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Buchrezension: „The Last Politician“ von Franklin Foer
DER LETZTE POLITIKER: Im Weißen Haus von Joe Biden und im Kampf um die Zukunft Amerikasvon Franklin Foer
Wie wird die Geschichte der Biden-Regierung geschrieben: als Wendepunkt, an dem sich Amerika zu erholen begann, oder als Pause zwischen Momenten des Stillstands und des Unglücks? Franklin Foers „The Last Politician“, ein Bericht über Bidens erste zwei Amtsjahre, ist der erste Entwurf einer Antwort. Es hat das Zeug zu großer Dramatik. Krise folgt auf Krise. Das Problem ist, dass wir die
One Politician Stopped California’s Fossil Fuels Divestment—Again – Mother Jones
They’ve had little success. A recent divestment bill that would have directed managers of California’s public pension and teachers’ retirement funds to stop investing in the 200 largest oil, gas and coal companies failed in the Legislature for the second year in a row. State pension funds have an estimated $14.8 billion invested in fossil fuel companies that are driving the climate crisis.
SB 252 would require the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the State Teachers’ Retirement System to
‘Bobi Wine: The People’s President’ Review: A Pop Star Turns Politician
The pop-culture personage turned politician is not so novel a figure as it used to be. But the Ugandan pop singer Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, who goes by the stage name Bobi Wine, has earned, by way of his courage and resilience, the special consideration this documentary affords him.
“Bobi Wine: The People’s President” opens by laying out the situation in Wine’s East African country: its leader, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, having seized power in 1986 (several years after the military strongman
The Maryland Politician Who Is Arguing for a Four-Day Workweek
The Maryland State Capitol building is older than America. It is the only state capitol to have also served as the nation’s capital; in the country’s earliest days, Congress met in its chambers. To work in Annapolis is to operate in the shadow of history. So maybe that explains why, 246 years into the American project, one state lawmaker sees his four-day-workweek bill as carrying on in the tradition of the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. That, or it’s