FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate voted Thursday to set ground rules for lawmakers to call themselves back into session if voters give them the new constitutional power later this year.The measure is tied to a proposed constitutional amendment that, if ratified, would give lawmakers the authority to reconvene themselves for up to 12…Continue Reading
Honduras new President Xiomara Castro meets with Taiwanese Vice President William Lai at the Presidential House in Tegucigalpa, Honduras January 27, 2022. Honduras Presidency/Handout via REUTERS TEGUCIGALPA, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Honduras’ new president, Xiomara Castro, said she met with Taiwan Vice President William Lai after her inauguration on Thursday, and that his government gave…Continue Reading
With Wednesday’s news that Justice Stephen Breyer will retire from the Supreme Court at the end of its current term, Democrats have avoided their worst-case scenario for the nation’s highest court: that Republicans would take control of the Senate before Breyer retired, allowing Sen. Mitch McConnell to keep Breyer’s seat open to eventually replace the…Continue Reading
Coverage of the 2022 midterm elections has tended to focus on control of Congress — but control of state governments will be on the ballot too. In fact, with policymaking in Washington at a standstill, state-level elections may well have the bigger impact on Americans’ daily lives. And the biggest prize on the state level,…Continue Reading
Senate Democrats have spent the past few months wrestling with President Biden’s social spending plan, voting rights legislation and the future of the filibuster. But now that 2022 has begun, they must now contend with the prospect of defending their exceedingly narrow majority in Congress’s upper chamber. Democrats control the bare minimum of 50 seats,…Continue Reading
A young generation of Jews are changing the rules of our community’s political positions, and all of us need to catch up. January 27, 2022 Not since the epic 2007 debate between Katha Pollitt and me over the saga of jailed quarterback Michael Vick have I written a public response to a Nation colleague. But…Continue Reading
Representatives Pramila Jayapal and Barbara Lee warn against posturing that might make it more difficult to find “a diplomatic way out of this crisis.” January 27, 2022 The State Department continues to signal that the United States is searching for a diplomatic solution to mounting tensions between Russia and Ukraine—with a senior official announcing last…Continue Reading
Justice Stephen Breyer is stepping down from the Supreme Court, effective at the end of the term. This means that President Joe Biden can now fulfill one of his boldest campaign promises: to put a Black woman on the Supreme Court. There has never been a Black woman on the court (there have been just…Continue Reading
Chile has a new leader and a bright future. But a country in which 44 percent of the electorate voted for an admirer of Pinochet is in need of as many obstacles to forgetting as possible. January 27, 2022 Last week, a few days after I returned to my native Chile from a prolonged, pandemic-induced…Continue Reading