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Cyril Ramaphosa - South African union leader, mine boss, president
BBC via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoIt is a far from ideal state of affairs, especially for a man said to... Butler tells the BBC. "He...
Why voters fall out of love with liberation movements
BBC via Yahoo News· 5 days agoNo longer, it seems, were large numbers of voters reflexively willing to give the party of Nelson...
2 political outliers claim seats in European Parliament by leveraging social media's viral power
San Francisco Chronicle· 8 hours ago...Fidias Panayiotou is a 24-year-old with no political experience and no formal higher education...
Hungary’s Orbán shows weakest performance in EU elections in 20 years, opening path to pro-EU rival...
WTOP Washington· 7 days agoThe lackluster showing can largely be attributed to the emergence of a new political force in Hungary — Péter Magyar, a former insider in Orbán’s Fidesz-KDNP coalition, who broke with the < ...
Has Jeff Bezos Embraced the Rupert Murdoch Model of Leveraging Sleaze for Power?
The Nation· 2 hours agoFor ordinary people, tabloid journalism is often just a source of tawdry diversion. One of the...
Jacob Zuma: South Africans have five theories about why he’s still popular
Investing.com· 4 days agoA number of theories are being touted in South Africa about why and how former president Jacob Zuma...
South Africa’s ANC and opposition announce a unity government, in a big power shift
NPR· 3 days agoIt was Zuma’s ultimate revenge on the party that forced him to resign as president in disgrace amid multiple corruption scandals in 2018. He was replaced ...
How hard is it to root out corruption? Ask Guatemala’s new president.
The Christian Science Monitor· 5 days agoBy most counts, it’s a miracle that Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo has been in office for...
Macron ‘laying trap’ for hard-Right
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 days agoAlvise Pérez, a 34-year-old online activist with hundreds of thousands of social media followers, leads a start-up political party called The Party is...
China: A Bad TIP
Strategy Page· 7 days agoUntil the NPS the most powerful anti-corruption group was the ruling Communist Party’s CCDI (Central Commission for Discipline Inspection), which only went ...