In November, the town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, unveiled a “Good Trouble” banner honoring the late congressman John Lewis. It depicted a graduate wearing a keffiyeh. The banner came down within a day, after Jewish residents objected. The sharper question is why no one thought to ask them first. The keffiyeh is now everywhere, […]
After years of court hearings, investigations, open rescues, and protests, the notorious beagle breeding and research facility Ridglan Farms has finally agreed to release 1,500 dogs to rescue organizations. This is certainly a win for animals, but the era of animal testing is far from over, particularly because the federal government enables it. While the […]
Australian lawmakers are considering a new scheme to regulate and to extract revenue from American technology. If enacted, it would impose a 2.25% levy on the Australian revenues of three major platforms unless they strike commercial deals with local news publishers, with the rate falling to as low as 1.5% if enough agreements are reached. […]
The labor union funding California’s Billionaire Tax Act initiative filed more than 1.5 million signatures on April 27, almost double the 875,000 needed to put the measure on November’s ballot. California voters are now a step closer to driving out one of the last remaining engines of economic growth in their state, which is already […]
A manufactured crisis plays out daily in the parking lots of LA's Home Depot stores. Day laborer centers, seven city-contracted hubs often nestled on private...
“There were a hundred years of racial segregation after the Emancipation,” observes Joe Klein at Sanity Clause, until the “right to vote was established.”
