Remember when our president attacked a female journalist for asking uncomfortable questions with a casual, sincere, “Quiet, piggy”? That was five months ago, a lifetime in the chaos of the Trump administration, but it was a telling moment about how not just our president but those crafting his policy view women and their place in…
House Democrats will hold a pair of “shadow hearings” in California next week on the upcoming midterm elections — part of a broader party effort to defend state voting systems against mounting critiques and threats of intervention from the Trump administration. Such hearings, similar to those recently held in Los Angeles on President Trump’s immigration…
HAVANA — After another nationwide blackout debilitated Cuba, electricity began flickering back on in parts of Havana on a recent Sunday afternoon. As cell signal returned, Alberto González’s phone buzzed nonstop with messages. “Will you open today?” “Is there power?” “Good afternoon, brother. Will there be dancing?” Until now, it wasn’t a question people needed to ask….
TYRE, Lebanon — Whatever choices Hassan Kareet had left were all bad. Israeli bombardment, not to mention the threat of an invasion, meant Kareet couldn’t stay in the village of Bazourieh, some 11 miles from Lebanon’s border with Israel. But finding a place to stay in a country where an estimated 1.3 million people are already displaced…