Having opinions challenged is a gift to be received
Since news broke of the attack on Salman Rushdie, it has been heartening to see such a breadth of support expressed for him, even from unexpected quarters where he has been lauded as a hero of artistic freedom of expression. Not all quarters, however. Let’s leave to one side the fanatics in Iran and elsewhere […]
Read More
Oversight Committee Reaches Agreement to Get Trump’s Financial Records
On Thursday, House Democrats on the Oversight Committee announced that they have reached an agreement for Donald Trump’s former accounting firm to turn over “critical” financial documents that lawmakers say can help elucidate questions in their investigation into Trump’s finances and self-dealing. Carolyn Maloney (D–New York), Chair of Oversight Committee announced in a statementAfter a […]
Read More
Environmental Injustice Allowed to Continue Plaguing Alabama
By the spring of 2020, the century-old industrial plant on Birmingham’s thirty fifth Avenue was actually falling aside. Chunks of the metallic doorways fronting a number of of the 1,800-degree ovens — which warmth coal to provide a gas known as coke — had damaged off and tumbled to the bottom. With the doorways broken, […]
Read More
Ginni Thomas Told Wisconsin Lawmakers to Overturn 2020 Presidential Result
Conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, who is also the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent messages to state lawmakers in Wisconsin urging them to overturn the 2020 presidential election results and assign its Electoral College votes to former President Donald Trump, who had lost in the state election. Thomas sent the messages on […]
Read More
46 Percent of Voters Are More Likely to Vote Thanks to Student Debt Relief Plan
President Joe Biden’s highly anticipated move to cancel student debtThis is a popular choice for tens to millions of borrowers and will encourage a large number of voters to cast their ballots this fall, according to new polling. Voters across the ideological spectrum say they’re more likely to vote in this year’s midterm elections due […]
Read More
Public Voice: Is Truss the new May or Thatcher?
Is she able to connect with the public? We attended the final Conservative leadership meeting in London to hear what party members had to share. A few brand the comparison between Liz Truss, Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May as “media propaganda” whilst others say the similarities are uncanny…. And if she wins, can Truss connect […]
Read More
Boris Johnson tells next PM to “go nuclear and go large”
Boris Johnson has stressed nuclear power’s importance and efficiency and promised funding to build Sizewell C. During the last major policy speech of his tenure before the next prime minister is confirmed on Monday, Johnson confirmed £700 million of funding to be put towards the Sizewell C project in Suffolk and called on his successor […]
Read More
Who Are You Calling Fascist, Mr. President?
The other day, President Joe Biden accused voters of the opposition party of turning to “semi-fascism.” This is probably the first time in American history a president has openly attacked the opposing party’s constituents in this way. Biden, who once claimed that Mitt Romney, the chaste, was harbouring a desire for chattel slavery back, is […]
Read More
Biden’s Authoritarian Speech
Thursday night, President Joe Biden said that if he opposes you, you are an extremist who hates Democracy. Biden was flanked in the middle by two military members and illuminated from a podium with blood red lighting. Biden, who delivered his rant in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, defined his political opponents—the “MAGA Republicans”—as […]
Read More
Republicans Ask Zuckerberg for Documents on FBI, Hunter Biden Story
House Republicans sent a letterThursday, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, requested all documents and communications between Facebook and the FBI before the 2020 election. Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, and James Comer, R-Ky., ranking member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, led the letter also signed by 33 other House […]
Read More