billionaire-backed administration with no plan beyond abandonment.
Foreign aid has never been just about assistance — it enforces political, economic, and social control, keeping recipient countries in a cycle of dependency.
Musk’s embrace of far-right politics and Zionism reveals the fractures in Western liberal democracy, where whiteness trumps equality and justice.
Reflections on Trump’s 2024 US presidential victory.
While it might be cathartic to compare Elon Musk’s tech firms to apartheid-era mines, the connection between ex-South Africans and American capitalism is complicated.
Why is the US ultra-right turning to Rhodesia as their model for a white supremacist state?
On our annual publishing break, we ask: if the opposite of “weird” is normal, what if normal is equally problematic?
Removed from the facts, the firestorm around Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is the latest attempt by the right-wing in the West to find fodder for its culture war.
Is the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake really devoid of politics?
What does Javier Milei’s presidential victory mean for Argentina’s black and indigenous minorities?
The ultra-conservative American televangelist Pat Robertson has died. As poisonous as his influence on American politics was, Robertson’s legacy in Africa is even more cynical.