Hussein Ibish

The US President hopes voters somehow will prioritise saving statues as their country buckles under a pandemic

The tell-all comes out amid a series of setbacks for the US President as well as his re-election bid

America's military brass are reminding the "law and order President" that the army cannot be leveraged for political purposes

Faced with the threat of illegal annexation, the Palestinian Authority is signalling that it is running out of options

Protests may already be changing attitudes towards racism in the US and around the world

The Covid-19 pandemic, economic meltdown, protests against the killing of George Floyd and Donald Trump's attacks on democracy are all taking a toll on the country and its people

The outcome of two pending cases will effectively determine the ability of the US Congress to check and balance an American president through oversight

In the US almost 80,000 people have died and unemployment has reached levels not seen for almost 100 years

The case of former national security adviser Gen Michael Flynn illustrates how irreconcilable Democratic and Republican worldviews have become

People will see through what is yet another attempt by the President to distract them from his administration's poor handling of the Covid-19 crisis in an election year

With his poll numbers falling, the president's re-election campaign is evidently getting desperate

The short answer is no, but the country is facing a different kind of political challenge

From the outset, the US response to the pandemic has been characterised by a shortage of testing kits, equipment and – most of all – leadership

Leaders who rose to power denigrating expertise and international co-operation are now having to rely on both elements in a time of crisis

The former vice president will present himself as a return to normalcy in US foreign policy but the world he will confront and the America he will lead are greatly changed