Topic: Politics

Politics covers the decisions, debates and power struggles that shape public life, from elections and parties to government policy, diplomacy and political culture.

It brings together reporting on leaders and institutions alongside the controversies and public reactions surrounding them. For readers, it offers context on who is making decisions, what is at stake and how political developments may affect everyday life.

  • South Africa’s president wins bid to temporarily halt impeachment inquiry over ‘Farmgate’

    A South African court has temporarily stopped a parliamentary inquiry into whether President Cyril Ramaphosa should face impeachment over the “Farmgate” cash scandal. The decision gives Ramaphosa time to challenge an earlier panel report and delays a politically sensitive process as his ANC now governs in coalition rather than with a parliamentary majority. The case…

  • US allies hit with new tariffs object to Trump’s forced labor claims

    The Trump administration has imposed new tariffs on more than 60 trading partners, prompting criticism from several close US allies that reject its claim they are not doing enough to prevent goods made with forced labour entering their markets. The move matters because it renews broad trade barriers after earlier tariffs were ruled illegal by…

  • Don’t Give Up on Jimmy Lai

    I’m unable to access this article — the National Review page is blocked by a JavaScript/Cloudflare challenge, and I don’t have permission to use web search to find alternative coverage. Based on my background knowledge: Jimmy Lai is the pro-democracy Hong Kong media tycoon and founder of Apple Daily, who has been on trial under…

  • Is Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus Too Soft?

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  • Sophie Cunningham Dishes Common Sense

    Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham defended her opposition to transgender women competing in women’s sport, describing her position as “common sense”. Her remarks renewed a politically charged debate over competitive fairness, inclusion and privacy in women’s athletics, drawing both support and criticism. Cunningham said she wanted to protect girls and women in sport and in…

  • The Fog of Hype

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  • A Monumental Tug-of-War

    The article argues that repeated presidential changes to US national-monument boundaries have created unstable federal land policy. It says President Trump’s latest reductions to two Utah monuments revive a long-running dispute over whether the executive branch should have such extensive authority, and contends that legislatures and state leaders should play a larger role. According to…

  • The Week: Trump’s 2020 Obsession

    National Review’s weekly editorial roundup comments on US and international politics, legal disputes and elections, arguing that Donald Trump’s continued claims about the 2020 election lack supporting evidence while electoral safeguards still require attention. – It criticises Trump’s renewed election claims and notes no evidence that fraud changed the 2020 result. – It discusses alleged…

  • Walking in Brent Bozell’s Footsteps in El Escorial

    The article examines how Leo Brent Bozell Jr.’s move to El Escorial, Spain, in 1960 helped reshape his political and religious outlook. It argues that the town’s association with Spain’s Counter-Reformation past, alongside Bozell’s experience of Franco-era Spain, moved him away from the limited-government conservatism associated with Barry Goldwater towards Catholic integralism and a stronger…

  • Won’t Anyone Think of the Parents?

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