President Donald Trump has set deadlines, made demands and issued threats over the course of the five-week joint US-Israeli war against Iran. But seldom have they been this explicit. The new round of strikes against Iran will be devastating. They…

Donald Trump delivered a combative State of the Union address on Tuesday night that hailed what he said was an American “turnaround for the ages”. At a time when polls suggest many in the US are dissatisfied with the current…

Jesse Jackson, a key figure during the United States (US) civil rights movement of the 1960s, was known for being the first African-American to make the jump from activism to major-party presidential politics. A protege of Martin Luther King Jr,…