Friendly competition keeps things interesting in the watch world—and occasionally leads to vaguely unsettling arms races. The thinnest watch. The most complicated watch. The deepest dive watch fabricated entirely from sea slug slime. Things like that. But this year’s edition of Watches & Wonders has seen even more world records than usual—and impressive ones, at that. To wit: The race for the world’s thinnest watch continues apace. Back in the spring of 2022, Bulgari’s Octo Finissimo Ultra...
Spurs fans insist Liverpool can have the three points from their September clash. Luis Diaz's wrongly disallowed goal cost them the game. Could it cost the title?. Have Liverpool been mentally torpedoed by Man United?
In an interview broadcast on Tuesday, President Joe Biden demanded that Israel agree to a unilateral six-to-eight week ceasefire in Gaza – without insisting on the release of hostages or even that Hamas shouldn’t attack Israel during that time. “What I’m calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a ceasefire, allow for […]
As tensions continue to rise in the South China Sea, I had the chance to watch an enlightening interview sent to me by my good friend Professor Rommel Banlaoi, president of Philippine Society for International Security Studies in a show called Dialogue on CGTN.
This spring, while you’re dusting off high shelves and ceiling fans, take a moment to freshen up the items in your wallet, too.
This spring, while you’re dusting off high shelves and ceiling fans, take a moment to freshen up the items in your wallet, too.
HBO’s The Sympathizer enters the television lineup with two strikes against it. In the first place, the limited series’s 2015 source novel, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, was among the worst Pulitzer Prize winners in recent memory, a geopolitical navel-gazer that “thrilled” flattering book critics’ voguish anti-Westernism. In the second, the show’s conceit has already been […]
I don’t want to feel shamed into playing this party-scorekeeping game when I create my guest list.
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United Auto Workers faces first real test in campaign to unionize 13 automakers across US as Volkswagen workers vote in TennesseeThe United Auto Workers (UAW) has launched an ambitious campaign to unionize 13 non-union automakers across the US, and the first big test begins this Wednesday when 4,300 Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, start voting on whether to unionize. Many VW workers are predicting victory.“We’re going to win,” said Lisa Elliott, a quality control worker at VW. “We...
If you’re strapped for cash and your car needs service, a DIY garage might be a way to do the work cheaply.