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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and President Donald Trump are verbally sparring over who bears the blame for the state’s lack of ventilators, a crucial need for patients suffering from the
However unique their history or circumstances, communities experiencing high unemployment are pockmarked by the same sights: shuttered factories, rows of abandoned homes bulldozed or set
In the autumn of 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron announced an increase of fuel taxes as part of his effort to transition to alternative energy. The move sparked nationwide protests by
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The British Broadcasting Corporation is funded by a near-compulsory tax of £154.50 ($200 U.S.) on everyone who watches the BBC live or uses the BBC iPlayer. The BBC’s chairman, Sir David
After being thrown out of a Cleveland church that doubles as a homeless shelter, a vagrant used a pistol to force his way back inside. Unfortunately, the gun-wielding intruder wasn’t the
John Foster Dulles was Dwight D. Eisenhower's secretary of state from 1953 to 1959. In the tense, early years of Cold War politics, Dulles pursued a foreign policy designed to isolate the
Bernie Sanders holds a pagan view of charity. I mean that not in a pejorative but in a denotative sense: Sanders’ preference for government programs over private philanthropy echoes that of
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently gave an impassioned pitch for her “Green New Deal” on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. After stating that her