Bernie Ecclestone believes F1’s quest for safety has changed the public’s perception of the sport’s drivers, eroding their glory and aura. Formula 1 hasn’t been immune to the advent of a sanitized and politically correct world, a trend which has clearly accelerated under the governance of Liberty Media and the FIA, as the sport is…
A long history of military dictatorships, brutal civil war, and generalized violence fueled by drug cartels and gangs effectively silenced the people of Guatemala for decades. This prolonged period of civic inaction has resulted in widespread feelings of resignation and cynicism that have allowed the status quo to perpetuate itself. That all changed recently, as…
Despite setting a new unofficial track record in pre-season testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on Wednesday, Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo still believes that Mercedes remains on top heading into 2018. “I’m sure Mercedes are still the top dogs at the moment,” Ricciardo told Sky Sports News. “But I don’t feel we are far off….
Corporate polluters are driving global warming and must not be allowed to steer—or even participate in—the ongoing processes of the United Nations whose stated aim is to develop global solutions to the climate crisis, a coalition of civil society organizations declared Wednesday. Twenty organizations, including Amazon Watch and Climate Action Network International, delivered a petition…
Last week’s settlement between the Justice Department and five giant banks reveals the appalling weakness of modern antitrust. The banks had engaged in the biggest price-fixing conspiracy in modern history. Their self-described “cartel” used an exclusive electronic chat room and coded language to manipulate the $5.3 trillion-a-day currency exchange market. It was a “brazen display…
Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party was criticized for misleading British voters on Tuesday night, after one of its political Twitter accounts masqueraded as a fact-checking service during an election debate. During the first TV debate ahead of the Dec. 12 election, between Johnson and the opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, the Conservative account @CCHQPress changed…
IDEAS Waheed is a novelist and the author of The Collaborator, The Book of Gold Leaves, and Tell Her Everything. A military siege is like a chokehold on an entire people. I was a teenager when I lived through a long curfew in Kashmir in the 1990s when the rebellion against Indian rule was at…
On Monday, the Trump Administration broke with decades of U.S. precedent to redefine America’s policy on Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Since President Trump took office in 2016, he has overturned long-held U.S. positions on several of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s most contentious issues, to the dismay of the Palestinian leadership. The White House’s latest…
Anti-government protesters have been holed up in a Hong Kong university for days, surrounded by police. Photographer Bing Guan has spent the last five days with them, documenting the siege—and at the time of publication of these images he remains on the campus. The occupiers originally numbered in the hundreds. But around 800 protesters who…
The banana has been the subject of Andy Warhol’s cover art for the Velvet Underground’s debut album, can arguably be the most devastating item in the Mario Kart video game franchise and is one of the world’s most consumed fruits. And humanity’s love of bananas may still be on the rise, according to data from…