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“A meeting that was supposed to bolster the flimsy trust between Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump descended instead into an extraordinary slanging match in the Oval Office in front of the world’s media”. Fonte: Financial Times Autore: The editorial board Link: Zelenskyy’s humiliation in the White House

“These columns don’t usually comment on the business decisions of competitors, but Wednesday’s news from the Washington Post cuts close to home. To wit, Post owner Jeff Bezos announced that the paper’s opinion section is making a turn to stand for, well, what we do”. Fonte: The Wall Street Journal Autore: The Editorial Board Link: […]

Michael Protzman, a former Seattle demolition contractor, attracted a following of QAnon conspiracy believers so devoted to his prophecies that hundreds of them traveled to Dallas on Nov. 1, 2021, to witness John F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. appear on a grassy knoll adjacent to the assassination site of JFK and ordain Donald […]

“Over the past decade, how Americans receive and share information has remarkably changed. Social media has led to a cultural panic; there have been debates about addiction, attention spans, political influence, mental health and the way people receive news and information, especially among teens. Much of that has focused on TikTok, which has become the […]

“The victory of Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats (CDU) in Sunday’s parliamentary election gives Germany a new opportunity to fix the crumbling foundations of its postwar success“. Fonte: Financial Times Autore: The editorial board Link: Europe needs Friedrich Merz to succeed

“As this suggests, the election’s outcome will hardly please those who had hoped desperately for political clarity in a country that has long been lacking it”. Fonte: The Economist Link: Merz wins a messy election then calls for independence from America

“Many Americans are disturbed by President Donald Trump’s trampling of the Constitution and nuking of the federal government. But one group seems to love what Trump is doing: young men”. Fonte: The Washington Post Autore: Catherine Rampell Link: Why Gen Z men love Trump’s reign of destruction

“Private US companies are now dialling back their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts after ramping them up in the past decade. Others have revised their pledges on going green. Were statements by companies acknowledging their social responsibility ever anything more than performative political theatre?” Fonte: Financial Times Autore: Raghuram Rajan Link: Was DEI really just […]

“Judged by the din of Russian propaganda Vladimir Putin has never been closer to winning his war on Ukraine. There is despair among Europeans as President Donald Trump upends the post-1945 transatlantic alliance and falsely blames Ukraine for initiating the war. “You should have never started it,” he said on February 18th, speaking from Mar-a-Lago […]

“It’s hard to be a consistent defender of free speech, since it inevitably entails forming temporary alliances with repugnant people. A classic case is National Socialist Party v. Skokie (1977), in which the American Civil Liberties Union represented neo-Nazis who had been enjoined from holding a demonstration in an Illinois village with a large Jewish […]