Investors cheer Italy after president elected Hopes of an end to two months of political deadlock in Italy drove its financial markets higher on Monday after the re-election of 87-year-old Giorgio Napolitano suggested parties may be nearer a deal to form a government. More
Global economy muted again in 2013: Reuters polls This year now looks unlikely to deliver much improvement in the world economy's growth rate, with a weaker outlook for Europe and the United States tempering the cautious optimism that was evident in January. More
NBC/WSJ poll: Strong majority backs citizenship for undocumented immigrants With a bipartisan group of senators expected to unveil immigration-reform legislation in the next few days, a brand-new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that nearly two-thirds of Americans – including eight-in-10 Latinos – support giving undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship. More
Duplicative programs wasting government funds, report says The federal government could save tens of billions of dollars each year by trimming duplicative programs including catfish inspections by three separate agencies and 159 contracting organizations that provide foreign-language support for the Defense Department, according to a report from Congress's auditing agency. More
Biden Is Losing the Election in the Center, Not the Left It is true that Biden is disproportionately shedding non-white Democrats to Trump. But that is totally consistent with the fact that Black and Latino Democrats are more moderate than white Democrats. 05/2/2024 - 5:00 am | View Link
Democrats cast aside worries of campus protests hurting Biden Democrats are casting aside worries that college campus protests opposing the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza could spell trouble for President Biden in November. Biden and his White House aides have ... 04/30/2024 - 11:01 pm | View Link
Jonah Goldberg: What we keep getting wrong about campus protests But if I say that most protests are performative cosplay, or mass meet-ups of the angry, the radical ... The nostalgic champions of the campus protests of the '60s would have Americans believe they ... 04/30/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Views of the campus protests are too broad — and too narrow What happens on college campuses is constantly overestimated in the media. In this case, what’s happening is also being treated incorrectly as a microcosm. 04/30/2024 - 6:53 am | View Link
The Media’s Shameful Coverage of the College Antiwar Protests The real reason for the protests is being ignored in favor of stories about encampment crackdowns or overblown allegations of antisemitism. 04/30/2024 - 2:42 am | View Link