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With all the bad news in the world today, you wouldn't think that the best of times were anywhere near. It is time to take stock of the growing number of things that are actually going in the right direction.
Facing a congressional stalemate, Democratic senators have asked the White House to consider a bevy of executive actions to protect abortion care ahead of an expected Supreme Court decision gutting Roe v. Wade.
A cadre of ocean freight carriers are charging exorbitant, potentially illegal, fees on shipping containers stuck because of congestion at ports. Sellers of furniture, coconut water, even kids’ potties say the fees are inflating costs.
Trump and his MAGA allies planned, promoted, and paid for a seditious conspiracy to overturn an election they lost, and Ron Johnson attempted to deliver it to D.C. on a silver platter.
The Texas GOP platform formalizes the false idea that Joe Biden is illegitimate, hatred of the LGBT+ community, white supremacy, paranoia of immigrants and the idea that Texas can ignore federal laws that it doesn't like.
As the January 6th mob approached the Senate chamber and Secret Service agents hustled Mike Pence out, rioters who wanted to kill Pence came within 40 feet of succeeding.
Confronting the harsh legacy of Indian Boarding Schools, the United States has taken steps to establish a Native American Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It’s a move that’s long overdue.
We wake up in a nation where Juneteenth and MLK Day are both national holidays—yet where an entire political party is working to prevent the teaching of the ugliness that precipitated the civil rights movement even existed.
A "perfect" compromise for Second Amendment jihadis, a pistol that has the same firepower as an AR-15. In other words, overkill in a more compact package.
The court's ruling held the Trump administration's 2020 interim registration of glyphosate to be unlawful because "EPA did not adequately consider whether glyphosate causes cancer and shirked its duties under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)."
Stolen-election activists and Trump supporters have embraced a new tactic in their campaign to unearth supposed proof of fraud in the 2020 presidential race: using social media to chase down a fictional breed of fraudster known as a “ballot mule.”
Now a federal holiday, the roots of Juneteenth are based in local, grass-roots celebrations dating back to the Civil War. Once nearly forgotten, the rebirth of Juneteenth speaks to America’s ongoing struggle for racial equality.
Had Pence obeyed Trump, said retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig, "America would immediately have been plunged into what would have been tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis."
Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. A group of parents — coached by local and national anti-CRT groups — had other plans.
Video evidence shows a sitting member of congress (Rep. Loudermilk) giving a tour to soon-to-be insurrectionists taking pictures of insignificant hallways and passages. The same insurrectionists later say they’re going to “drag Pelosi out by her hair.”
Industrial and commercial zones are frequently among the hottest areas, or heat islands, in cities. They typically have fewer trees to cool the air and more pavement and buildings to retain and radiate heat.
