Joe Biden and Kamala Harris delivered an aggressive one-two attack on the character and performance of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as they made their election case for the first time as running mates. Biden, a 77-year-old white man, embraced the significance of naming the first Black woman to a major party’s presidential ticket, but…
REDSTONE DEAD AT 97…
He bested business rivals throughout his long career as he engineered deals for Viacom, Paramount and CBS and displayed an unwavering passion to win. Sumner Redstone, the hard-charging mogul who parlayed his father’s New England drive-in theater business into a media empire that now flows into virtually every avenue of entertainment, has died. He was…
Thomas Chatterton Williams on Race, Identity, and “Cancel Culture”
Thomas Chatterton Williams, one of the contributors to the Harper’s letter, discusses what the document aimed to accomplish and whether cancel culture has always existed.Source: Harper’s MagazineOn July 7th, Harper’s Magazine published what it called “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” which quickly became part of the conversation around the subject of “cancel culture.” The letter, which has…
BIG TECH RECKONING?
The leaders of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google fended off accusations Wednesday that their companies stifle competition, under intense questioning from lawmakers who have been i nvestigating Big Tech’s market dominance for the past year. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, in his first appearance before Congress, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple…
Is the age of the celebrity over?
From the ‘Imagine’ video onwards, the famous have been treated with ridicule and anger during these fraught times – but is this really the end of a love affair, asks Rachael Sigee. Just as the history books will consider the time before and after Covid-19, scholars of pop culture will likely divide their studies into…
CHINA ORDERS USA TO CLOSE CONSULATE
China ordered the United States on Friday to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu, ratcheting up a diplomatic conflict at a time when relations have sunk to their lowest level in decades. The move was a response to the Trump administration’s order this week for Beijing to close its consulate in Houston…
Coronavirus: Third day of wrangling over huge EU recovery plan
EU leaders trying to hammer out a huge post-coronavirus economic recovery plan are now in an unscheduled third day of a testy summit in Brussels. Some member states believe the proposed €750bn ($857bn; £680bn) package is too large and should come as loans, rather than grants. Austria said there was still a “way to go”,…
MUSK MANIA NOW WORTH MORE THAN BUFFETT STOCK HIGHER THAN GOOGLE
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now the seventh-richest person in the world, surpassing legendary investor Warren Buffett, as Tesla’s stock continues to skyrocket. As of Friday, Musk is worth about $70.5 billion, roughly $1 billion more than Buffett, after the company’s stock hit an all-time high that day. Tesla shares continued their surge and hit…
Brutal Gang Rises as Mexico’s Top Security Threat
MEXICO CITY—In late June, more than two dozen gunmen mounted a predawn ambush, shooting at Mexico City’s police chief as his convoy drove down leafy, iconic Reforma Avenue and shattering the calm of the capital’s most elegant neighborhood, home to ambassadors, cabinet ministers and tycoons. Using Barrett semiautomatic rifles, the assailants riddled Omar García Harfuch’s…
Ennio Morricone dead at 91
Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and often haunting soundtracks for such classic Hollywood gangster movies as “The Untouchables” and the epic “Once Upon A Time In America,” died Monday. He was 91. Morricone’s longtime lawyer, Giorgio Assumma,…