July 5, 2022, Letters from an American
…a gun in public, by tightening gun safety laws. A new New York law prohibits concealed carry on private property unless property owners explicitly say it’s okay. It also makes…
…a gun in public, by tightening gun safety laws. A new New York law prohibits concealed carry on private property unless property owners explicitly say it’s okay. It also makes…
…Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson On this day in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law a new tax law to help fund the United States government during…
…$54,220 for the top 1 percent — and $220,310 for the top one-tenth of 1 percent. The 2017 tax law also widens racial disparities in after-tax income. The law cut…
…medical records is easy for criminal hackers. But obtaining them legally remains a difficult or even impossible task for patients, even though both hospitals and physicians are required by law…
…more fundamental guarantor of prosperity, the rule of law. In Hungary and Russia, the rule of law has been bent and broken, to the benefit of the few, and to…
…clean energy, but in May 2024, DeSantis signed a law to restructure the state’s energy policy so that addressing climate change would no longer be a priority. The law deleted…
…who approve of the ACA divide evenly between wanting the law kept in place largely as it is (48%) and keeping the law but making significant changes to it (48%)….
…elimination. California, perhaps the leader in the anti-plastics crusade, enacted a second bag ban in November to close a loophole in the state’s first such law in 2014. The earlier law made…
…Senate? Since he can’t be impeached and convicted, which requires 2/3’s of the Senate, and as of last July per the Supreme Court he is above the criminal law in…
…Trump. This will only embolden him. On Thursday and Friday, a law firm and Columbia University surrendered. Trump said Thursday that the national law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton…