Christian Caryl

I am still bewildered by the capacity of intelligent people to deny what’s in front of their own eyes. I guess money makes for wonderful blinders

Q: You just said this is an unenviable choice, this is an unfortunate consequences. But the president posted a video likening Vought to the grim reaper. So which is it?

LEAVITT: Look, the president likes to have a little fun every now and then and I think both things can be true

Investors could face a bonfire night surprise on Trump tariffs The legal tussle over the president’s trade policy is a result of the way he wields power

On November 5, the Supreme Court will start to consider whether Trump’s tariffs are legal — or not. The consequences of the court’s decision are likely to be momentous on.ft.com/42scabb

Live-streaming journalist deported to El Salvador after months in ICE custody | CNN Business Mario Guevara was arrested while reporting from a "No Kings Day" protest in June and was deported on Friday - a major blow to press freedoms, say groups including the ACLU.

Mario Guevara should never have been held in detention for performing his journalistic duty.

Mario’s deportation marks a dark day for the Guevara family and for press freedom.

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias. India is OpenAI’s second-largest market, but ChatGPT and Sora reproduce caste stereotypes that harm millions of people.

Fascinating www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/1...

These New Yorkers Hated Fascists Before It Was Cool

“In fact, the liberal internationalism championed by Roosevelt and Truman ensured America’s rise to global pre-eminence.” Great read from @jacobheilbrunn.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b...

“The reality is that poverty is rising in the United States, and more families live paycheck to paycheck, which increases the risk of eviction.” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

“We will continue to supply weapons to NATO for NATO to do what they want with them. Good luck to all!”

These are not words of true commitment by a leader of an allied nation. They evince a barely hidden dismissive attitude.

Trump promises Arab, Muslim leaders he won’t let Israel annex the West Bank The president’s pledge came in a closed-door meeting at the UN.

I’ll believe it when I see it

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Europe Is on Its Own With Russia Now Donald Trump’s latest U-turn on Ukraine doesn’t change the naked truth for Europe.

My latest for @foreignpolicy.com: Why Europe still can’t rely on Trump. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/24/e...

Europe Is on Its Own With Russia Now Donald Trump’s latest U-turn on Ukraine doesn’t change the naked truth for Europe.

My latest for @foreignpolicymag: Why Europe still can’t rely on Trump. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/24/e...

America’s accelerating exit from itself After the Kirk murder, Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease

“The idea that the disaffected middle will therefore clip Trump’s wings in next year’s midterm elections is quixotic. Having silenced most institutional dissent within his first nine months, what could Trump accomplish in the next 14?” on.ft.com/4nIaMZQ

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts.

Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

YouTube video by TRT World Trump says he brokered peace between ‘Aber-baijan’ and ‘Albania’

Words fail me. So I guess I’m in good company
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Russia’s Shadow War Against the West Russia is conducting a violent and escalating campaign of sabotage and subversion against European and U.S. targets in Europe led by Russian military intelligence, according to a new CSIS database. Th...

"Russia is engaged in an aggressive campaign of subversion and sabotage against European and U.S. targets, which complement Russia’s brutal conventional war in Ukraine."

It is very important for citizens and leaders to understand & be alert to this.
Pls read👇:
www.csis.org/analysis/rus...

Russia Just Attacked NATO. Again. One can only hope that Trump will draw the right conclusion: Coddling Putin leads to disaster.

Here's my take on last night's Russian drone attacks on Poland. NATO can start its response by giving long-range strike capability to the Ukrainians. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/10/r...

Russia Just Attacked NATO. Again. One can only hope that Trump will draw the right conclusion: Coddling Putin leads to disaster.

Here's my take on last night's Russian drone attacks on Poland. NATO can start its response by giving long-range strike capability to the Ukrainians. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/10/r...

Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So It’s possible for Trump to be an inept buffoon—but still extremely dangerous. And it shouldn’t be so hard to make that case.

One recent poll finds that 48 percent of overall likely 2026 voters say Trump’s tariffs are hurting their own economic situation

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Donald Trump’s economy falters as US jobs growth grinds to a halt The president’s promise to deliver prosperity to Americans is being undermined by the data

Donald Trump’s economy falters as US jobs growth grinds to a halt
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Mark Warner says spy agency visit canceled over posts by Laura Loomer Sen. Mark D. Warner had arranged a routine visit to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. He said it was nixed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office after social media posts by far-right a...

“How did a trolling blogger get access that there was a classified meeting going on?” Warner said. Good question!
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Opinion | Here’s the truth about Trump’s ‘none of our business’ doctrine As foreign leaders are finding, Trump’s noninterference foreign policy is purely situational.

“In practice, Trump’s hands-off approach to other nations’ affairs seems to apply only when it comes to promoting democracy or human rights; tacitly encouraging right-wing populism or even authoritarianism is another matter.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... By @maxboot.bsky.social

Ukraine’s Fight Is Far From Over Documenting Russia’s occupation of Ukraine from the ground

“Occupation doesn’t stop human suffering. Occupation just makes human suffering invisible.” Ukrainian activist @avalaina.bsky.social, speaking to @garrykasparov.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com
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Stop Fabulating About ‘Security Guarantees’ for Ukraine The best way to protect Ukraine from another Russian invasion is helping it to win.

NATO put 50,000 peacekeepers into Kosovo in 1999. Ukraine is 55 times larger than Kosovo. Ukraine needs more Western aid right now. A theoretical “reassurance force” isn’t going to save anyone. My latest

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Reading for pleasure falls by 40% in US Decline over two decades ‘deeply concerning’, say researchers of study into daily habits of Americans

The machines are getting smarter as we are getting dumber
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Stop Fabulating About ‘Security Guarantees’ for Ukraine The best way to protect Ukraine from another Russian invasion is helping it to win.

Why I just don’t buy all the talk about dispatching European troops to Ukraine. My latest for @foreignpolicy.com “Stop Fabulating About ‘Security Guarantees’ for Ukraine”

foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/27/u...

Trump and his team have sought to use government power to go after Bolton since his first term even when it meant ignoring normal standards, so much so that his own assistant attorney general quietly resigned rather than go along any more, as disclosed in "THE DIVIDER" w/ @sbg1.bsky.social

Opinion | Now it is the Old World’s turn to rescue the United States As Trump met with European leaders on Ukraine, Churchill’s words from days long ago came to mind.

@GeorgeWill‬⁩ at his best: “The problem is not that he is endlessly cynical, which would be an improvement. Rather, he seems promiscuously sincere, believing everything equally, no matter how discordant his beliefs today are with yesterday’s.”
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i need politicians to be as mad at housing prices as they are about cracker barrel's new logo

Trump is embracing the same economic populism that destroyed Argentina Perónism seems to be the one import that President Trump actually likes.

@reasonmagazine's Steven Greenhut on Trump: "He sets himself up as an all-powerful charismatic leader, inserts the feds deeply into the economy, and expands the reach of police and military forces. Like Juan Perón, he's doing it in the name of the 'working class.'" reason.com/2025/08/22/t...