Tag: reckoning

Donald Trump heads for real-world reckoning

The bravado behind Donald Trump’ s boastful hypothesis in 2016 – “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters” – is heading for a real-world reckoning. Until now, at least, he has been uncannily right. Through his two impeachments, his desperate agitations to stay in […]

China’s EV market could soon face a brutal reckoning

China’s EV industry is booming — but it could be about to face a painful reckoning. Price wars and slowing demand are putting Chinese EV players under pressure. Execs are warning that 2024 will be a “knockout round,” with some firms pushed to the brink. China’s EV industry has boomed over the last few years — […]

‘Now is the time of reckoning’

The coronavirus pandemic didn’t give rise to health inequities in the U.S. Rather, it revealed and exacerbated them. That was the consensus of a panel at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference in Dana Point, Calif., on Monday, just over a year after the federal COVID-19 public health emergency ended. “It exposed the deep fissures within our […]

Is a reckoning finally arriving for Miami’s troubled Seaquarium?

For decades, Miami Seaquarium was a jewel in Florida’s well-polished crown of popular tourist attractions, known to millions worldwide as the home of the beloved aquatic television superstar Flipper the dolphin. But these are tough times for the once-exalted aquarium, mired in a battle for its survival against the weight of animal rights activists, federal […]

Zelenskyy will face ‘reckoning’ when war with Russia ends, expert says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will face a reckoning when the war with Russia ends, either from a victorious Moscow or from a public demanding answers after meandering – if inspired – resistance, according to an expert. “There’s certainly going to be a reckoning, at some point, maybe even during the war – certainly after the […]

Big money fails to stop Trump, again, prompting a donor reckoning

By Alexandra Ulmer and Jason Lange (Reuters) – From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, wealthy donors have thrown tens of millions of dollars at Republican U.S. presidential candidate Nikki Haley in an effort to keep Donald Trump from returning to the White House. They have learned a hard lesson: Big money can’t win the Republican […]

‘Bud Light moment’: Stefanik forces a reckoning on the left

More than achieving vindication, Stefanik opened a new front in the culture wars — all while scrambling the Democratic Party’s traditional coalition of well-educated voters and their institutions of higher education. Mitch Daniels, the retired former president of Purdue University and a former Republican governor of Indiana, called it “higher ed’s Bud Light moment” — […]