California settled the no-fault divorce question decades ago. Why is it back in the news? California, ever the pioneer, was the first state to legalize no-fault divorce in 1969, signed into law by none other than then-Gov. Ronald Reagan. 05/24/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
Why the far right is surging in Europe | FT Film The European Parliament has been a coalition of centre-left and centre-right delegates for decades. But elections in June could deliver more far right MEPs than ever before. Their success could ... 05/23/2024 - 11:26 pm | View Link
Poll: New Yorkers support Palestine protests – up to a point The majority said they support peaceful demonstrations, but a majority also said campus protests went too far. 05/21/2024 - 10:30 pm | View Link
Something fishy → The politics of salmon farming intensify on the Hill. → Fresh inflation data drops today. → JUSTIN TRUDEAU flies to Philadelphia for a dose of union solidarity. FISH FIGHT — The outdoor advertising ... 05/20/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Most Canadians support abortion, one-third see Tories as least supportive: poll OTTAWA – Eight in 10 Canadians back a woman’s right to an abortion and two in three don’t want the notwithstanding clause used to restrict access to abortions, a new poll suggests. The Leger survey ... 05/17/2024 - 5:13 am | View Link
Here's an example of why I think TikTok is not going away anytime soon. Short user-submitted video mashups have made TikTok the 4th largest social media platform in the world.
You combine a few disparate elements to make what I think is better than the individual parts. In this case, the wonderful Swedish swing dancers Nils Andrén & Bianca Locatelli who in their original video were dancing to a slow blues by B.
“Top Democrats have no plans to investigate reports that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flew an upside-down American flag outside his home after the 2020 election. And Joe Biden has no desire to even talk about it,” Politico reports.
“Amid growing demands from the base of the party to call out the actions of several conservative justices and embrace reforms of the court, both the president and the White House have stayed mum.”
Last December, West Ada School District in Idaho began pulling books from the library shelves deemed objectionable. One of those books was The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood and adapted by Renee Nault. They did so based on ratings from BookLooks.org, a website created by “concerned parents” in Brevard County, Florida.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was booed repeatedly while addressing the Libertarian Party National Convention on Saturday night, with many in the crowd shouting insults and decrying him for things like his COVID-19 policies, running up towering federal deficits and lying about his political record.
When he took the stage, many jeered while some supporters clad in “Make America Great” hats and T-shirts cheered and chanted “USA!
Seán Ono Lennon, whose mother, Yoko, did a good job of raising him, asked when the Democrats became America’s “War Party.” The answer is that they never were.