Opinion

Monday’s FBI search at Donald Trump’s Florida home leads to the former president’s prosecution, as supporters fear and detractors hope. The United States has been a long-time laggard in enforcing the law against former leaders. Former presidents and prime ministers have been tried and frequently convicted in many of the world’s major democracies, mostly for crimes they committed, covered up, …

Wikipedia is the latest target of the ongoing debate around the correct interpretation of the term “recession.” Wikipedia has halted the majority of edits to the entry for “recession” as well as the entry for “business cycle” after partisans engaged in a heated editing duel on the pages that were relevant. Depending on one’s political leanings, one can see the …

Adam Piperdy, the owner of a business, has observed a shift in mindset on the part of younger job applicants at his company during the past year and a half, roughly coinciding with the beginning of the economy’s recovery following the easing of COVID-19 limitations. “Right now, it is kind of the employee interviewing the employer,” said Mr. Piperdy, the …

We live in a world where it’s kind of a requirement to be politically active, which is the most principled thing to do, right? So what happens when you’re afraid to share your thoughts? What about those people who just want to keep their opinions to themselves? Does that automatically make you unworthy? Ignorant? There is this constant fear that …

SRI LANKA: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appears to have finally succumbed to Sri Lanka’s economic problems. Protesters attacked the president’s official residence and set fire to the prime minister’s house in Colombo on Saturday, and parliamentary speaker Mahinda Rajapaksa stated on Saturday that Rajapaksa will stand down on Wednesday (July 13). Opposition protests have long called for the resignation of Rajapaksa, …

MANILA: 22-year-old Chin Ching Peng had to make a choice between her dream career as a copywriter and a new field that would give her more money to support her family. According to her account of her job search in February, “most jobs (as a copywriter) offered salaries of S$2,500 or S$2,800… the only one that paid more than S$3,000 …

MANILA: From this effort to exist openly came up The Gay Liberation Front (GLF). The Stonewall Inn riots in 1969 were a response to police raids that targeted persons who were clearly LGBT or non-conforming of gender — a historical predecessor to what we now know as Pride in America. Equally in the 1960s and 1970s, the term “safe place” …

US: When Thor: Ragnarok came out in 2017, he had to deal with his brothers and sisters, his planet’s impending annihilation, a booze-fueled sidekick, a gigantic dog and the death of his father. A Taika Waititi film is at its most intense when it has everything: slow-motion strolling, stupid antlered headdresses, sword fighting and laser cannons, capes and zombie soldiers, …

US: Stranger Things, Netflix’s sci-fi horror series, is awash in 1980s nostalgia, with Kate Bush’s 1985 song Running Up That Hill topping the 2022 music charts. The Duffer Brothers, the show’s creators, debut Pennhurst Mental Hospital for the Criminally Insane in season four (which is also mentioned in season one). Teenage sleuths Robin and Nancy enter Pennhurst, where they are …

PHILIPPINES: What does it look like when you try to homogenize several voices into a single and stereotypical narrative?  It is like walking into a room, only to face the caustic mass of people that already defined who you are from head to toe. No need for introductions or chirpy biddings because no matter what you do, you’ll always be …