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Carlos on Oozymandias’ goodbye grift

“Look on my works ye Mighty, and gimme 50 bucks!”

US President elect Donald Trump.   (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump unlikely to settle for golf

A narrow victory will mean that the election results won’t be settled anytime soon

DETROIT, MI – NOVEMBER 04: Election workers and Election observers and challengers at the Detroit Department of Elections Central Counting Board Voting at TCF Center, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020 in Detroit, MI. With the surge in vote by mail/absentee ballots, analysts cautioned it could take days to count all the ballots, leading some states to initially look like victories for President Trump only to later shift towards democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden.  (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Diary of an elections spotter

Fear and loathing in Trump’s America, where every bit of news can be worse than no news at all

LANSING, MICHIGAN – NOVEMBER 02: A voter waits to cast his ballot on the last day of early voting at the Lansing City Clerk’s office on November 02, 2020 in Lansing, Michigan. In 2016 U.S. President Donald Trump narrowly won Michigan, which is now a main battleground state. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

As concerns mount over integrity of US elections, so does support for international poll monitors

The pandemic will challenge international observation missions, but ensuring fair elections in an essential component of American democracy

The blackface election looms

Like blackface, the US election is a stupid inversion of the ‘usual’ trope of being the superpower that offers lessons on governance and rights to Africa

WILMINGTON, DE – OCTOBER 23: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden drops his protective face mask while leaving the stage following his remarks for combatting the coronavirus pandemic at The Queen theater on October 23, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. While Biden campaigns in Delaware on Friday, President Donald Trump is holding two rallies in the battleground state of Florida.   Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP

Joe Biden’s debate guests run the only Zimbabwean restaurant in America

A Zimbabwean restaurant feeding people in need formed an unlikely addition to Joe Biden’s election campaign

Cartoon: Carlos on turd immunity

Standing out from the herd isn’t always a great idea

Former US president Donald Trump. File photo

How the coronavirus pandemic could get Trump re-elected

US President Donald Trump is good at channelling voters’ anger. And anger about the effects of Covid-19 is a factor that could help him win another term

Solution: Vaccine vials, which need to be kept cool and are costly to transport,  may soon be replaced by vaccines on a thin-film membrane, which will do away with weight, cost and cooling issues. (Jane Barlow – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

The narratives that define the coronavirus pandemic will influence its outcome

Combatting Covid-19 is as much about public relations as public health. Now is our chance to tell new stories and find new ways of working together

United States President Donald Trump.  (Qassem Soleimani)

The Democrats have a cunning plan to get Trump re-elected

The bid to impeach the president failed, Iowa was a disaster and Adam Schiff is a PR nightmare

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SPONSORED: Business in 2020: How the global economy is shaping up

Investors are keeping a close eye on what’s happening in the US, UK and China