Amtrak and Partners Receive Federal Grants to Improve and Expand Passenger Rail Across America
WASHINGTON – Amtrak and its partners have been awarded more than $2.1 billion to improve existing routes and advance plans to expand Amtrak service…
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America Isn’t Ready for the Two-household Child
Joint custody is a growing reality—but the country’s systems for supporting families aren’t built to accommodate it. For most of american history, when parents…
The Culture Wars Dividing America’s Most Liberal Church
Long a beacon of progressive values, Unitarian Universalism has been convulsed by pulpit politics The Reverend Todd Eklof is an amateur ventriloquist, a social…
A Tit-for-Tat with Uncle Sam: China Puts the Screws on Exotic Mineral Exports
Brussel, Frankfurt (16/11 – 23) A levying of embargoes and export bans, the imposition of sanctions, erection of fearsome “license” (= restriction) protocol: there’s…
Kremlin Propaganda on Uptick in Latin America
WASHINGTON — Javier Vrox, the host of a political program on a YouTube channel in Chile who constantly monitors social networks in his country, recently…
Exhausted America: CDC Says 3.3 Million People Suffer Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data Friday indicating that roughly 3.3 million adults in the U.S. suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome….
Norman Lear Made America Confront Antisemitism and Racism
The prolific film and television producer changed television. For much of the 1970s and 1980s, America was defined by Jewish-American director and producer Norman…
What’s the Point of Being a Superpower if America Doesn’t Defend Itself Like One?
Iran-backed terror groups have escalated their attacks against U.S. soldiers and American interests in the Middle East since Hamas invaded Israel, killed 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped 240…
Moroccan Man Who Crossed Border Illegally: ‘i Will Do Anything for America’
(NewsNation) — A 20-year-old from Morocco told NewsNation he’s ready to follow America’s rules and pay into the system even though he’s not legally…
No, Democrats Are Not Driving America’s Culture Wars
Blue America is an increasingly affluent nation. In every presidential election from 1948 to 2012, white voters in the top 5 percent of America’s…