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Oct 01 2021
News
NYC’s Private Garbage Industry Is Getting Overhauled. Can a Notorious Teamsters Local Clean Up Again?
Just after 4 one morning in the fall of 2019, long before COVID-19 upended New York City’s trash-hauling industry, a non-union sanitation worker and two organizers for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters convened over orange juice in a booth at the Bronx’s Rainbow Diner. “Did they give you uniforms and other stuff that they was required to?” asked Allan Henry. The young driver scoffed
Mother Jones
Dec 05 2020
Analysis
Biden bids for activist world role. Will Americans back him?
“America is back.” President-elect Joe Biden’s message to the world has been clear, to friend and foe alike. That could prove easier said than done, though, and one early challenge awaiting the next U.S. administration will serve as a signal.
Unsurprisingly, it is pandemic-related: What will Washington do to distribute promising U.S. and European vaccines in developing countries, amid
Christian Science Monitor
Jan 22 2022
Opinion
Is the U.S. Ready for a Russian Invasion of Eastern Europe?
The Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, along with Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria, are all watching Vladimir Putin’s military buildup in eastern Europe with great unease. Each of them was controlled by Russia during its previous incarnation as the Soviet Union, and none of them wishes to return to that subjugation. That’s why they originally sought membership in the
National Review (News)
Jan 22 2022
Analysis
Why Russia's Ukraine aggression matters to Americans
Nobody knows for sure exactly what Vladimir Putin is doing with around 100,000 Russian troops parked near the Russia-Ukraine border, but it's making the US and Europe extremely nervous.
President Joe Biden said this week he expected the Russians would "move in" and that a slight incursion would be met differently than a full-on invasion.
The US has spent the past few days
CNN (Online News)
Sep 29 2021
News
Will A Vaccine Mandate Trigger The Great Resignation?
President Joe Biden’s wide-ranging vaccine mandate will affect tens of millions of U.S. workers, but experts, labor unions and business groups are divided on what impact the rule will have.
While experts disagree on whether the federal mandate, which applies to the majority of the U.S. workforce, may lead to mass resignations, the rule will at the very least disrupt workplaces
The Daily Caller
Aug 10 2021
News
Hungary
Last week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson visited Hungary to attend “a three-day festival organised by the Matthias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Esztergom… MCC is an extremely well-funded school for top students, whom [Prime Minister Viktor] Orban's Fidesz government are carefully grooming to become the country's new right-wing elite…
“[Orban] stands accused of using Pegasus spyware
The Flip Side
Oct 12 2020
Analysis
Was Columbus’ Voyage to the “New World” Driven by Islamophobia?
Tucked inside historian Alan Mikhail’s new biography of Sultan Selim, the ambitious early-16th-century ruler of the Ottoman Empire, is a riveting series of chapters about Christopher Columbus. Mikhail’s ambition in writing God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World was to restore the place of the Ottoman Empire in the global history of the early modern
Slate
Jun 25 2018
News
Harley-Davidson is a loser in Trump’s trade war
Harley-Davidson is shifting production of its European-bound motorcycles overseas because of tariffs.
Vox
Apr 04 2020
Headline Roundup
Trump Fires Intelligence Chief Who Handled Ukraine Complaint
President Donald Trump has fired Michael Atkinson, the inspector general of the intelligence community who alerted Congress last year to the whistleblower complaint about his dealings with Ukraine. Atkinson is the latest official involved in Trump's impeachment to be removed from office, following the firing of National Security Council official Alexander Vindman and US Ambassador to the
Fox News (Online News)
Associated Press
CNN (Online News)
Jun 23 2022
Perspectives Blog
Here's Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on Crime
Americans across party lines are becoming increasingly concerned with rising crime rates and criminal justice reform. While many Democrats will point out that murder rates are rising disproportionately in red states, some Republicans will be quick to respond that violent crime rates are worse in blue cities. Not only do the two sides have different ideas about who is to blame, but they also
Clare Ashcraft