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Oct 12 2019
Opinion
Ex-Republican: Do we still agree on beating Trump? After your LGBTQ forum, I'm not sure.
We’ve been together for a while now. It’s platonic, and probably always will be, as we share a home together as friends ever since I left the Republicans. But I appreciate our new relationship, and that’s why I’m comfortable telling you here that I’m worried about you.
We don’t agree about everything; still, we get along pretty well, you and I, centered around the daily understanding
Tom NicholsSep 28 2020
News
TikTok: US judge halts app store ban
TikTok has avoided a government-ordered block on new downloads in the US after a judge issued a temporary injunction. The video-sharing app had faced being removed from Apple's App Store and Android's Google Play marketplace at midnight local time in Washington DC. Existing US-based users would have been able to have continued using it. But they would not have been able to have re-downloaded
BBC NewsDec 03 2019
Opinion
No, Trump Isn’t Threatening Our Constitutional System
Recently, Tom Nichols, a leading anti-Trump voice (and a former colleague), informed me that “Trump has already changed our constitutional system in ways that will outlast us both. You think it’s worth it. I don’t.”
I hear this claim all the time. Trump’s antagonists keep telling me that conservatives, unable to win through democratic institutions, have adopted extreme policies that are
National Review (News)Mar 12 2021
News
Coastal communities experience sea-level rise four times worse than global average
A new study says coastal communities are experiencing sea-level rise up to four times faster than the global average due to the removal of groundwater and other resources from the Earth.
The study published in Nature Climate Change Monday is the first to factor in land subsidence into current sea-level rise observations worldwide.
Subsidence is the sinking of the ground due to
The HillDec 18 2021
News
Preliminary laboratory data hint at what makes Omicron the most superspreading variant yet
Omicron is now in 77 countries, and moving faster than any previous strain of the coronavirus. In the U.K., where Omicron cases are doubling every two days, scientists believe it is behind this week’s record-setting surge in new infections. The new variant is already causing about 13% of cases in New York and Washington states, just two weeks after Omicron was first detected in the U.S.
STATDec 05 2021
News
Bob Dole, ex-Kansas senator, Senate Republican leader and presidential nominee, dies at 98
Bob Dole, the one-time Kansas basketball player who went on to become a war hero and then the Republican leader in the Senate and his party’s nominee for president of the United States, died at the age of 98, the Elizabeth Dole Foundation and his family said Sunday.
Mr. Dole, who in February announced he was battling Stage 4 lung cancer, had been ailing for some time, but his longevity
Washington TimesMay 13 2015
News
Charges fly between two top elected Utah Democrats
Accusations of impropriety are swirling around the Salt Lake County mayor's office — and the charges involve two of the state's top elected Democrats.
The fight pits Rep. Justin Miller, D-Salt Lake City, against county Mayor Ben McAdams, Deputy Mayor Nichole Dunn and her husband, Donald Dunn.
The allegations have spawned a civil lawsuit against the county for allegedly
Nov 12 2014
News
Federal Judge Strikes Down South Carolina’s Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
A federal judge has struck down South Carolina’s ban on same-sex marriage.
U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel on Wednesday ruled against the state’s constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. But marriage licenses can’t be immediately handed out. Mr. Gergel gave state Attorney General Alan Wilson a delay until Nov. 20.
A spokesman for Mr. Wilson says he’s reviewing the ruling
Wall Street Journal (News)Nov 30 2019
News
Twenty Years After We Shut Down the WTO, the Left Is Finally Resurgent
That WTO week in Seattle twenty years ago was exhilarating. It felt like extraordinary events were happening and a new left politics had been born. Maybe after all the defeats of the 1980s and 1990s — first Reagan leading the class war from above, then Clinton consolidating capital’s gains — things were turning. During a rally outside the city jail, where a few hundred protesters were kept on
JacobinJun 22 2021
News
Activists fear Biden’s climate pledges are falling apart: ‘We aren’t seeing grit’
On his first day at the White House, Joe Biden earned praise for following through on several campaign promises, committing the US to strict climate goals and a greener future. Now, nearly six months into his presidency, several of those commitments are being put to the test, and already, many are falling apart.
A court last week ruled that the Biden administration did not have the
The Guardian