People should ask: What does China, the great superpower of the East, think about all of this? A lot of people in the United States want to know more. Since Russia started taking over Ukraine, it has sent its national security adviser to Rome to meet with a top Chinese diplomat. This is the first … Read more
OJ. The world as it is. Speeds are very slow on the web. I think about the 1990s as a different world, but at the same time, they are very familiar. But what was it like to live through the 1990s? He spent his pandemic trying to figure that out. His new book, The Nineties, … Read more
The Kremlin has taken the step we’ve all thought about when our Stories don’t get enough attention: They’ve banned Instagram. After Instagram made a few short-term changes to its policies on violent speech in some countries, Russia said it would block Instagram in the country beginning March 14. It’s the first time that Russia has … Read more
Almost all Americans are about to go through a period of high prices that will last for a long time and be very frustrating. Consumer prices in the United States rose 7.9% from a year earlier in February, the government said yesterday. In line with what we thought, but still another 40-year high. From January … Read more
In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Western world has been very united in supporting Ukraine and condemning Russia for its unjust and brutal war. There have been new examples of anti-Russian sentiment in the United States. People have vandalised Russian restaurants in the United States and have boycotted people who have criticised their … Read more
Vice President Biden said yesterday that the United States would stop buying Russian oil and other energy sources in order to hurt the Russian economy even more for its invasion of Ukraine. “We will not be part of funding Putin’s war,” Biden told the crowd. Russia is the third-largest oil producer in the world, after … Read more
Commodities, which aren’t the best conversation starter on a first date but are important for everyday life, did their best meme stock impression yesterday with price swings that were out of this world. Nickel, for example, had its biggest one-day dollar gain on record, which is good news for Nickel. What’s going on now? Commodities … Read more
Yesterday, Russian missiles hit the city of Vinnytsia. After that, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on NATO to set up a no-fly zone over Ukraine to stop the Russian bombardment. He’s not going to get what he wants. A no-fly zone is a place where you can’t fly. Don’t think too hard about it; it’s … Read more
California’s 17th district may sound like any other district until you realise that it’s in the heart of Silicon Valley. Ro Khanna is a US representative for that district in the state. Khanna has seen how tech innovation can change communities, and in his new book, Dignity in a Digital Age, he lays out a … Read more
If you don’t like puns, don’t worry: Experts say that the war in Ukraine could lead to an energy crisis that we haven’t seen in a long time. There are fears that Russia, one of the world’s biggest oil exporters, could stop producing oil. This has caused the price of oil to rise to the … Read more