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Photo Euclid Tsakalotos, Greece’s new finance minister with Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, at the eurozone finance ministers meeting in Brussels on Sunday. Credit Francois Lenoir/Reuters BRUSSELS — European leaders demanded that Greece make new concessions and quickly adopt a host of economic policy changes as they worked into Monday morning…
ATHENS—Europe’s ultimatum to Greece, demanding full capitulation as the price of any new bailout, marks the failure of a rebellion by a small, debt-ridden country against its lenders’ austerity policies, after Germany flexed its muscles and offered Athens a choice between obeisance or destruction. Sunday’s statement on Greece by eurozone finance ministers will go down…
Angela, what’s the German word for getting kicked out of the euro? (Tobias Schwartz/AFP/Getty Images) Greece has offered an almost unconditional surrender on its bailout, but Germany might not accept anything less than a Carthaginian peace. In other words, a deal that not only forces Athens to submit, but also humiliates it in the process….
Welp, we have a new favorite show. At San Diego Comic-Con, we got to watch the entire pilot of Syfy’s The Expanse, based on the books by James S. A. Corey—and we were blown away. This is a show that digs into the politics of our spacefaring future, but knows it’s the characters that make…
The folks behind the TV sequel to Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film Minority Report showed segments of the show’s pilot at San Diego Comic-Con. And I laughed. A lot. The problem is that it wasn’t at the parts that were supposed to be funny. This show is in serious denial about how goofy it is. The…
Dianna Bedwell, 68, was stranded in her car in a South California desert for two weeks in May. Yesterday she made her first public comments about the ordeal which she barely survived and killed her 79-year-old husband Cecil “Paul” Knutson. “I told him, `Honey, we all make mistakes. We all make wrong choices.’ That’s all…
Yesterday, flagpole-climbing hero Bree Newsome posted a series of frustrated tweets about education in the United States, and specifically how people can have such extremely varying opinions on the U.S. Civil War. Breh. Stop everything. What the world kind of education are folks getting in America? This is terrifying. — Bree Newsome (@BreeNewsome) July 10,…
Charity worker Maria Karra talks to an elderly man who lives on the streets of Athens. Maria Karra can’t believe her eyes. The founder of an Athens charity for the homeless says the hardship she sees daily on the city’s streets reminds her of crises in much poorer countries. “I used to do this in…
The absence of a deal would, in our view, begin the path to Grexit. In that case, the press conference will probably be dominated by the ECB’s role in handling the situation. On the ECB’s specific role in a Grexit scenario, Mr Draghi said this week that if no deal is struck this weekend, the…
Hey, watch this trailer for the upcoming CW Seed cartoon, set in the Arrow/Flash TV universe, and tell me you don’t think it would work as a live-action series. Heck, we’ve got Stephen Amell, Grant Gustin and their co-stars voicing their same roles—it’s another hit waiting to happen! For the record, that’s Megalyn Echikunwoke of…