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There’s nothing more self-absorbed than an American president playing the victim. But a British duchess doing so comes close. No doubt HRH The Duchess of Sussex (née Meghan Markle) would cringe at any comparison to President Donald J. Trump. Yet she evoked just that with a cringeworthy interview she gave for Harry & Meghan: An… Read more.
I suspect many of you don’t know Catalonia from Babylonia, and couldn’t care less that you don’t. But, trust me, reading what follows will “connect” you far more than browsing social media ever could. Catalan separatists burned barricades and clashed with police in Barcelona on Thursday in a fourth night of violence triggered by Spain’s… Read more.
Speaking to a live audience at Georgetown University on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended Facebook’s role in providing a voice to more than 2 billion people of around the world. While he admitted that some types of misinformation can do harm, Zuckerberg said that Facebook and other tech companies shouldn’t be the ones to… Read more.
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It might seem petty, but the schadenfreude that punctuates this celebration is something any sports fan will appreciate: The Washington Nationals and Bryce Harper both celebrating on Wednesday: it’s his 27th birthday and for the Nats, they relished in the moment of clinching their first-ever trip to the World Series [by winning the National League… Read more.
Trump and the Sleight of the Deal President Trump made quite a show last week of announcing a “partial” accord to end his trade war with China. Unfortunately, this was rather like British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain making quite a show in 1938 of announcing a “peace-for-our-time” accord to end German aggression. The U.S. and… Read more.
Imagine the devastation in The Bahamas if Hurricane Dorian had triggered an earthquake to boot. Tragically, that’s the double whammy Japan is coping with today. Seven million people have been told to evacuate in Japan as a typhoon [Hagibis] forecast to be the nation’s most powerful in six decades made landfall on Honshu island. …… Read more.
For example, only this belief explains the way, defying his patent intent to deceive, Kim of North Korea got him to play along like a lovesick puppy in talks about denuclearization; upending US intelligence findings, Putin of Russia got him to defy the findings of US intelligence agencies to parrot Russian propaganda about election interference;… Read more.
Singer and Tony-winning, Oscar-nominated actress Diahann Carroll, the first African-American woman to star in her own TV series, has died at her home in Los Angeles after a long bout with cancer. … In 1986, Carroll released her frank autobiography Diahann, which detailed the triumphs of her professional life and some of the torments of… Read more.
