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Tech and disability, the French Murdoch, and more media flashes

The leader of San Antonio’s public housing authority built strong relationships with tenants and committed to preserving public housing units. The board fired him last month.

The Fourteenth Amendment gave the federal government the power to protect individuals even if their state legislatures had passed discriminatory laws.

This tendency to ignore the world should be more troubling to American voters than even Biden’s refusal to leave the presidential stage in light of his thinly deniable disabilities of age and mental health that have put his 2024 candidacy in peril.

Demonstrations against the government coordinated on social media have led to a renewed focus on long-standing problems

The right-wing justices declared open season on regulations that don’t just protect the environment, health, and safety, but the economy too.

The outcome of the 2024 election can be succinctly summarised as a reaffirmation of democracy, rather than a rejection of the BJP or Modi personally. It marks a significant shift towards a more robust and united opposition.

The spirit and reasoning of the majority in Trump v. U.S. immunity case evokes the worst of post-Civil War jurisprudence.

No Job Is Worth Dying For (1974), Two Big Nights of Folk Music (1959), How Long Can a Stone Roll? (1962), The Hate That Hate Produced (1959), Long Live the 14th of July! (1789), No Nukes in Africa! (2009), A Freedom-Rider Long Before Her Time (1854)

Used electric cars are not just cheap—they are cheaper than similar gas cars.