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Photograph Source: DHSgov – Public Domain Governance in Honduras shifted sharply to the extreme right within months of the National Party’s Nasry Asfura taking office on January 27, succeeding the Libre party’s progressive Xiomara Castro. In the November 30 elections, the National Party was trailing a poor third before Trump threatened to end all aid to Honduras unless Asfura won. Even then, Asfura had only a wafer-thin plurality, which might well have disappeared had the electoral council not broken its mandate by halting the count before all the votes had been tallied. Compounding this blatant interference, Trump announced just two…
A Texas teaching aide was arrested after investigators said she exposed a 7-year-old girl’s chest in front of classmates and compared to child to a “porn star.” Police said T’Nae Harrell, a special education aide at Legacy Elementary School near Lubbock, made inappropriate comments about the girl’s body to another staff member before pulling up the child’s shirt. Investigators said several students and school employees witnessed the incident, which classroom security cameras reportedly captured as well. Harrell was fired and charged with with voyeurism involving a child on school property, a felony that carries a prison sentence between six months…
Image by René DeAnda. A skeptical friend reading the New York Times asked me why columnist Nicholas Kristof keeps writing columns about recurring poverty in less developed countries. My answer is simple. Because he keeps going to these remote areas populated by brutalized human beings living in dire impoverishment and sickness. At no small risk to himself (Kristof caught malaria in the Congo), he goes to where the most deprived people on Earth live for his stories. He does what few columnists are willing or able to do by exposing how children, the elderly, and entire families are dying under the most…
Two pronounced — and inverse — trends in Western societies have long been observable, and yet they are rarely noticed or discussed. There is a reason for that. These trends tell us something deeply revealing about how our societies are shaped by structural forces — forces that individual office holders can do little to shape through their own values or personalities. These forces operate rather like laws of nature — though there is nothing natural about them. They are the very opposite of how most Westerners imagine power works — that is, that it derives from the will of the…
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain The New York Times is apparently worried that President Trump will mistake China for a friend, and it has been engaging in a blitz to stop him from establishing a partnership with China. On the first day of Trump’s visit to China, the editorial board opined: When Mr. Trump first won the presidency a decade ago, he correctly labeled China a threat to American interests and criticized past U.S. presidents for their naïveté. In both of his terms in office, however, Mr. Trump has weakened the United States relative to China. On…
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten unpacks some polling data on how young people feel about the economy, specifically the incredible drop in economic confidence and support for President Trump and Republicans in general among young men: HARRY ENTEN, CNN: Young people in this country are feeling a tremendous amount of frustration when it comes to what they view as the basic necessities of life, and young men in particular — those who powered Donald Trump to victory back in 2024 — are feeling a lot of regret over their vote choice.So what are we talking about here? In terms…
The right is finally having its long-overdue AI fight. Conservatives have treated AI as either a productivity miracle or a distant science-fiction threat. But the coalition lines are not clean. Parts of Silicon Valley now live comfortably inside the right, and parts of the right have adopted the language of founders, defense tech, crypto, and acceleration. The boosters tell us to build faster, regulate less, and trust the engineers. The skeptics warn of job loss, censorship, surveillance, and machines that slowly displace human judgment. Both camps see something real. Neither offers enough. The recent conservative backlash against the administration’s AI…
May 25, 2026 Cesar Chelala Illustration by Paola Bilancieri. Now is the time to say it, as loud as possible, so that everybody will hear it. Our world is run by fools— yes, fools, unscrupulous, unrepentant fools— who, with their heartless minions, are willing to set the world on fire while they, their friends, their families, and their blind followers continue destroying everything that smells of decency, of people’s well‑being, of children’s boundless future— all in the name of blind allegiance to a God of gold while the masses clamor for a peace that, every day, grows even more elusive.…
The Kentucky congressman and his admirers need to understand why he lost. Source link
50 Years Since Conservatives Broke Through in the GOP Source link