Political Commentary

Rewire News Group • 30th September 2025

How Trump Paywalled Our Colleges—Opinion

I finished my master’s degree in public diplomacy this August, wrapping up my educational journey. My undergraduate and graduate degrees have been the result of years of hard work and perseverance, marked by countless late nights finishing homework and early work days.
I paid for it all with a mix of part-time work and government support. Without statewide grants, subsidized and unsubsidized loans, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and paid internships, I wouldn’t have had a...

Europinion • 19th August 2025

Eyes On 2028: The Race For President Begins Again

Less than 1,500 days away, the race for the 2028 US Presidential election is already on its way. Between Trump briefly teasing a third run and Democratic infighting at the drop of a hat, the 2028 election cycle is already setting up a chaotic landscape for US politics and the future of western democracy.  With nearly 60% of Americans dissatisfied with the functioning of democracy in the United States, the 2028 election cycle is poised to be another pivotal moment in American history. Beginning w...

Europinion • 5th August 2025

ICE Raids: A Domestic Failure That Hurts U.S. Hegemonic Influence

Since early June, my city, Los Angeles, has been experiencing an all-out aggressive immigration enforcement campaign from the Trump administration. From targeting street vendors to garment factory workers, viral videos have continued to flood social media pages of community members being forcibly detained by masked military-like officials, subsequent protests against these targetings, and reports highlighting detainees' lack of due process. With more troops in Los Angeles present than deployed i...

Europinion • 18th July 2025

When Diplomacy Meets Bromance: Trump's New Domestic and Foreign Play

Some things have remained a constant in the second Trump term: his capricious and avaricious personality, which prioritises loyalty, business negotiations, and media spectacle, continues to define his approach toward diplomacy and America’s global positioning. Within his approach toward the presidency and politics, Trump continues to blend the roles of showman, strongman, and salesman, constructing his policy agenda within the framework of transactional politics. On Inauguration Day, tech billio...

Europinion • 13th July 2025

Beyond Oversight: Palantir and the Making of a Controlled State

Alongside Trump’s continued ICE raids across America, his Administration is attacking immigration from a more insidious angle: surveillance. Through partnerships with Palantir and Magnet Forensics, coupled with reports of social media monitoring, the Trump administration is laying the groundwork for an expansive, connected infrastructure of control that operates beyond the bounds of accountability and democratic oversight. As Trump plans to monitor the lives of marginalised communities and inter...

Progressive.org • 16th June 2025

Sanctuary Under Siege: L.A.’s Fight Against ICE Raids

On Friday, June 6, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers raided Ambiance Apparel, a clothing manufacturing factory in the downtown Los Angeles Fashion District, where they arrested more than forty immigrant workers. The workers, more than a dozen of whom were part of the close-knit Zapotec Indigenous community from Oaxaca, Mexico, were detained without access to counsel or ability to contact their families.

Ambiance Apparel was one of four L.A. businesses raided by ICE that...

Europinion • 4th June 2025

Human Rights Rewritten: US Policy Abandons Honesty and the Vulnerable

In April 2025, the Trump Administration and the State Department announced that their annual reports on international human rights would be scaled back, removing mentions of long standing principles of human rights abuses, such as harsh prison conditions, government corruption, and political oppression. These reports, titled “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” were legally required documentation by Congress on the “status of internationally recognised human rights.” The 2024 report, whi...

Europinion • 1st June 2025

Auditioning for America: From Policy to Propaganda

As dystopian and Hunger Games-esque as it sounds, reports revealed that the US Department of Homeland Security was in the “beginning stages” of an immigrant-based reality TV show, with the working title “The American.” Participants involved would be offered citizenship for winning challenges taking place across iconic US landmarks and cities, such as a “gold rush” challenge in San Francisco, a “pizza” challenge in New York, or a “NASA” challenge in Florida, all in a broad attempt to showcase “ho...

Progressive.org • 23rd May 2025

Silencing the Voice of America

“Today, and daily from now on, we shall speak to you about America and the war,” proclaimed announcer William Harlan Hale during the Voice of America’s (VOA) first broadcast on February 1, 1942. “The news may be good for us. The news may be bad. But we shall tell you the truth.” 

VOA was officially established to counter Nazi propaganda and provide accurate and unbiased news on international affairs to foreign populations during World War II. Now, President Donald Trump and his Department of...

Europinion • 2nd May 2025

Your Honour, Mr. President: Trump’s Quest to Rule from the Oval Office

With nearly 100 days in office, President Trump has managed to usher the US into an international trade war and an emerging constitutional crisis. Currently, the Trump Administration is aggressively challenging the US judiciary through various cases, including on issues such as immigration, health research, and birthright citizenship, to fulfill his agenda and campaign promises, but also to assert complete and unchallenged power. While Trump’s actions are not new, they align with dangerous globa...

Europinion • 26th April 2025

US Public Media in Peril: NPR and PBS on the Chopping Block

After Trump signed an executive order defunding the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Congressional Republicans and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have begun targeting U.S. domestic public media. National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) are two non-commercial, free-to-air information networks in the US, with a collective audience of hundreds of millions across radio, television, and digital platforms. According to a drafted White House memo, Trump is expe...

Progressive.org • 3rd April 2025

Wrapped In the Flag, Waving the Cross

On February 7, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a White House “Faith Office,” citing the necessity of “combatting anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and additional forms of anti-religious bias” as part of the administration’s aim to “end the anti-Christian weaponization of government.” To lead the initiative, he has selected Paula White-Cain, a televangelist known for her use of prosperity gospel who recently received national attention for allegedly promising “supernatur...

Europinion • 23rd March 2025

USAID’s Collapse Threatens U.S. Diplomacy and Democracy Abroad

On Trump’s first day in office, he began his quest for government efficiency, dismantling foreign assistance diplomacy at the expense of America’s legacy. Through executive orders and a barrage of lawsuits, Trump effectively defunded and delegitimised the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by halting all foreign aid funding. By focusing on his “America First” policy, Trump’s reckless approach jeopardised thousands of livelihoods, as not only did those employed by the agen...

Europinion • 3rd March 2025

The Politics of Guantánamo Grow Stronger

Weeks after entering the Oval Office, President Trump has set in motion plans to fulfil his most substantial campaign promise: mass deportations at any cost. Starting with 10 migrants described as “high-threat individuals” and later totalling nearly 180, President Trump began his plans   to send the "worst criminal illegal aliens" to Guantánamo Bay, a United States military base located on the southeastern end of Cuba. Housed in holding tents or Camp VI, the high-security detention facility, mig...

Europinion • 24th February 2025

Biden's Farewell May Signal a New Era for U.S. Democrats

On January 15, 2025, US ex-President Joe Biden delivered his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office, closing a nearly 50-year chapter in his life and broader American politics. Warning of the dangers of oligarchy, the tech-industrial complex, and imploring Americans to “stand guard” for democracy, Biden’s farewell speech was miles away from the message he walked into office with: Our Best Days Still Lie Ahead.Starting in politics as the sixth-youngest senator in American history, Bi...

Europinion • 14th January 2025

Trump’s Rhetoric Echoes Gunboat Diplomacy

Throughout American history, US expansionist ideals evolved and developed to establish the country as a global power and influence. During the early 1900s, this foreign policy line was at its peak. President Theodore Roosevelt stressed US dominance and authority as a “moral imperative” over Western Hemisphere affairs and created the hard power, “Big Stick” policy, the Roosevelt Corollary, adding it to the existing Monroe Doctrine to execute these goals. Make no mistake, this policy was not used...

Europinion • 9th January 2025

Kari Lake's VOA Appointment Puts Future of US Public Diplomacy at Stake

Voice of America (VOA), a US government funded international broadcasting agency, provides balanced and objective news worldwide in nearly 50 languages. Given Trump's recent pick for its next director, its estimated weekly audience of more than 354 million people are at risk of receiving false and politically biased news. Founded in 1942, less than two months after the US entered World War II, VOA was committed to fighting for truth in the face of propaganda. With their first broadcast airing in...

Europinion • 11th December 2024

Trump's Cabinet Picks: What They Mean For U.S. Foreign Affairs

Leading up to inauguration day, as Trump continues to announce more nominees, we would do well to examine his intentions behind specific nominations through the lens of foreign policy. Positions such as Secretary of State, U.N. and NATO ambassador, and Director of National Intelligence are more than mere international relations positions. They shape diplomatic policy, relationships, foreign audiences' perceptions, and the reputation for trustfulness and cooperation of the United States, all of w...

Medium • 25th March 2024

The GOP’s False Fentanyl Narrative

The opioid crisis has impacted numerous lives nationwide, including the Latino community. As overdose deaths in the Latino community tripled since 2011, fatalities from overdoses are continuing to rise in connection to the rise of fentanyl. With the increase in fentanyl presence in cities, often mixed with other substances, experts warn how the opioid epidemic is transforming into a phase that is almost entirely dominated by the illicit traffic of fentanyl.

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American Civil Liberties Union • 3rd November 2023

Battling for Reproductive Rights: Ohio's Religious Communities Advocate for Abortion | ACLU

Next week, Ohio voters will decide whether to pass Issue 1, a state constitutional amendment protecting decisions about pregnancy including contraception, fertility treatment, miscarriage care, and abortion. Ohioans from every walk of life — and across the political spectrum — have come together to put an end to the state’s extreme abortion ban and enshrine protections for reproductive freedom in their state constitution. As we approach the election, our friends at the ACLU of Ohio and Ohioans U

Feminist • 23rd March 2023

TOOLKIT: End Gun Violence —

On the 5th year anniversary of March For Our Lives, FEMINIST is mobilizing alongside youth, parents, teachers, care providers, and everyone who cares about young people affected by gun violence to demand ACTION.

Guns are now the leading cause of death for children and young people. This is unacceptable. Young people refuse to die waiting for change. We will continue to fight for our lives. And we will win. We are fighting for legislation that will ban assault weapons, close background check loo

Feminist • 16th March 2023

Black History Month 2023 — Feminist

Nina Simone was an innovative artist, musician, and civil rights activist whose legacy has inspired people around the world. Born in North Carolina in 1933, Simone began her career as a classical pianist before evolving into jazz and soul music.


Simone's music was deeply rooted in her experiences as a Black woman living in America. Throughout her career, she used her platform to speak out against racism, inequality, and injustice. Her iconic song "Mississippi Goddam" was a powerful statement

Feminist • 8th March 2023

International Women's Day 2023 — Feminist

In the 1900s, women around the world actively campaigned for change against oppression and inequality. Specifically, in 1908, over 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter hours better pay, and voting rights in an increasingly industrialized economy.

In November 1909, 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant Clara Lemlich addressed hundreds of garment workers. A local chapter of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union had organized the meeting to discuss an industry-wide strik

Shit you should care about • 21st January 2022

America's Poll Worker Shortage — Shit you should care about

Over half of all poll workers in America are over the age of 61 (U.S. Election Assistance Commission), and with the threat of COVID-19 many are being asked to place their lives on the line to ensure due process for their local community.

The election is 4 months away - now is the time to call on other members of our own community to organise, rise to the challenge, and volunteer.

The voter horror stories from the Primaries made headlines in the mainstream media after many working-class America