Tag: politics
Letters: Good hires | Two-tier health care | Intractable foes
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.Cities making payoutsin lieu of good hiresRe: “Family reaches $7.5M...
2024 Is the Year of the Generative AI Election
Experts know that generative AI is poised to drastically change the information landscape, and problems that have long plagued tech platforms—like mis- and disinformation,...
How AI Is Impacting the 2024 Elections
In India and Indonesia, dead leaders are rising to throw their support behind their political successors; rapper Eminem is endorsing opposition parties in South...
Letters: Misguided plan | Repurpose building | A real choice |...
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.BART bailout planis misguidedRe: “Bay Area bailout of BART, MUNI...
Letters: Regional plan | Wrong message | Women’s health | Poor...
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.Regional plan couldbring discipline to VTARe: “Bay Area bailout of...
South Africa votes in election seen as most important since aparthied
By Gerald Imray, Mogomotsi Magome and Farai Mutsaka | Associated PressJOHANNESBURG — South Africans voted Wednesday at schools, community centers, and in large white...
Walters: Newsom shuns tax increases yet budget levies billions on businesses
When Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a much-revised 2024-25 state budget this month, he became visibly irritated when reporters pressed him about raising taxes to cover a...
Germany’s Far-Right Party Is Running Hateful Ads on Facebook and Instagram
Earlier this month, a German court ruled that the countryâs nationalist far-right party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), was potentially âextremistâ and could warrant surveillance...
You Can Get Paid to Talk to Friends About Voting
In Tonya Williams’ Mississippi family, they all vote. But last year, Williams’ uncle mentioned offhandedly that he hadn’t voted in an election for several...
Walters: California Supreme Court weighs two cases that could limit the...
Seven years ago, California’s Supreme Court declared broad support for the historic right of voters to make law through the initiative process.Ruling in a case...