Martin Pengelly
Writer at Freelance
Freelance Writer at The Guardian
Investigations editor, Raw Story. News. Books. Own book, BROTHERHOOD: WHEN WEST POINT RUGBY WENT TO WAR, published by Godine. Substack: THE NATIONAL MAUL.
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23 hours ago |
rawstory.com | Martin Pengelly
More than half of U.S. Jewish voters think Donald Trump is antisemitic and nearly three-quarters consider him dangerous, according to a new poll released as the U.S. President tours the Middle East, a first foreign trip of his second term that controversially does not include a visit to Israel. Around 75 percent of such voters disapprove of Trump's handling of foreign policy and the U.S. economy.
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1 day ago |
rawstory.com | Martin Pengelly
At a state dinner in December 2022, Jill Biden surprised French President Emmanuel Macron, former U.S. House speaker Nancy Pelosi — and her own husband Joe Biden — when she firmly indicated the then 80-year-old U.S. President would run for another four-year term, a new book says. Joe Biden looked “like he didn't understand,” another guest is quoted as saying, adding that they rescued the awkward moment by hastily proposing a toast to “four more years” which the president and first lady joined.
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2 days ago |
theguardian.com | Martin Pengelly
In another world, Robert Paylor might have been playing in Major League Rugby, in his prime at 28, preparing for a US Eagles summer including England in Washington and World Cup qualification. “When I was an athlete, that was my purpose in life,” he says. “I wanted to be the best rugby player I could be.
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2 weeks ago |
alternet.org | Matt Laslo |Martin Pengelly
WASHINGTON — Lamenting Donald Trump’s first 100 days in the White House, one prominent Democratic senator resorted to blunt talk as he pondered how long it might take to repair damage done to America’s global standing. “It's hard to put the s--- back in the donkey,” said Mark Kelly, from Arizona. Tuesday was the 100th day of Trump’s second term.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Martin Pengelly
David A Graham doesn’t say he read Project 2025 so you don’t have to, but it might be inferred. The Atlantic staff writer’s new book, The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America, is a swift but thorough overview of the vast far-right plan for a second Trump administration that achieved notoriety last year. Over just 138 pages, a passing dream next to the Heritage Foundation’s 922-page doorstop, Graham considers the origins of Project 2025, its aims and effects so far.
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Upside of having DVT and being immobile: a weekend on the porch, writing two pieces: on Robert Paylor and his battle back from rugby injury, and on Mark Whitaker's superb new book, The Afterlife of Malcolm X. Rugby and history, innit. Nothing else needed.
How does a transcription ap, spoken into directly, make “biographers” into “biograpoperahers”? Middle-Class English, vaguely northern accent?
Late as ever, I have realized that Barry is quite brilliant.