California’s new fast food law, the FAST Recovery Act, which regulates wages for workers in the fast food industry, is the latest demonstration that the business world prefers command-and-control government regulation of its labor practices to the market solution of collective bargaining.
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Last term, the Supreme Court handed the conservative legal movement a victory it had sought for almost 50 years: the overturning of Roe v. Wade. As the justices reconvene this week for the new term, two sets of cases will give the court’s six-justice conservative majority a chance to revisit yet another hot-button issue: race. Both cases address it in the context of major institutions in American civic life. In Merrill v. Milligan, the justices will have the opportunity to place new limits on... Читать дальше...
As Hurricane Ian approached the coast of Florida, private jet flights out of Tampa—the biggest city in the storm’s direct path—increased by 71 percent, carting wealthy Florida residents off to second, third, or fourth homes on the island of Nantucket and in Aspen, Colorado. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office, meanwhile, refused to evacuate the residents of a 457-bed jail in downtown Fort Myers, where the storm proceeded to level entire blocks. A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office later clarified... Читать дальше...
In the unnatural light of the doctor’s office, Lucy, a student at Kent State, remembers a faint prickle of awareness that the gynecologist seemed uncomfortable, like he was talking around something. “Well ... you’re two months pregnant,” he eventually stammered. She stared at him, stunned. He got up and left the room. “Oh my gosh, what am I gonna do?” Lucy said. One of the nurses handed her a card with a phone number. “They will help you. They know who we are, and it’s safe.” No one ever said the word abortion. Читать дальше...
