Governor Rick Snyder stood at the podium with what looked like a blank stare. It was early October, 2015. For the previous eighteen months, his administration and Flint city officials had fielded complaints from residents...
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John Reynolds This is a separate type of proceedings to what we have in the South Africa v. Israel case, which is what is known as a contentious case, with one state making a complaint...
The election of Joe Biden was meant to bring with it a certain promise. Here was a seasoned politician from a state with conservative elements, with a moderate style that eschewed America’s deepening cultural divides,...
Lydia Silva The protests began when the Supreme Court of Bangladesh revived a quota reserving 30 percent of government jobs for descendants of freedom fighters who participated in Bangladesh’s war of independence, reversing a reform...
I always make sure to check in on writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s films just to see if they ever improve. Shyamalan is notorious for what a charitable person might call his “unevenness” as a filmmaker....
Brandon Mancilla You have to remember that for a while our union was led by leaders who had no interest in actually fighting for the membership. Many of them ended up in prison. Many of...
In mid-July, Greece was engulfed by another stifling heat wave. The heat was magnified in Athens, as the concrete and marble of the capital’s streets and sidewalks held onto the beating of the sun. Indoor...
On Wednesday, Israel assassinated Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, shortly after he attended the inauguration of the new Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian. According to the New York Times, Haniyeh was likely killed with a...
Airlines are picking a new fight against the Biden administration’s automatic refund rule — a policy recently enacted in a must-pass spending bill this spring that guarantees customers are returned their money for delayed or canceled...
Inside the factory-like environment of a fast-food kitchen, sodas should be the easiest menu item to serve. At my restaurant, a pair of machines pours them automatically as soon as we enter them into the...
On a chilly Monday night in January 2019, Kamala Harris was in Des Moines, Iowa, for a CNN town hall. At the time, Harris was the junior senator from California and one of nearly thirty...
Republican vice-presidential nominee J. D. Vance pressured regulators to abandon a proposed federal rule to protect steelworkers and their communities from factories’ carcinogenic emissions, according to documents reviewed by the Lever. The final rules were...
