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May 22, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Karoline Leavitt Snaps When Asked About Trump’s White Genocide Rant
Donald Trump continues to insist that white farmers are under attack in South Africa.
May 21, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Goes on Insane “White Genocide” Rant to South African Leader
Trump refused to let South African President Cyril Ramaphosa get a word in edgewise.
May 13, 2025
Edith Olmsted
White Afrikaners Trash Trump’s Reason for Offering “Refugee” Status
Even white South Africans think Donald Trump’s offering them special immigration status is dumb.
May 12, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Episcopal Church Draws Red Line on Trump’s White Afrikaner “Refugees”
The Episcopal Church is refusing to work with the government, citing its commitment to racial justice.
May 9, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Makes Carveout in Refugee Ban—for White South Africans
The first Afrikaner “refugees” will soon land in the United States. And Trump is planning a welcome delegation for their arrival.
March 20, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Offered Them Refugee Status. Thousands Responded.
The Trump administration carved out an exception for white South Africans when it halted government refugee resettlement programs. Nearly 70,000 Afrikaners have expressed interest.
March 7, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Rushes to Do President Elon Musk’s Dirty Work With South Africa
Donald Trump attacked South Africa right after the country refused one of Elon Musk’s business projects.
December 30, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Three Damning Times Jimmy Carter Put U.S. Foreign Policy on Blast
Here are some of the most powerful quotes from the thirty-ninth president.
July 18, 2023
Prem Thakker
House Passes Israel Is Not Racist Measure, Hitting Back at Progressives
Congress can’t handle even a bit of criticism of Israel, which continues to break international law.
May 24, 2021
Natalie Shure
Israel’s Never-Ending War Against Palestinian Health
Between all the headline-rattling periods of military violence, Israel’s policies toward Gaza keep its residents in a continual state of suffering.
June 10, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Who Killed Olof Palme?
Thirty-four years after the prime minister was murdered, Sweden has identified his assassin. But the case is by no means concluded.
July 1, 2019
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Lidija Haas
#ETTU?
Notes on Cancel Culture
March 2, 2017
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Johnny Miller
South Africa’s Fault Lines
These photos offer a stark reminder that, 22 years after apartheid, the country is still defined by massive inequality and stark segregation.
June 24, 2015
Jeet Heer
Dylann Roof's Defense of White Rule in Africa Has Roots in American Conservatism
July 14, 2014
Nadine Gordimer
Politics and Fiction
Morals are the husband and wife of literature
June 26, 2014
Anna Hiatt
The Rise and Fall of Apartheid in Pictures
An exhibition in South Africa is attracting record-breaking crowds
June 19, 2014
Eve Fairbanks
"I Have Sinned Against the Lord and Against You! Will You Forgive Me?"
A former apartheid leader is seeking redemption—by washing the feet of those he wronged
April 28, 2014
Marc Tracy
Kerry Says Israel Is Headed Toward "Apartheid." Is He Right?
December 6, 2013
Jordan Michael Smith
All the Terrible Things Republicans Used to Say About Nelson Mandela
Reaganites called him a terrorist and a phony
December 5, 2013
John Carlin
Mandela Unbound: Imagining the South African Future
March 12, 1990
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