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Mar 14 2022
Analysis
A new Supreme Court case allows the justices to fix one of their worst anti-worker decisions
Laws mean nothing if they cannot be enforced against people who violate them, which is why there is an entire branch of government — the judiciary — whose job is supposed to be applying the law to individual cases. But at least when it comes to employment law, the Supreme Court has spent the last two decades permitting most employers to immunize themselves from lawsuits through a practice
VoxSep 09 2021
Analysis
What happens when protesters take over for the police?
When Michael McQuarrie entered the George Floyd Square autonomous zone for the first time last year, he felt as if he was entering a freer, friendlier, and, in some ways, edgier America.
To some, the neighborhood had become the “Free State of George Floyd.” To him and many there, it proved more broadly that a community can not only function, but thrive, without police authority: that
Christian Science MonitorFeb 28 2022
Analysis
Putin’s baffling war strategy
After four days of fighting in Ukraine, it’s not going especially well for Russian forces. According to Ukraine’s defense ministry, Russia has lost about 4,300 troops and nearly 150 tanks, and both Kyiv, the capital, and Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, are still under Ukrainian control.
Casualty numbers are unverified and should be treated with some caution, but they’re still a
VoxJan 17 2022
News
Beijing to offer Olympic tickets to ‘selected’ spectators amid pandemic
Only “selected” spectators will be permitted at next month’s Beijing Olympics because of the coronavirus pandemic, organizers said Monday.
Beijing had already announced that no fans from outside the country would be permitted at the events, and had not offered tickets to the general public.
Monday’s announcement posted on the organizing committee’s website confirmed expectations
PoliticoOct 10 2021
News
Millions across the central US are under threat of severe storms today
A "potentially significant severe weather event" is forecast for portions of Oklahoma and Texas on Sunday, meteorologists warn.
A level 4 out of 5 "moderate" risk for severe storms has been issued across portions of Oklahoma by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) for Sunday. This risk covers more than 2 million people across the state, including Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
These
CNN DigitalAug 26 2021
News
This charity eliminates the middleman – cutting waste and expenses
In a city with as much abundance as there is need, a tiny Manhattan nonprofit aims to reallocate the excess – one cookie, one blender, and one bike helmet at a time.
Over the past four years, House of Good Deeds has funneled more than 150,000 pounds of clothes, household items, computers, catering equipment, and more from donors to recipients – keeping it out of landfills. Unlike
Christian Science MonitorDec 25 2021
Opinion
The Christmas gift not in short supply
Some people have finished their Christmas shopping early, worried that the special gift they’d been eyeing might be in short supply. Yet others are rediscovering another type of gift that is never held up on an unloaded cargo ship or stuck in a clogged supply chain.
It is an act of kindness. Reminders of this deeper spirit of Christmas are not hard to find.
Most of them are
Christian Science MonitorJan 04 2022
News
Bobby Rush to relinquish 30-year hold on House seat
Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush, the longtime Civil Rights activist first elected to Congress in 1992, won't seek reelection in November, he told POLITICO on Monday.
Rush, a legend in Chicago politics dating back to the 1960s when he co-founded the Illinois Black Panther Party, joins a wave of House lawmakers leaving public office.
Just don't call it a retirement.
“First of all,
PoliticoJan 14 2022
News
Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby indicted on federal charges she lied on financial transactions to buy homes in Florida
A federal grand jury has indicted Baltimore’s top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby on charges of perjury and making false statements with a series of financial transactions that helped her buy a condo on Florida’s Gulf Coast and another property near Orlando, Florida.
Mosby, 41, is charged with falsely claiming to suffer financial hardship from the coronavirus to obtain an early withdrawal from
Baltimore SunJul 27 2021
News
California And NYC Public Employees, As Well As VA Health Workers, Have New Vaccine Mandates
In a bid to counter what some officials have described as a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” the most populous US state, the country's largest city, and the first federal agency all announced on Monday new vaccine mandates for public employees.
The decisions by officials in California, New York City, and the Department of Veterans Affairs to require vaccines or proof of a negative test
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