Twenty years ago, I published Taking Back the Vote: Getting American Youth Involved in Our Democracy. The book grew out of a personal passion: Once my oldest child was able to cast a ballot, I became fascinated with the potential and obstacles facing our youngest voters. I delved into the lengthy and messy midcentury struggle to pass the 26th Amendment, extending the franchise to 18-year-olds. The first bill to lower the voting age was introduced in Congress during World War II—why should young...
Goalkeepers will be punished if they hold the ball for longer than eight seconds. We now know which leagues can trial this rule in a bid to tackle time-wasting. Liverpool have been 'hungover' since Man United dumped them out of the FA Cup - where has their energy gone?
People who personally experience extreme climate events, especially wildfires and hurricanes, are willing to pay significantly more for climate action, even if they report skepticism about human-caused climate change, finds new research from the University of Vermont.
Americans Now Worry About Out-Of-Control Power Bill Inflation Tens of millions of Americans are having trouble paying their power bills as residential electricity inflation continues to run rampant. The latest data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (February's print) shows that three out of every four major cities in the US had power prices rise for residential customers. "Food has been a worry, but now electricity is the worry," 75yo Alfredo De Avila told Bloomberg, adding,...
It began with a sombrero. In 2016, the novelist Lionel Shriver showed up at the Brisbane Writers Festival in Australia wearing an ostentatiously large straw variation of the traditional Mexican headgear. Shriver is not Mexican; that was the point. In a speech, Shriver lashed out against the idea of cultural appropriation, as well as what she described as “a larger climate of super-sensitivity, giving rise to proliferating prohibitions supposedly in the interest of social justice that constrain...
A Japanese person will be the first non-American to walk on the moon, US President Joe Biden announced Wednesday during a state visit by Japan's prime minister.
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Fans of the ABC series have to wait just a bit for a new installment.
As U.S. airlines continue to deliver safe and reliable air transportation to millions of Americans every day, our sector is committed to a greener, more sustainable future.
If you want to travel to Brazil next year, you’ll need to share your bank statements with the South American country first.
Americans are split on whether former President Trump will be convicted in his New York hush money case, according to a poll released Friday. The Economist/YouGov poll found that 24 percent of Americans think the former president is going to be convicted of a crime in the case, 36 percent said they don’t think the
People are living longer than ever, a dynamic that puts stress on the traditional notion of retirement savings.