This must be about the oil, right? It’s a presumption that got lots of airtime this weekend, following the dramatic seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife by US forces. The pair now face drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges in New York, while observers in both countries are scrambling to interpret the sudden action by President […]

Today, the controversial congressional career of Marjorie Taylor Greene comes to an end — at least for the foreseeable future.  But before her exit, she got a few more jabs in at President Donald Trump. First, in a wide-ranging New York Times Magazine profile last week, the retiring Georgia representative reignited her feud with the […]

Over the weekend, the United States invaded Venezuela, captured its leader, and then declared itself to be in charge of South America’s fifth-largest country.  And no one — not even the US government — seems entirely sure why. The Trump administration has offered multiple high-minded explanations for its toppling of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, none […]

In recent months, freelance writer Chanté Joseph noticed a surprising trend on her social media feeds: Women had stopped posting pictures of their boyfriends. For a long time, boyfriend pics were good social media fodder. Whether on vacation or chilling at home, these images sent a message of heterosexual bliss, of contented couplehood. A world, […]

After months of escalating US pressure on Venezuela, the crisis reached a dramatic turning point on Saturday with the US capture of President Nicolás Maduro. According to President Donald Trump, Maduro was seized in a late night military operation and transferred to a US naval vessel to be transported to New York to face charges […]