As Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, hosts President Trump in Doha on Wednesday, it will be the culmination of a successful charm offensive by the Gulf emirate that now appears likely to include the promise of a luxury jetliner to Mr. Trump — with no strings attached. The president, who has…
For years, Mark Zuckerberg tried to keep his social networks above the fray of partisan politics. And why not? Meta’s flagship apps — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — were rowdy nation-states unto themselves, with billions of users, fragile internal politics, skittish advertisers, perpetually aggrieved influencers and a sprawling, uneven enforcement regime (known as “content moderation”)…
Five months after taking power in Odisha, in a turn of events whose success may have surprised even the protagonist, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has one objective. To set a governance benchmark by which to distinguish itself from its predecessor. What it grapples with is this: a humble roots politician like Mohan Charan Majhi,…