FDA Changes Food Nutrition Label Requirements for the First Time in 20 Years
Michelle Obama helped to announce on Friday that the FDA approved a new set of requirements for food nutrition labels for the first time in decades.
In France, ‘us and them’ amid elections
Many residents of France are in fact wondering how the country reached its current stage, with an extreme-right candidate again making it to the second round of French presidential elections.
Vulture Colonialism: The Continuing Pillage of Puerto Rico
While 46% of its citizens live in poverty, Puerto Rico has been marketed to rich people who, if they live there at least half of the year, are not obligated to pay federal taxes on their earnings and investment income.
Extorting Ukraine is bad enough
Recently a friend who follows the news a bit less obsessively than I do said, “I thought George W. Bush was bad,...
Biden wants to prevent a strong primary challenge. He shouldn’t get away with it.
A president is not a party’s king, and he has no automatic right to renomination.
Bernie calls for vote in Senate for No War Against Iran Act
“We must end our endless wars.”
Escalating conflicts: US, UK military actions in Yemen spark wider war concerns
Amidst Israel's Gaza operations, the US and UK's air strikes on Yemen heighten regional tensions, challenging international maritime security and legal norms.
The world’s worst crisis
This is one of Africa’s largest displacement crises and the world cannot afford to brush it under the carpet.
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Trump administration proposes oil and gas lease sale in California while wildfires continue to...
“We’ve blocked any new federal leasing in California in court for eight years now, and we’ll fight this too.”