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#public-policy

A survey shows that more than half of dogs feel fear at the sound of fireworks Animal owners have already had to deal with the stress of trying to calm their terrified pets during Halloween fireworks displays, but with New Year's Eve likely to feature more of the same, many are hoping for a reduction, or a complete ban, of events of this kind.

Despite its real, devastating impacts across the United States, road rage is only explicitly penalized in a few states, like Utah. The scarcity of not only legal but also clinical treatment guidelines is unsurprising when research remains limited. As a psychiatrist, for example, I have met patients with histories of such behaviors, but not yet colleagues in my profession with expertise on this issue. One thing appears clear, however: Road rage is multifactorial and not traceable to any single cause or diagnosis.

What do these battles have in common: the war on drugs, the war on cancer, the war on poverty, the war on obesity, and the war on terror? If you guessed they're all wars we've largely failed to win, you're right. Consider the War on Drugs-launched in the 1970s with billions spent and countless lives impacted, yet addiction rates remain stubbornly high. Or the War on Poverty, declared in the 1960s, which made progress but never eradicated poverty.

Join renowned political economist and former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich for a timely in-person conversation on the state of American democracy, featuring celebrated journalist Michael Lewis. Drawing from Reich's new memoir, Coming Up Short -a deeply personal reflection on his life and career-and Lewis's latest edited volume Who Is Government? , the discussion will explore the cultural, political, and economic forces that have brought our democratic institutions to a critical crossroads. Together, Reich and Lewis will examine not

In the 1970s and 80s, when it was possible to envisage curbing car use in favour of integrated public transport in Britain's towns and cities, my father, Rob Lane, who has died aged 84, was a leading exponent of prioritising public services and pedestrian safety over the car. As a lecturer in transportation studies at the Polytechnic of Central London in the 1960s he wrote

Unlike the GOP's systematic efforts to disenfranchise voters, Democrats suggest that financial information about bond measures be communicated through voter pamphlets rather than on ballots, which does not equate to voter suppression.

Miriam Gonzalez Durantez is contemplating a move into politics, following a gap in the liberal space in Spain after Ciudadanos' decline. She aims to launch a new liberal party.

"Our passports have been secretly turned into mugshots. The government has taken all of our passport photos and secretly turned them into mugshots to build a giant, Orwellian police database."

The U.S. and its citizens should not be the ones to shoulder the burden of subsidizing the world's access to drugs and biologics. Nor should the U.S. patent system - the envy of the world - be made the scapegoat for the lack of lower drug costs domestically.

A local authority in south-east Spain, Jumilla, has banned Muslims from using public facilities for celebrating Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, citing identity concerns.

Data indicate that eliminating racial inequities in income could boost the Bay Area economy by $348 billion a year.

The reason people voted Labour at the last election is they want to change and they were unhappy with the way that the country was being governed. They know that we inherited a mess.

"They effectively have a blank check," said David J. Bier,  director of Immigration Studies at the Washington, D.C.-based Cato Institute, a libertarian public policy research organization. "With New York I think a thousand agents flying in is a reasonable proposition."

A whopping 87% of Californians are concerned that climate change could increase their home insurance rates, with 60% being very concerned, up from 47% last year.

Hundreds of employees at NASA have signed an open letter criticizing proposed cuts to the agency and condemning policies that could potentially harm the U.S.

Vaping rates fell from 17.5% at the start of 2023 to 14.6% in April this year among children aged 14-17 years, marking a significant decline.