Kamala Harris has to walk a tightrope on race. This time, she slipped.

 Opinion: #Kamala #Harris has to walk a tightrope on race. This time, she slipped.

Opinion by Karen Atllah

Global Opinions editor

It all started Wednesday night, with the words of another Black political figure. While delivering the GOP response to #President #Biden’s address to Congress, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott said flatly that “America is not a racist country.” The predictable

Krugman Wonks Out: Why Doesn’t Cutting Taxes on the Wealthy Work?

 

Friday’s column was mainly about the payoffs to expanded child care, but I also talked a bit about the consistent failure of #conservative predictions that say raising taxes on high incomes will lead to economic disaster and introducing tax cuts will lead to nirvana. However, I didn’t talk about why tax rates on the rich don’t seem to

Good Luck to Republicans if Biden’s Family Plan Becomes Law written by Paul Krugman

 

Conservatives beware: If the main elements in Joe Biden’s #American #Family #Plan become law, they’ll be very hard to repeal. Why? Because they’ll deliver huge, indeed transformational benefits to millions.

I mean, just imagine trying to take away affordable child care, universal pre-K and paid leave for new parents once they’ve

May Day manifesto Written by Sajjad Asim Akhtar 30-04-2021

The writer teaches at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.

THERE was a time when May Day was one of the most important dates on the calendar. When the workers movement exercised significant influence over politics as well as intellectual debate. When governments, the media and corporations could not run roughshod over the working masses. When progressives all over the

The strangest plot by Cyril Almeida

Cyril Almeida

ASSUME they’re right. The JIT isn’t about corruption. The investigation is just a vehicle to oust Nawaz. Old tricks adapted for new times.

Fine.

We can go further. They — the permanent establishment, the boys, whomever — want to oust Nawaz because of what Nawaz represents and because of what Nawaz wants to do.

Cruella de Trump by Maureen dowd

Maureen Dowd

WASHINGTON — So, with this latest toad jumping from our president’s mouth, is Donald Trump acting like a sexist pig or simply a pig?

I proffer, a pig.

I have no doubt that he would attack a man’s appearance in the same breathtakingly below-the-belt way if he felt humiliated by that man and had the ammunition.

In his vile tweet about Mika Brzezinski, he called her crazy. He often tweets that women journalists — including me — are crazy.

As the Islamic States falls in Syria by David Ignatius

David Ignatius

TABQA, SYRIA

The Islamic State’s headquarters in this city at the western gateway to Raqqa has been crushed like a sandcastle by American bombs. At a dam complex on the Euphrates River where the Islamic State was torturing prisoners and hurling alleged homosexuals from a giant concrete tower, all that’s left of the extremists are militant slogans scrawled on the wall and a pile of trash.

Business in the time of escalating tension by Mohammad Ali Ehsan

Mohammad Ali Ehsan

Twenty weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump continues to keep the world confused and guessing on how and what he would do to keep it together. More focused on North Korea’s nuclear threat and China’s militarisation of the South China Sea, the Trump administration is finding little time to pay attention to other brewing problems in Asia — one of which is the rising tensions in the Indo-Pak ties.

Small business, big impact by Arancha Gonzalez

Arancha Gonzalez

The fruits of economic growth are not being shared widely enough. In many advanced economies, the anaemic post-2008 recovery has benefited the relatively rich, while large numbers of households have seen incomes stagnate or decline. In emerging markets, faster growth has lifted many boats — but there too, the biggest gains have gone to the better-off. Today’s political anger in the West might well presage future backlashes elsewhere.

I’ve Overestimated Donald Trump by Gail Collins

Gail Collins

I have to confess I’ve overestimated Donald Trump.

Back in the day, he sent me a copy of a column he objected to, with some notes suggesting I was a “dog and a liar” with “the face of a pig.”

I’ve had many opportunities to make use of that story since Trump became a presidential candidate, so it’s all fine for me. However, I have to admit that it did not occur to me he’d keep doing that kind of stuff as president of the United States.

Modi ki turf chaal by kuldeep nayer

Peer sahib ka ezaz written by Hamid Mir

Football fans can now watch their team live on Sky Sports for just £18 a month

Football fans will be able to watch live games on the box for a new monthly charge of just £18 thanks to a Sky Sports revamp.

Sky bosses have decided to ditch traditional numbered channels in favour of sport-specific ones, following on from the success of their Formula One product.

And that means supporters will be able to enjoy a cheaper viewing package focusing on the beautiful game if they don't want to pay for other sports.

Football will get two dedicated channels, cricket and golf will join F1 as standalone platforms, while Sky Sports Arena will show other sports such as rugby, tennis and wrestling.

Sky Sports pundits Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher(Photo: Rex Features)

Plundering the poor written by Khurram Husain

Khurram Husain

WE have learned from the textbooks that the system can be rigged in ways that it transfers wealth from the poor to the rich. But it is another matter altogether when one gets a glimpse of the process with one’s own eyes.
This fixing of the system can work in complex ways sometimes, but once one gets a handle on it, it’s actually quite simple. It is ubiquitous, from the taxation system to administered pricing, from

Sports and sportsmanship written by I.A Rehman

I.A Rehman

WHILE all the innocent merrymaking over the incredible — and sweeter because of that — cricket triumph at The Oval is justified, it is necessary to bear in mind the need to ensure that the hallowed traditions of sportsmanship are not breached.

The provocation for this warning has been provided by the trend to treat rivals in sports as implacable enemies in all spheres of life. The decline of the sportsman’s spirit on the cricket ground, for

Torture Must End written by Jean francoin cautain

Jean francoin cautain

Today, on the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, I would like to reiterate the strong commitment of the European Union against the use of torture under any circumstances and remember the sufferance of the victims and survivors of torture throughout the world, no matter whether innocent or guilty of a crime.

Thirty years ago, on this day, the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Modi savaged by The Economist written by Aakar Patel

Aakar Patel

In the week that Narendra Modi is travelling to the US, The Economist has carried a negative cover story which will not please India’s prime minister. The weekly magazine’s view is important because it is a conservative, business-friendly publication seen by world leaders as being authoritative on the subject of the economy. It is also seen as not being quick to judgment and that makes its view on Modi particularly damaging.

Fires, facts and fallacies written by Chris Cork

Chirs Cork

News of the tanker inferno came to me early Sunday morning via Facebook, as half asleep I was feeling my way into the day. ‘Are you OK?’ people were asking. It took me a few minutes to get up to speed, tell my global friendship group that I and mine were fine and was then immersed in the horror.

Mass-casualty events of this nature happen from time to time — a quick Google seemed to suggest that most happen on the African continent. But this was almost literally on my doorstep and the

Trump meets Modi: America First meets India First written by Barkha dutt

Barkha Dutt

In 2008, Manmohan Singh, then-prime minister of India, whispered a barely audible compliment to President George W. Bush during their meeting, sending a collective gasp of disbelief through a gaggle of Indian journalists in the Oval Office. I was among the reporters present, and was startled to hear Singh, a man of exasperatingly few words, break into uncharacteristic hyperbole: “The people of India deeply love you,” to Bush, who was then little loved in his own country. But there was good reason for Singh’s emotionalism: Bush had made good

Trump meets Modi: Budding romance or one-night stand? written by Josh Rogin

Josh Rogin

President Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi would seem to be kindred spirits. But despite a lot of sweet talk as Modi arrived in Washington for a White House meeting Monday, the question remains whether his dalliance with Trump will be a one-night stand or will blossom into a full-on romance.

Trump and Modi are alike in many ways. They both came to power on populist, nationalist waves with promises to confront Islamist terrorism and stand up to China. Both rule large democracies with a clear interest in increasing their security and economic and