[aggregation-styles] New York Post Mayor Bill de Blasio is permitting Black Lives Matter protesters to continue marching through city streets while canceling all large events through September. Speaking on CNN Thursday night, de Blasio said the demonstrators’ calls for social justice were too important to stop after more than a...
Smart States Have the Edge in Fighting COVID-19. The United States Isn’t One of Them.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post SubscriptionThe United States is in a unique position among the world’s most advanced countries. Far from having flattened the covid-19 curve, it is watching as cases spike in several populous states, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony S. Fauci is recommending that...
Scolding Beachgoers Isn’t Helping
[aggregation-styles] The Atlantic Subscription We’ve entered another risky, uncertain phase of America’s pandemic summer. COVID-19 cases are surging across most states, and once again, intensive-care units are filling up. Eighteen states have either paused or rolled back their plans to reopen, and even Republican governors who previously resisted public-health guidelines...
Opinion: When My Daughter Called Israel an Apartheid State, I Objected. Now, I’m Not So Sure
[aggregation-styles] Haaretz Please look closely at America, Prime Minister Netanyahu. Look at its cities and towns, whose streets are flooding with protesters calling for transformative justice and an end to state-sanctioned violence against innocent civilians. Look at New York’s 16th Congressional District, where Eliot Engel, a staunch congressional Israeli ally...
The VP Choice Everyone Is Missing
[aggregation-styles] The Atlantic Subscription Joe Biden’s concern about the national-security impact of the coronavirus has led him to weigh picking the Obama-administration national security adviser Susan Rice as his running mate, according to several people who’ve spoken privately with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in recent weeks. Rice is well...
Flag Burned in Overnight Protest Near White House
[aggregation-styles] WJLA Protesters and police continued facing off on Tuesday night into the early hours of Wednesday morning in D.C.'s "Black House Autonomous Zone" near Black Lives Matter Plaza and the White House. Videos (click Read More to view) taken around 2:30 and 3 a.m. show several clashes between police...
Reducing Energy Mandates Could Help Fresno Save Big in Economic Downturn
Like the rest of the state, the Central Valley is experiencing a severe economic downturn. According to the latest figures, the Valley’s unemployment rate has risen to 17.8% – nearly two full points higher than the statewide average. Too many people living in working-class communities across the region were already...
The Second Great Depression
[aggregation-styles] The Atlantic Subscription The American economy is reopening. In Alabama, gyms are back in business. In Georgia, restaurants are seating customers again. In Texas, the bars are packed. And in Vermont, the stay-at-home order has been lifted. People are still frightened. Americans are still dying. But the next, queasy...
How Much is Our Personal Data Worth?
Regulations proposed on June 1, 2020, to implement the recently enacted California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), provide that consumers will now have the right to know what personal information businesses collect, use, share or sell; the right to delete personal information; the right to opt-out of the sale of personal...
By Recognizing Palestine, Britain Can Help Right the Wrongs of the Balfour Declaration
[aggregation-styles] The Guardian Listen to this article: If ever there was a time to re-examine colonial legacies and responsibilities, this is it. The theft of Palestine from the Palestinians is one such legacy. On 2 November 1917, the foreign secretary, Arthur James Balfour, issued his famous declaration in support of...