Year of the Horse
Perhaps that’s why our relationship with them is so fraught. To those who want the horses liberated, they’re indentured servants, forced to haul tourists around in a Sisyphean loop. To others, horse-drawn carriages, like...
The Battle to Pass a Billionaire Tax
It wasn’t so long ago that Silicon Valley was, to use its own language, a major node in the Democratic Party’s network. The Valley’s origins were in developing electronic equipment for corporations and the...
ICE Is Everywhere and Acting with Impunity
It has taken the Trump Administration less than two years to make violent encounters with federal immigration agents a regular fact of American life. On a single day late last month, a citizen and...
Iran Says Strait Of Hormuz Will Not Reopen Until Conditions Are Met
DUBAI, Oct 4 (Reuters) - The Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until seven Iranian conditions set out in a June interim agreement with the US are met, state media reported Iran’s parliament speaker...
Ax-Wielding FlyDubai Co-Pilot Had Been Flagged Over Extremism Concerns
CAIRO (AP) — The co-pilot accused of attacking the captain of an Israel-bound flight with an ax and trying to seize the controls was an Omani national who had been barred from flying on...
Russian Attacks Kill 6 In Ukraine, Damage Kyiv’s Northern Bridge
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian attacks in Ukraine killed at least six people and damaged Kyiv’s Northern Bridge, suspending traffic and causing tailbacks for a third day in Moscow’s latest effort to disrupt life...
FlyDubai Co-Pilot Who Nearly Crashed Plane Was Barred From Flying By Oman Over Extremism Concerns
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The FlyDubai co-pilot who officials said nearly crashed a Tel Aviv-bound flight with 182 people aboard was barred from flying by his native Oman over concerns he had adopted...
Christa Pike and the Absurdity of Humane Execution
A preponderance of failed lethal injections—the method accounts for the majority of botched executions since 1982—along with drug shortages, has led to the revival of older capital-punishment methods, such as the firing squad, and...
Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Has Killed Over 4,000 As Authorities Struggle To Contain Virus
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, authorities said, as they struggle to contain what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.The latest figures released by the...
The Well-Funded Fight to Keep Latinos Voting Republican
Yet Garza isn’t regretful about helping elect Trump—he voted for him three times and says he’d do it again if he could. Libre helped promote the tax portions of the One Big Beautiful Bill...