Welcome back to the weekly Nuts & Bolts Guide to small campaigns. Every week I try to tackle issues I’ve been asked about. With the help of other campaign workers and notes, we address how to improve and build better campaigns, or explain issues that impact our party.
Psychologists and psychiatrists, along with philosophers, have long debated what it means to actually be human.
I’m trying to make our marriage work, but I’m still upset over his past actions.
Masturbation is still a big no-no, according to the Catholic Church. The catechism calls it “an intrinsically and gravely disordered action.” But it’s only a mortal sin if you’re doing it right. For those of you who weren’t raised Catholic, you should know you should know that dying in a state of mortal sin is a pretty big deal.
According to the great doctors of the Catholic Church, including St. Augustine of Hippo and St.
The veteran journalist accused the former president of “fomenting a coup” and called his mishandling of the pandemic “homicidal negligence.
This story was originally published at Prism.
At sunrise Tuesday morning, a broad coalition of immigrant justice organizers from groups across the New York metropolitan area halted operations at a remote Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Newark, New Jersey. The site of the protest is largely shaped by its industrial landscape and proximity to Newark International Airport.
I haven’t seen him this upset in years.
This article was originally published at Prism. It’s part three in a series about the harassment of marginalized journalists. Read parts one and two of the series here.
Being a reporter is a public-facing profession by nature, and the exposure that accompanies a byline often comes with harassment, unwanted critiques, and ridicule from strangers and sources.
“I go into these town hall meetings, someone said: Don’t call it a vaccine. Call it a bioweapon. And they talk about mind control,” Gov. Asa Hutchinson said.
“It’s like we have two kinds of America,” he said.
The Illinois congressman, who has spoken out against Trump’s role in the Capitol attack, said he’s accepted an invitation from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
All day, the world makes its demands. There’s so much of it, world,begging to be noticed. Two seconds past dreaming, the cat’s there kneading
claws into my chest, a truck outside coughs, and a buzz alerts me to the newest
dispatch of love.
I just want to do the best thing for him at this point.
A combination of money and politics likely means party leaders can’t do everything they and their supporters want.
Illustrations by Liana FinckMay 2011“The only thing a uterus is good for after a certain point is causing pain and killing you. Why are we even talking about this?” Nora jams a fork into her chopped chicken salad, the one she insisted I order as well. “If your doctor says it needs to come out, yank it out.” Nora speaks her mind the way others breathe: an involuntary reflex, not a choice.
Parenting advice on gender fluidity, body image, and coming to terms with death.
The experts say a complete probe inside China is necessary to pinpoint the origins of the virus, which has had a devastating toll around the world.
Some Supreme Court watchers found relief in the Court’s recent decisions, many of which were narrow and stopped short of overturning major precedents. But two rulings underscore what Americans need to know about the post-Trump Court: It isn’t invested in defending the rights of American voters, the Constitution’s core demographic, with the same vigor that it applies to the interests of nonpersons, such as corporations.
Earlier this month, a California college student passing through Utah wanted to show contempt for a sheriff’s deputy who stopped her friend, so she defiled a pro-police sign. The cop watched, then arrested her.Now she has been charged with a hate crime and faces possible jail time under a bipartisan hate-crime law passed in 2019.
There’s a reason no one can get their hands on a new couch or table right now.
The company has taken on some investors that don’t align with its environmentally virtuous image.
While top Republicans pleaded with people to get vaccinated, others downplayed the threat of a Covid-19 resurgence.
Leaked presentation suggests government is still developing standardized, national record.
The prospect of canceled football games is a major step toward nudging players to get vaccinated without making it an outright requirement.
The new steps come as new cases and hospitalizations continue to spike while vaccination rates have stalled.
Even though Covid hospitalizations and deaths are surging in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott just barred counties, cities and school districts from requiring masks.
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.That legendary flame is lit. The 2020 Olympics opened a year late in Tokyo, kicking off with a somber and strange ceremony that spoke to this upsetting moment in history. Below, seven writers and editors catch you up on the sports they plan to watch in the coming weeks of competition.
Five years ago, in the closing ceremony for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the then–prime minister of Japan popped out of a green tube wearing the red hat of the world’s most amusing plumber.
