President Joe Biden on Thursday indicated that he was mulling ways to reduce student loan debt, although he ruled out forgiving $50,000 in loans, a cause célèbre pushed by many progressives.
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The Supreme Court often decides cases that affect everyday life for Americans. But few of its recent decisions have matched the real-world impact of McGirt v. Oklahoma, which recognized the continued existence of tribal reservations to the eastern half of the state after a century of abeyance; it was one of the most significant legal victories for Native Americans in recent memory. Now, the high court has another such matter to ponder: In its latest case on tribal sovereignty, the court may be... Читать дальше...
In Iraq, higher temperatures and depleted freshwater resources have led to massive accumulations of salt in the ruins of Babylon. It burrows into the historic bricks, then cracks them from the inside out. In the Maldives, off the southwestern coast of India, rising sea levels threaten to overtake the 900-year-old Koagannu Mosques and Cemetery complex. And in Australia’s Murujuga peninsula acidic pollution from industrial mining compromises 40,000-year-old carvings by steadily degrading the rock’s surface. Читать дальше...
“I want to play, but I have to send an email,” my preschooler announced, tapping urgently on his toy laptop. Something wrenched and snapped inside me, just like that. I thought of all the times I had shushed him, telling him we could play right after I finished this email or taped this interview, and I wondered: Was this how he saw me? Was this what he’d remember from his childhood?
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At nine o’clock on a Saturday morning in March 2019, on the third week of Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign, I found myself on my hands and knees on the floor of a hotel room in Columbia, South Carolina, mopping up a pool of his blood using a pile of towels and a spray bottle of cleaning solution I snagged from a maid’s cart.
