4 d. ago America's No1 carmaker stuns workers with job cuts as bosses grapple with Trump's car tariffs

The firm is hitting pause on part of its American-made electric future.

Economics

4 d. ago Trump and Elon Musk mocked in new AI video showing them as factory workers as Beijing unleashes meme war and China's US embassy warns 'we don't back down' amid trade war

The footage shows Trump, senior adviser Elon Musk and JD Vance working on a production line making trainers.

Events

5 d. ago China trolls Trump with viral AI clip mocking obese Americans working in factories

Social media users have been trolling Trump and America with an AI-generated video mocking American workers in sweat-shop like factories for being obese and dim-witted

Politics

5 d. ago China mocks Trump’s tariffs with AI video of US sweatshop workers: ‘Make America Great Again’

The TikTok video has sparked further debate about the impact the president’s tariffs will have on the U.S.

Economics

5 d. ago China launches AI campaign mocking Donald Trump's tariffs and depicting slave labour in America

Ben Lau's video - which shows a group of overweight Americans looking depressed on the manufacturing line in an attack on the Trump administration - rapidly went viral after being shared on TikTok

Politics

9 d. ago US protests live: Demonstrations planned across US to oppose Trump agenda

More than a thousand events to be held across the country in a show of defiance against Trump’s ‘authoritarian overreach’Several congressional members are expected to make apperances and deliver speeches at the Hands Off protest in Washington DC today.They include Democrats Jamie Raskin and Glenn Ivey of Maryland, Maxwell Frost of Florida, Katherine Clark of Massachussetts and Don Beyer of Virginia, as well as Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.This is a nationwide mobilization to stop the most brazen power grab in modern history. Trump, Musk and their billionaire cronies are orchestrating an all-out assault on our government, our economy and our basic rights – enabled by Congress every step of the way.They want to strip America for parts – shuttering social security offices, firing essential workers, eliminating consumer protections and gutting Medicaid – all to bankroll their billionaire tax scam. They’re handing over our tax dollars, our public services and our democracy to the ultra-rich.I...

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3 w. ago Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis review – what Doge is trying to destroy

The Moneyball author is joined by writers including Dave Eggers and Geraldine Brooks in a hymn of praise to the workers who keep America’s cogs turningIt is a tad obnoxious for Michael Lewis, perhaps America’s most consistently successful nonfiction author, to open his new book by boasting that a previous one sold half a million copies, but bear with him. The book in question was 2018’s The Fifth Risk, in which Lewis smartly responded to Donald Trump’s first administration with profiles of a handful of unknown federal government employees in order to valorise what Trump scorned and highlight the cost of breaking it. His point in the introduction to Who Is Government? is that you could lift the lid on any department and find a similar treasure trove of stories: people you’ve never heard of, doing work whose importance you’ve never understood.Last year, Lewis assembled a crack team of long-form writers to uncover more of these stories for the Washington Post, and those articles are co...

Politics