Politics

Ernie Piton and his crew unloaded traps filled with stone crab claws at a Key Largo dock Wednesday afternoon. The claws were placed in two large steel vats and steamed...

Among the carnage in the stock market brought on by COVID-19, Netflix has come through as a rare bright spot for investors. The stock has rallied more than 10 percent...

The “Retail Apocalypse” has been one of the most significant quandaries in the business world for many years, and the repercussions of the novel coronavirus pandemic could become the straw...

As a GP, I regularly visit care homes. At one I go to, they recently lost eight residents in a week, probably from coronavirus. But there's no testing, the staff...

The coronavirus lockdown has seen the number of hungry people using food banks quadruple, and the looming economic slump will make things even worse. We're going to have to change...

Rebecca Fishman Lipsey has been named the new president and CEO of the prestigious Miami Foundation, a nonprofit that manages $350 million to improve South Florida's quality of life. The...

Memes are as good a lockdown distraction as any – and making waves now is 'Karen,' who always wants to speak to the manager. Some think it's sexist – it's...

Just over 33,000 Floridians thrown out of work in the last month have received their unemployment claims, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday, a small fraction of the total number of...

Linda Kaplan is still waiting. It took the longtime Miami-area immigration lawyer two weeks to submit an application for a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program through her bank, Wells...

A Cabinet Office bureaucrat's tweet requesting advice on what the UK's stategy to recover from the Covid-19 lockdown should be, isn't reassuringly modern, it's worryingly incompetent. A civil servant has...

While Trump's cut-off of the WHO was mainly to save his skin, the health watchdog is surely not above criticism. To repair its reputation, it should stop meddling in lifestyles...

A defense contractor for the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Armed Forces dropped millions on a warehouse center in Opa-locka, a mile from the 850,000-square-foot Amazon Mega Distribution Center. The...

The weekly ‘clap for carers' displays across Britain had been a unifying force amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but identity politics fanatics have hijacked the movement to hector the public in...

Through the passageways of the Symphony of the Seas cruise ship, if anyone heard the word “Dab” yelled from behind them, they knew it was Pujiyoko calling out for them,...

The Covid-19 crisis has triggered Western calls to ban Chinese wet markets, one of which is thought to be the source of the virus – but where was the anger...

Armed with their government-issued, prized key-worker status, top-selling UK papers' shoddy coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic has delivered very few answers but lots of cheap clickbait and sexy shots of...

What does Joe Biden have in common with a New York Times article even critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin have described as “incompetent”? Both have received ringing endorsements from...

A tone-deaf Microsoft ad featuring performance artist Marina Abramovic has been memory-holed after it was pilloried online. Was it her ‘spirit cooking' notoriety from the Podesta emails or are people...

Locked inside like any plebeian, celebrities have tried to stay relevant by telling the world we're all “in it together.” But as their make-up went flaking, it became obvious how...

New York City has increased its officially recorded number of Covid-19 victims by more than 40 percent, after making the presumption that people found dead in their homes who had...

Having rescued the Prime Minister in his fight against Covid-19, Britain's National Health Service is in a position to ask for anything that‘s in his power to bestow – regardless...

It is a tragic irony, but scientists advising government ministers predict that the extreme restrictions imposed in response to the Covid-19 outbreak will lead directly to a surge in deaths...

Denmark became one the first countries to emerge from strong Covid-19 restrictions, with schools and some businesses reopening. Are we right to do so, or are our children just test...

With the world struggling to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic, Poland's delegation to NATO has been eager to promote cross-border aid and international solidarity on its Twitter account – with...

North Korea has been test-firing ballistic missiles on a scale that suggests 2020 will be its busiest year of testing. But is this recent show of force mere muscle-flexing, or...

Barack Obama's belated and calculated endorsement of his own vice-president shows the Democrats have learned nothing and forgotten nothing from 2016, doubling down on the same behavior that got Donald...

Barack Obama couldn't resist throwing some shade at the US' top conservative news network when he gave Joe Biden his endorsement. But when it comes to slanted coverage, the left...

There is rich historical irony in the Democrats' hope that Obama's endorsement of the right-wing neoliberal Democrat and warmonger Joe Biden's presidential candidacy will rally young and progressive voters to...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo seems intent on dethroning President Donald Trump, picking a fight over reopening the economy while hinting a bigger ‘constitutional crisis' would let him slay the...

Since 2013, Chris Cuomo has been the star attraction on CNN, but now their relationship appears to be hitting the rocks. Has the host of ‘Cuomo Prime Time' simply witnessed...

The rise of social media posts that claim the normal rules of drinking have gone out the window during quarantine may seem funny right now, but they can lead us...

In the past, when a crisis hit the US, it caused a rally to the flag. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, though, President Trump's ratings have remained comparatively level, as voters...

Covid-19 has infected two million people and so far has killed 120,000. Half of humanity is under some form of social lockdown. And unemployment is exploding. But the biggest victims...

As California and New York said they'd coordinate reopenings with neighboring states, mainstream US media suddenly rediscovered the virtue of federalism, while some online activists even cheered the notion of...

A University of Wisconsin professor argues that it's “fatphobic” to be worried about gaining weight during these coronavirus pandemic lockdowns. The fact is a lot of people are afraid of...

The UK has been painfully exposed as relying on rhetoric, bluster and faded imperial notions of “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” to confront this pandemic, and has deluded itself...

With no more live sports to use as an outlet for our anger and frustrations, maybe now we can focus our fury towards the big fight that really matters… the...

Even a global catastrophe like Covid-19 has not discouraged identity-entrepreneurs from continuing to draw attention to their cause. Instead of coming together in a common struggle, they seek to exploit...

Fans of Japanese animation are getting increasingly angry at the politically correct reworking of the cartoons when they're translated into English. A recent announcement about anime production has alarmed consumers...

With Harvey Weinstein being convicted of sexual assault and a rift in the #MeToo movement beginning, its future is in question. Has #MeToo run its course with partisan politics bringing...