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Paid time off isn’t a luxury, it’s essential

Across our country, people are standing up and demanding fair working conditions. These debates are about more than just pay and hours worked. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the fact that people’s lives do not solely revolve around their jobs. Workers’ wages, hours and paid time off should reflect their whole lives —

20 hours ago

Coping with a sense of isolation and loneliness

The smell of perfumed smoke turned my head on Tuesday morning outside the Monterey Park dance club where 11 people were gunned down on Saturday night. A man named Scott, seated in a wheelchair, was lighting incense sticks to honour the dead. “What else can we do?” asked Scott, 57, who requested that I not use his

20 hours ago

Questioning Rees-Mogg’s ‘trademark common sense’

A bold announcement, then, from parodical content provider GB News, that it is branching out into character comedy with a new show to be hosted by arguably the country’s most significant cultural creation of the last 20 years: Jacob Rees-Mogg. The very middle-class son of a very middle-class newspaper editor, he has been

20 hours ago

Debt ceiling showdown is talk of the town

It began as a way to make it easier for the federal government to sell bonds to finance the US role in World War I. Now, more than a century later, the requirement for a legal ceiling on the federal debt has become something totally different: a political time bomb that, if not resolved, could cause an economic explosion.

20 hours ago

I asked ChatGPT to write me a symphony

I mean, what was I expecting from a chatbot? A formula for world peace? Clues on how to mend a broken heart? A cheesy joke? Sure, all that, why not? I wasn’t expecting it, however, to blow me off, to tell me it was too busy for me. And that it would get in touch later by email, when it was free. But that’s how it goes with

26 Jan 2023

Gavin Newsom needs new story to run for president

Wanna be in politics? Wanna be president? If so, you need an origin story. Every politician needs one. And not just any old story, but preferably a rousing narrative that shows you’ve faced adversity and overcome hurdles. If you can say you’re an immigrant or a child of immigrants, that’s a start. If you grew up in poverty or suffered

26 Jan 2023

A leader who is upfront and politically savvy

New Zealand’s new prime minister does not draw adoring crowds like his predecessor Jacinda Ardern, but is well known throughout the country for his political nous, poor dress sense and a love of diet Coke. Chris Hipkins, 44, was on Wednesday morning officially sworn in to replace Ardern, his friend of more than 20 years,

25 Jan 2023

It’s over — the Brexit debate is finally finished

It’s over. The Brexit debate has finally finished. The Conservative Party — the party in charge of Brexit — have effectively admitted that undoing Brexit would help to fix the UK’s economic crisis. With millions of people suffocated by poverty, and gasping for air, our government is proudly holding our heads under water. February marks

25 Jan 2023

Why Scholz hesitates to send battle tanks to Ukraine

“Scholzology” — the art of understanding German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s decisions — is in vogue as critics at home and abroad question his reluctance to supply the German-made battle tanks Ukraine wants to repulse Russian forces. His hesitation reflects a caution driven in part by Germany’s military aggression in the last century

25 Jan 2023