By now, the most surprising thing about Donald Trump’s policies, according to Yuval Noah Harari, is that anyone is still surprised. In a sweeping critique published in the Financial Times, the acclaimed
The US government has quietly spent millions of dollars over the past year investigating a mysterious device that officials believe could finally explain Havana Syndrome, the unexplained illness that has affected hundreds
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A group of Donald Trump supporters living in Manhattan, many of whom are immigrants or belong to minority communities, say they have kept their political allegiance largely private out of concern for
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Ronald Lauder, a billionaire scion of the Estée Lauder cosmetics empire and a fixture in Washington’s political and lobbying circles, has emerged as a key figure behind former President Donald Trump’s infamous
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The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell, the central bank confirmed Sunday, Reuters and The Washington Post reported. The inquiry centers on Powell’s
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President Trump called for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates on Friday, without providing details on implementation. Financial analysts immediately noted that such a move would require congressional approval and
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I have seen the masked goons who terrorize our streets before. I saw them during the “Dirty War” in Argentina, where 30,000 men, women and children were “disappeared” by the military junta.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has firmly rejected any suggestion that a Nobel Peace Prize can be revoked, shared, or transferred, delivering a decisive setback to Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado amid
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The scene inside the White House’s East Room on Friday had the air of a modern court, with President Donald Trump at its center, buoyant after a daring U.S. military operation that
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Francis Fukuyama, the renowned political scientist and Stanford fellow, cautions that the Trump administration’s approach to Venezuela risks becoming another failed foreign intervention. In a recent column for Persuasion, Fukuyama argues that
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Trump has a serious problem. He wants to be the `stupor mundi’ i.e. the master of the world, but he is running out of things to conquer. Alexander the Great ran into
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