Emma Elliott Freire

2 weeks ago | wng.org | Emma Elliott Freire

The murders of white farmers in South Africa has helped spark a diplomatic fallout between South Africa and the United States. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa met with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on May 21, and Trump used the opportunity to show Ramaphosa (and gathered media) a video of South African politicians chanting for the killing of white farmers. But Ramaphosa and other South African officials say Trump has misrepresented the issue.

2 weeks ago | wng.org | Emma Elliott Freire |Onize Oduah

On May 31, Kamil Idris was sworn in as prime minister of Sudan. He looked the part of an elected leader in a black three-piece suit adorned with a Sudanese flag lapel pin. A former United Nations official, Idris is a respected figure in his own right. But far more power lies in the hands of the man in uniform who stood directly across from him during the ceremony, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). It was Burhan who installed Idris—not a popular vote.

1 month ago | wng.org | Emma Elliott Freire

Editor's note: The following text is a transcript of a podcast story. To listen to the story, click on the arrow beneath the headline above. MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It:South Africa under the global spotlight. Last week, President Trump had a testy meeting in the Oval Office with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Trump played a video montage of South African elected officials calling for killing white farmers and seizing their land.

1 month ago | wng.org | Emma Elliott Freire

Luke Byrne is arranging light wood chairs around matching tables to ensure they face the front of the room. It’s a sunny Saturday morning outside a public library in Ellicott City, Md. Children are skipping in through the front door followed by their parents. Inside a library meeting room, Byrne and 20 other adults take their seats for a serious discussion. They are focused on their common goal of extreme saving, part of a small, dedicated movement called FIRE—Financial Independence, Retire Early.

1 month ago | wng.org | Emma Elliott Freire

During the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a political philosophy called “fusionism” dominated the Republican Party. In broad strokes, fusionism consisted of an interventionist foreign policy, free market economics, and Christian social morality—with an emphasis on being pro-life and opposed to gay marriage. President Donald Trump killed fusionism when he adopted a noninterventionist foreign policy and imposed tariffs on the entire world. But what of the Republican Party’s morality?