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Trash lines the gutter on Bourbon Street, in the early hours of the morning after Mardi Gras, in New Orleans, Feb. 18, 2015. It’s a beloved century-old Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of colorful beads or other trinkets to parade watchers clamoring with outstretched arms. …
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrats have an opportunity to strengthen their hold on the Pennsylvania House on Tuesday as voters cast their ballots in a suburban Philadelphia district that has been leaning more Democratic, after a Republican lawmaker’s resignation last week shifted the balance back to them. Voters will decide between a Democratic school …
MALCOLM BRABANT: About one million migrants poured into Germany in 2015. Chancellor Merkel consistently defended her pro-refugee policies, but now she has been punished by voters who believe she ignored their concerns. Chancellor Merkel has promised to listen to the people who voted for the AFD, and she says she’s going to try to …
What would it take to turn Texas, a Republican stronghold, into a blue state? According to data from SurveyMonkey, just remove all the gun owners from the Lone Star State and it would have gone to Hillary Clinton in 2016. You can do the same thing in liberal California. Remove all the non-gun owners …
In the course of 2024, an estimated four billion people—half the world’s population—will go to the polls in eighty-three elections. Leading experts in global security have warned that disinformation is a major threat to the world’s stability in 2024, including in the United States, where most Republicans believe that Joe Biden’s win in the …
OK, now what? The truth is, Europe only has itself to blame for the morass. Trump has been harping on about NATO’s laggards for years, but he hardly invented the genre. American presidents going back to Dwight D. Eisenhower have complained about European allies freeloading on American defense. What Europeans don’t like to hear …
After many setbacks and much suspense, the Senate appeared on track this week to approve a long-awaited package of wartime funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as Republican opponents staged a filibuster to register their disapproval over a measure they could not block. The Senate voted 66-33, exceeding a 60-vote margin, to sweep aside …
Crank that.Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Getty Images) For just the third time since 1995, more than a fifth of economists surveyed by the National Association of Business Economics (pdf) think that US monetary policy is “too restrictive.” The portion of respondents sits at 21%, the largest it has been since 2010. …
(Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Bachelor Season 28, Episode 4.) The internet might’ve decided that all men spend their time thinking about the Roman Empire, but Joey Graziadei is apparently not one of them. At least, he wasn’t until this season of The Bachelor flew him out to Malta and dressed him …
Former President Donald Trump remains a huge favorite to defeat former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley in her home state, according to a new poll. A CBS News/YouGov poll released on Monday shows that the former president is favored by 65 percent of South Carolinians likely to vote in the state’s upcoming GOP primary, …