Presidency
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Why Erdoğan Prevailed in a Battle of Competing Turkish Nationalisms
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has led Turkey for two decades, first as Prime Minister, then as President, and who has…
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2024 Trump Is Even Scarier Than 2020 Trump
In politics, as in life, there is a tendency to overcomplicate things. And the simple truth about the 2024 campaign…
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A Second Trump Term Would Be a Scary Rerun of the First
On Thursday morning, Donald Trump did a phone interview with the radio host Hugh Hewitt, one of many conservative commentators…
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Trump and the Trapped Country
Before the storming of the Capitol, it seemed as if Donald Trump might leave the White House the way he…
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“A Broken Land”: Biden and the True Costs of Unity
The Inauguration of Joe Biden as the forty-sixth President was the culmination of stories long and short; sixty years ago,…
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Inauguration 2021: The task for Joe Biden, and for America
When Joe Biden raises his hand to take the oath of office, he will replace a president better known for…
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Presidency says it won’t weigh in on escape of Shepherd, Mary Bushiri
Presidency says it won’t weigh in on escape of Shepherd, Mary Bushiri The couple is out on R200,000 bail for…
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Kamala Harris’s Vice-Presidential Nomination Gives New Meaning to the Biden Campaign
The news of Joe Biden’s Vice-Presidential pick, when it finally came, arrived by a cheery text sent a little after…
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Now is not the time to let down our guard
President Cyril Ramaphosa has released a statement to the nation after the country recorded more than half a million confirmed…
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Renewable energy projects worth R58bn to rolled out in next few months
This forms part of 276 projects from all over the country now being handled by the Public Works and Infrastructure…
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