Unlike most winter seasons, Marty Firestone, a Toronto travel agent, hasn’t had his usual stream of Canadian clients relocating to South Florida to flee their frigid winters. In fact, this year, Firestone said about 70% of his clients, many of them “snowbird” residents, stayed home. That changed in recent weeks. […]
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Warren signals concerns about bipartisan coronavirus framework
Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth WarrenCan Biden find a third way between Trumpism and Obama-era globalism? Left seeks to influence Biden picks while signaling unity Schwarzenegger says he would ‘absolutely’ help Biden administration MORE (D-Mass.) signaled concerns on Monday about the framework of a bipartisan coronavirus relief package, the latest sign of […]
The new Supreme Court is sending surprisingly centrist signals
The U.S. Supreme Court building. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) How far will the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority go? With President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and the potential for Democrats to control the Senate, it’s the question on the mind of everyone who cares about the court. If the conservative […]
TikTok’s appalling ‘Holocaust challenge’ signals Facebook-style problems ahead
In late August, an appalling trend spread on the viral video site TikTok: Users donned concentration camp garb, and pretended to be deceased victims of Nazi-era horrors. The trend even gave rise to a hashtag, #holocaustchallenge. Tasteless or hateful memes rippling across social media are hardly new. But the TikTok […]