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Apr 23 2024
News
Schools try to balance freedom of speech and security during student protests
Schools try to balance freedom of speech and security during student protests
Schools try to balance freedom of speech and security during student protests Audio will be available later today.
Schools weigh freedom of speech and safety risks as nationwide protests pop up on college campuses over the Israel-Hamas conflict.
NPR Fact CheckApr 18 2024
Opinion
Free Speech Isn’t a Barrier to Regulating Social Media. Profits Are.
You can’t use a mega-sound system to hold a political rally in front of a hospital in the middle of the night. You can’t pack a theater so full of people that no one can reach the fire exits without being trampled. In the physical world, these kinds of noise control and fire safety regulations uneventfully coexist with our First Amendment free speech and free assembly rights. They’re accepted
PoliticoApr 12 2016
Candidate Stances
Should Social Security Be Privatized?
The 2016 Presidential candidates stances on privatizing Social Security.
ProCon.orgApr 17 2024
News
For more open and equitable public discussions on social media, try “meronymity”
Have you ever felt reluctant to share ideas during a meeting because you feared judgment from senior colleagues? You’re not alone. Research has shown this pervasive issue can lead to a lack of diversity in public discourse, especially when junior members of a community don’t speak up because they feel intimidated. Anonymous communication can alleviate that fear and empower individuals to speak
MIT NewsOct 12 2015
News
Sanders Misleads on Social Security
Sen. Bernie Sanders repeats a Democratic talking point in saying that Social Security hasn’t contributed “one penny” — or “one nickel” — to the deficit. In fact, it contributed $73 billion to the deficit in 2014.
FactCheck.orgSep 08 2015
Background
Should Social Security Be Privatized?
Over the past 80 years, Social Security has become the largest single government program in the world, accounting for 26% ($906 billion) of total US federal spending in 2014 ($3.5 trillion). Since 2010, the Social Security trust fund has been paying out more in benefits than it collects in employee taxes, and is projected to run out of money by 2034. One proposal to replace the current
ProCon.orgAug 01 2015
News
Social Security Cuts Are Coming
Social Security is known as the "third rail" of politics because of how politically sensitive it is. Democrats accuse Republicans of trying to take away your Social Security every campaign cycle, it seems.
But what politicians don't tell you is that Social Security cuts are going to come unless the program is reformed, because it is headed towards insolvency. Fast.
Myra Adams
TownhallApr 04 2024
News
In Canada, the car crash of socialized medicine and transgenderism
The problem with leftism is that it boils down to “anything to achieve power.” That means that your situation constantly changes as you keep adapting to the moment’s power demands. One minute, you’re all about women; the next minute, women take a back seat to so-called “trans women.” (i.e., men). Yesterday, blacks were your main constituency; today, it’s all illegal aliens all the time.
American ThinkerApr 28 2024
News
Saudi Arabia's NEOM secures $2.7 bln new financing facility, statement says
April 28 (Reuters) - NEOM, a unit of the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, secured a new revolving credit facility (RCF) worth 10 billion riyals ($2.67 billion) from local lenders, according to a NEOM statement seen by Reuters on Sunday. Saudi National Bank, Riyad Bank, and Saudi Awwal Bank acted as the lead arrangers on the new facility while other participant banks are Al Rajhi Bank, Alinma
Reuters