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Dodgers merch collaboration with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami is a natural fit

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A month ago Dodgers gear festooned with colorful flowers in the unmistakable designs of acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami sold out in minutes at a pop-up on Fairfax Ave. A couple hundred Angelenos lined up overnight to purchase gear, generating $40 million. The pop-up, called the MLB Tokyo Series collectionpreceded the two-game, season-opening series in … Read more

How Trump’s Tariffs Fit the Autocrat’s Playbook

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Jan-Werner Müller is a German historian and philosopher who has written a number of studies of right-wing populism. Müller’s central argument has been that populism should primarily be defined as a movement in which a leader claims to represent a silenced or forgotten—and almost always exclusionary—majority. It is a negative take on populism, which somewhat … Read more

Why Chelsea signed Geovany Quenda and where ‘future great’ will fit in at Stamford Bridge

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Chelsea have secured another of European football’s most highly-rated prospects with their deal to sign Geovany Quenda from Sporting. On Friday, surprise news emerged that Chelsea have agreed to pay around £40million for the 17-year-old, who will spend the rest of this season and next with his Portuguese club before moving to Stamford Bridge in … Read more

Alice Weidel doesn’t fit the profile of a far-right politician. The German AfD is willing to look past it.

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“She has an appeal to the economic conservatives within the AfD, and this gives her some credibility outside the party or at least the more moderate wing of the AfD fellowship,” Markus Ziener, a senior visiting fellow with the nonpartisan German Marshall Fund think tank, told NBC News. ‘A tough person’ Raised in a middle-class … Read more