International News (Page 2,309)

The only good thing that can be said about Friday’s “not guilty” verdict in the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, the Kenosha shooter, is that the Trumpists are getting the icon they deserve. Forget that ever-present right-wing fantasy of a muscular Aryan übermensch in a MAGA hat punching skinny black-clad leftist protesters, Rittenhouse is a more accurate avatar…Continue Reading

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., on Thursday drew prompt and wide criticism after suggesting that President Biden’s Soviet-born pick for currency comptroller had Communist sympathies. “I don’t know whether to call you professor or comrade,” Kennedy told Saule Omarova, a former Bush-era Treasury Department official who is now a law professor at Cornell, during a Senate…Continue Reading

There are a few things that Timothée Chalamet has that I, and many other people between the ages of oh, say 18 to 45, aspire to have. His cheekbones. His thick, curly hair that manages to look tousled, not tangled (my bedhead achieves the opposite). Probably his eyelashes (because men with thick, dark hair usually…Continue Reading

“Go on, pick it,” said Päivi the Mushroom Queen. “I’m afraid,” I mumbled. She pointed to a prominent-looking mushroom standing exposed all by itself on the pine needle- and twig-laden ground. It had a saucer-like brown cap two inches in diameter and a sturdy beige stem. The mushroom looked so picture-perfect that I thought I…Continue Reading