What to make of more than 70m Americans who voted for Trump?
As of today, 73,781,603 people voted for Trump, which amounts to 47.2 percent of the total votes counted.
Category Archives: Opinions
It is time to decolonise the World Bank and the IMF
These institutions, designed with colonial principles in mind, remain largely colonial in character to this day.
We all have a part to play in the war against food waste
We cannot continue to allow millions to go hungry while tonnes of perfectly good food end up in landfills every year.
Americans need to remain vigilant
The American people must not assume it is over until Trump leaves the White House.
After this election, we should not come together
Black people would better spend their energy on international solidarity than on reconciliation with Trump supporters.
It is high time Africans start talking conservation
In Africa, the conservation story has long been told from an external perspective. We need to change this.
Technology is the new border enforcer, and it discriminates
Tech solutions have not made border control more objective or humane, but rather more dangerous.
Why is Trump’s lawyer fighting against women’s rights in Poland?
In Poland and across Europe, US-based Christian-right groups are working to limit women's access to abortion.
In the US, voter suppression will remain the norm
Do not let the early voting numbers and Biden's win fool you.
Europe’s ‘Muslim question’ and the new secular crusade
Macron is demanding Muslims give up their religious values at a time when secular France doubts its own values.
The IHRA definition will not help fight anti-Semitism
But it can very much hurt the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle and academic and advocacy freedom.
Five ways to un-Trump America
Trump is fired and now we have to recover from his presidency. Here is how.
Saudi Arabia’s image-building efforts suffer another setback
Saudi Arabia's presidency of this year's G20 is no longer the golden PR opportunity MBS dreamed of.
The automated path to social and ecological destruction
The destruction caused by automation has already started to outweigh its constructive potential.
Learning to learn during a pandemic
The global disruption of education poses a greater threat to most children than COVID-19.
Trump and Trumpism: Four years and an eternity later
Whether Trump gets another term as president or not, Trumpism will not disappear any time soon.
Social media: An addictive product unlike any other
The more you use a particular social media platform, the more addictive that platform becomes - for you, specifically.
If (only) Amy Coney Barrett was a Muslim
Why did Americans condemn the new supreme court justice's extremely conservative ideology by likening her to a Muslim?
‘Islam’ is not in crisis, liberalism is
When the whole world is facing unprecedented upheaval, it is astonishing to suggest 'Islam' alone is in crisis.
Trump’s normalisation of Israel spreads to Africa
Trump's 'normalisation' deals are hurting not only Palestinians, but all who hope for a moral international order.