nationalism

Soccer star gets two-game ban for controversial hand-gesture celebration ꩲ

♕ The ban rules Demiral out of his team’s quarterfinal against the Netherlands on Saturday, and the semifinal, should Turkey progress.

 🐟 Wall Street, Texas, Europe’s nationalist rebellion and other commentary

 "The new 😼Texas Stock Exchange is another sign" N🌞ew York is “losing its dominance in finance,” Allison Schrager says.

How the left's disdain for nationalism is fueling its hostility toward Israel

The historian John Lukacs used to say all the old “isms” of politics were defunct. They’ve beಌcome “wasms,” except one — nationalism.

Irish unity within 'touching distance' as Northern Ireland names nationalist party leader

The assembly returned to the parliament in Belfast where its top order of bus💫iness was to name the Sinn Féin Irish nationalist par🦩ty's Michelle O’Neill as first minister, marking a...

🧜 Poland and its Eastern European neighbors are setting a fine 🍸example for America

I’m writing from Warsaw, Poland, my first time behind the old Iron Curtain and first trip ba𝔍ck to Europe since the onset of COVID-19. Despite the overcast weatheℱr endemic to...

Gri♉m♎ view of global future offered in intelligence report

WASHINGTON — US intelligence officials are painting a dark picture of the world’s future, wr๊iting in a report released Thursday that the coronavirus pandemic has deepened economic inequality, strained govern🌠ment...

Hungary didn't leave the EU mainstream — the mainstream left sanity

Two years ago, the European Parliament’s largest center-right bloc, the European People’s Party, suspended the memb🃏ership of Hungary’s ruling party, Fidesz. Last week, the tug of war ended when Hungarian...

Nordic crime thriller 'Cold Courage' reflects global politics

I𒅌t takes some time to hit its stride but, once it does, "Cold Courage" presents an intriguing story of two Finnish women fighting for a common cause.

Hawley calls for breakup of Big Tech 'oligarchs,' companies that 'sold us out to China'

Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri on Friday urged fellow Republicans to support the break-up of Big Tech "oligarchs" that censor political vie🌠wpoints as well as large companies that "sold us...

Surprise 'Hamilton' fans: the Founding Father was a nationalist

The fans๊ who have stood and cheered at the end of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s masterpiece “Hami🦩lton” may not fully realize it, but they are hailing the life and the work of...

꧋ Democrats head for worst-case scenario and other commentary  🎀

🐻 2020 watch: Dems Head for Worst-Case Scenario Judging from polls b✨efore and after the recent presidential debates, J.T. Young at The Hill believes “Democrats are headed for a worst scenario:...

The left and right are both 🌄wron𓂃g about what ails America now

Am🔴erica is sick. Just about everybody recognizes it, and we didn’t need two more mass shootings to convince anybody of anything. Most Americans think the country is on the wrong...

UK prime minister candidate Boris Johnson wants immig🌄rants to l🍨earn English 

Boris Johnson reportedly would require im𓂃migrants in Britain to learn English. Johnson, who is leading in the race to succeꦍed Theresa May as UK prime minister, told a group of...

SUNY professor pens article titled 'Seeing poor white people makes me happy'

A prof🍸essor at SUNY Old Westbury is offering a lesson in hate. Nicholas Powers, an associate professor of literature at the taxpayer-funded public college on🤪 Long Island, penned an article...

💫 Angela Merkel issues warning about rise of ꦛnationalism in Europe

​G​erman Chancellor Angela Merkel said the "specters of the past" must be confronted as she warned of the rise of nationalism in Europe and around the globe. ​"In Germany, obviꦑously,... 

🌠 Under Modi, the Hindu-Muslim divide worsens in India

NAYABANS, India -- Muslims in Nayabans, an unremarkable village in northern India, say they remember a time when tꦏheir children played with Hindu youths and people from either faith chattedꦺ...

🅰  Mexico’s new prez has it on Venezuela’s pat💃h to doom

In his first 100 days in office, Mexic🐲o’s new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, seems intent on steering the country toward an ideal💃istic, but ultimately ruinous, future. Known as AMLO,...

Trump ꦐmay have gone too far by abaꦡndoning the Kurds

🐲 The Trump election was in many ways a rediscovery of nationalism and a rebuke to liberal transnationalism — the idea, popul𝐆ar among elites in the US and Europe, that nationhood...

Macron totally missed the poin♒t when condemning nationalism

French President Macron denounced nationalism and slapped President Trump at Sunday’s ceremony on the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Given the way ౠin which the...

 What Macron got wrong wh💙ile lecturing Trump

French President Emmanuel Mac🅺ron doubtless felt deep self-satisfaction in delivering a public rebuke to President Trump over the weekend. But his smug lecture on the dangers of nationalism ignored bot💎h...