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2023 C.E.
March 21 LGBTQ+ Michiganders now have something court rulings alone couldn't guarantee: explicit protection written into the state's foundational civil rights law. By amending the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, lawmakers ensured future courts must contend with clear legislative language rather than judicial inference that could be overturned. That this protection exists only after a political shift is a reminder that civil rights gains can depend on electoral luck. Still, codifying equal protection into a nearly 50-year-old...
2023 C.E.
March 17 Fleet electrification at this scale is genuinely rare — the Postal Service's plan to convert 66,230 of its 106,000 delivery vehicles to electric by 2028 would transform routes touching nearly every American community. Funded largely by the Inflation Reduction Act, the Ford E-Transit vans will be built domestically in Kansas City, Missouri. The transition remains uneven, though, as gas-powered vehicles are still being purchased alongside the electric ones. Large institutional commitments like this consistently...
2023 C.E.
March 17 San Quentin's transformation into a rehabilitation center signals something bigger than one prison getting a new name — it's California betting that healing people works better than punishing them. Norway's approach, where roughly three in four formerly incarcerated people don't return to crime, is the benchmark California is reaching for. The state spends enormously on incarceration while directing a small fraction toward rehabilitation — a gap this plan begins to close. Yet critics who've...
2023 C.E.
March 17 Revumenib offers something genuinely rare: a pill that achieved complete remission in patients with treatment-resistant acute myeloid leukemia who had run out of options. The drug blocks a protein called menin that drives leukemia growth in two specific genetic subtypes, a precision approach that leaves healthy cells largely untouched — and one researchers believe could ultimately benefit hundreds of thousands. Still, experts caution that targeted therapies rarely cure on their own, and approval could...
2023 C.E.
March 16 The new law establishes a broader slate of protections for LGBTQ+ people by defining gender and sex in state law and expanding existing definitions of sexual orientation and gender identity.
2023 C.E.
March 15 Since last August, thousands of Awá have been forcibly displaced or suffered threats, intimidation, torture or forced recruitment by organized crime groups participating in drug trafficking and illegal mining.
2023 C.E.
March 15 Volkswagen's 180-billion-euro spending plan signals something larger than one company's strategy — it marks a turning point for the entire legacy auto industry. More than two-thirds of the budget targets electrification and software, with a battery subsidiary already building factories across Europe and North America. The commitment isn't without tension: Volkswagen lost ground in China to nimbler domestic rivals, a reminder that capital alone doesn't guarantee competitive success. Still, when the world's largest European...
2023 C.E.
March 14 Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said his government is also planning to build new irrigation projects, cut flaring from oil drilling, and ramp up clean energy, aiming to draw 30% of the country’s electricity from renewables by 2030.
2023 C.E.
March 14 The Danish drugmaker will reduce the list price of its NovoLog insulin by 75%, and for Novolin and Levemir by 65%.
2023 C.E.
March 10 Walz's executive order parallels legislation awaiting a floor vote in the state House to make Minnesota a "trans refuge state."
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