Zaid Jilani

3 weeks ago | theamericansaga.com | Zaid Jilani

The United States and China have had the first productive conversation since “liberation day” — when President Donald Trump announced a flurry of tariffs aimed at virtually the entire world. These negotiations, if successful, could lead to both countries lowering the massive trade barriers they erected following Trump’s directives. The American Saga is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

1 month ago | unherd.com | Zaid Jilani

Amy CooperantiracismBlack Lives MatterCancel culturechristian cooperCultureKarensRacismshiloh hendrixUSviral video In a country full of get-rich-quick schemes, the case of Shiloh Hendrix has got to be the most astounding. In the past week, a viral video emerged of Hendrix’s verbal altercation about an African-American child at a Minnesota playground. Hendrix, holding her own infant, is in an argument with a man recording her — asking her why she referred to the black child using the N-word.

1 month ago | theamericansaga.com | Zaid Jilani

Vermont’s Independent Senator Bernie Sanders has been speaking to crowds of tens of thousands of people, numbers nearly unheard of outside of a presidential campaign. In these speeches, which denounce the direction of the country under the Trump administration, he’s been joined by New York’s Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to denounce what they’re referring to as the rise of an American oligarchy. The American Saga is a reader-supported publication.

1 month ago | theamericansaga.com | Zaid Jilani

The Comedy Central series Nathan for You — starring Nathan Fielder as a consultant who goes around and helps real-life people cultivate their businesses in the most comedic ways — is one of the funniest shows I’ve ever seen.

1 month ago | theamericansaga.com | Zaid Jilani

During the presidencies of George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, the United States refused to call the killings of as many as 1.2 million Armenians between 1915 and 1917 a genocide. They’d acknowledge the deaths but refuse to use the word genocide. That’s not because the fundamental facts are in dispute. While historians differ on the exact number of people killed, hundreds of thousands of Armenian civilians were massacred by their then-Ottoman rulers.