Let's put this out there straight off the bat – President Barack Obama was one of the finest, most dignified Presidents that the United States has ever had. To say
that what he stood for was diametrically opposed to the what the current occupier of the Oval Office stan...

Some things always seem to have a whiff of inevitability about them. The sun rises in the east, Ricky Gervais presents the Golden Globes and Donald Trump tells lots of lies.

However, there is another certainty about Trump that has now inevitably lurched to life –that h...

The USA loves its history, that’s for sure. The fourth of July and hanging on to the imperial system of weights and measurements are two of the more innocuous things, while Confederate Civil War monuments and a dogmatic,
literalist attachment to the Second Amendment ar...

 Donald Trump is a lot of things. President, regrettably, but also a failed businessman, fraud, racist and serial liar. Similarly, he is also not a lot of things – presidential, statesman-like and diplomat being three of the more glaring examples, despite Trump’s whini...

One of the key fundamentals of an effective democracy is that of representation. That those being entrusted with power reflect those that put them there. The US is of course an ethnically diverse country of hundreds of millions of people. For example, approximately 16%...

2015 really does seem like a lifetime ago. You remember the year when Obama was still President and politics in the US didn’t resemble a cross between Alice in
Wonderland meets tv reality on steroids, with added racism and amateurism thrown in for extras? Almost a drea...

In the midst of the continual orchestra of outrage being conducted by Donald Trump, so much can happen in such a short period of time that issues of huge
significance can all too quickly be pushed out of view.

Trump is of course presently up to his neck in a Ukrainian r...

For a country that has branded itself to be “The Land of the Free”, the US sure seems to have any number of societal issues that seem nothing short of repressive. Astronomical medical bills, college debt spiralling out of control and gun violence and deaths unmatched a...

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Malcom X

Education is in a perilous state right now in the USA. That’s for both those that offer it and those that receive it. And that should deeply concern everyone in...

If you live in the US, there’s a good chance that at some time on the late afternoon of Tuesday September 24 th 2019, you heard a strange, distant clicking noise emanating from the direction of Washington D.C. And you know what that
sound was, right? It was the sound o...