Yesterday, China announced $75 billion in tariffs on US goods, Trump answered with increased tariffs on Chinese goods and "ordering" US companies to cut ties with China, and the Dow ended the day by dropping 600 points. 1/22 Related: Exemptions to Trump's China tariffs read
South Korea will scrap its intelligence-sharing pact with Japan. The move, benefiting North Korea and China, shows the weakness of this White House. 1/15 For a 12th weekend of protests, Hong Kong plans for a 33-kilometer human chain of some 100,000 people holding hands. 2/15
The Trump administration wants to remove limits on how long undocumented families can be detained, arguing the regulation incentivizes migration. 1/15 The Congressional Budget Office forecasts the federal deficit will reach nearly $1 trillion this year. The deficit's share of the economy in the next decade will
The Vessel Orchestra we mentioned previously has closed, but thankfully it's been preserved on video: a sound installation at the Met where objects were miked to reveal a kind of hidden life, at least musically. Oliver Beer, a British artist and composer who works in sculpture, video art,
Five books down, one big, gory, complicated, shock-inducing book to go. This week, we discuss the first half of Marlon James's Black Leopard, Red Wolf.
Boris Johnson visits Berlin in an attempt to negotiate a new deal, with only two months before the Brexit deadline. 1/19 The Danish legal system is being roiled because of errors in phone tracking data offered as evidence. 2/19 “Bemusement has turned to fury in Denmark” after Donald
A writer for Alternatino with Arturo Castro says writing sketch comedy during an era marked by Trump and mass shootings is particularly difficult because the news often jumps the joke. Fortunately for the show but unfortunately for the world, viewers have grown to accept the fact that this horrible type
Five years after choking Eric Garner to death, NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo has been fired. 1/23 Planned Parenthood withdraws from federal funding, citing the Trump administration's rule barring abortion referrals. 2/23 Related: You can donate to Planned Parenthood at its website. 3/23 For the first
If Trump gets his way, we may soon have a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan, to end America’s longest war. 1/18 “He’s actually worse than a racist. He is so narcissistic, he doesn’t see people as people. He sees them as objects in his field of vision.
From Jonah Jeng's highly informed survey of the last decade’s best action scenes, including scenes from many movies you've never heard of. It is a moment that flirts with ridiculousness but—on account of Rajamouli’s willingness to go big at every level, from the
