New York prosecutors have charged a suspect with murder for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was gunned down in Midtown Manhattan on December 4. The suspect has been identified as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, who was captured in Pennsylvania on Monday after a five-day nationwide search. Police sayContinue Reading
Fairplay welcomes the Social Media Victims Law Center’s (SMVLC) complaint against Character.ai, which includes the allegation that a chatbot convinced a child to kill his own family. The suit comes just weeks after another SMVLC complaint documented how a Character.ai chatbot convinced a child to take his own life. TheContinue Reading
From abortion rights to minimum wage hikes to legal marijuana, voters’ support for ballot issues didn’t correlate with their support for candidates.Continue Reading
Latinx people are not a monolithic voting bloc. We need to stop analyzing them as such.Continue Reading
John Nichols The California Democrat explains why, during her 25 years in Congress, it was important for her “to disrupt and dismantle and build something that’s equitable and just and right.” The post Congresswoman Barbara Lee on Why Shirley Chisholm Was Right appeared first on The Nation…Continue Reading
Former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press after being formally charged by the federal police with attempted coup, at the airport in Brasilia, Brazil on Monday. Eraldo Peres/AP hide caption toggle caption Eraldo Peres/AP SAO PAULO — Brazil’s former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro was fully aware of and activelyContinue Reading
The 119th Congress will have the most states represented by just one party on Capitol Hill since the 83rd Congress and largest number of all-GOP delegations since the 71st Recent Smart Politics reports have highlighted electoral trends signaling the demise of competitive, battleground states, such as the 119th Congress settingContinue Reading
The number of states with U.S. Senators affiliated with different political parties has dropped from 19 to four in just seven congresses A Smart Politics report published earlier this summer warned how the outputs of the partisan divide in this country were poised to get even more pronounced with theContinue Reading
Is ‘Do Unto Others’ the way to bridge the political divide? Pastor Chris Morgan leads a service at Christ United Methodist Church in Bethel Park, Pa., on the Sunday after Election Day. Justin Merriman for NPR hide caption toggle caption Justin Merriman for NPR Pastor Chris Morgan leads a serviceContinue Reading
Paramilitary soldiers stand guard along roadside to ensure security in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday. Anjum Naveed/AP hide caption toggle caption Anjum Naveed/AP MUMBAI, India – Paramilitary forces dispersed protesters in the Pakistani capital on Wednesday, clearing out an encampment of thousands of people who were demanding the release of theContinue Reading
In Part 2 of our special broadcast, we look at a recent victory for Indigenous communities in Ecuador, where people overwhelmingly voted to approve a referendum last year banning future oil extraction in a biodiverse section of the Amazon’s Yasuní National Park — a historic referendum result that will protectContinue Reading
The decades-long battle to defend Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is likely to heat up again in the new year, as oil drilling in the remote landscape was named as an agenda item in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 initiative. Even before the incoming administration takes office, the Biden administration’sContinue Reading
The case of Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado could have huge climate and environmental implications., Read MoreContinue Reading