“In the future everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes.” The legendary words of Andy Warhol in 1968 have proven to be quite prophetic. With the rise of celebrity culture and social media, what’s trending on Twitter today, causing shockwaves and garnering international attention will soon be forgotten with the next big story. Whereas […]

On March 1, 1919, a crowd gathered in Pagoda Park in downtown Seoul to hear proclaimed that “Korea is an independent state and Koreans are a self-governing people.” That statement, known as the March 1 declaration, came in direct defiance of Japanese rule, which had begun in 1910. The organizers then spanned out to lead […]

President Donald Trump’s xenophobia and rallying calls of incitement to violence are deeply disturbing. I am terrified a narcissistic, male aggressor has so much power in the United States. However, Trump is exploiting a broken system just as any opportunist might – especially a businessman with no sense of the meaning of public office. Politics […]

At last. The ‘no deal’ scenario has been exposed for what it is, a Brexiteers’ bluff. The deadbeat duo of Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have been bludgeoned into surrendering to the reality that Westminster just won’t tolerate a no-deal crash-out. Economic imperatives have a way of restoring sanity even in the midst of political […]

Congress may have found an issue that all Americans can rally around. Stopping robocalls. All right — a little depressing that it can’t be world peace or affordable health care. But let’s take what we can get. If our elected officials could join hands and lead us into a world where phones are no longer […]

LONDON — Europe’s gathering Jewish question came into sharp focus this month when a British M.P. declared that she had come to the “sickening conclusion” that one of the country’s two main political parties, Labour, is now “institutionally anti-Semitic.” Imagine, to gauge the import of this statement, Bernie Sanders suggesting the same thing of the […]

I was going to say “unbelievable” but it is believable to me because I believe MP Jody Wilson-Raybould is telling the truth. She says for four months she was subjected to consistent and sustained pressure in the SNC-Lavalin case. She says she received veiled threats from the PMO about jobs being lost in Quebec, about […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. The U.S. and North Korea disagree on their falling out, how Jared Kushner got his security clearance and details of a peace plan for Afghanistan. Here’s the latest: What happened at the Trump-Kim summit meeting? There were contradictory accounts of how President Trump’s […]

The two men in the Trump administration in charge of setting America’s global priorities are crisscrossing the Middle East this week, dividing up an already deeply divided region, trying desperately to separate fact from fiction and establish some sense of just where their nation’s priorities are going, how the United States might get there, and […]

MILAN (Reuters) – Italian confectioner Ferrero and two other bidders are left in the race to buy Arnott’s biscuits and other international assets put on sale by Campbell Soup, the Australian Financial Review reported. The Australian newspaper also said the deadline for submitting binding bids was March 20, adding the deal could be worth $3 […]