Many years ago, a friend described one of my serious literary novels as “clever.” I was offended – but I shouldn’t have been. The friend was from across the pond, where I now understand “clever” means smart. For Americans, cleverness implies a shallow, facile intelligence. Applied to people, it hints at sly, calculating deviousness or
I have sweet memories of Christmas. My dad is proper old-school and would set up the video recorder. I don’t think we’ve ever watched the footage; I don’t know if he was even filming. But we couldn’t do anything until it was filmed. We never had loads of money, but Mum always went above and
Rome Will peace in Ukraine also prove to be a great deal for US business? Vladimir Putin would certainly like Donald Trump to think so. Within days of Trump’s election victory last November, the Kremlin ordered major Russian corporations to prepare detailed proposals for economic cooperation with Washington. Coordinating these efforts were Maxim Oreshkin, deputy
No one ever tucked themselves up in bed to read a government document – at least not in the expectation of enjoying it. The standard format is one of hundreds of pages of impenetrable jargon yielding no more than nuggets of significant ideas. The Trump administration has admirably cut through that tendency to produce a
It goes by an innocuous name – “Integrated Joint Operations Platform” (IJOP) – but it’s one of the most sinister components of China’s surveillance state, managing what has been described as a genocide against the Uighurs. The IJOP combines multiple systems of repression – location, messages, contacts, social media and other data from phones, together
The accelerated development of AI is not just a business opportunity but a strategic necessity
Lutnick sounds so much like Trump it’s hard to tell where one man’s monologue ends and the other’s begins
Chicken and waffles were a legitimate dish here and came with a special high-heat honey mustard
It has been a long, lucrative ride
Inside Roger Goodell’s bid for global power
If the boomers wanted something, they got it, by force of numbers
Politics is very much a presence on the capital’s stages
Newsom likes to present himself as a member of the hustling classes and yet, in truth, he has destroyed them
In case after case, judges ruled to stymie the executive branch for one main reason
In Ukraine, peace will be a hard sell
These telegenic expat firebrands have begun to redefine the contours of the right
Four in ten women want to leave America. But where would they go?
She didn’t invent the game she’s playing
Who’s conning whom?
To understand why boys are turning to Nick Fuentes, look inside our schools