As Buchanan saw it, the great struggle of the 21st century wasn’t a geopolitical battle between East and West, or freedom and oppression. It was a cultural battle between traditionalists and the secular, multicultural, global elite. In this context, America’s crusade to spread democracy was bound to lead it astray. “If communism was the god that failed the Lost Generation,” he wrote in the early ’90s, “democracy, as ideal form of government, panacea for mankind’s ills, hope of the world, may prove the Golden Calf of this generation.”Buchanan had a following, but he was very much on the margins of…
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The city of Machala is dotted with posters of Ecuador’s two presidential candidates, their smiling faces looking out over shuttered businesses and streets that empty out after 6 p.m. because of rival gangs that torment the city.Machala, a port city south of Guayaquil, is a microcosm of the challenges facing the South American country — including chronic unemployment and a security crisis driven by a surge in drug violence — that many voters say are their biggest concerns ahead of the runoff election on Sunday.The election pits the incumbent, President Daniel Noboa, the heir to a billionaire banana magnate who…
“It’s not my cello,” Rosie O’Donnell said over a video call, sitting on a gray love seat in a gray hoodie and a pair of chic brown glasses.In New York, it was a Thursday morning. In Dublin, where the actress, comedian and former talk show host has been staying since mid-January, afternoon light streamed through a nearby window. The cello came with the rental.Lots of celebrities talked during the 2016, 2020 and 2024 elections about moving abroad if Donald J. Trump won — among them, Barbra Streisand, Cher, and Amy Schumer.Ms. O’Donnell actually went through with it.“I never thought he…
U.S. military personnel escort alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and the MS-13 gang recently deported by the U.S. government to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, as part of an agreement with the Salvadoran government, in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, in this handout image obtained March 31, 2025. Secretaria De Prensa De La Presidencia | Via ReutersThe Trump administration confirmed to a federal judge Saturday that a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month remains confined in a notorious prison in El Salvador.But the government’s filing did not address the judge’s demands…
Last Friday afternoon, in the lobby of a Marriott in downtown Stamford, Conn., attendees of the 47th American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, the annual confab of word nerds hosted by The Times’s puzzle editor, Will Shortz, joyously convened. Veteran puzzlers greeted old friends with the excitement of a homecoming. First-timers smiled nervously, eyeing others’ name tags in hopes of catching a glimpse of a favorite crossword constructor. Some broke off into groups to chat or work on one of the many crosswords stacked on the welcome table. “Electric!” I scrawled in my notebook, smiling eagerly at the scene despite my efforts…
The brother of the terrorist who bombed an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, in 2017 was accused on Saturday of launching a violent attack inside a high-security jail where he was serving time for his own role in the concert bombing.The Prison Officers’ Association, a body representing prison staff across Britain, said the man, Hashem Abedi, 28, attacked three guards at Frankland Prison, a jail in County Durham in northeast England. The officers received “burns, scalds and stab wounds” during the attack, the association said.A statement from the organization said that Mr. Abedi “threw hot cooking oil over them…
From rising clothing and food prices to unexpected car repairs, everyday expenses are creeping up — and the prospect of government-imposed tariffs aren’t helping. Add in a rocky stock market and a few losses in my retirement accounts, and it would be really easy to panic. But I haven’t … yet.I’ve paid off $300,000 of debt, and as an elder millennial, I have weathered recessions and economic storms before. What’s helped me the most is not overreacting out of fear. Instead, I try my best to make calm, clear decisions based on what matters most to me — and what I…
Sudanese paramilitaries killed the entire staff of the last medical clinic in a famine-stricken camp in the western region of Darfur, Sudan, as part of a broader assault that killed at least 100 people, aid groups and the United Nations said on Saturday.The assault on the Zamzam camp, which holds 500,000 people in the besieged city of El Fasher, was notable even by the standards of a civil war that has seen countless atrocities as well as accusations of genocide.Paramilitaries with the Rapid Support Forces, or R.S.F., broke through the camp perimeter on Friday evening after hours of shelling. They…
Penny Bowers-Schebal opened her wedding gown shop Formality Bridal with a simple mission: to sell gowns for $999 or less to brides on a budget.To keep prices low, Formality Bridal buys last-season gowns from U.S. retailers and Chinese private labels, and sells them at a fraction of their in-season cost. Bowers-Schebal’s two shops in Geneva, Ohio, and Erie, Pennsylvania, brought in over $500,000 in net sales combined, and she paid herself roughly $71,700 last year, she says.The recent increase in tariffs on imports from China — a 145% total rate, as of Wednesday — will increase the cost of gowns,…
President Trump didn’t seem to mind as his worldwide tariffs set off stock market sell-offs and wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth.“Be cool,” he told Americans.Then he blinked on Wednesday afternoon in the face of financial turmoil, particularly a rapid rise in government bond yields that could shake the dominant position of the dollar and the foundation of the U.S. economy. And late Friday, Mr. Trump exempted smartphones, computers, chips and other electronics from some of his tariffs on China.By pausing some tariffs for dozens of countries for 90 days and exempting electronics from some of his tariffs, he…
