Politics Jan 25 What happened inside Trump’s reception at Davos Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO and chairman of Goldman Sachs, wasn’t the only big-name billionaire at President Donald Trump’s reception for business leaders at the World Economic Forum. This was a proper billionaires’ fest.
World Jan 24 At Davos, Trump will get the final word on navigating ‘a fractured world’ At the annual World Economic Forum, heads of state, celebrities, tycoons and academics are gathered to discuss the most pressing issues of the day, including climate change, migration and gender equality. And for the first time in almost two decades,…
World Dec 14 To this Russian-American community, Russia has become a political scapegoat How have strains in U.S.-Russia relations affected Russian-Americans and recent immigrants? Special correspondent Ryan Chilcote reports from the Brighton BEach neighborhood of Brooklyn, the first stop for many of the 3 million Russian or former Soviet Union immigrants who come…
World Dec 11 After Russia’s Ukraine incursion, NATO troops drill for war on a Cold-War scale Eight hundred American and NATO soldiers, attack helicopters and tank busters are deployed in a military exercise of extraordinary complexity in Poland, preparing for trench warfare against an army with a level of sophistication the U.S. military hasn't seen in…
World Nov 10 For Putin, the optics of not meeting Trump are bad What does the absence of a substantive conversation and all its optical trappings mean for the U.S., Russia and the wider world? The answer is nothing good.