New Jersey drought may impact on agriculture, particularly parching peaches
The peach bud that should be swelling with promise right now is brown and brittle. It hangs from a branch in Salem County like a small, dead bell. John Hurff has been farming these trees for more than 40 years, and he cannot remember a spring that felt quite like this one. “The peaches are…
The $271 billion question: What if the world disarmed just one-tenth of its arsenal?
By James J. Devine The numbers arrive on the desks of world leaders every January, bound in leather and stamped with the seals of defense ministries. They list tanks, jets, ships, and warheads. They are presented as the price of safety. But there is another set of numbers, printed in thinner reports from humanitarian agencies,…
Supreme Court hands a unanimous victory to anti-abortion pregnancy scammers
The United States Supreme Court handed a unanimous victory Wednesday to an anti-abortion scam center that wants to keep its donor list secret while fighting a state investigation into whether it has been lying to women in the hope that they will miss the chance to have a safe, legal abortion to end an unwanted…
The Supreme Court revives Jim Crow with the latest Voting Rights Act ruling
The Supreme Court on Wednesday delivered a potentially fatal blow to a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, ruling 6-3 that a Louisiana congressional map with a second majority-Black district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The decision in Louisiana v. Callais imposes a sweeping new standard that legal experts say will make…
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