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John Cassidy, New Yorker staff writer and columnist on politics and economics, talks about the better-than-expected jobs report, the worse-than-expected inflation report and how both parties are responding to the perception and reality of the U.S. economy.
In Ghana, president suspends electricity export amid power shortage crisis Nana Akufo-Addo, the president of Ghana, ordered the country to cease exports of its electricity supplies to neighboring countries last Tuesday. The executive decision marks the latest measure by the Ghanaian government to address the country’s monthslong power shortage caused by years of missing backpay, This story The Soapbox: The politics of energy appeared first on Washington Square News.
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State for 2023, Ladi Adebutu, on Thursday, described himself as a peace-loving politician rather than a desperate one. Adebutu said it was for the sake of peace that he restrained his supporters from toeing the path of violence during the 2023 election. According to him, Read More
Chris Lehmann The self-described centrist alternative to the two major parties failed spectacularly this year—but such a lavishly funded shakedown operation may not be dead for good.
CIVIL Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) director general Elijah Chingosho is retiring with effect from November 5 this year, the agency board
The anti-science decision to lock down schools during COVID, along with other political choices, have broken education in more ways than one. Much has been written about students who have become chronically absent since the pandemic led some politicians to tell them schools weren’t important enough to remain open. But there has also been an […]
Sarah McCammon, NPR national political correspondent, co-host of the NPR Politics podcast and the author of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church (Macmillan, 2024), shares her story of growing up within, and leaving, evangelical Christianity, and what her reporting shows of others like her and their impact on American politics and culture.
BUTLER, Pennsylvania — On Friday, just hours before United States Steel shareholders approved the sale of the legendary Pittsburgh-based company to Japan‘s Nippon Steel, Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves stood in front of a packed room of steelworkers at his Butler Works plant and let them know just what he thought of the pending vote. He […]
The long list of legislators in newly mapped districts who haven't filed to run includes Robin Vos.
IPSWICH, SUFFOLK – A narcissistic blue wheelie bin located behind a fried chicken shop in Ipswich town centre has sparked controversy by boldly identifying as a green wheelie bin. Political Correspondent: Polly Ticks The (previously) blue wheelie bin, has taken the bold step of asserting its new identity, with the words “I identify as a […]