LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) – The core of Davos-economics is pretty simple. Most of the powerful people hanging around at the World Economic Forum’s Swiss confab this week would agree that some mix of feisty private sectors, competent but limited governments and ample international trade are crucial ingredients for durable and…
Image copyright @jeaninecummins In an author’s note for hit new novel American Dirt, author Jeanine Cummins says she wished “someone slightly browner than me” had written it. “But,” continued Ms Cummins, a white writer with Puerto Rican forbearers, “then I thought, if you’re a person who has the capacity to…
Jan 23rd 2020 MATT RIDLEY has many roles in life. As the author of popular science books (and former science editor of The Economist) he is a bestselling writer on genetics and evolution. As political pugilist he is one of the most articulate supporters of Brexit. As the Fifth Viscount…
The “straightforward” document that Northern Irish businesses will need to complete to send goods to Great Britain after Brexit is a complex form that includes 31 data elements, it can be revealed. The Freight Transport Association has raised concerns that hauliers could be fined if they get elements of the…
Chandler had 15 points (5-7 FG, 4-6 3Pt, 1-1 FT), three rebounds, one assist and one steal in 22 minutes during Thursday’s loss to the Lakers. Chandler has been up and down in the Nets’ rotation recently, but provided some much-needed scoring in this contest – particularly in the first…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s political, government and university leaders have temporarily decamped to the nation’s capitol for the Carnival season party called Washington Mardi Gras. Gov. John Bel Edwards, state lawmakers, other elected and appointed officials, lobbyists and business leaders are participating in partying and politicking events hosted…
Watching liberal political commentators talk about the 2020 presidential election, one starts to wonder whether the world will even continue to exist should Democrats lose. Trump’s victory four years ago was already hailed by European populists as an “apocalypse” for the centrist-liberal political mainstream; this time, headlines cry that four…
IMPEACHMENT CASH DASH: The cash spigots flow as the Senate deliberates over President Trump’s impeachment. The Trump campaign says it has seen a 20%-30% jump in fundraising because of impeachment. Vulnerable senators in both parties face intense scrutiny from groups who threaten major expenditures against them if they vote the…
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Maybe it was fitting that Jimmy Garoppolo did his best Bob Griese impersonation in the victory that sent the San Francisco 49ers to Griese’s old stomping grounds in Miami for the Super Bowl. Perhaps no quarterback since the former Dolphins Hall of Famer had ever done…
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki wrote in daily Fakt on Friday that at the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem the truth was lost to politics and the gravity of the commemoration of Holocaust victims was compromised by Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to Morawiecki, Putin, who appeared after the first…
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