February 27, 2017

Who do our stars think they’re winning over with political oratory side-by-side with a bacchanalia of self-congratulation?

Residents have only good things to say about Juan Carlos Hernandez Pacheco, but his arrest by immigration agents has left his Illinois town in a muddle.

“If players cannot come because of political decisions, or populist decisions, then the World Cup cannot be played there,” the UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said.

In some years, the Oscars have been an uneasy blend of celebration and seriousness. This year, they were also a reminder that there are few escapes from politics in public life right now.

“I’m holding the envelope and the award, and I had just given my speech, and there are people on the stage with headsets, and I thought, ‘That doesn’t seem right.’”