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Dec 02 2021
Opinion
The escalating costs of being single in America
Think about your household’s monthly expenses. There are the big-ticket items — your rent or mortgage, your health care, maybe a student loan. Then there’s the smaller stuff: the utility bills; the internet and phone bills; Netflix, Hulu, and all your other streaming subscriptions. If you drive a car, there’s gas and insurance. If you take the subway, there’s a public transit pass. You pay for
VoxApr 25 2021
News
Republicans Target Voter Access in Texas Cities, but Not Rural Areas
Voting in the 2020 election presented Zoe Douglas with a difficult choice: As a therapist meeting with patients over Zoom late into the evening, she just wasn’t able to wrap up before polls closed during early voting.
Then Harris County introduced 24-hour voting for a single day. At 11 p.m. on the Thursday before the election, Ms. Douglas joined fast-food workers, nurses, construction
New York Times (News)Dec 01 2021
Opinion
Congress is getting ready to do what it does best: Procrastinate
Congress is getting ready to procrastinate on government spending bills yet again.
As a Friday deadline fast approaches, lawmakers are scrambling to approve another continuing resolution (CR), or short-term spending bill, that will give them a new January deadline for passing full-year funding bills. If the CR passes by Friday, lawmakers will narrowly avert a government shutdown, and
VoxNov 01 2021
Opinion
What to Do about the Left’s Empty Environmentalism
President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and other world leaders such as Emmanuel Macron and Recep Erdogan are gating in Scotland for a climate summit. You know, the usual thing. Once again, we are at a “moment of truth” and taking our “last best chance” to save the blah blah blah, you’ve heard it all before. The results are surely going to be unenforceable, meaningless, or poorly
Michael Brendan DoughertyMar 25 2022
Perspectives Blog
How AllSides is Helping Amid Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine that, just one month later, had left thousands or perhaps tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians dead. Millions of refugees have fled Ukraine to other parts of the world. Energy costs have soared in the U.S. and elsewhere amid import bans and market instability. Europe’s economy is feeling the ripple
Henry A. BrechterDec 11 2020
Analysis
Why paying people to get the coronavirus vaccine won’t work
The first Covid-19 vaccine to gain emergency use authorization in the US could roll out within days, as Pfizer and BioNTech’s candidate was endorsed by an external advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 10. Two days earlier, an internal FDA panel endorsed the vaccine. These were the last required steps before the FDA authorizes the vaccine, which will soon be administered
QuartzNov 29 2021
Opinion
The Genealogy of Woke Capital
American companies’ embrace of radical ideas appears both sudden and inexplicable. In internal trainings, companies from Disney to Lockheed-Martin ask their employees to “challenge colorblind ideologies” and “deconstruct their white male privilege.” Firms spend vast sums of money on such trainings, on diversity-related speakers, and on maintaining a progressive image. Employees find themselves
City JournalJul 14 2018
News
Cleaning Toilets, Following Rules: A Migrant Child’s Days in Detention
Do not misbehave. Do not sit on the floor. Do not share your food. Do not use nicknames. Also, it is best not to cry. Doing so might hurt your case.
New York Times (News)Sep 05 2020
News
GOP Senators Demand FDA Classify Abortion Pill as 'Deadly,' 'Imminent Hazard'
Nearly two dozen GOP lawmakers, led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), have called on the Food and Drug Administration to classify the abortion pill RU-486, also known as mifepristone, as an “imminent hazard to the public health.”
“It is by now nakedly obvious that the abortion industry and its allies in the media, billionaire philanthropic circles, and special interest groups, have wanted an
CBNJan 01 2021
News
Pfizer, BioNTech to Offer COVID-19 Vaccine to Volunteers Who Got Placebo
U.S.-based Pfizer and its Germany-based partner BioNTech plan to give volunteers who received a placebo in its COVID-19 vaccine trial an option to receive a first dose of the vaccine by March 1, 2021.
“All participants aged 16 years and older who courageously volunteered to help make a difference during this pandemic have the option to receive the investigational vaccine while
The Epoch Times