America
At the same time as Australians are cutting back on plans to visit the US under Donald Trump, a new type of investment strategy designed to avoid America is fast gaining popularity. The “sell America trade”, an expression that barely existed before Trump spooked markets by unveiling his new tariff regime late on 2 April, […]
The first impression America gave me was gentle carelessness. We were driving down from Canada to visit family friends in Texas sometime in the mid- to late 1980s, and a young border patrol agent at a booth, crouched over a newspaper, leaning back in his chair, carelessly waved my family’s station wagon across without looking […]
Australians are increasingly avoiding travel to the United States under Donald Trump’s second presidency, fresh data shows, with forecasters expecting tourist numbers to plummet further throughout the year. Official statistics from the US International Trade Administration reveal the number of visitors from Australia in March 2025 was down by 7% compared with March 2024 – […]
When It Comes to Maternal Mortality, The U.S. Has Outdone Itself New America Source link
Generally considered the first Black professional ballplayer, Bud Fowler (top row, center) spent the 1885 season with the Keokuk (Iowa) Hawkeyes. (Photo: National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum) Frederick Douglass disapproved of base ball (as the name was written in the 1860s). To the great abolitionist, who had escaped enslavement in 1838, sports — alongside […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The upheaval in stocks has been grabbing all the headlines, but there is a bigger problem looming in another corner of the financial markets that rarely gets headlines: Investors are dumping U.S. government bonds. Normally, investors rush into Treasurys at a whiff of economic chaos but now they are selling them […]
46.8 million people in the U.S. identify as Black The analysis presented in this report and the accompanying fact sheet about the Black population of the United States combines the latest data available from multiple data sources. It is mainly based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2006-2019 American Community Surveys (ACS) and the […]
When she finds it hard to focus, Nilab jots down her worries on slips of paper and pins them to her wall, a strategy she picked up in a seminar on mental health at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul. She makes a mental note to deal with the issues at a scheduled time […]
This is a dire moment in the US. It’s a moment where there’s an opportunity for people with a lot of money to rip apart all of the guidelines enacted by the Roosevelt administration, way back in the day, to guard against the brutality of unfettered capitalism. Capitalists like to have all the power that […]
Reuters US President Donald Trump has gained support from Irish-Americans The return of United States President Donald Trump to the White House has been fuelled by the “America First” ethos. This has two big elements – a radical rethinking of the role played by the US on the international stage and “protectionist” economic policies. Trump […]