The 100 armored personnel carriers (APCs) Bulgaria promised to donate to Ukraine in July 2023 are yet to be delivered, Bulgarian Defense Minister Todor Tagarev said on Jan. 17, Bulgarian National Radio reports. The vehicles were in surplus to the needs of the Bulgarian Interior Ministry. In 2023, the national parliament voted to transfer them […]
Starting in 2018, Goldman Sachs announced a strategy called Launch with GS that eventually committed to investing $1 billion of firm and client capital into companies led, founded, and owned by women and people of color. Now, one of the world’s largest investment banks has shuttered the initiative, claiming it has fulfilled its goal and […]
Introspection about our less-than-perfect decisions might be painful, but it’s almost always less of a pain than making the same mistake multiple times. That’s why it’s important, especially in the context of investing, to take a moment to reflect on the mistakes that other people made — so that you can avoid making them yourself […]
Joe Biden’s 2024 election campaign has lambasted former president and most likely Republican opponent Donald Trump for failing to sign a loyalty oath in the state of Illinois, in which candidates pledge against advocating for an overthrow of the government. The Biden campaign was responding to an investigation by Illinois news outlets WBEZ and the […]
Former President Donald Trump reportedly submitted election paperwork in the state of Illinois this week without signing the customary “loyalty pledge,” a Red Scare relic wherein candidates vow not to “advocate the overthrow of the government.” The Chicago Sun-Times andWBEZ reported the omission on Saturday, three years to the day after Trump supporters mobbed the […]
In the three years to the day since the insurrection at the US Capitol, great strides have been made in shoring up American democracy: hundreds of rioters have been prosecuted, legislation has been passed to bolster electoral safeguards and Donald Trump has been charged over his efforts to subvert the 2020 election. But as the […]
Several years ago, when many Democratic strategists were demanding that the party embrace the tenets of the Christian Right in order to win over the salt of the earth, Real Americans (whom they insisted were essential to a legitimate governing majority), the media briefly reported on some of their more extreme rituals. They looked at […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson took his daughter, Hannah, to a purity ball when she was a teenager. Hannah made a virginity pledge to her father during the ball. The ceremony was filmed by a German television outlet, which first aired it in 2015. When it comes to parenting, Louisana’s Mike Johnson is all about abstinence. […]
COP28 wrapped on Wednesday with officials touting a pledge to triple the world’s renewable energy capacity by 2030. It even came twinned with a vow to double global energy-saving efforts over the same period. Predictably, the promise came with some high-flying rhetoric. COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber, the oil CEO helming the talks, claimed the goal […]