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President Cyril Ramaphosa had the upper hand in the Oval office meeting, but US President Donal Trump does not have the emotional intelligence to recognise this.

Trump exposed white fragility during his theatrics in the Oval Office

Cyril Ramaposa showed the world that turning the other cheek does work, but Trump does not have the emotional intelligence to recognise this

France’s President Emmanuel Macron. Photo: Supplied

French foreign lesions: An overdue reckoning

Colonial atrocities are finally catching up to Paris, and Emmanuel Macron’s government has not put up a fight

Time ticks for three horsemen of dystopia – Zuma, Trump and Boris

The past week has been a good week. All three have suffered serious setbacks, as they have once again been exposed as the cowards they truly are, for all the bravado

The tide is slowly turning on uncritical pro-West reporting on issues such as Russia’s war on Ukraine (above) or Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP

Prelude to an apocalyptic, dystopian scenario: Russia’s war on Ukraine

Will the West be able to summon the fortitude to oppose Tsar Putin?

Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler watch a Nazi parade staged for the Italian dictators’s visit to Germany. Photo: Getty Images

100 years of fascism: history shows how fascism can be the dark side to liberation

Manipulators of nationalism, religious identity and racism are a constant risk to democracy across the world.

(John McCan/M&G)

The pandemic creates ideal conditions for the rise of populism

The state of politics and geopolitics has been exacerbated, rather than stabilised, by the coronavirus crisis

Europe’s far-right nationalists are closing their borders and using Covid-19 as a guise to deport and deny entry to refugees and asylum seekers.

Far right uses coronavirus to scapegoat refugees

Europe’s far-right nationalists are closing their borders and using Covid-19 as a guise to deport and deny entry to refugees and asylum seekers

Keep out: Migrants climb over a border wall into the United States from Mexico. (Leah Millis/Reuters)

Identity politics is about our quest for recognition

The rapid changes in the political and economic landscape have seen people around the world losing their sense of dignity and thus their identity

People stand in front of the Parliament building during a protest against a proposed new labour law, billed as the “slave law”. (Leonhard Foeger/Reuters)

Thousands protest ‘slave law’ in Budapest

The protest was called by unions and opposition parties outraged at reforms that hike the annual overtime hours that employers can demand

Frida Kahlo’s dedication to the communist party is obvious in paintings such as Marxism Will Give Health to the Sick

Frida Kahlo’s communist ideas revisited and rejected

The artist’s dedication to the communist party is obvious in paintings such as Marxism Will Give Health to the Sick