by Tom Eblen, Kentucky Lantern Maybe some Kentucky Republicans are right: we do need a wall along our southern border. Otherwise all those poor and middle class Tennesseans who want to avoid their state’s high sales taxes will keep coming up here and crowding our stores. Who can blame them? Tennesseans now pay
by Adam Goldstein, Alaska BeaconJanuary 26, 2023 WASHINGTON – A panel of policymakers and educators, including author Dave Eggers and former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, gathered at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to promote the American Teacher Act. The bill, if passed, would authorize the federal government to create four-year grants
by Christopher Ingraham, Minnesota ReformerJanuary 25, 2023 This week the state Senate plans to take up a bill that will codify stronger protections for abortion and other reproductive health care rights into state law. The bill has already passed the House, and is considered a top legislative priority for the new DFL trifecta
Pope Francis leads the second vespers service at St. Paul’s Basilica on Jan. 25, 2023, in Rome. Alessandra Benedetti/Corbis via Getty Images Steven P. Millies, Catholic Theological Union Once again, Pope Francis has called on Catholics to welcome and accept LGBTQ people. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” the pope said in an interview
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by Ashley Murray, Source New Mexico WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Mike Pence is the latest top public official to have been discovered possessing classified material in his personal home, according to a letter his lawyer sent to the National Archives. A dozen documents with classified markings were discovered in Pence’s residence in
L’Iran è oggi al centro dell’attenzione per le atrocità in atto su una popolazione orami insofferente al regime. Diritti umani calpestati, terrore e repressione quotidiana, ma per la prima volta dopo anni torna a soffiare il vento della rivoluzione. Ospite di Bruno Carenini, nel quarto episodio della terza stagione di Windows Interview, è
T. Schneider/Shutterstock David Bailey, University of Birmingham and Phil Tomlinson, University of Bath Britishvolt, the would-be electric vehicle (EV) battery maker that recently went into administration, always faced an uphill struggle. The start-up had no track record developing technology and never confirmed how it would raise the £3.8 billion needed to start mass
Originally published by The 19th Montana’s conservative leaders, stymied by the courts from passing laws that impose significant statewide abortion restrictions, seek to tighten the state’s Medicaid rules to make it more difficult for low-income people to receive abortions. The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services is proposing to define when
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a cheering crowd in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 27, 1965. Bettmann/Getty Images Hajar Yazdiha, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is just the latest conservative lawmaker to misuse the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to