Tucker Carlson is uncancelable
Fox News host Tucker Carlson isn t going anywhere.
You might expect him to, given his sudden, strange laughs mid-broadcast â the sort of thing that could have taken him off air for a while in the Dean scream era. Or you might think he d resign over a college yearbook image circulating in which a much younger Carlson appears to make an inside joke about the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Macone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the latter of whom was California s first openly gay elected official.
You d be wrong. We re in a weird space, culturally, with public shaming and what used to be called gaffes. I think there s something real to the charge of cancel culture, though the concept is much abused. Yet, as
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“We have too many little Merkels, Macrons, and Orbans wandering around the EEAS corridors,” an EU diplomat told this author last summer amid heated discussions over whether the EU would slap sanctions on Belarus and Turkey.
We were sitting in one of the many coffee places around Rond-point Schuman in Brussels (yes, they were open then!), staring at the EU’s diplomatic headquarters, blissfully unaware of the crises to come in the months to follow.
Pick one of the recent crisis – or in fact, one of the best examples of Europe’s foreign policy muddle, Libya – and you will see that EU member states usually tend to go their own way on foreign policy. And this has started to show more often.
Islamabad wants New Delhi to ease lives of Kashmiris before initiating dialogue, say sources
Pakistani Rangers (wearing black uniforms) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) officers lower their national flags during parade on the Pakistan s 72nd Independence Day, at the Pakistan-India joint check-post at Wagah border, near Lahore. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
Islamabad is willing to hold formal bilateral talks with New Delhi to resolve long-standing issues including the Kashmir dispute if the latter takes certain steps to “ease lives” in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
Highly-placed Pakistani sources familiar with the development shared with Al Jazeera a list of actions that the Indian government could take in IIOJK to create the conducive environment for the bilateral dialogue.
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Biden’s climate plan faces global skepticism
President Joe Biden s new climate commitment leaves some wondering whether the U.S. will stick to the plan this time.
President Joe Biden listens during a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate with 40 world leaders at the East Room of the White House April 22. | Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images
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The U.S. government finds itself in an unfamiliar position midway through President Joe Biden’s global climate summit: struggling to deploy the moral authority and financial heft needed to assume global leadership.
Washington s history of backing out or failing to ratify climate commitments now jeopardizes widespread support for Biden’s just-announced plans to cut U.S. carbon dioxide output between 50 and 52 percent by 2030, compared with 2005 levels.
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