A conversation on Political Parties now with lee trautman, senior fellow at new america, the author of the 2020 breaking the twoparty doom loop. His most recent paper entitled more parties, better parties, the case for pool Party Democracy reform. Why do we have Political Parties in first place and considering the state of politics right now, might it be better to do away with parties at the moment . I understand a lot of people are frustrated with the performance of our two Political Parties. But, basic reality of modern mass represented of democracy is that you cant do it without Political Parties. Political parties are inevitable and essential as institutions of Representative Democracy because something needs to organize politics. Something and if it is not a Political Parties, then, it will just be charismatic autocrats or chaos. Political parties structure elections, they build majorities in the legislature, they engage and mobilize voters, they build coalitions. Political partie
A massacre saying hold the reports from beirut. Panic in the streets. Here but you. Fear in peoples faces. Neighborhoods flattened the airstrikes are almost continuous. Towns across eastern who are coming under intense fire was. Injured survivors emerge in shock children traumatized. The room was full of some four hundred thousand people are trapped in this besieged Syrian Opposition enclave nowhere is safe. The sound of fighter jets in the skies frightens the population. And mohamed and her son the same say they can only hope the walls in their home will save them if a shell or an airstrike hit nearby i didnt we have no choice but to stay in our harms despite be in strikes and shelling out building and those in the street so they dont have underground shelter. The u. N. Says the humanitarian situation is spiraling out of control because of what it calls an extreme escalation of hostilities scores of civilians have been killed since sunday and the number continues to rise. There are hu
Times on the third floor. We as a country failed our children this should happen. Im very angry that this happened because it keeps happening nine eleven happened once and they fix everything how many schools how many children have to get shot it stops here with this administration and me so lets be strong. For the fall and we dont have a voice to speak anymore and lets not for what this happen again please. This is not difficult these deaths are preventable and i implore you consider your own children. You dont want to be me no parent does and you have the ability to make a difference and save lives today. Trump has vowed to take arjun steps to check a gun violence and he said he supports the idea of Arming Teachers and other school stuff if they have special training this would only be obviously for people that are very adept at handling a gun and it would be its called concealed carry where a teacher would have a concealed gun on them theyd go for special training and they would. Be
Just a warning you may find some of the images and say in his report distressing. There is no front line in eastern. Residential neighborhoods have become battlegrounds the Syrian Government and its allies are bombing the besieged rebel enclave into submission i look at the suburb of damascus is under attack. I. Heard a plane overhead the myside landed people were torn into pieces i was with my nephew and we were both injured what i heard was the sound of an ambulance and i found myself here hundreds killed hundreds more injured the United Nations says makeshift hospitals are being hit some are now out of service there is a humanitarian crisis and there is nowhere to hide. There is no safe place i tried to convince my parents to say in the first floor of our building thinking it would be safer but they told me theres no difference because buildings are being flattened in the strikes. The government said military reinforcements to the frontlines around the besieged enclave the progovern
Grappling with the water crisis there since 2014. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im alisa parenti. This is bloomberg. Is next. Technology caroline im caroline hyde, this is Bloomberg Technology. Alibaba leads the charge. How the bets on content and the cloud is paying off for chinas ecommerce giant. S p. T highs for the we will break down what stocks are leading the game. The verizonyahoo deal is still in play, but now going into overtime. We will look into potential impacts on the acquisition of the verizons worst governments report since 2014. Alibaba reported betterthanexpected quarterly results. The company lifted its yearly sales forecast. Ventures are bolstering the giant. Dig into the nittygritty for us. Reporter its almost too good to be true. They raised sales forecasts. Is thatg interesting the number of active buyers didnt cry too much, less than 10 . A lot of the growth and reasons why investors are