I remember the people. Thousands of them, sometimes hundreds of thousands, pressed together in aging stadiums, lining the streets of one place or another. In the Mexican state of Chiapas, so many people crowded in a local stadium in 2016 that it seemed to heave from the human swarm, everyone craning upward, squinting at the […]
Guesses about who will be the next Roman Catholic pope often prove inaccurate. Before the selection of Pope Francis in 2013, many bookmakers had not even counted him among the front-runners. This time, predictions are further complicated because Francis made many appointments in a relatively short amount of time during his tenure, diversifying the College […]
The pontiff and the president had little in common. One spurned the traditional red shoes and luxurious apostolic palace for religious simplicity, living humbly in a Vatican City guesthouse. The other made a brand of his own name and wrapped nearly everything he touched, from New York City skyscrapers to the Oval Office, in a […]
When President Trump assessed his team’s performance in late March, he boasted that the White House had executed “two perfect months.” Border crossings were down. Military recruitment was up. The stock market was humming. Mr. Trump was achieving his maximalist policy goals with efficiency and minimal internal drama, a notable change from his first term. […]
The pontiff and the president had little in common. One spurned the traditional red shoes and luxurious apostolic palace for religious simplicity, living humbly in a Vatican City guesthouse. The other made a brand of his own name and wrapped nearly everything he touched, from New York City skyscrapers to the Oval Office, in a […]
The 50501 movement protesters reached outside JD Vance’s house on Saturday. The 50501 ‘hands off’ protesters who took to the streets to protest against the Donald Trump administration Saturday reached Vice President JD Vance’s house on the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory in northwest DC. One poster seen in an image of a […]
Chinese official Xia Baolong called Americans peasants in his trade war jibe. JD Vance recently used the word ‘peasants’ for Chinese people. Vice president JD Vance recently used the term ‘peasants’ when he spoke about Donald Trump’s tariffs and how US borrows money from “Chinese peasants” to buy things that “Chinese peasants manufacture”. Beijing condemned […]
Donald Trump said all countries will get reciprocal tariffs from April 2. After hinting that some countries may get a breather from Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariff coming into effect from April 2, the Liberation Day for the country, as he called it, the president took a U-turn Sunday and said all countries will get taxed. […]
Elon Musk told off Maxine Waters after she called for Melania Trump’s deportation. 86-year-old Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters recently commented on President Donald Trump’s action on illegal immigrants and said Trump should first look at Melania’s records. “We don’t know whether or not her parents were documented. And maybe we better just take a look,” […]
Some Tesla investors want Elon Musk to step down from the CEO post. Long-time Tesla investor Ross Gerber, the CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management, who called for Elon Musk‘s exit from the company has now said that the Tesla Board should have never let him purchase Twitter as that started Elon Musk’s […]
