U.S. stocks rallied on Thursday after a consortium of 11 of the biggest U.S. banks banded together to inject $30 billion in capital into troubled bank First Republic (FRC) as the sector works to stave off a broader financial crisis in the wake of multiple bank failures since last Wednesday. […]
PSR’s Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religionhosts two marquee events in April Black queer theology is about, “finding oneself in the All Mighty and loving yourself completely at all your intersections,” according to Roland Stringfellow, the managing director of Pacific School of Religion’s (PSR) Center for LGBTQ and […]
Paramedics at Ben Taub General Hospital speed a patient with a gunshot wound to the trauma team for further care. Ben Taub is the largest safety-net hospital in Houston. Gregory Smith/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Gregory Smith/Corbis via Getty Images Paramedics at Ben Taub General Hospital speed […]
The Biden administration is being asked to open a civil rights investigation into Wednesday’s decision by the Texas Education Agency to stage a state takeover of Houston Independent School District, the state’s largest and most diverse system whose school board was often at odds with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. Rep. […]
Two years ago this month, Australia passed a law called the News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code, which, as the name suggests, forced digital platforms like Facebook and Google to negotiate deals to pay the news media for the latter’s content. If they failed to do so, the […]
Remember back in the good old days when Hillary Rodham Clinton went on the electric television set and told us that she and her husband’s administration were the targets of a “vast, rightwing conspiracy,” and everybody thought that was hilariously funny, if not deeply paranoid? And we all had a […]