Facebook, Twitter, Google Threaten to Quit Hong Kong Over Proposed Data Laws  —  Industry group representing companies says proposed anti-doxing rules could put staff based locally at risk of criminal charges  —  HONG KONG— Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google …

I&I/TIPP Poll: Just 36% of Young People Are Proud To Be American  —  Editor's note: Issues & Insights gratefully acknowledges its collaboration with tippinsights on the simultaneous and exclusive release of this story.  —  Is pride in America a thing of the past?  Not if you ask Americans.

‘We are in a race’: GOP governors implore residents to overcome vaccine hesitancy as delta variant rises  —  GOP governors implored their residents on Sunday to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, as polling shows that vaccine hesitancy has been driven by Republicans and as the virus's new …

Eleven days after partial collapse, remainder of Surfside condo is demolished  —  The remaining portion of Champlain Towers South has been demolished.  —  At 10:30 Sunday night, authorities detonated charges inserted into holes drilled in the part of the 12-story Surfside condo that stood tenuously …

How the Supreme Court eroded voting rights  —  If a law is working, if it is preventing trouble, isn't that a good reason to get rid of it?  —  In a word, that is stupid.  —  Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the former Supreme Court Justice, famously warned such stupidity amounts to …

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Reflect on 75 Years of Marriage  —  Their relationship has been a constant through wins and losses, reinvention and raising a family.  At 96 and 93, they have come to rely on their bond more now than ever.  —  PLAINS, Ga. — Jimmy Carter, a midshipman in the U.S. Naval Academy …

Culture Wars are Long Wars … We are told that conservatives “lost the culture war.”  I dissent from this view: American conservatives never waged a culture war.  Conservatives certainly fought, there is no denying that.  They fought with every bit of obstruction and scandal their operatives could muster.

Top Biden Allies Worked for Group With Close Ties to Chinese Communist Party  —  Experts worry National Committee on U.S.-China Relations could impact Biden administration policy  —  Top Biden allies including former Treasury secretary Jacob Lew and National Security Council official Kurt Campbell …

Pandemic Wave of Automation May Be Bad News for Workers  —  The need for social distancing led restaurants and grocery stores to seek technological help.  That may improve productivity, but could also cost jobs.  —  When Kroger customers in Cincinnati shop online these days …

Trump biographer explains Ivanka Trump ‘is in peril’ along with Allen Weisselberg  —  President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump is in about as much trouble as Allen Weisselberg is, according to biographer Michael D'Antonio.  —  Speaking to CNN's Jim Acosta on Sunday …

The Genesis of Our American Collective Meltdown  —  Our adversaries can't quite believe their good fortune.  Had they thought up ways to divide and impoverish America, they could not have improved on our own collective meltdown.  —  This Fourth of July holiday we might pause for a moment …

Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)  —  The effects of ‘weird weather’ were already being felt in the 1960s, but scientists linking fossil fuels with climate change were dismissed as prophets of doom  —  n August 1974, the CIA produced a study on …

Allen West announces he is running against Gov. Greg Abbott in Republican primary  —  The Texas GOP chairman made his campaign official Sunday.  —  Copy link  —  Texas GOP Chairman Allen West announced Sunday he is running for governor, challenging fellow Republican Greg Abbott.

Barbershops and Hair Salons Are Enlisted in Covid-19 Vaccine Push  —  Biden administration hopes to reach Black Americans who have declined to get vaccinated  —  Some customers at the barbershop Mike Brown manages in Hyattsville, Md., say they don't plan to get a coronavirus vaccine.

Fraud Claims, Unproved, Delay Peru's Election Result and Energize the Right  —  A month after polls closed, officials have yet to declare a victor in the presidential vote, as they consider Keiko Fujimori's demand that ballots be thrown out.  —  LIMA, Peru — They showed up for the rally …