In the days immediately following Donald Trump’s election, thousands of Americans took to the streets with the slogan “Not my president.” That was the so-called “resistance,” which would also take the form of the women’s march, the science march, and other protests across the country.
After rising to political power by slamming global elites for neglecting the working class, Donald Trump is bringing one of the largest contingents ever to the annual summit held in Davos, Switzerland.
Serena Williams, the world’s greatest tennis player and new mother, graces the cover of Vogue magazine for February, together with her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr, who at three months is the youngest Vogue cover model ever. And she can already list one Grand Slam win, while still in utero.
Tensions are rising between the US and North Korea, and the US military is preparing. That means learning to deal with a unique tactical advantage that North Korea has within its borders: tunnels.
As an Italian, I’m always curious to see representations of my country on the silver screen. And so, on the first day of 2018, I went with a dear friend to watch Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name. My expectations weren’t especially high. I’d found I Am Love, Guadagnino’s previous movie set in Italy, to be little more than sophisticated eye candy.
The morning routines of the most powerful and accomplished people are commonly scrutinized and emulated in the hope of replicating their productivity. For those who struggle to get started in the morning, studying their schedules tends to generate shame.
The first US government to be led by a full-time businessman with no political background is being run like a terrible business overruled by internal politics. This is one of the paradoxical narratives that has dominated Donald Trump’s America.
As anticipated toward the end of 2017, West Wing personnel won’t be allowed to use their personal phones while on site anymore. Just one day after revelations from Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury brought halting leaks to the press back on Donald Trump’s list of priorities (not that it had ever really left), press secretary Sarah Sanders announced on Thursday (Jan. 4) that “the use of all personal devices for both guests and staff will no longer be allowed in the West Wing,” and “staff will be able to conduct business on their government-issued devices.”
Stephen Bannon, once Donald Trump’s right-hand man in the White House—or, as some would have it, puppet master—is attacking the president. And Trump has answered back.
In a less-than-happy New Year’s message, the political-risk analysis firm Eurasia Group says 2018 might well be “the geopolitical equivalent of the 2008 financial meltdown.”
Protection for undocumented immigrants, tougher gun laws, recreational marijuana: California will welcome 2018 by turning into the US equivalent of a Scandinavian country. Hundreds of new laws of markedly progressive inspiration will go into effect in the Golden State come the new year, affecting everything from crime, to transportation, to wages.
The federal Obamacare enrollment window for 2017 is almost over: The federal government has cut in half the length of time people have to purchase insurance policies on the marketplace; coupled with a drastic reduction in outreach funding, that’s likely to result in lower enrollment rates compared with previous years.
Even as he pushes forward a tax reform bill that primarily ensures the rich get richer, US house speaker Paul Ryan has his eyes on the next challenge: birth rates. “This is going to be the new economic challenge for America: people. Baby boomers are retiring,” he said yesterday (Dec. 14) in a press conference, “I did my part, but we need to have higher birth rates in this country.”
Though it was a key promise of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has not yet repealed, or replaced, Obamacare.
In the past decade, India has made great steps forward in health care, reducing maternal mortality by a third and infant mortality by over 40%. Nevertheless, it remains one of the deadliest places in the world to give birth.
For the first time in 25 years, Alabama has elected a Democratic senator. Doug Jones won a heated election, defeating his opponent, Trump-favored Roy Moore. For a sense of just how unusual that is, consider that in the last senate election, Republicans won 97% of the votes, running unopposed.
Donald Trump attacked senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Twitter this morning, calling her a “flunky” who once begged him for campaign donations, and “would do anything for them.”
After a heated campaign, Alabama is heading to the polls to choose one of its US senators. Counting on solid support from Donald Trump and the national Republican party, Roy Moore faces Democrat Doug Jones, and the projections are so close pollsters have given up predicting a winner.
Arizona Republican representative Trent Franks announced he would resign today, instead of next year, after more detail was revealed about his improper advances to female staff.
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court decided to temporarily uphold the US government’s third version of a travel ban, which prohibits people of certain nationalities from entering the US.
US civil rights leader and national hero congressman John Lewis is not attending the opening of the Civil Rights Museum in Mississippi on Dec. 9, or participating in any way. In a statement, he and fellow representative Bennie Thompson, who is also not attending, explained that the decision is an act of protest against the president and the White House policies.
There is a poor country hiding inside the world’s richest nation. So thinks the United Nations (UN), which has sent an envoy led by New York University law and human rights professor Philip Alston, to investigate extreme poverty across the US.
“For giving voice to open secrets, for moving whisper networks onto social networks, for pushing us all to stop accepting the unacceptable, the Silence Breakers are the 2017 Person of the Year,” TIME magazine announced today (Dec. 6, 2017).
Two years after German chancellor Angela Merkel opened up her nation’s doors to refugees, mostly Syrians coming in through the Balkan route, the far right appears to be rising in Germany, and Angela Merkel’s hold on the country seems to be slipping. But the country is not ready to turn its back on refugees just yet.
