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Uber and Lyft are not opposing Question 3, which would give some bargaining rights to drivers but keep them as independent contractors without full labor protection.

Where some celebrated the triumph of liberal capitalism in the 1990s, Hobsbawm saw a failed dream.

Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had determined that Israel had broken the law.

The complaint, filed by Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) in Clark County Municipal Court, alleges that Trump and Vance, by amplifying those claims, had a “direct impact” in spurring the 33 bomb threats that rocked the southwest Ohio city.

He’ll speak at the Al Smith Dinner, while reviving the same hateful attacks that were levied against Smith.

Natives and settlers: The original culture war

Medical journals and conferences regularly reject presentations and articles that overturn conventional wisdom, even when that wisdom is based on flimsy underlying data. This can have dire consequences.

Bill of Rights Birthday (1789), Nixon’s Nightmare (1969), Resist Illegitimate Authority (1967), “Proletarians of All Countries, Unite!” (1864), Fighting for Free Speech (1909), Racist Violence at Its Worst (1919), When Students Fight, They Win (1964)

Ladapo’s vaccine statement “aligns with Project 2025.” Several critics of Ladapo’s bulletin said it read like a tryout for a job in a Trump administration advised by longtime anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Without specificity in definition and equal application to either party’s politicking based on identities, “identity politics” becomes yet another dog-whistle used against those who simply dare to not be white or male.