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En el Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. reconocemos la importancia de los trabajadores de restaurantes y servicios de alimentación. Estos trabajadores se vieron significativamente afectados por la pandemia y continúan desempeñando un papel vital en nuestras economías locales. Mientras conmemoramos el Día del Trabajo el 4 de septiembre, la...
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Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Psychedelics are having a moment. A nationwide push to bring magic mushrooms and other psychedelics into the mainstream is gaining traction, and some Californians want in. While hallucinogens are often associated with the drug culture of the 1960s, today’s movement on psychedelics is largely...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)—aka the “Gulf Stream”—is a vital system of ocean currents, driven by temperature and salinity disparities at various locales and depths. Warm surface waters are propelled poleward by winds and tides. At the poles, the water cools, forming...
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Mario Jiménez Castillo El Observador En los rituales de misticismo, se acostumbra a encender velas y veladoras, para pedir favores a los santos, ángeles, y deidades de nuestra devoción, lo más importante de todo es tener fe en lo que hacemos para que el ritual sea benéfico y vaya...
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Una propuesta que podría permitir apuestas sobre qué partido político controlara el Congreso está generando oposición entre grupos prodemocráticos y una coalición de senadores progresistas. La empresa neoyorquina Kalshi ha solicitado a Commodity Futures Trading Commission su autorización para ofrecer derivados sobre los llamados “contratos de eventos”, específicamente sobre el control...
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Peter White Ethnic Media Services Can we tell our own stories yet? According to Michael Tran, co-author of the latest Hollywood Diversity Report, “The short answer is ‘No’, I’m afraid.” A UCLA sociologist who collects entertainment data and tracks trends, Tran says despite recent efforts to make the entertainment...
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Carolyn Jones & Alexei Koseff CalMatters California’s culture wars escalated Monday as the state sued a school district over its transgender student policy, and a parents’ group took the first step toward placing a trio of initiatives on next year’s ballot that would restrict protections for transgender youth. The...
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SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIF. —The County of Santa Clara’s Board of Supervisors declared on Tuesday August 29 its commitment to safe and supportive healthcare for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse individuals. The Board approved a resolution that explicitly supports gender-affirming care, a move to solidify protections for the community against harmful anti-LGBTQ+ laws that...
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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee say a GOP probe into whether teachers’ unions had too much influence on pandemic school closures has come up empty. A spokesperson for the Democrats says that in fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consulted a wide range of stakeholders before...
En el Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. reconocemos la importancia de los trabajadores de restaurantes y servicios de alimentación. Estos trabajadores se vieron significativamente afectados por la pandemia y continúan desempeñando un papel vital en nuestras economías locales. Mientras conmemoramos el Día del Trabajo el 4 de septiembre, la...
Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Psychedelics are having a moment. A nationwide push to bring magic mushrooms and other psychedelics into the mainstream is gaining traction, and some Californians want in. While hallucinogens are often associated with the drug culture of the 1960s, today’s movement on psychedelics is largely...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)—aka the “Gulf Stream”—is a vital system of ocean currents, driven by temperature and salinity disparities at various locales and depths. Warm surface waters are propelled poleward by winds and tides. At the poles, the water cools, forming...
Mario Jiménez Castillo El Observador En los rituales de misticismo, se acostumbra a encender velas y veladoras, para pedir favores a los santos, ángeles, y deidades de nuestra devoción, lo más importante de todo es tener fe en lo que hacemos para que el ritual sea benéfico y vaya...
Una propuesta que podría permitir apuestas sobre qué partido político controlara el Congreso está generando oposición entre grupos prodemocráticos y una coalición de senadores progresistas. La empresa neoyorquina Kalshi ha solicitado a Commodity Futures Trading Commission su autorización para ofrecer derivados sobre los llamados “contratos de eventos”, específicamente sobre el control...
Peter White Ethnic Media Services Can we tell our own stories yet? According to Michael Tran, co-author of the latest Hollywood Diversity Report, “The short answer is ‘No’, I’m afraid.” A UCLA sociologist who collects entertainment data and tracks trends, Tran says despite recent efforts to make the entertainment...
Carolyn Jones & Alexei Koseff CalMatters California’s culture wars escalated Monday as the state sued a school district over its transgender student policy, and a parents’ group took the first step toward placing a trio of initiatives on next year’s ballot that would restrict protections for transgender youth. The...
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee say a GOP probe into whether teachers’ unions had too much influence on pandemic school closures has come up empty. A spokesperson for the Democrats says that in fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consulted a wide range of stakeholders before...