The European Union, that grand and failing dream of technocrats, is dying. Its decline is not sudden or dramatic but a slow unraveling, a bureaucratic collapse in which every policy designed to sustain it only hastens its demise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oW5B0uh0n8Massive Escalation: Russia Announced that NATO Launched Preparations for Seizure of KALININGRAD
Eighty-nine. That’s the magic number. It will take at least 89 cardinals to elect Pope Francis’ successor. [The author has returned to UCA News after a year away].
The federal election result carries some hard-won lessons. The overarching lesson for the Liberals is to accept that they’re just not very good at politics.
As trade tensions flared between the world’s largest economies, communication between the United States and China has been so shaky that the two superpowers cannot even agree on whether they are talking at all.
I’m a proud lonely weed
In the middle of the median strip
A small crack for me to creep
Through the concrete decrepit
I am an unwanted plant in the wrong place
With insignificant blooms and ugly face
So the humans say but I think I’m pretty
