Robert Tait

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Robert Tait

The US will witness its second wave of protests in a fortnight on Saturday as organizers seek to turn discontent with Donald Trump’s presidency into a mass movement that will eventually translate into action at the ballot box. More than 400 rallies are anticipated across the nation loosely organized by the group 50501, which stands for 50 protests in 50 states, one movement. It is the fourth protest event to be staged by the group since Trump was inaugurated on 20 January.

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Robert Tait

She had been welcomed to the White House with open arms as few other foreign visitors had been since Donald Trump’s return, and Giorgia Meloni wanted to assure her host that – at least when it came to their political worldview – they spoke a common language. Italy’s prime minister, whose Brothers Of Italy party has roots in neo-fascism, was keen to stress that she shared many things with the man who had just hailed her as a “friend” who “everybody loves … and respects.

1 week ago | eldiarioar.com | Robert Tait |Carlos del Castillo |Maria Cafferata |Victoria De Masi

Podría llegar a considerarse como el momento en que el “imperio liberal woke”, de las fantasías más febriles de Donald Trump, decidió contraatacar. La Universidad de Harvard, institución de prestigio mundial y símbolo del elitismo que Trump y su entorno desprecian, recibió una exigencia chantajista por parte del Gobierno federal para que renunciara al núcleo de sus libertades académicas… y respondió con un rotundo rechazo.

1 week ago | eldiario.es | Robert Tait

Podría llegar a considerarse como el momento en que el “imperio liberal woke”, de las fantasías más febriles de Donald Trump, decidió contraatacar. La Universidad de Harvard, institución de prestigio mundial y símbolo del elitismo que Trump y su entorno desprecian, recibió una exigencia chantajista por parte del Gobierno federal para que renunciara al núcleo de sus libertades académicas… y respondió con un rotundo rechazo.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Robert Tait

It might come to be seen as the moment the “woke liberal empire” of Donald Trump’s most fevered imaginings struck back. Harvard University, the world-renowned institution emblematic of the elitism that Trump and his coterie hold in contempt, received a extortive demand from the administration that it surrender the core of its academic freedoms – and promptly told it to get lost.