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Dec 28 2016
News
Around the World, Tyrants Ascendant
John McCain is fond of saying, "It's always darkest just before it goes totally black." According to a February report by Amnesty International, human rights "reached a nadir" in 2015. Not quite. The past 12 months prove that even when you hit bottom, there is always room to sink.
Reason
Feb 12 2020
Analysis
Does the climate crisis threaten the end of big oil?
THE MOST EXCITING PLACE for a climate journalist right now has to be the business beat. Investors face growing pressure to stop funding the fossil-fuel industry. Climate activists have been demanding such divestment for years, but now the calls are coming from the heights of the financial community. It’s a titanic clash of economic interests, bursting with drama, substance, and consequence.
Columbia Journalism Review
Jun 28 2019
News
Foreign policy was a loser in the Democratic debates
There was one obvious loser in the first round of Democratic debates: foreign policy.
Night one eked out a few notable moments, but the bar somehow lowered on night two, when the 10 candidates on stage barely engaged with some of the most critical foreign and national security issues the US is facing right now.
Candidates on both nights did bring up foreign policy briefly in
Vox
Oct 27 2020
News
As college grads flee the GOP, political ‘diploma divide’ grows
President Trump won in 2016 thanks in part to support from non-college-educated white voters. Those with college degrees are increasingly voting Democratic – shifting partisan policy priorities and campaign strategies.
Four years ago, Donald Trump’s path to the White House ran through Rust Belt states with higher-than-average numbers of white voters without college degrees.
That
Christian Science Monitor
Jul 22 2019
News
Equifax to Pay up to $700M in Data Breach Settlement
Equifax will pay up to $700 million to settle with the U.S. and states over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 million people.
The settlement with the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission, as well as 48 states and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, would provide up to $425
Newsmax (News)
Mar 27 2018
News
John Paul Stevens’s supremely unhelpful call to repeal the Second Amendment
One of the biggest threats to the recovery of the Democratic Party these days is overreach. Having seen what Republicans have accomplished while pushing to the right, Democrats are debating how hard to push in the opposite direction — on the minimum wage, on abortion, on health care and on education. A party that was once afraid of being tagged with supporting “government-run” health care is
Washington Post
Nov 25 2013
News
After Iran nuclear deal, tough challenges ahead
As dispute over right to enrich continues; the Obama administration also faces skeptics in Congress.
Washington Post
Dec 20 2019
News
After a Transphobic Tweet, J.K. Rowling Can No Longer Be Considered an LGBTQ Ally
J.K. Rowling spent Thursday once again demonstrating a perplexing inability to pipe down and enjoy her millions. This time, the Harry Potter author wasn’t retconning diversity into the series she finished writing over 12 years ago or disclosing that before indoor plumbing, the wizards of her universe used to just poop themselves and magically vanish the evidence away. Instead, Rowling tweeted
Slate
Aug 10 2015
News
How Donald Trump May Benefit Some Other Republican Contenders
For a serious, rational Republican presidential candidate, watching Donald Trump attract attention the way the Kardashian sisters attract Internet clicks must be an exercise in frustration right now.
Wall Street Journal (News)
May 25 2021
Perspectives Blog
Facts, Myths and Rumors: Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein
Amid news of Bill and Melinda Gates getting a divorce, rumors are swirling about Bill’s connections to convicted sex offender and high-profile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The two met multiple times, with Gates even flying once on Epstein’s private plane. While this fact has invited tons of speculation, there’s no explicit evidence of Gates flying to Epstein’s infamous private island or
Henry A. Brechter