Charles Shapiro (@shapiro_wac) 's Twitter Profile
Charles Shapiro

@shapiro_wac

Consultant. Founder Art of Diplomacy Tours. Fmr Pres @worldaffairsatl + @IOA. Fmr diplomat: US Amb to Vzla, PDAS for Americas, Coordinator for Cuba.

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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Powell: "GDP growth has slowed notably in the first half of this year, to a pace of 1.2%, roughly half the 2.5% pace in 2024. The declining growth has largely reflected a slowdown in consumer spending ... higher tariffs have begun to push up prices in some categories of goods."

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 (@longtimehistory) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trump's troops detain a Black lawyer in D.C.—swarmed by 20 officers just for walking down the block. Paul Bryant plans to press charges on those who assaulted him "in a way that I will not forget anytime soon." He is a West Point graduate—and served as Infantry Officer in Army

Orla Joelsen (@ojoelsen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Months after the US president stunned Danes by threatening to take over Greenland, Trump is now exerting pressure on a national champion in one of Denmark’s most strategic assets: offshore wind. Wind-farm developer Orsted is caught in the crosshairs after Trump issued a

ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

china is still burning coal at record levels. 21 gigawatts of coal power brought online in the first six months of 2025 the highest six month level in 9 years -centre for research on energy and clean air

china is still burning coal at record levels.
 
21 gigawatts of coal power brought online in the first six months of 2025

the highest six month level in 9 years
 
-centre for research on energy and clean air
Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 (@chefjoseandres) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Mr. President @realdonaldtrump I understand why you are confused...all your time in DC you haven't eaten ONCE outside the White House or your own hotel. I've lived here for 33 years, and it's a flat out lie that half the restaurants have closed because of safety...but restaurants

The Atlantic (@theatlantic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The U.S. government is holding a massive fire sale for mosquito nets, water towers, printers, generators, textbooks, agricultural equipment, and motorbikes that once belonged to USAID, Hana Kiros reports. theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Charles Shapiro (@shapiro_wac) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hard to imagine worse move than firing intel experts + analysts. And yet it continues. Trump, Gabbard fired top CIA Russia expert days after Alaska summit ⁦CIA⁩ ⁦The Washington Post⁩ washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Mark Hertling (@markhertling) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in The Bulwark thebulwark.com/p/honoring-ash…

🌻Maria I. Puerta Riera (@maripuerta) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As a Venezuelan-American, I do my best to avoid the constant comparison with my birth country, but this tracks (and you have no idea how much).

Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي (@ntarnopolsky) 's Twitter Profile Photo

💥This week Opposition Leader Yair Lapid got a call this week from an official close to Egyptian Pres al-Sissi. "Can you explain what's going on over there?" What are you talking about? Lapid asked. "What you call the 'Witkoff plan' and what we call the 'Netanyahu plan,' because

Dr. Tom Frieden (@drtomfrieden) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I joined eight former CDC directors—spanning Republican and Democratic administrations—to share this warning: our nation’s health is at risk.  The very systems that protect us from disease, cancer, and future health threats are being dismantled. nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opi…

Atul Gawande (@atul_gawande) 's Twitter Profile Photo

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opi…

Tom Nichols (@radiofreetom) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It is impossible to overstate the inanity of the vapid and stupid stunt of renaming the Defense Department, and Congress should step in and put a stop to it immediately. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…