A screenshot from the video for Patria y Vida, a song by several Cuban musicians that has become an anthem against the Cuban regime (NCR screenshot/YouTube/Yotuel)
President Joe Biden has spoken up to defend the right of Amazon workers to organize. Workers at a distribution center in Alabama are trying to form a union and the company is doing its best to thwart that effort. Biden did not tell workers they should form a union, only that they have a right to do so. The rest of us can refuse to use Amazon until they stop their union-busting tactics.
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NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters publishes three columns a week, and we get many letters to the editor responding to his opinions. In the last week, Winters published a column about the U..
U.S. bishops from Region 13 walk in procession to pray at the tomb of St. Paul after concelebrating Mass at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome Feb. 12, 2020, during their ad limina visits to the Vatican to report on the status of their dioceses. (CNS/Paul Haring)
Journalists who cover the Catholic Church face a hurdle in that most of the important decisions are made in secret. Personnel decisions are almost all made behind closed doors; a new bishop does not even know he is a candidate until he has been chosen. Even when a decision is public, as when the bishops elect committee chairs for the national conference, there are no campaign platforms to mark out why one candidate won and the other lost, and many times the differences are not ideological at all. It takes many years of attention to recognize the dynamics of a bishops conference, to recognize that some alliances date back to relationships forged in seminary or as staffers in Rome, which i
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On Sunday s ABC newsweekly This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Jonathan Karl interviewed U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise. When Karl asked Scalise to affirm the legitimacy of the 2020 election result, the congressman could not answer a simple yes. His meandering answer hit a nerve with many in the media.
At Vox, Aaron Rupar rightly faults Karl for not cutting Scalise off sooner, as Stephanopoulos did with Sen. Rand Paul in January when the Kentucky senator refused to acknowledge that the election had not been stolen. He also praises Erin Burnett s tough interview with U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, but registers the concern that tough interviews standards might not be enough: