Agathe Demarais

agathedemarais.com

27 April 2026 07:03

China uses the renminbi for nearly 60% of cross-border transactions • Share of China's cross-border trade that is denominated in yuan has roughly tripled since 2016 • China has no plans to see renminbi replace US dollar, but it's building alternatives to greenback www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Roxane Gay

roxanegay.bsky.social

06 February 2026 19:33

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Nick Cohen

nickcohen.bsky.social

08 December 2025 10:16

“Trump and Putin’s European saboteurs” My piece on a meeting in Brussels of the far-right activists who love MAGA more than they love Europe comment.press/farage1225

Sophie Pedder

sophiepedder.bsky.social

08 December 2025 10:15

Macron will join Starmer, Merz and Zelensky in London today. Whatever you think of these three leaders’ domestic politics, the trio is emerging as a forceful new form of European leadership www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Joni Askola

joniaskola.bsky.social

08 December 2025 10:14

Trump’s national security strategy shows the US is in a hybrid war against Europe and sees us as an enemy more than an ally. The issue for him is that Europe has more to gain and the US more to lose if Europe becomes independent from the US