Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! In the final sprint leading up to Zohran Mamdani’s historic win on Tuesday, the New York City mayoral primary took on an unusually refreshing tone: one of cooperation. Shortly before early voting started, Mamdani, a state assemblymember and unabashed democratic socialist,...
The Ballon d’Or, the most prestigious individual prize in football, is awarded annually by France Football magazine to the player perceived to be the best in the world. The winner is chosen through a dual system of voting. Firstly, journalists from France Football and fellow French publication L’Equipe work together to produce a combined list...
New York in Danger of Being Steamrolled by the Rent-Freeze Voting Bloc and Pandering Pols – HotAir
    Left-wing mayoral candidates and a newly launched “housing justice” group are promising a multiyear rent freeze on the city’s nearly 1 million rent-regulated units. That’s more than half the rental apartments in Gotham. It’s a cynical political strategy: Pander to a block of single-issue voters almost too large to resist —...
Jonathan Head South East Asia correspondent BBC/ Natalie Thomas Cardinal David, one of three Filipino cardinals taking part in the conclave, was appointed by Pope Francis “Not even in my wildest imagination did I think this would happen,” said Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, describing the day he found out that he had been appointed a...
Laura Gozzi BBC News Reporting fromVatican City VATICAN MEDIA / HANDOUT Voting desks for 133 cardinals have been set up inside the Sistine Chapel ahead of the conclave. On Wednesday evening, under the domed ceiling of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, 133 cardinals will vote to elect the Catholic Church’s 267th pope. The day will begin at...
Ahmad Al Masri and his wife Ghayda grew up under the shadow of Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship in Syria, where democracy and freedom of speech were only dreams. Now in their 40s and newly Canadian citizens, they are about to vote for the very first time in Canada’s general election. It is more than a ballot...
Seeing federal courts slash away at the Voting Rights Act, some states are seeking to resurrect fallen protections for non-white voters with their own versions of the landmark law passed during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Democratic lawmakers in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey are pushing such legislation this...