Redi Tlhabi speaks to Professor Robert Pape on the rise of political violence in the US. After the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, has the US entered a new age of political violence? The third alleged attempted assassination of US President Donald Trump in recent years follows a series of politically motivated…
Violence against women is “at breaking point” and the justice system needs to change, according to the writer of new ITV drama Believe Me about the survivors of “black-cab rapist” John Worboys. Jeff Pope, who is also writing a BBC drama about the murder of Sarah Everard, said he wanted to tell these stories because…
A question that seems to be on everyone’s mind after the third assassination attempt on President Trump on Saturday is whether the country has entered into a new, dangerous phase of political violence, and what that would mean for the country. I talked with Sean Westwood, a professor of government at Dartmouth College and fellow…
Cole Tomas Allen, who was arrested during an attempt to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday, may be America’s first normie liberal terrorist. The right, naturally, sees Allen as part of a pattern, lumping him in with figures like Thomas Matthew Crooks, who fired on Donald Trump in 2024, grazing his ear;…
The image of raw emotion stood out even amid all the chaos. Erika Kirk, widow of the conservative movement, sobbing in her shimmering white ball gown, as men in suits ushered her out of the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner after another moment of violence overtook politics. It was a symbol of one political…
Forty-five years ago, John Hinckley Jr attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan as he left the Hilton hotel in Washington, injuring the US president and three others. Obsessed with the actor Jodie Foster, and seeking to gain her attention, the shooter had initially pursued Reagan’s Democratic predecessor, Jimmy Carter. On Saturday night, the hotel again rang…
A commission appointed by Tanzania’s government on Thursday said that the deadly violence that followed last year’s presidential election was fomented by well-trained agitators with outside help and the authorities were not to blame. The commission was set up by President Samia Suluhu Hassan as the first consolidated attempt by the state to explain the…
Shorouk Express Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email A Democratic senator who was a champion of gun reforms in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting in his state blamed Donald…
Shorouk Express Ayan (not her real name) was eight years old when her aunt asked her to go to the living room. Several women were sitting in a circle, waiting for her. “I didn’t know what they were going to do to me,” she says. “They told me to sit down and then my aunts…
Shorouk Express Since 2018, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has stated that “comprehensive” sex education plays a central role in preparing young people for a “safe, productive, fulfilling life in a world where HIV and AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), unintended pregnancies, gender-based violence (GBV) and gender inequality still pose serious risks to their well-being.”…
