On July 18, President Biden attacked the rights of rail workers to strike. He did this by issuing an executive order to create a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) to mediate an ongoing labor dispute between rail companies in the United States and 115,000 rail workers...
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin seized news headlines this past week after he announced that he wouldn’t support any legislation on the climate crisis in budget reconciliation bills in the Senate. Because of the Democrats’ razor-thin rule of the Senate, Manchin’s...
Biden made headlines recently for traveling to Saudi Arabia straight from Israel, and greeting Mohammed bin Salman — the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince and head of the brutal regime in Saudi Arabia — with a fist bump. There was a lot behind this. Biden’s approval numbers...
Iranian women celebrated “National Day of Hijab and Chastity” by showing that they won’t be complacent this year in the face of repressive laws. On July 12, women gathered to publicly remove their hijabs and headscarves. Protesters and others also participated on...
As previously reported here, on July 7 in Baltimore, a white man with a master’s degree got out of his car with a metal baseball bat and swung it at several Black youths who were “squeegee workers,” offering to clean windshields for tips. Facing this attack, one of...
