An Army second lieutenant was driving his brand new car with his dog in the back seat when the night took a violent turn. Moments later, the Black and Latino driver would be pepper-sprayed, threatened and thrown to the ground in a caught-on-video traffic stop that has sparked outrage across the coun.
April 09, 2021
Conservative economist Michael R. Strain, director of economic policy for the American Enterprise Institute, has been critical of President Joe Biden s expanded child tax credit â which he believes has the potential to negatively change the relationship between the citizen and the state. And other conservative economists share Strain s viewpoint. But liberal journalist Jonathan Chait, in an article published by New York Magazine on April 9, lays out some reasons why expanding the child tax credit to the American middle class is good policy on Biden s part â noting that conservatives have a long history of attacking social programs as a move in the direction of socialism.
ALBANY, N.Y. Following a yearslong push, New York is limiting the use of solitary confinement in state and local correctional facilities and banning the practice altogether for some inmates. The Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act, known as HALT, prevents inmates from being h.
PHILADELPHIA The family of Walter Wallace Jr., the West Philadelphia man whose fatal shooting by Philadelphia police in October set off days of protests and unrest in the city, filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against the two officers who killed him. The suit, filed in Common Pleas Court, a.
NEW YORK Families of 9/11 victims will once again read their names out loud to commemorate this year’s 20th anniversary of the World Trade Center attack, a year after the COVID-19 pandemic divided people over how to remember the fallen, organizers said. With coronavirus restrictions easing and mor.