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[Author’s Note: This commentary was originally published on March 31, 2005. Sadly, 20 years later, the more things have changed elsewhere, the more they’ve stayed the same in Haiti. So I’ve updated it — with a few new facts and, alas, the same old misery and hypocrisy.] Haitian migrants aren’t causing a crisis so much… Read more.
That leaked Signal chat from Trump’s national security team proves why this administration’s cuts to education are the bureaucratic equivalent of cutting off its nose to spite its face. So the dumbest administration in US history is dismantling the Department of Education. The irony would be laughable – if it weren’t so, well, Orwellian. Still,… Read more.
By now, everyone knows China plays the long game. While Westerners obsess over the next election cycle, Chinese leaders map out five-year plans like dynastic lords plotting for generations. But waiting centuries to exact revenge for the Opium Wars by peddling fentanyl across America? That shows the patience of a stone Buddha — and a… Read more.
In recent months, ICE has carried out a series of alarming arrests. Most people didn’t care when agents rounded up alleged Latino gangbangers and shipped them to de facto concentration camps in El Salvador. But now they’re unnerved. Because ICE is targeting foreign students for activities protected under the First Amendment. The Case of Rumeysa… Read more.
Exiled royals playing A-list celebrity “She thinks she’s the messiah” — that’s how palace courtiers summed up Meghan Markle behind closed doors, long before Megxit. She saw herself as a savior. Harry saw her as a queen to be worshipped, even if it meant defying the actual one. His pussywhipped devotion made lovesick puppies look… Read more.
MAGA hypocrisy in mishandling classified intel In a stunning display of incompetence, Trump’s national security team inadvertently shared classified war plans for Yemen with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg. National Security Advisor Michael Waltz accidentally added him to a Signal group chat where they discussed operational details for a mission executed days later. But let’s be… Read more.
Once again, South Sudan teeters on the brink of civil war. The unity government between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar is unraveling — fueled by ethnic violence, political purges, and fresh militia clashes. With embassies closing and UN warnings mounting, the world’s youngest country seems hell-bent on repeating its blood-soaked past. The… Read more.
Every March, Americans pretend they’re just in it for the love of the game. But iPINIONS contends that, when office pools, online betting apps, and billion-dollar bracket challenges flood the airwaves, it’s clear: March Madness isn’t about basketball — it’s about the high. And like any addiction, it doesn’t matter how impossible the odds are… Read more.
Trump never lets facts get in the way of his political stunts. That explains the Pied Piper-style histrionics he staged at yesterday’s signing of an executive order to “dismantle” the Department of Education. Most notably, he used children as unwitting extras in his latest act of performative cruelty. These keyboard-native kids looked utterly bemused as… Read more.
New team, same result. Lewis Hamilton’s long-awaited Ferrari debut ended with a 10th-place finish — an all-too-familiar position in recent seasons. For all the hype surrounding his move to the Prancing Horse, the Australian Grand Prix was a rude awakening for anyone expecting a Hamilton revival. Max Verstappen infamously snatched a record-setting eighth title from… Read more.
