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from AP Associated Press - Media/News Company
President Donald Trump will turn from pageantry to policy Tuesday as he joins British Prime Minister Theresa May for a day of talks likely to highlight fresh uncertainty in the allies' storied relationship. Making nice at the end, President Donald Trump eased up Tuesday on his frequent criticisms of outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May over her handling of the tortured Brexit deal, declaring that history will remember her fondly if the United Kingdom can successfully leave the European Union.
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from CBS News (& affiliates)
The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing American women the right to vote, celebrates a big birthday on Tuesday, as it was passed by both chambers of Congress 100 years ago on June 4, 1919. According to the National Archives, the House of Representatives first passed the amendment on May 21, 1919, and two weeks later, on June 4, the Senate followed with a vote of 56 to 25. The next year, following approval by three-fourths of state legislatures, the amendment was ratified into the Constitution.
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RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
Why Gun Ownership Rates Tell Us Little About Homicide Trends in America
Every time a homicide committed with a firearm makes the national news, it happens like clockwork: a variety of pundits in the corporate media quickly pen columns advocating for ever broader and stricter gun control laws. If only government agents were entrusted with a strict monopoly (or near-monopoly) on firearm ownership — we are told — then the United States would have much lower homicide rates similar to those found in most other so-called "developed" countries like Norway or Canada. The journalists and pundits who write these articles present their argument as if they were merely repeating a consensus among scholars who all agree that guns are the reason homicide rates are significantly higher in the United States — well, in many parts of it — than in Canada and Europe. But there's a problem with this claim: there is not at all a consensus among criminologists, sociologists, and historians that guns are the primary or driving factor behind the United States' relatively high homicide rates. Homicide trends in America are not driven by guns but by deeply entrenched historical and cultural factors that extend far beyond the issue of gun control.
The Popular (and Wrong) Interpretation of the "Industrial Revolution"
Far from being a bucolic utopia, economic conditions were highly unsatisfactory on the eve of the Industrial Revolution. The traditional social system was not elastic enough to provide for the needs of a rapidly increasing population.
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from New Statesman
LEFT BIAS: "The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
The defence of humour shouldn’t shield prejudice from moral criticism.
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from The Seattle Times
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, Newspaper in Seattle, WA
Fifty-six Native American women from Washington are listed as missing persons in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), an electronic clearinghouse of crime data available to police officers across the country, according to the report. Yakima County had the most, with 20 women missing, followed by King County with 12. Of those 56 cases, five of them were entered into NCIC over two days in May, although it’s likely the women were reported missing earlier.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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