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Lewis Hamilton bet his legacy on Ferrari. But if his first races are any indication, he’s losing … badly. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Switching teams was meant to turbocharge his brand, not stall it. Instead, Hamilton looks like a legend driving in reverse. iPINIONS maintains that, in Formula 1, greatness isn’t just about stats.… Read more.
On April 17, The Atlantic published a provocative essay by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov titled “The Putinization of America.” Arguably, The Atlantic borrowed the idea for that title from an essay by New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser, published just weeks earlier (on February 20) under the headline “Trump’s Putinization of America.” Kasparov… Read more.
Trump: one man above the law Donald Trump has normalized his high crimes and misdemeanors. That’s the defining feature of his presidency. And only that explains him getting off scot-free at his impeachment trial earlier this year, especially after House managers presented a mountain of evidence against him. To be fair, though, Trump telegraphed this… Read more.
Trump damns China for Covid with praise President Trump has been yelping all over the media recently about how China hid the outbreak of COVID-19, which this congenital racist calls the “Wuhan virus.” Except that you’d be forgiven for dismissing his yelps as just more lies. After all, according to The Washington Post, he has… Read more.
Trump and the Sleight of the Deal President Trump made quite a show last week of announcing a “partial” accord to end his trade war with China. Unfortunately, this was rather like British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain making quite a show in 1938 of announcing a “peace-for-our-time” accord to end German aggression. The U.S. and… Read more.
CBS Corporation announced on Sunday that chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves is departing the company, effective immediately. Moonves’ exit comes hours after The New Yorker published accounts from six women with allegations of sexual assault or misconduct, following allegations by six other women in July. … A financial exit package for Moonves [of $120 million]… Read more.
Donald Trump is making his first visit to Britain today as president of the United States. More to the point, this is the second stop on what could be the most consequential foreign trip of his presidency. It began at a NATO summit in Brussels on Wednesday and will end with a Putin summit in… Read more.
Al Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his crusade against climate change. This, notwithstanding that his crusade amounted to little more than a “Powerpoint presentation” of alarming weather projections, which he marketed as an apocalyptic thriller titled An Inconvenient Truth. But it was a blockbuster, and an Oscar winner to boot! Except that,… Read more.
Serena Williams had Tennis fans in suspended animation until Saturday Down Under. That’s when we could finally hail her as the winner of the most Grand Slam singles titles in the Open era and, arguably, as the “greatest athlete ever” – as Nike proclaims. That she blew so many opportunities to reach this milestone over… Read more.
On June 16, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published a damning report on state-sponsored doping among Russian Track and Field athletes. This iPINIONS calls for collective punishment — not to scapegoat Russian athletes, but to stop a state-run fraud machine dead in its tracks. On June 18, a month ago today, I published “Track Officials Ban… Read more.
