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Mar 05 2021
News
Voting rights: How the battle is unfolding across the US
The battle over voting rights in the US is a drama that's playing out concurrently in the Congress and state legislatures across the country.
On one side are Republicans in state capitols, intent on passing laws curtailing when and where their citizens can vote - citing allegations of voting fraud repeatedly made by Donald Trump in the months after his presidential defeat to Joe Biden
BBC NewsNov 23 2020
News
Antiracism Icon Robin DiAngelo Paid More Than Black Woman for Same Job
The prominent diversity consultant Robin DiAngelo raked in $12,750 for a speaking gig last month at the University of Wisconsin—70 percent more than the other keynote speaker, black female author Austin Channing Brown.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Division of Diversity, Equity, and Educational Achievement paid Channing Brown just $7,500 for her keynote address at its annual
Washington Free BeaconOct 08 2021
News
Another disappointment: US economy adds only 194,000 jobs in September
America's economic recovery has hit a roadblock: US employers added only 194,000 jobs in September, another troubling sign that Covid is disrupting the economy.
It marked the second-straight month in which the US economy added far fewer jobs than expected. Jobs growth slowed down dramatically in August.
The unemployment rate declined to 4.8% in September, the Bureau of Labor
CNN BusinessNov 08 2021
Analysis
Doing Our Own Due Diligence as Parents on the COVID-19 Vaccine for Children
After the data submitted by Pfizer for its COVID-19 vaccine for children received a thumbs up by the FDA panel last week, the anticipated nudging of parents began.
Anthony Fauci said, “Even though the chances of (a child) getting sick and seriously ill are small, why do you want to take a chance of that with your child, when you can essentially protect the child by an intervention that
Jacob HessJun 03 2020
News
Phoenix's Jeri Williams is one of the nation's few black female police chiefs. She says George Floyd's death was 'disgustingly horrific.'
Like many police chiefs across the country, Phoenix Chief Jeri Williams has denounced the death of George Floyd, the black man killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, while at the same time she struggles to support her officers and maintain peace in the midst of the resulting protests.
But Williams comes at the situation from a unique perspective.
She's one of only a
USA TODAYJul 30 2022
News
Exclusive: Brazil federal police warned against Bolsonaro arms agenda
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 29 (Reuters) - As President Jair Bolsonaro has aggressively sought to boost gun ownership in Brazil, documents obtained by Reuters reveal one key source of resistance to his agenda: his own federal police.
Nearly two decades after Brazil passed a landmark firearms control law, Bolsonaro has used dozens of executive orders to weaken such restrictions, turning the
ReutersAug 30 2020
Opinion
California Is Coming for You
Its energy, tax and regulatory failures are the Democrats’ ideal for national policy.
I didn’t have to read the entire Democratic Party platform, let alone the spend-tasmagoric Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force recommendations. Sitting here in California, I’m already living it. If polls are to be believed, left-coast policies are coming to you soon—and you’re not going to like it.
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Dec 24 2019
News
A Trump-Boris Axis?
It’s high spirits this holiday season for most proponents of the “new nationalism.”
Boris Johnson’s savage performance against his socialist opponent, Jeremy Corbyn, has populist-nationalists on both sides of the Atlantic licking their chops. Perhaps, it truly is a new age of “one nation conservatism.” Johnson’s romp, the thinking goes, will presage a consecration of the Trump movement
The American ConservativeAug 07 2020
Opinion
Keeping loved ones from visiting our coronavirus patients is making them sicker
Nearly six months into the coronavirus pandemic, an emptiness lingers at the bedsides of our patients in hospitals wards and intensive care units. Though some hospitals are trying out limited visitation policies, most are not, leaving too many of our patients without loved ones at their side. The trauma to families, while difficult to measure, is immense, and the absence of loved ones is
Multiple Writers - CenterSep 08 2020
Analysis
Christians, Gun Rights, and the American Social Compact
I’m going to begin with my two favorite quotes from two American founders—the two quotes that I believe set up the fundamental nature of the American social compact. The first is the most famous. It’s Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
David French