Trump’s bipolar vision misreads a multipolar world

Suggestions of a 'G2' risks overestimating America and China's ability to reorganise the world

Shirley Ze Yu

America Needs Compulsory Voting

Electoral participation inthe United Stateslags far behind that in other developed democracies. Typically, about six in ten eligible voters have cast ballots in recent presidential elections-and…

Anthony Fowler

U.S. Africa Policy Needs a Reset 

Early in his administration,U.S.PresidentDonald Trumpseemed poised to make major changes toU.S.policy toward Africa. His signature "America first" approach was inherently skeptical of foreign…

John Campbell

Boris Johnson Charts his Own Course

In the first six months of the coronavirus pandemic Boris Johnsonclaimed his government was “following the science” at every step of its plan. But as the virus resurges and asecond wave of…

Al Majalla - London

The Coronavirus Election

Amid the tumult of coronavirus, the US presidential election is looming ever closer.When a global pandemic sickens more than 6 million Americans and kills over 210,000, its ripples -- economic,…

Al Majalla - London