Tag: fight

After Skirting Filibuster Fight for Months, Democrats Near a First Battle

May 27, 2021
WASHINGTON — With a showdown coming over the creation of an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol assault, Democrats are finally bumping up against the limits of what they can accomplish in the evenly divided Senate without changes to the filibuster rules.Republicans who see the commission as a threat to their midterm election

NIGERIA : Abuja names bigshot oil arbitrator to fight Shell over oil spill

May 21, 2021
The three-member tribunal assigned to arbitrate a dispute between the Nigerian state and oil major Shell dating back to an Source link

Unity Proves Elusive in Democrats’ Fight for $15

February 27, 2021
Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday.If the Democrats have a problem, it’s with the working class. Their support from voters without college degrees (particularly white voters, but not exclusively) has been slipping in recent years.The Republican Party, meanwhile, finds its own base more heavily tilted than ever before toward

The fight is not over, and neither is the celebration of a Biden-Harris presidency

November 8, 2020
My yard is full of signs that make clear EXACTLY where I stand, so I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when, almost as soon as the election was finally called for Biden and Harris Saturday morning, my neighbors—even those I’d never met—descended for some celebratory bubbles. Once I stopped sobbing with joy, a neighbor took

Facebook Removes 790 QAnon Groups to Fight Conspiracy Theory

August 20, 2020
“There needs to be a real change in how these platforms think about conspiracy theories and the real-world harm they cause,” said Cindy Otis, vice president of analysis for Alethea Group, an organization that investigates disinformation. “Since the start of the pandemic, we have seen QAnon move much faster than the social media platforms to