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Uncategorized / March 31, 2022 / Faseeh Mangi / Bloomberg / 0
When Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan released a photo of a luncheon with Bill Gates last month, social media users noticed something odd: The round table had 13 seats, but only a dozen men. The vacant space contained a ghost-like figure who appeared to be conversing with others around him, raising questions about whether the
Uncategorized / March 30, 2022 / Philip Elliott / 0
This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. It was the greatest hits of conservative fantasy last night onstage in Wilberforce, Ohio, as the Republican Senate candidates clashed in another debate. Topics of discussion? Massive ballot-harvesting operations in urban areas.
Uncategorized / March 27, 2022 / Philip Elliott / 0
Welcome to The Back Booth, a weekend edition of The D.C. Brief. Here each Saturday, TIME’s politics newsletter will host a conversation between political professionals on the right and the left, pulling back the curtain on the conversations taking place in Washington when the tape stops rolling. Subscribe to The D.C. Brief here. In Washington,
Uncategorized / March 26, 2022 / Ian Bremmer / 0
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds on, and Western leaders weigh their options and calibrate their responses, it’s obvious the impact of this war is global. Here’s a look at how this shock is shifting the tectonic plates of economics and politics around the world. Middle East and North Africa There was a moment when
Uncategorized / March 24, 2022 / Philip Elliott / 0
This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. There aren’t many constants when it comes to Donald Trump. He’s as flexible a politician as this nation has seen in a good while, willing to swap allegiances at a whim and
Uncategorized / March 24, 2022 / Philip Elliott / 0
This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. As Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson gamely fended off questions about antiracism in children’s books during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Ukraine continued its defiance of Russia while retaking a Kyiv suburb, and
Uncategorized / March 20, 2022 / Philip Elliott / 0
Welcome to The Back Booth, a weekend edition of The D.C. Brief. Here each Saturday, TIME’s politics newsletter will host a conversation between political professionals on the right and the left, pulling back the curtain on the conversations taking place in Washington when the tape stops rolling. Subscribe to The D.C. Brief here. Russia’s invasion
Uncategorized / March 17, 2022 / Philip Elliott / 0
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. There are only a handful of challenges that can unify Washington. Hurricane-relief packages and tornado-rescue plans are up there. Wildfires and earthquakes, too. The opioid epidemic bled across Red States and
Uncategorized / March 17, 2022 / Brian Bennett / 0
Jake Sullivan looks flushed and his jaw is clenched. Across from President Joe Biden’s National Security Adviser, over a row of ferns at a matching table draped in blue cloth, sits China’s senior foreign affairs official Yang Jiechi, his mouth frozen in a sanguine smile. The official photograph released by China’s state-run news agency of
Uncategorized / March 15, 2022 / Flavia Krause-Jackson/Bloomberg / 0
It was a jaw-dropping moment when for a few seconds a young woman interrupted a live news broadcast on Russian state media to wave a sign that said: “Stop the war. Don’t believe propaganda. They’re lying to you.” What made the instance so noteworthy is the lengths to which Vladimir Putin has gone after his
