President Biden on Friday is set to sign an executive order intended to ensure federal agencies promote strong labor standards such as workplace safety, high wages and pathways to join a union. Biden will travel to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he will visit a union training center to meet with workers and apprentices who have... ... Read full Story
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The state of Texas sued the Biden administration in a bid to block a rule designed to protect the privacy of women living in states that ban abortion who travel over state lines for the procedure. In a suit filed Wednesday in federal court in Texas, the state asked a judge to strike down a... ... Read full Story
First son Hunter Biden released a statement Thursday after he pleaded guilty to nine federal tax charges, saying he did so to “spare" his family from being “publicly humiliated" by a trial. ... Read full Story
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The Biden administration put diplomatic weight behind its Haiti policy with Secretary of State Antony Blinken making an official visit to the beleaguered country Thursday. Blinken is doubling down on Haiti — a diplomatic conundrum that’s stumped Democratic and Republican administrations — 60 days before a hotly contested presidential election in the United States. “It's... ... Read full Story
Former California State Sen. Gloria Romero of San Gabriel/East Los Angeles said "adios" to the Democratic Party this week and registered as a Republican. ... Read full Story
FBI records released on Thursday to Senator Chuck Grassley prove Iran backed an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump and others. ... Read full Story
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“The eagerness to vilify ‘the other side’—usually on social media—complicates the less reactionary work that defines our mission.” — Jerry Brewer, The Washington Post, 11 June 2024
Did you know?
It seems reasonable to assume that the words vilify and villain come from the same source; after all, to vilify someone is—in some ways—to make them out to be a villain. Such is not the case, however. Although the origin stories of both vilify and villain involve Latin, their roots are quite different. Vilify came to English (via Middle English and Late Latin) from the Latin adjective vilis, meaning “cheap” or “vile.” Someone who has been vilified, accordingly, has had their reputation tarnished or cheapened in such a way that they’re viewed as morally reprehensible. Villain on the other hand, comes from the Medieval Latin word villanus, meaning “villager,” and ultimately from the Latin noun villa, meaning “house.” The Middle English descendent of villanus developed the meaning of “a person of uncouth mind and manners” due to the vilifying influence of the aristocracy of the time, and the connotations worsened from there until villain came to refer to (among other things), a deliberate scoundrel.