WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE — Mexican President ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR officially paused relations with the American and Canadian embassies as the North American ambassadors criticized a judicial overhaul for undermining democracy, the L.A. Times’ Kate Linthicum reports from Mexico City. ...
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Yes, there were many more German-Americans than Japanese Americans, but the key differences is that in 1941 Germans Americans were viewed as American while Japanese Americans were viewed as foreigners. When I was young, people still spoke of “inscrutable orientals”. Tom, Yes, rising nationalism...
Couple of things. I still believe, contrary to some of the commenters, that Detroit’s fall is unique among major American cities. True, the same toxic mix that has brought the city down was definitely at work in other cities across the country, but I think something happened that made th...
The new map of his the district eliminated most sections of the Bronx and added more of Westchester County’s suburbs, greatly narrowing the number of Black voters who were key to Bowman’s reelection effort. Then Bowman drew a strong challenger in well-known county executive George Latimer...
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Tarte citron: lemon tarte. This was particularly toothsome. Remember, this is the size of an American pie. (We had no idea when we went to this place that there would be this much food, though we knew that pate and dessert were servedà volonté,i.e., as much as you want.) ...
The vast majority of energy consumers can’t go to where the energy is; the energy has to be brought to them. Humans organize themselves based on geography, mainly around shipping channels. We live in coastal or riverside cities, and in the suburbs of those areas, and around rural areas ...
immigrants found community on the Lower East Side, "there was a lot of discrimination against Jews at the turn of the century," Lohman adds. "They were often criticized not only for not dressing like Americans and not speaking the language, but also for not converting to an 'American' ...
when done right than air travel, not the least because it tends to go from city center to city center, with “feeder” stops in the suburbs, and much less of the grotesque hassle of airport security and logistics. And the energy costs / CO2 emissions are a fraction of what airplanes do...