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Not since breakdancing has a dance become a craze quite like biama. And thanks to social media, it hardly matters that it originated in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, instead of the Bronx, New York. TikTok is replete with biama dance-offs from Beijing to Buenos Aires, and all points between. But iPINIONS says don’t let the algorithm… Read more.
Darline Graham’s spectacular national-security flub drew boos and ridicule. But in fairness to Graham, she admitted what Donald Trump never will. She knows what she doesn’t know. But iPINIONS argues that her humiliation also exposes a larger Trump pathology. The dumber and more sycophantic the people around him, the smarter and stronger he feels. Read… Read more.
Benjamin Netanyahu is using New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a bogeyman in Israel’s reelection campaign, while openly defying the American president who boasts that Bibi does whatever he says. But iPINIONS contends that, from Gaza and Lebanon to Saudi Arabia’s new security alignment with nuclear-armed Pakistan, Netanyahu’s manipulation of Trump is producing consequences that… Read more.
Trump says he’ll declare the “Hormuz Strait” US territory. iPINIONS contends the absurdity is almost beside the point. The real danger is how MAGA loyalty and American fatalism have trained millions to accept his lies, cruelty, and autocratic whims as normal. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/hormuz-strait-us-territory-because Read more.
To woo female fans, the NFL is turning training camps into showcases for players and their WAGs. But iPINIONS warns that, as hockey learned with the glowing puck, repackaging a sport for new audiences can risk turning off the fans already watching. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/nfl-turns-training-camp-into-love Read more.
Fifteen years ago, I told my dear friend Katharine Birbalsingh that Michaela would one day compete with England’s best schools. iPINIONS reports that its latest A-level results suggest I wasn’t just encouraging her. I was forecasting a mission built on discipline, high expectations, and a refusal to indulge the soft bigotry of low expectations. Read… Read more.
The WNBA finally has the attention it spent decades demanding. But iPINIONS argues that the Cunningham-Carrington controversy shows how race, sex, gender, and MAGA politics are turning that attention into an endless culture-war spectacle, with basketball itself increasingly becoming the undercard. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/cunningham-vs-carrington-race-and Read more.
Trump thought overwhelming American military power meant he held all the cards. Instead, Iran keeps moving the goalposts, tightening its grip on Hormuz and raising the price every time Trump thinks he has found a way out. Now he is reportedly even considering walking away without the nuclear deal he claimed this war was supposed… Read more.
Think Africa and skiing probably isn’t the first image that comes to mind. But on the snowy slopes of Lesotho, casual African skiers carve, jump and freestyle with enough ease to make those Jamaican Olympic bobsledders look like jokers. This week’s iPINIONS Saturday cartoon celebrates another side of Africa that stereotypes rarely show. Read my… Read more.
Jason Arday quit Cambridge as allegations of plagiarism, résumé embellishment, and fabricated achievements overwhelmed his professorship. He deserves condemnation. But iPINIONS contends that his downfall proves nothing about DEI or the legitimacy of Black academics. After all, elite universities were admitting and protecting compromised White professors long before Cambridge appointed its first Black professor. Read… Read more.
