The Bidi Bidi performing arts venue offers more than 250,000 refugees the chance to sing, play, dance – and dream of a peaceful future
The sound of a flute floats towards five young men in the 1,000-seat Bidi Bidi Performing Arts Centre theatre in Uganda – the country that hosts the highest number of refugees in Africa. The music carries past them to the shrubs that surround the circular majestic building and the neighbours going about their lives, the more than 250,000 refugees who live in the 250 sq km Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, the largest refugee camp in Africa.
The young men – gathered for a chance to play a musical instrument or record music – welcome visitors with the awkward smile of youth. They are seated under the oldest fig tree, where the dream of building a place for the creative young people of Bidi Bidi to commune and nurture their talents was born.
Billionaire claims he is implementing ‘will of the people’ as he and US president praise each other so much, Sean Hannity says it is like ‘interviewing two brothers’
Trump criticized the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, appearing to blame Ukraine for the war with Russia after the Ukrainian leader complained about being left out of peace talks between the US and Russia. “Today I heard: ‘Oh, well, we weren’t invited.’ Well, you’ve been there for three years … You should have never started it. You could have made a deal,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida when asked about the Ukrainian reaction.
Zelenskyy responded to Trump’s comments by saying the US president “is living in this disinformation bubble”.
Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg is in Kyiv to meet with Zelenskyy – a day after top US and Russian diplomats held discussions in Saudi Arabia.
The New York City mayor, Eric Adams, will face a federal judge on Wednesday who will decide whether to grant the justice department’s request to dismiss corruption charges against him after lawyers explain the abrupt change in position just weeks before an April trial.
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio met with the leader of the United Arab Emirates. President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan told Rubio on Wednesday that his country rejects a proposal to displace Palestinians from their land, the Emirati state news agency WAM reported.
Top prosecutor Denise Cheung resigned on Tuesday after refusing to investigate a government contract awarded during Biden’s tenure, as Trump continues to attempt to exert tighter control over the justice department, an agency traditionally seen as independent of White House influence.
Trump expanded his offensive against trading partners on Tuesday, threatening 25% tariffs on imported cars, and similar or higher duties on pharmaceuticals and semiconductors, AFP reports.
Hundreds of Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) employees were fired as part of a wave of terminations of federal workers over the holiday weekend and Tuesday, the Washington Post reports, adding the move could affect people struggling to rebuild and prepare for disasters.
A Republican-led Senate committee is scheduled to hold a hearing today on Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer. Chavez-DeRemer supported a bill called the Pro Act, a top priority of labor unions, and is endorsed by the Teamsters Union, NBC reports.
An Israeli official said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed a close confidant, the US-born Ron Dermer, to lead negotiations for the second stage of the ceasefire with Hamas. Dermer previously served as Israel’s ambassador to the US and is a former Republican activist with strong ties to the Trump White House.
One in five Americans have said they are “doom spending” – purchasing more items than usual – owing to concerns over Trump’s tariffs, reflecting heightened consumer anxiety over potential price hikes and economic uncertainty.
Poorer countries want rapid emission cuts and more financial help in face of US leader’s stance on global heating
Developing countries are calling on the rich world to defy the US president, Donald Trump, and bridge the global chasm over climate action, before the goal of limiting global temperatures to safe levels is irretrievably lost.
Foreign correspondents’ association urges authorities to step up search for Charlotte Alice Peet, 32
A British journalist has been missing in Brazil for more than 10 days, a foreign correspondents’ association said on Tuesday, urging authorities to step up their search efforts.
Charlotte Alice Peet, 32, was reported missing after a trip to São Paulo, according to a statement from the Rio de Janeiro-based Association of Foreign Press Correspondents (ACIE).
From uplifting declarations of undying love to shared plates of spaghetti and tearful resignations of what might have been, these are the movie scenes that have touched our readers’ hearts
José Luis Munuera under scrutiny over business links
Real Madrid player suspended for two league games
The referee who sent off Jude Bellingham after the Real Madrid midfielder swore has denounced what he calls a false accusation by local media that has led to him being temporarily sidelined by the Spanish football federation (RFEF).
The news emerged as RFEF’s disciplinary committee suspended Bellingham for two games over what it called his “disrespectful” behaviour toward José Luis Munuera, meaning he will be unavailable for league games against Girona and Real Betis.
Going red in the face is on trend. People pay $25bn a year for the look, writes advice columnist Jessica DeFino
Hi Ugly,
In the past year I have stopped wearing makeup and am feeling a lot more confident in living life with my natural face. The only issue is that when I get embarrassed or offended I tend to blush and go bright red. People then exclaim, “You’re going red!” which makes it even worse. I used to cover my skin with foundation, which was a comfort blanket. I feel the only way to hide this is to wear foundation, but I don’t want to go back. Please help!
Financial results reveal former sporting director’s payoff
United paid about £3m to take Ashworth from Newcastle
Manchester United have revealed they paid £4.1m to Dan Ashworth when he left after only five months at Old Trafford. It cost the club about £3m in compensation last summer to acquire the sporting director from Newcastle but they parted ways in December.
Ashworth’s exit came after the sacking of Erik ten Hag and his staff in October, which cost United £10.4m. United made great effort to prise Ashworth away from Newcastle but a decision was made for him to depart after a summer of underwhelming recruitment and amid a difficult relationship with the minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
Weapons maker’s full-year pre-tax profits top £3bn and it expects sales of more than £30bn next year
Britain’s biggest weapons manufacturer, BAE Systems, has reported record orders as the European defence industry gears up for increased spending sparked by the Ukraine war.
The company, a member of the FTSE 100, said it expected sales next year to top £30bn, as it reported annual profits before interest and tax of more than £3bn for the first time in 2024.
What we are fighting for is not ‘utopian’ or unachievable. Trumpism can and must be defeated
I will be doing town meetings in Omaha, Nebraska, this Friday night and Iowa City, Iowa, on Saturday morning. Further, in the coming weeks and months, I and other progressives will be holding grassroots events from coast to coast.
Why, at this moment, are we doing town meetings around the country – especially in conservative areas? The answer is obvious.
Healthcare is a human right and must be available to all regardless of income.
Every worker in America is entitled to earn a decent income. We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage and make it easier for workers to join unions.
We must have the best public educational system in the world, from childcare to vocational training, to graduate school – available to all.
We must address the housing crisis and build the millions of units of low-income and affordable housing that we desperately need.
We must create millions of good paying jobs as we lead the world in combating the existential threat of climate change.
We must abolish all forms of bigotry.
Bernie Sanders is a US senator, and chair of the health education labor and pensions committee. He represents the state of Vermont and is the longest-serving independent in the history of Congress
Architect of copyright law says EU is ‘supporting big tech instead of protecting European creative ideas’
An architect of EU copyright law has said legislation is needed to protect writers, musicians and creatives left exposed by an “irresponsible” legal gap in the bloc’s Artificial Intelligence Act.
The intervention came as 15 cultural organisations wrote to the European Commission this week warning that draft rules to implement the AI Act were “taking several steps backwards” on copyright, while one writer spoke of a “devastating” loophole.
In cities along the M5 highway just after the fall of Assad, many expressed relief – along with wariness about the future
Amid the rubble of Saraqib, some of the wall graffiti dating back to its time as a centre of the the 2011 Arab spring uprising remains. “The revolution will go on,” one reads. “Tomorrow the sun rises,” says another.
A week after the astonishing rout of Bashar al-Assad by rebel forces led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, this small town of concrete, red earth and olive groves in Syria’s north-west was a stop on the Guardian’s 280-mile (450km) journey along the M5, the highway threading all of the country’s major cities and six provinces together.
How Tabitha and Temwa fought preconceptions in Malawi to make it to the top of women’s football
Tabitha and Temwa Chawinga’s rise to international football stardom began on the humble, dusty football pitches of Rumphi, a district in northern Malawi. Their journey, filled with challenges and perseverance, reflects the determination and dreams of two sisters determined to break barriers in a male-dominated sport. And how they have succeeded.
Growing up in a society where girls were often discouraged from dreaming beyond traditional roles, the Chawinga sisters were passionate about football from a young age. “We used to play football with boys. I did whatever the boys did and that laid the foundation for my football career,” Tabitha recalls.
Sarah Jones’s book includes personal history, including her grandfather – one of 1 million Americans killed by the virus
Sarah P Jones is a writer for New York magazine and now the author of Disposable, a study of “America’s Contempt for the Underclass”. Her new book describes in relentless detail what Covid-19 did to those who could not afford to fight the virus – or even to cope – in a country where access to healthcare depends on what you can pay.
The book is also a work of personal history: its subjects include Jones’s grandfather, one of more than 1.2 million Americans killed by the virus.
As the defense secretary introduces a flurry of anti-trans policies, servicepeople fear the worst – a blanket ban – is yet to come
For Bree Fram, an active duty lieutenant colonel in the US space force with 22 years of military experience, the last few weeks have been “incredibly challenging”.
“Like thousands of other transgender military personnel, I am doing my job every day, while feeling fear and uncertainty of what is coming next,” said Fram.
As Riyadh becomes the de facto home of big-time boxing, the women’s code risks being left behind
On Saturday night in Riyadh, an evening of boxing dubbed as the “Fight Card of the Century” will take centre stage inside the 15-month-old Kingdom Arena. Headlining is the undisputed championship light-heavyweight rematch between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol, chiefly supported by the IBF heavyweight title contest involving Great Britain’s Daniel Dubois and New Zealander Joseph Parker.
There are five other bouts – including an all-British light-heavyweight fight between Joshua Buatsi and Callum Smith – but all of them will be contested by men, raising concern among a number of prominent voices in women’s boxing.
The humble crumble is rubbly heaven, and a real cinch to perfect
When I last set finger to keyboard on this subject, I claimed that anyone can make a decent crumble. Age has made me slightly less generous; we’ve all chewed our way through dusty scatterings of flour and stodgy doughs that, delicious as they may have been, could, honestly, also have been a lot better. Fortunately, perfection here is not difficult.
Slammed doors and avoidant behaviour have alerted me to the 18-year-old’s discomfort. How can I persuade my lover that this is a problem?
I’ve been dating a man whose 18-year-old kidlives with him full-time. My partner and I are very intimate and I always thought that I kept my cries of passion down by screaming into a pillow. Recently, his kid began slamming doors and cupboards very loudly to let us know that they had heard us. I told my partner that I felt bad, but he said he didn’t think I was being loud and that he had already explained to his kid when they chose to live with him full-time that this would happen.
I don’t have the best relationship with his kid because I very rarely spend any time with them, and they are quite introverted. What’s more, recently they were avoiding eye contact with me and seemed uncomfortable. Now, I’m afraid that I’ve made them unhappy by simply being there. I don’t spend very much time with the man I’m dating, which I think sends a signal to his kid that I’m mostly a sexual partner (I would like more but am afraid of asking for it for fear of being turned down). I want to respect his kid, but I also sense that they don’t respect me because my relationship with their father is not one of a bona fide girlfriend. What’s the best way to talk to the man I’m dating about my concerns?
Pamela Stephenson Connolly is a US-based psychotherapist who specialises in treating sexual disorders.
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We’re keen to hear how Ukrainians feel about the Trump administration-led peace negotiations with Russia, as well as the prospect of elections in Ukraine
US and Russian officials have agreed to explore the “economic and investment opportunities” that could arise for their countries from an end to the war in Ukraine after talks in Saudi Arabia that amounted to a tectonic shift in the United States’ approach to Moscow.
US president Donald Trump pushed back against president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s objections to being excluded from talks between the US and Russia in Saudi Arabia aimed at ending the war. He also seemed to suggest that Ukraine was to blame for a war that began only after Russia invaded.
The Hundred welcomed huge investment as the Cricket Research Network pondered what lies ahead for the sport
Two consecutive days, two cricket events, two very different visions.
One, at Old Trafford last Friday, was all sharply pressed chinos and beaming smiles, as Lancashire held a press conference to celebrate their link up with the RSPG group, who have agreed to pay £80m for a 70% stake in the Manchester Originals. A miked up Warren Hegg compered proceedings, including a video link with the RSPG vice-chair Shashwat Goenka – now the proud owner of a third cricket franchise alongside Lucknow Super Giants and Durban Super Giants – and who expressed a desire for the Manchester Super Giants Originals to one day rival City and United.
Dismay in Kentucky at decision by Yum! Brands to relocate corporate headquarters of fast-food chain
KFC, the fast food chain previously known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, has come in for some heat after announcing plans to move its corporate headquarters from the state after which it is named to Texas.
The chain’s parent company, Yum! Brands, told investors it would move about 100 employees from its office in Louisville, Kentucky, more than 800 miles south-west to the city of Plano in Texas, where the group’s Pizza Hut chain is headquartered.
Lavrov also speaks about Russia’s alliances with Belarus, North Korea, China and Iran, and countries in Africa.
He says the “comprehensive partnership with China” was “at an unprecedented level and exceeding any prior alliances of a classic type,” with both leaders attending important anniversaries in each other’s countries.
I will tell you something that is a key issue for us at this stage of international development, and that is our move towards a multipolar world. It is a historic process, and it is to do with the subjective trend of new power centres appearing on the world map.
Our partners in the Global South and in the east are unique civilisations and religions and are members of various integration associations, but all of them are united by a desire towards development, progressive development without external pressure…
At the same time, we must state that the collective West, although verbally are in agreement and accepting the multipolar realities, in reality, they still want to preserve their former dominance in the West.
Afro-Guayaquileños mostly live in the impoverished belts of Guayaquil and have been made to believe their customs are ‘the worst’, say activists
Painted with the support of the city council in 2017, a mural spanning the entire side of a six-story building in Guayaquil’s financial district went largely unnoticed for more than a year in Ecuador’s most populous city – until it triggered outrage.
The painting showed two men grappling over money: one dressed in a suit, tie and shoes, with fair skin; the other shirtless, in shorts, flip-flops and a stocking mask. He was dark-skinned.
For more than a decade the club threw up their hands at the challenge in Europe but Rodgers’ team now embrace it
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. The acclaim given to Celtic’s squad and management as their Champions League campaign ended in the Allianz Arena on Tuesday night had to be about far more than the detail of an agonising exit at the hands of Bayern Munich. Brendan Rodgers had spoken about a potential tide-shifting moment after Daizen Maeda scored for Celtic in the first leg, halving Bayern’s lead. It actually came as Nicolas Kühn sent the visiting support into a frenzy in the reverse fixture. The reality is Celtic remain notches below teams of Bayern’s calibre. At least they should be; a fantastically courageous display from Rodgers’s men had Bayern fearing a tournament exit. Celtic deserved so, so much better than a 94th-minute aggregate defeat to an ugly Alphonso Davies goal.
This has been a period of striking European progress. Celtic have latched on to the fact that retaining Scottish trinkets, while viewed as essential, triggers shoulder shrugs beyond Glasgow. Europe is where Celtic can be seriously judged. Europe is where Celtic made themselves a serious entity again this season. They did so against the unorthodox backdrop of a domestic league where they are streets ahead of the opposition. This scenario intensifies Celtic’s Champions League test. Dundee United’s sporting equivalent in the Bundesliga would thrash Dundee United. Yet here were Celtic giving Bayern such serious food for thought. Celtic did this not just with discipline but swagger.
From Romesh Ranganathan to Lee Mack, big-name standups are increasingly fronting quiz shows. What’s causing the glut of comics?
Going from telling jokes about your sex life in a room above a pub to asking someone in a studio what the capital of Malaysia is might not seem like an obvious career transition. It is, however, increasingly common to turn on your TV and see a comedian fronting a gameshow. In recent times, Romesh Ranganathan has hosted The Weakest Link; Michael McIntyre has hosted The Wheel; Lee Mack has hosted The 1% Club; and Jason Manford has hosted The Answer Run. When there are so many other people who would be glad of the work – full-time presenters; actors; Nigel Farage – why is the male-standup-hosting-a-quizshow such a mainstay of modern TV?
Joel Dommett is likely as familiar to the general public for his hosting as for his comedy. He thinks the snobbery that used to exist in the comedy industry about gameshows and adverts has subsided a little. “Comedians nowadays can do all those things and still be accepted as a decent comic,” he says.
In a series of highly controversial interventions, Donald Trump’s administration outlined a new US approach to Europe. It revolves around negotiating a rapid end to the war between Ukraine and Russia, handing Europe the lead responsibility for its own defense, and forging a new transatlantic alliance of populist forces on the right. After 25 years of working on transatlantic relations, I am aware of the tendency of crisis moments like this to fade and relationships to trend back toward historical norms. But this time is different.
Dismissal of case against Eric Adams reflects new directive for prosecutors to toe line on White House’s policies
Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, moving with ruthless efficiency last week to dismiss the corruption case against the New York mayor, Eric Adams, appeared to reflect the new praxis at the justice department where Trump’s political agenda will guide prosecutorial decisions.
The department filed the motion to dismiss on Friday with the signatures of Bove and two trial attorneys – the public integrity section’s senior litigation counsel Edward Sullivan and the acting head of the criminal division Antoinette Bacon – that cemented the decision.
The slogan ‘Everyone must go!’ is being rubbished, but is it really that bad? Hong Kong and Vilnius have much stronger claims to this shameful title ...
Having worked in the advertising industry for a while, I can tell you that creating a great ad is a lot more difficult than skewering a bad ad. That’s partly why I left a full-time gig in adland to focus on writing. Although the bigger reason, if I’m honest, is that I wrote a column saying I was going to quit my stupid advertising job before actually quitting, and my boss saw it and reacted as you might expect.
But my poor life choices are not the point; the point here is other people’s poor choices, namely those of some marketers in New Zealand. You see, the people at Tourism New Zealand are facing international ridicule for a new advertising campaign – with the tagline “Everyone must go!” – designed to entice Australians to visit.
Anne Marie Hochhalter, ‘pillar of strength for ... so many’ after being shot in back in 1999, dies from natural causes
A former Columbine high school student who only narrowly survived the deadly 1999 mass shooting there – and subsequently spent nearly three decades grappling with complications from her wounds in the attack – has died.
Anne Marie Hochhalter, 44, died on Sunday from what were described as natural causes, according to a statement from the principal at Columbine when the shooting at the Colorado school occurred.
This book within a book weaves a writer’s struggles with scenes from their Africanfuturist tale of post-apocalyptic robots
In Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor, one of the most acclaimed science fiction writers of our time, moves into mainstream literary fiction. Her protagonist is Zelu, a prickly, mercurial, iconoclastic writer who gets high in inappropriate situations, hooks up promiscuously, and ends up quarrelling with everyone, especially her large, overprotective Nigerian American family. She is also paraplegic, and has PTSD from the accident that left her disabled at the age of 12.
As the book begins, she loses her job as a writing professor for giving an entitled student a brutal critique, on the same day that her novel is rejected by a 10th publisher, and while she is at her sister’s wedding, under an onslaught of uncensored judgment from all her most conservative family members. It’s at this moment, when “[her] face was crusty and itchy with dried tears … her mind cracked so wide open that all her demons had flown in”, that she’s inspired to begin a new project, about robots on a post-human Earth, though she’s never written anything like it, and doesn’t even read science fiction.
Seeds from the last toromiro, unique to remote Easter Island, were taken away in the 1960s. Now, after a crucial discovery gave hope for its survival, it is making a return
In the Mataveri Otai nursery on the island of Rapa Nui, Estefany Paté cradles a bag of soil with a 10cm sprout like it is a baby. She caresses its leaves. “It’s been so emotional to have it here,” says Paté, who works for Chile’s National Forest Corporation (CONAF).
“It was here before us; it was here before the moai,” she says, referring to the megalithic statues that dot the island. “It has a sentimental value.”
Analysis of UK BioBank data shows importance of factors including living conditions and smoking, say experts
The environment is about 10 times more important than genes in explaining why some people have a higher risk of an early death than others, research has suggested.
The study is based on an analysis of information from almost 500,000 participants in the UK BioBank database, including answers to questionnaires as well as data on deaths and diseases that occurred after people enrolled.
The US president’s support for forcibly relocating Palestinians has laid the ground for Netanyahu’s ultimate fantasy
When President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to Hamas last week to release all hostages by noon on 15 February, warning that otherwise “all hell [will] break loose”, the Israeli right was ecstatic. Here was a chance to finally move ahead with the complete occupation and annihilation of the Gaza Strip. The families of Israeli hostages were petrified about the prospect of the ceasefire collapsing, yet members of the ruling coalitioncalled to kill the deal. “We have international support, give the order!” demanded the Israeli finance minister, BezalelSmotrich.
But the order never came. Hamas abided by the agreement and freed three hostages; Israel then released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Trump shrugged and said that it was Israel’s decision. His envoy, Steve Witkoff, who visited Israel on Sunday, signalled that the direction of travel is not towards resuming hostility. Instead, the parties must now move to “substantive” negotiations over the second phase of the ceasefire, he said, leading to peace.
Yair Wallach is a reader in Israeli studies and head of the Centre for Jewish Studies at Soas University of London
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The Canadian is known for her first descents in some of the world’s most hostile environments. She says confronting doubt is part of the process
After a pair of first descents near her home in the Canadian Rockies, Christina Lustenberger headed to Pakistan’s Karakoram Range in April 2024 for her second attempt to ski the west face of the Great Trango Tower.
“I’d seen a photo of the towers from a friend who climbed it,” says Lustenberger, “but no one had skied it.”
Despite being freewheelin’ with the facts, this Bob Dylan biopic has delighted fans old and new, with Timothée Chalamet proving more than just a Zimmerman mimic
So how did it feel? Bob Dylan’s early years in New York have been chronicled, dramatised, riffed on and pored over more than the Last Supper. James Mangold’s biopic – told very much with the backing, though not the guiding hand of Dylan Inc – somehow achieved the impossible: keeping the people with working knowledge of the musical rota at the Gaslight Cafe as interested as those with little more than an acquaintance with TikTok covers of Blowin’ in the Wind.
And that’s perhaps the key case for A Complete Unknown to win the best picture Oscar. Sure, it’s an excellent movie with a hair-raising performance from its lead, but I think the reason so many younger or non-Dylan fans enjoyed it is, curiously, its capturing of the notion that one man’s art can give people hope for change. The fact that the film itself is very specifically about Dylan rejecting that position is neither here nor there.
The soul singer is releasing his first album in nearly 20 years and looks back on a career full of major highs and devastating lows
For more than 60 years, Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers has made his living singing blue-eyed soul. But now, at 84, he feels the best way to express himself is by going hardcore country.
On his first new album in nearly 20 years, Straight from the Heart, Medley devoted every track to melancholy ballads made famous by country stars such as Kris Kristofferson, Hank Williams and George Jones. “I feel I can sing these songs, because I’ve lived these songs,” Medley said. “When you get older, you’ve seen a lot of ups and downs. And I’ve had some real downs.”
Valuable documentary on the vigilant genius whose highly coloured 70s and 80s images revealed the white working class as never before
The beguiling work of English photographer Martin Parr is the subject of this brief, but thoroughly enjoyable study which sets out to introduce his extraordinary work, particularly the fierce brilliance of his colour images in the 70s and 80s celebrating the white working class on holiday.
Parr is an inspired combination of seaside-postcard artist Donald McGill and Alan Bennett, with a bit of American street photographer Vivian Maier, and a sliver of Diane Arbus, although the grotesques in which Arbus specialised are not what Parr has in mind. Everyone here is at pains to emphasise that Parr is never cruel or mocking, and, yes, it’s quite true. But as a real artist, Parr naturally has what Graham Greene called the splinter of ice in his heart. He knows what makes a brilliant image and the person involved is unlikely to find it flattering. (David Walliams is interviewed here, perhaps because of his TV comedy Little Britain, but Little Britain isn’t precisely the same thing either.)
The desperation on the faces of tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan while they attempted to escape as the country came under Taliban rule was broadcast across the world.
As the US-led coalition fled the country in August 2021, the chaos outside Kabul airport intensified. Entire families gathered outside, hoping for a spot on an airlift, and more than 180 people in the crowd were killed in an Islamic State-led suicide attack.
Fellow Democrats are riled by the Pennsylvania maverick who now denounces the sort of politician he once was
“You can’t ‘work’ with crazy,” John Fetterman wrote. “You must call it what it is. Anything less is spineless appeasement.”
It was mid-2016, and Fetterman, then running in the Democratic primary for a US Senate seat in Pennsylvania, was responding to a Politico article about how Democrats may work with Donald Trump.