Category: Politics
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Five weeks after the Supreme Court struck down his birthright citizenship order 6-3, President Trump signed a new one that cites the ruling itself. It has attracted remarkably little attention.
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The Norwegian royal family arrives at a change of monarch after several punishing years: a criminal trial, a lung transplant, repeated hospital admissions and a running argument about where a family ends and an institution begins.
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Trade talks have collapsed, the president has threatened 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian vehicles, and the public exchange has moved to insults between Trump and Ontario’s premier. Underneath it is a concrete dispute about whether Canada keeps an auto industry.
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Trade talks collapsed on 21 August, 50% US tariffs took effect on $20 billion of Canadian goods, and Ottawa will retaliate dollar for dollar on 8 September. Carney says Canada was attacked; Washington says Canada’s trade policy is among the world’s worst.
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Cook Islanders elect all 24 seats of Parliament amid a cost-of-living crisis and argument over a partnership agreement with China. Why tiny constituencies change how politics works, what free association actually means, and what voters are deciding.
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The world’s oldest serving president went to Europe for a brief stay two months ago and has not come back. Why a long absence is a governance question rather than a health rumour, and what is actually observable from outside.
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Rodrigo Paz dismissed economy minister José Gabriel Espinoza on Friday, days after calling the congressional vote against him unconstitutional. What a censure vote does under Bolivia’s constitution, why a car purchase became the trigger, and what the reversal signals.
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Four European states have urged Israel to halt settlement expansion; Turkey, Egypt and Qatar condemned strikes in Gaza. Why the statement came from four countries and not the EU, what the legal claim rests on, and how to tell which diplomatic moves matter.
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India’s ruling party is rethinking how it talks to young voters after youth-led protests over education and unemployment. Why the movement took its name from an insult, the grievance underneath, and whether a communications answer can meet a material problem.
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Byron Donalds won the Republican nomination for governor of Florida, succeeding a term-limited Ron DeSantis on the ballot. What a US primary actually decides, why a crowded field changes the maths, and three cautions for reading the results.