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Nov 30 2022
Analysis
What the Respect for Marriage Act does and doesn't do
The Respect for Marriage Act, a historic bill to codify the right to same-sex and interracial marriages, cleared its main obstacle on Tuesday after it passed the Senate — but the measure's provisions don't go as far as many had hoped they would.
Why it matters: Lawmakers crafted the legislation after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas suggested the court reconsider Obergefell v.
Axios
Aug 12 2020
News
About One-in-Four U.S. Hispanics Have Heard of Latinx, but Just 3% Use It
Pan-ethnic labels describing the U.S. population of people tracing their roots to Latin America and Spain have been introduced over the decades, rising and falling in popularity. Today, the two dominant labels in use are Hispanic and Latino, with origins in the 1970s and 1990s respectively.
More recently, a new, gender-neutral, pan-ethnic label, Latinx, has emerged as an alternative
Pew Research Center
Aug 12 2022
News
New data from several states show racial disparities in monkeypox infections
New data emerging from some states and localities closely tracking monkeypox outbreaks show extreme racial disparities that are alarming experts. In Georgia, 82% of people with the disease are Black. In North Carolina, it’s 70%. But in other places that have released detailed demographic data, there are fewer and sometimes no apparent racial or ethnic disparities in monkeypox cases.
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STAT
Dec 26 2022
News
Law protects export of sacred Native American items from US
Federal penalties have increased under a newly signed law intended to protect the cultural patrimony of Native American tribes, immediately making some crimes a felony and doubling the prison time for anyone convicted of multiple offenses.
President Joe Biden signed the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act on Dec. 21, a bill that had been introduced since 2016. Along with stiffer
Washington Post
Sep 01 2022
News
UN report finds "serious human rights violations" in Xinjiang
The UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner released a long-awaited report Wednesday detailing the Chinese government's "serious human rights violations" in Xinjiang, which the U.S. has deemed a genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities.
Driving the news: The report, which was released minutes before UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet's tenure ended, states that
Axios
Jul 04 2022
Opinion
This Fourth of July, it’s worth pondering the true meaning of patriotism
On this Fourth of July, it’s worth pondering the true meaning of patriotism.
It is not the meaning propounded by the “America first” crowd, who see the patriotic challenge as securing our borders.
For most of its existence America has been open to people from the rest of the world fleeing tyranny and violence.
Nor is the meaning of patriotism found in the ravings of those
The Guardian
Jul 20 2023
Perspectives Blog
The State of the 2024 Election
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The 2024 presidential election campaign season is barely underway, and already it's mired in controversy and indictments. With the first GOP primary debate a little over a month away, where do the candidates stand?
On the Republican Side: Former President Donald Trump, far
AllSides Staff
Jan 07 2022
News
Biden’s COVID-19 mandate faces Supreme Court test
Conservative groups on Thursday teed up arguments for the Supreme Court to strike down President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for private companies and pointed to polling that shows narrow support for a Republican effort to eliminate the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s requirement for large employers.
On Friday, the justices will hear from plaintiffs who say OSHA
Washington Times
Dec 01 2020
Data
Prior to COVID-19, child poverty rates had reached record lows in U.S.
Before the coronavirus outbreak sent the U.S. economy into a recession, the share of American children living in poverty was on a downward trajectory, reaching record lows across racial and ethnic groups, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.
In 2019, the year with the most recently available data, 14% of children under age 18, or 10.5 million
Pew Research Center
Nov 30 2020
News
Prior to COVID-19, child poverty rates had reached record lows in U.S.
Before the coronavirus outbreak sent the U.S. economy into a recession, the share of American children living in poverty was on a downward trajectory, reaching record lows across racial and ethnic groups, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.
In 2019, the year with the most recently available data, 14% of children under age 18, or 10.5 million
Pew Research Center