While I’ve been away from the blog recently, much of my time has been spent on a side project researching negro-league baseball in Texas, exhuming the Austin Black Senators’ history from the fog of segregation and media bias. But in Texas, everything comes back to the justice system, and baseballContinue Reading
An emerging genre of Christian music revering The Traitor reflects his unique cultural power., Read MoreContinue Reading
Discover who’s gaining and who’s losing ground in the latest US presidential election opinion polls., Read MoreContinue Reading
Canada is launching a 100% tariff on imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles, matching U.S. tariffs imposed over what Western officials say are China’s unfair trade practices., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
United Arab Emirates calls on France to provide ‘all consular services’ to Durov, says care of citizens a ‘priority’., The United Arab Emirates calls on France to provide ‘all consular services’ for Durov, says ensuring care of UAE citizens is a ‘top priority’. The United Arab Emirates has said itContinue Reading
Tokyo summoned ambassador and lodged protest after surveillance plane was detected on Monday morning., Tokyo summoned ambassador and lodged protest after surveillance plane was detected on Monday morning. Japan has said the violation of its airspace by a Chinese military spy plane was “utterly unacceptable”, a day after the countryContinue Reading
Without Medicaid, patients like me are forced to make drastic health care decisions. And as an estimated seventeen million people get cut from the program, many patients may abruptly become unable to access regular chronic disease treatments.Continue Reading
This policy shift will likely just help the wealthy. Instead, we need to raise the federal minimum wage and end the subminimum wage for tipped workers.Continue Reading
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for Florida to enforce a ban on gender-affirming care for minors, Read MoreContinue Reading
Missouri Planned Parenthoods are challenging the state over a new law that kicked the organization out of the Medicaid program, Read MoreContinue Reading
The level of the sea globally is rising faster and higher than ever before, creating what the United Nations has described as an “urgent and escalating threat” to people around the world.Continue Reading
UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a “global SOS” from Tonga in the Pacific on Tuesday, urging governments to step up climate action to “Save Our Seas” as two new reports revealed how rising sea levels are threatening the vulnerable region and beyond. Continue Reading
Yellow machines are going electric. CASE Construction Equipment debuted its Project Zeus electric backhoe concept at CONEXPO in 2020. Since then, the company has used customer feedback to guide the development of a production electric model: the 580EV electric backhoe loader. CASE’s next-generation EV offers a zero-emission, low-noise solution suitableContinue Reading