2026-01-26 21:30:31
The image is seared in my brain. Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos stands looking frightened in his bright blue bunny hat while a federal agent clutches his Spider-Man backpack.
2026-01-26 20:45:30
Over the course of the last many days, indelible images have dominated the White House’s mass deportation efforts in Minnesota. A teary-eyed five-year-old named Liam Ramos, wearing a blue bunny hat and carrying a Spider-Man backpack, and bound for a Texas detention facility. A man pinned to the ground by federal agents as another sprays a chemical agent in his face. ChongLy “Scott” Thao led out of his house in boxers in the falling snow. Renee Good saying, “I’m not mad at you,” seconds before be
2026-01-26 20:30:30
Finally, President Donald Trump beamed on Truth Social last week, TikTok’s US business is in the hands of “Great American Patriots and Investors.” He thanked Vice President JD Vance for bringing the meandering saga of the app’s future to a “very dramatic, final, and beautiful conclusion.”
2026-01-26 20:00:32
The world is getting excited about small capitalization US equities again, and I’m starting to get that Groundhog Day feeling.
2026-01-26 19:00:30
President Donald Trump is suing JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon for $5 billion for political discrimination. The bank and the wider industry should welcome the fight. A court case could finally kill off the cynical and fatuous claims that ideologically driven “debanking” is a thing at all.
2026-01-26 18:30:30
Lists are “an invitation for a conversation,” says James Lindsay at the Council on Foreign Relations. So he drew up two lists, one for the 10 best decisions in American foreign policy over the past 250 years, and one for the 10 worst. Present company and headlines — the second presidency of Donald Trump, that is — were excluded by design. And yet, how could any conversation about those lists ignore what Trump is doing to the world, and to America’s role in it?
