Boston Globe (January 4)
“Trump’s crazy train reaches the end of the line.” So far, “not a single state or federal court has accepted the preposterous conspiracy theories floated by Trump and his supporters to explain his loss, ranging from zany stories of North Koreans smuggling ballots into Maine to supposed Sharpie malfunctions in Arizona. No election has been as thoroughly scrutinized as the 2020 vote, and even Trump’s own Justice Department acknowledges it couldn’t find any serious fraud, much less the vast plots of Trump’s imagination.”
Tags: Ballots, Conspiracy theories, Court, Crazy train, Fraud, Loss, Maine, North Korea, Preposterous, Scrutinized, Trump
NBC News (January 1)
“Millions of us feel a great sense of loss. Our divorce from the European Union will hinder the freedom of movement of people — and ideas.” While it is “a relief that a deal to govern U.K.-E.U. relations post-divorce was done at all,” the deal did not deliver new freedoms. Essentially it achieved “a loss of freedoms, quite the opposite of what we were promised.”
Wall Street Journal (December 14)
The Supreme Court loss means “President Trump’s legal challenges have run their course.” With “no remaining legal alternatives,” both the President and “the rest of the Republican Party can help the country and themselves by acknowledging the result and moving on.” Unfortunately, “there’s no predicting how Mr. Trump will behave.” He may very well “continue his ‘stolen’ election claims past Jan. 20.”
Tags: Alternatives, Claims, Election, Legal challenges, Loss, Moving on, Republicans, Result, Stolen, Supreme Court, Trump
New York Times (April 10)
“The scale of the economic damage is breathtaking. In one recent poll, more than half of all Americans under the age of 45 said that they had lost their jobs or suffered a loss of hours.” It is equally harrowing for businesses. Those that survive will “face long-term costs, too: the loss of trained and experienced workers, the uncertainties of hiring new ones.”
Tags: Breathtaking, Businesses, Costs, Economic damage, Experienced workers, Hiring, Jobs, Loss, Scale, Trained, Uncertainties
Washington Post (March 30)
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s is facing his biggest threat in years. He has tried to stack the deck for his candidate in the Istanbul election, “but this ploy appears to have backfired. Some polls are predicting a serious loss for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its nationalist allies.”
Washington Post (November 14)
“The growing interest in witches and witchcraft speaks to a uniquely unsettled moment in U.S. history — and an unprecedented loss of hope felt by an entire generation. Absent anything else to hold on to, we’re reaching into the dark.”
Tags: Generation, History, Hope, Interest, Loss, U.S., Unprecedented, Unsettled, Witchcraft, Witches
The Independent (July 3)
“Any plan to rely on American trade to make up for the loss of EU benefits caused by Brexit are now merely a fantasy. Ironically, the push to remain in the EU might benefit from the US’s lurch toward insanity; the Brexit vote came when people assumed America would have a rational leader at the helm.”
Toronto Star (April 23)
“Toronto can be proud of how it faced the van attack.” The senseless loss was terrible, but “something outstanding happened as well, as the city refused to overreact in the face of a horrific van attack.”
Tags: Loss, Outstanding, Overreact, Senseless, Terrible, Toronto, Van attack
The Guardian (July 2)
“As the true extent of the Brexit farce becomes more apparent, it is now open warfare between the Brexiters, while the rest of the world…look on in sympathetic bewilderment.” Amid growing “evidence for concern about Brexit-induced potential loss of trading and investment opportunities,” there are growing hopes that the “transition” may be extended indefinitely.
Tags: Bewilderment, Brexit, Farce, Investment, Loss, Opportunities, Sympathetic, Trading, Transition
Investment Week (April 27)
The Swiss fund house GAM “suffered a shareholder rebellion at its annual meeting, after it attempted to raise executive pay despite making a loss last year.” Only 17.57% of shareholders voted in favor of the report on pay with a majority rejecting it. “The shareholder rebellion came after CEO Alexander Friedman’s pay package increased by more than 20% in 2016, despite profits for the year falling by a third to £120.1m from £197.8m in 2015.”
Tags: Annual meeting, Executive pay, GAM, Loss, Rebellion, Shareholder, Switzerland
