2025-12-22 04:00:08
Live streamer iShowSpeed, who has more than 46 million followers on YouTube, made quite a stir earlier in the year visiting China. His fans watched as 20-year-old Darren Watkins Jr., an American best-known for his worldwide streaming tours, performed backflips on the Great Wall and rode futuristic trains and flying taxis. “China is different, bro,” he marveled.
2025-12-22 03:00:08
This was no banner year for Asia. Growth was sluggish and inflation sufficiently low to allow for interest rate cuts. But some of the reductions were grudging — often designed more to put a floor under expansions that struggled.
2025-12-21 21:00:26
Thank goodness for state governments. One of the most underappreciated stories in 2025 was the role states played in checking federal overreach. As the Trump administration barreled through norms, rules and laws, state officials — sometimes from both parties — supplied the friction to slow the administration’s power grab.
2025-12-21 21:00:13
Beijing reveals itself through fashion trends and car sales just as much as geopolitics.
2025-12-21 21:00:11
As Trump openly calls Somali-Americans garbage and prioritizes White South Africans for refugee status, the racial component of Trump policies can’t be ignored. In “Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History,” political scientist Julia R. Azari of Marquette University explores the historical throughlines between racially transformative presidents and their successors. Our interview has been edited for length and clarity.
2025-12-21 21:00:10
The Trump administration’s executive orders are fueling a wave of book bans, and South Carolina is leading the pack.
