Posts tagged with "politics"

THE ECONOMIST x OPEN FUTURE

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The Economist, a leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs, today announced “Open Future”, an editorially driven initiative (www.economist.com/openfuture) which aims to remake the case for The Economist’s founding principles of classical British liberalism which are being challenged from all sides in the current political climate of populism and authoritarianism. “Although the […]

Abu Dhabi x World Ocean Summit 2019

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Government of Abu Dhabi Announced as Host of World Ocean Summit 2019. This year’s World Ocean Summit, held in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, has brought together over 500 leaders from the private sector, civil society and government to explore the development of a sustainable ocean economy through innovative financing and technologies as well as bold […]

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AFJ Applauds Sens. Booker

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Following the announcement that Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) will join the Senate Judiciary Committee, Alliance for Justice President Nan Aron released the following statement:  “We are delighted that Sens. Booker and Harris will be joining the Senate Judiciary Committee as it takes up its critical work in the new year. These two […]

Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East

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A consistent strand of Margaret Thatcher’s Middle East policy was preserving regional stability as this was vital to ensuring that Moscow could not expand its influence and become a threat to Western interests.   Thirty-six years on and a resurgent Russia is once again dominant in the Middle East. Unfortunately, while Margaret Thatcher has been […]

Influential Women at Wellesley

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This January, Wellesley College will host several of the world’s most influential women, including Sally Yates, Wendy Sherman, Andrea Mitchell, Katharine H.S. Moon, and Madeleine Albright herself, as part of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs ninth annual Wintersession, a three-week intensive program at Wellesley that educates the next generation of women leaders.  Highlighted Events […]

Assemblyman Travis Allen

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Assemblyman Travis Allen: CA Supreme Court’s Decision to Not Hear Gas Tax Repeal a “Mockery of Justice” but Will Not Stop Repeal Travis Allen vows to continue fight to Repeal Jerry Brown’s $52 Billion Gas Tax Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) denounced the Supreme Court’s decision to not hear his case against Attorney General Becerra […]

Democratic Socialists of America Has Become A Budding Political Force

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Why an army of young people is joining DSA. Anna Heyward for The Nation     24,000 people — 70 to 80 percent of them under 35 — have joined DSA since November 2016. Here’s the first long-form chronicle of the party’s 35-year history. Its founder, Michael Harrington, aimed to put aside the left’s infighting, forming an […]

Trump’s Christmas Gift To America

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TAX REFORM BECOMES LAW DELIVERING ON PROMISES FOR WORKERS TO KEEP MORE OF THEIR HARD-EARNED MONEY Businesses Already Putting Real Money in Workers’ Pockets  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Celebrating the signing of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law by President Trump, Independent Women’s Forum Senior Policy Analyst Patrice Onwuka offered the statement below: “Today’s signing of the tax legislation […]

Bolder Advocacy

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Los Angeles City Ethics Commission Makes the Right Move on Nonprofits Following the announcement this week by the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission that certain nonprofits will not be forced to register as lobbyists under a proposed expansion of city lobbying rules, AFJ ‘s Bolder Advocacy program Director for California, Nona Randois, released the following […]