Sunday, June 15, 2025
Friday, June 13, 2025
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Think of the political spectrum as being a circle with democracy at 0 degree and absolute dictatorship at 180 with Trump hovering toward 120 and Newsom thinking of 300
The 2028 Subtext of Newsom’s Speech
The California governor used a nationally televised address to criticize President Trump and to seize a political moment.
I asked why he thought a French senator’s words on Mr. Trump had such a global impact: “Never before,” Mr. Malhuret said in his speech, has any president “issued so many illegal decrees, dismissed judges who could oppose him, sacked the entire military leadership in one go, weakened all counter powers and taken control of social media. This is not a mere illiberal drift. It is the beginning of the seizure of democracy.” Mr. Malhuret reflected for a long moment, before saying: “The Republicans are scared, the Democrats are stunned and leaderless, but I cannot imagine there will not be a reaction. The American people are facing one of the great challenges of the 21st century, as great as that confronting the French in 1940, when they had to decide whether to join the Resistance or not.”
A Cutting French Senator Becomes Trump’s European Nemesis
In biting verbal assaults viewed by millions, Claude Malhuret has issued a scathing critique of the American president, bringing a lifetime of experience to bear.
Reporting from Vichy, France
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
You go girl !
GUEST ESSAY
GUEST ESSAY
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: My State Is Taking On the Middlemen Who Inflate Drug Prices
Ms. Sanders, a Republican, is the governor of Arkansas.
Monday, June 9, 2025
“May I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow? This is D-Day anniversary, when the Americans once ended a war in Europe,” Mr. Merz stated during his visit as he urged Mr. Trump to help bring an end to the war in Ukraine. “That was not a pleasant day for you?” Mr. Trump replied. “This was not a great day.” “In the long run, Mr. President, this was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship,” Mr. Merz replied, with grave elegance — proving that some visitors from outside the herd can survive the heehawing of the wild kingdom and even emerge victorious.
GUEST ESSAY
GUEST ESSAY
The Trump Reality Show Just Got Weirder
Ms. Schwarzbaum is a former film critic for Entertainment Weekly.
Sunday, June 8, 2025
On the M31
Dear Diary:
I was on the M31 bus on the way home. I had a cane, and seemingly half of the other passengers had canes or walkers or were otherwise sitting appropriately in seats marked for the elderly or infirm.
An older woman got on and saw that there were no empty seats. She politely asked a teenage girl to give up her seat, which the girl did.
As she was getting off a few stops later, the older woman stopped to thank the girl.
“Someday you’ll be a senior,” she said. “And then you’ll understand.”
“That won’t be for a while,” the girl said. “I’m just a freshman.”
— Paula Gray Hunker
Saturday, June 7, 2025
Colleges should consider advising applicants that in order to promote person to person communication cell phone use will be restricted
College Students Are Using ‘No Contact Orders’ to Block Each Other in Real Life
Originally meant to protect victims of sexual harassment or assault on campus, NCOs have become the go-to solution for a generation uncomfortable with face-to-face conflict.
ET
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Mr. Musk’s might end as a failure and yet, for all that I am alarmed by the danger posed by such visionaries, he’s not wrong about the fragility of our planet. I don’t want to go to Mars, but I would like someone to. And I suppose that someone will have to be unusual, in good ways and bad. I’m reminded of what Mr. Musk once said during a monologue on “Saturday Night Live”: “To anyone I’ve offended, I just want to say, I reinvented electric cars, and I’m sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?”
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Don’t Just Fix Higher Education, Reconstitute It
Don’t Just Fix Higher Education, Reconstitute It
The real threat to the existing system comes from the internet and AI, not Donald Trump.
Mr. Hamburger teaches at Columbia Law School and is CEO of the New Civil Liberties Alliance. He is the author of “Education Is Speech.”
China’s dominance is greatest for seven rare earths that it has mostly stopped exporting since early April: dysprosium, gadolinium, lutetium, samarium, scandium, terbium and yttrium. These are mined almost exclusively in China and Myanmar and are among the hardest to separate chemically. For metals like dysprosium and terbium, so-called heavy rare earths that are used for heat-resistant magnets, China’s refineries produce up to 99.9 percent of the world’s supply.
What to Know About China’s Halt of Rare Earth Exports
Since early April, China has stopped almost all shipments of critical minerals that are needed for cars, robots, wind turbines, jet fighters and other technologies.
Keith Bradsher, who has covered the rare earths industry since 2009, reported from Beijing and Longnan, China.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
The Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO) trade.
899 — The Three Numbers Alarming the Bond Market
Taxing foreign capital could be another nail in the coffin of American exceptionalism. Emerging markets could benefit.
John Authers is a senior editor for markets and Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former chief markets commentator at the Financial Times, he is author of “The Fearful Rise of Markets.”
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Wall Street analysts recently began joking that the best way to predict the behavior of President Trump — and make money in the process — was by practicing the “TACO trade,” which stands for “Trump always chickens out.” You can always bet on Trump rolling back a reckless tariff.
Emerging Haven
Among the biggest and unlikeliest winners from the decline of American exceptionalism have been emerging-market currencies. The Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO) trade — a belief that tariffs won’t happen — has given them a tailwind to counteract the trade uncertainty.
European governments embarking on their largest rearmament since the Cold War have identified drones and counter-drone systems as an investment priority. The Pentagon in their latest budget proposal wants $2.7 Billion in the first year of development piloted F-47 fighter planes like The Navy thought Battleships were essential before Pearl Harbor
Google has a lot of updating to do because when directed to the address it listed for my dog's electric fence collar I arrived at a shop which informed me that the business I was looking for had moved over a year ago
Google Introduced a New Way to Use Search. Proceed With Caution.
AI Mode excels at tasks like product research for online shopping. But it falls short on basic web searches.
Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the author of Tech Fix, a column about the tech we use.
Monday, June 2, 2025
“The constant on-and-off-again nature of the tariffs has made business planning incredibly difficult,” said Blake Harden, the association’s vice president for international trade. No Blake, impossible!
Tariff Ruling Gives Businesses Hope, but They’re Soon Unmoored Again
Companies welcomed a court decision striking down President Trump’s tariffs. Then a stay of that ruling left no one breathing easy.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Tesla at $350 is at a 180 PE and headed by a coke head!
On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.
Kirsten Grind and Megan Twohey
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