The US president-elect nominates controversial figures for key posts. Donald Trump is set to begin his second term with daunting foreign policy challenges, including several wars overseas. He’s said he’ll end the fighting in Ukraine on his first day, but hasn’t explained how. His plans regarding Gaza and Lebanon are just as vague. And the … Read more
Micro-blogging site says it now has more than 15 million users, up from nine million in September. Social media platform Bluesky has gained more than one million new users since the US presidential election, benefitting from an exodus of people unhappy with the direction of X under billionaire owner Elon Musk. The micro-blogging site said … Read more
Across the United States, leading Democrats are looking at how and why they lost significant ground in the presidential election. Some are blaming President Joe Biden for the defeat of Kamala Harris, who only had four months to run her campaign. The list of critiques is long – from not dropping out of the race … Read more
Marc Lamont Hill dissects the reasons behind a historic election victory for Donald Trump. In a historic political comeback, former President Donald Trump has been re-elected for a second term in office, despite facing multiple felony charges and widespread criticism of his alleged authoritarian tendencies. His Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, failed to persuade … Read more
Crisis talks in the coalition of Scholz’s Social Democratic Party, the Greens and Lindner’s Free Democratic Party came to a head after the FDP issued a paper with demands for liberal economic reforms that were difficult for the other two parties to accept. Lindner’s recent policy paper, leaked to the media last week, called for tax cuts and … Read more
Polling stations have opened in a number of states across the United States, with the votes deciding not only who the country’s next president will be but also the makeup of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Election Day on Tuesday is the culmination of weeks of early voting in some locations. Several states began early … Read more
Thousands of women have rallied in Washington, DC, in support of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and reproductive rights. The vice president has made abortion rights a central plank of her White House bid against Republican Donald Trump, who appeared to have publicly backed the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that took away the constitutional right … Read more
Centre Stage Chase Oliver is the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate in the 2024 US election. He joins Centre Stage to talk to Al Jazeera’s Phil Lavelle about why having more voting options is important, and what the US would be like under Libertarian governance. Oliver also offers his take on US foreign policy, how he’d … Read more
When Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, spreading divisive and inflammatory posts online to stoke outrage, its posts were brash and riddled with spelling errors and strange syntax. They were designed to get attention by any means necessary. “Hillary is a Satan,” one Russian-made Facebook post read. Now, eight years later, foreign interference … Read more
With Harris and Trump neck and neck, they are throwing everything they can at voters. With less than two weeks until the United States presidential election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have embarked on a final media blitz. Turning to podcasts, both candidates are hoping to reach voters in every demographic. Contributors:Zack Beauchamp – Senior … Read more