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U.K.: Kanye West Has Shown Us Exactly Who He Is – and Yet the Public Is Still Listening

Lalatendu Das - December 17, 2022. Published in The Guardian

Despite his antisemitic rants, the rapper now known as Ye is finishing the year as [one of] Spotify UK’s top five most-streamed artists.

Austria: Elon Musk and His Limits

Robin Koerner - December 12, 2022. Published in Wiener Zeitung

[P]osting Nazi propaganda must, of course, result in a ban.

India: After Trump

Robin Koerner - July 27, 2020. Published in The Indian Express

In the U.S. for a long time, the archetype of the politician was of the clean-cut family man. Yet, for at least a decade, popular culture has been creating a very different aspirational figure.

Russia: Rapper Kanye West Throws Down the Gauntlet to Trump and Biden

Robin Koerner - July 27, 2020. Published in Komsomolkaya Pravda

Quite the cheerful crowd of presidential candidates has gathered in the United States.

Spain: ‘America’

Robin Koerner - July 26, 2020. Published in La Razon

Australia: Kanye West and the Rise of Celebrity Candidates Trash the US Presidency

Rejeanne Lacroix - July 20, 2020. Published in Sydney Morning Herald

Let’s hope West’s beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy never becomes our grim reality.

U.K.: The Self-Consciously Woke, Anti-Trump, Slightly Bizarre Jaden Smith Is on a Path to the US Presidency

Lalatendu Das - June 7, 2018. Published in The Guardian

Spain: Nobody Will Sing for Trump

Robin Koerner - January 5, 2017. Published in El País

Elton John and Garth Brooks have refused to perform at Trump’s inauguration.

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