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On November 22, a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of approximately 170 transgender women who are alleging abuse and discrimination inside the Colorado Department of Corrections’ (CDOC) male prisons because they are trans, CBS News reported Monday...
In April 2017, partners from McKinsey & Company sent a confidential final report to the New York City corrections commissioner. They had spent almost three years leading an unusual project for a white-shoe corporate consulting firm like McKinsey: Attempting to...
For decades, a copper smelting factory has pumped toxic waste into the soil and water supply of Opportunity, Montana. Though the Environmental Protection Agency made Opportunity a Superfund site, marking it for environmental cleanup, the $450 million it ordered the...
In the aftermath of the 2017 hurricane season, which devastated United States territories Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, more than five thousand projects were earmarked to receive federal recovery money. Two years later, the money has stalled, with fewer...
The #MeToo movement immensely shifted public discourse in many Western countries, but it experienced slower development in Russia. It was dismissed at the highest levels of government as well as in provincial regions across the federation. Many of the tenets of the...
Americans elect their state lawmakers to … make laws. But sometimes, a lawmaker introduces a bill in his or her own name that isn’t born of thoughtful deliberation or responses to constituent needs. Rather, the lawmaker offers up what’s known as “model legislation” —...
“Liberals eagerly wait for a war they can believe in.” The trauma of Donald Trump’s presidency has created continued insanity for American liberals. They were never very trustworthy, due to their abiding belief in United States exceptionalism and an imagined right for...
Giant rivers of moist air that curl off from the tropics are responsible for most of the flooding in the Western United States, and scientists say these atmospheric rivers will become more intense as the planet warms. A new study is now providing some insight into...
Western New York’s bucolic charm, calmer pace, and lower cost of living often draw visitors from New York City. For the unaccustomed, the MAGA signs and occasional Confederate flags in residents’ front yards can come as a rude surprise. But the state of New York is...
Protests are erupting across the Americas. In Colombia, which joined the growing sites of discontent across the region toward the end of November, protesters have mobilized against the administration of Iván Duque and its neoliberal economic policies. “There is a...