All around America, workers have had enough. After a year and a half of a pandemic, after decades of stagnant wages and exploding executive salaries, after industry after industry has used innovation as an excuse for exploitation, more than 100,000 workers are on strike or prepared to go on strike.The men and women on the…Continue Reading
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Democrats are pulling out all the stops, sending political hardhitters such as Jill Biden, President Obama and Stacey Abrams on the campaign trail to stump for VA gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. McAuliffe joins Jonathan Capehart live before his Souls to…Continue Reading
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. In this week’s Bye Line, Jonathan Capehart calls out Tucker Carlson and his homophobic comments about Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg taking paternity leave. “The world has two new people who will be raised by parents who embody the values they…Continue Reading
The House Veterans Affairs Committee (HVAC) in a Wednesday hearing called on the federal government to do more to protect veterans from manipulation by extremist groups.Although they represent only about 6 percent of the population, veterans are responsible for 10 percent of all domestic terrorist attacks and plots since 2015.Multiple witnesses — including me —…Continue Reading
A recent piece in The Atlantic described the influential conservative think tank Claremont Institute as “the intellectual home of America’s Trumpist right.”That is, of course, one way of putting it.It’s easy to track the transformation of conservativism by tracing the decline of Claremont into Trumpism. It is a dazzling descent.Claremont is also, as Daniel Drezner…Continue Reading
A woman walks her dog along Energy Street past a disused gas holder in Manchester, England, September 23, 2021. (Phil Noble/Reuters) The week of October 11: a grim cocktail (an energy crunch, inflation, and a supply-chain mess) and much, much more. Sooner or later, I will have to write something more detailed about the supply-chain…Continue Reading
Dr. Anthony Fauci looks on before testifying at the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 20, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool via Reuters) Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday dismissed concerns that he is a polarizing figure, saying he merely speaks truths that may be “inconvenient for some people,” causing…Continue Reading
Secretary of transportation nominee Pete Buttigieg listens during a confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., January 21, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/Reuters Pool) Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday pushed back against criticism of his decision to take a two-month long paternity leave amid a supply-chain crisis, saying he is “not going to apologize to Tucker Carlson or…Continue Reading
Local residents walk among burning rubbish piles at the main garbage dump near the Cite Soleil neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 21, 2019. (Ivan Alvarado/Reuters) A group of 17 missionaries and family members, most of whom are American, are believed to have been kidnapped by a gang in Haiti on Saturday. The missionaries, who had…Continue Reading
Those in the tourism sector admit that not everyone wants to be under the government’s radar post registration Sought after tourist destinations in the State, from Chikkamagaluru and Kodagu to Hampi and Agumbe, have one more thing in common – the popularity of homestays. For travellers wishing for a home away from home, homestays are…Continue Reading