has been eight years since the Great Recession, and the current economic crisis has become a permanent state of exception. Early this month, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation released a damning report on prospects for young adults around the world. The condensed version is that we don’t have many. For the so-called millennials, born between 1980…
Racing Point isn’t Lawrence Stroll’s personal little toy but a project for which the billionaire is massively motivated insists Sergio Perez. With the help of a consortium of investors, Stroll took over the assets of Force India last summer following the team’s financial demise and set out on rebuilding the Silverstone-based outfit. The Canadian fashion…
The more extreme the crimes of state, the more the state seeks to shroud them in secrecy. The greater the secrecy and the accompanying lies, the more vital becomes the role of whistleblowers – and the more vindictive becomes the state in its pursuit of them. Whistleblowers are people who start out as loyal servants…
Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen has revealed that a set-up blunder was to blame for his relative under-performance in Bahrain. Verstappen brought his RB15 home in fourth position at Sakhir, but rued his car’s lousy balance as well as cross winds that induced constant oversteer. However, the in-season test that followed the Bahrain round helped…
They have descended from homes built on the mountainside. Women sit together in the cemetery not to mourn but to wait for the duvet distribution to begin. When I approach them, each woman extends a hand in greeting. Some have the needed small stamped pieces of paper to receive two duvets but most don’t. One…
Even as the popularity of e-cigarettes exploded — with unknown health risks — the federal government was slow to regulate vaping companies. When President Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act in 2009, it gave government regulators an important new weapon in its battle against Big Tobacco. For the first time, the…
The 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq fueled the creation of the Islamic State (ISIS) today and must serve as a warning against similar rash military intervention in Syria, a former U.S. intelligence chief said in an interview with German media on Sunday. “When 9/11 occurred, all the emotions took over, and our response was, ‘Where…
Zendaya is inviting us to walk a mile in her shoes: The 19-year-old actress launched her new shoe collection, Daya by Zendaya, inviting heel-loving men and women to experience the feel of luxury shoes—for a cool $110 or less. “The average woman can not just go out and buy however many Christian Louboutins they want,”…
Mila Kunis stunned as she rang the closing bell at the NASDAQ Stock Exchange in New York City Thursday with her Bad Moms costar Kathryn Hahn, covering her baby bump in a black maxi dress and peep-toe Sarah Flint Tara stilettos in olive suede ($825; sarahflint.com). The Bad Moms star was glowing while she struck…
Doting boyfriend Blake Shelton was the biggest cheerleader for Gwen Stefani as she took the stage Saturday night to perform. The lovebirds joined a bevy of other celebrities at the Apollo in the Hamptons charity event in East Hampton. The fundraiser was held to raise funds for education and mentoring programs for youth at the…