National Politics
This isn’t run-of-the-mill political spin, the kind of statistic-twisting and accomplishment-exaggerating that political ...
Louis Armstrong was sent to the Congo to promote US values. His concert was used as a smokescreen for a coup
These US musicians were recruited as 'jazz ambassadors'. Unbeknownst to them, some played a role in a coup in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1961.
Congo: Tuluka's first 100 days of ambition and challenges
Judith Suminwa Tuluka was sworn in as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo. She has set herself ambitious goals ...
Trump Goes Home a Martyr
“God has now spared my life,” Donald Trump told an arena full of supporters in suburban New York last night. He waited a beat ...
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Where Racism Goes To Become Rhetoric
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic ...
The New Civil Rights Movement1d
Donald Trump Just Made One of His Most Racist Attacks Yet – and the Media Is Ignoring It
For the most part, the mainstream media has largely (though not entirely) stopped holding Donald Trump accountable by ...
JD Vance touts deportation plan in Wisconsin city where tensions flared over refugee resettlement
The flaring tension over the resettlement of refugees in Eau Claire has been repeated in many other midsize communities ...
The Africa Report3d
Miller CEO: ‘In the three years I’ve been in DRC, I haven’t taken a single dollar out of the country’
Already present in Senegal, Ghana, Liberia, Tanzania and, above all, in DRC, Turkish conglomerate Miller is continuing its ...