The Dark Side of America

Pro-Palestinian protesters are resorting to ever-louder and intrusive tactics – like shutting down the Golden Gate Bridge during Monday’s morning commute and blocking access to Chicago’s O’Hare airport – as they try to shake US support for Israel and draw attention to the humanitarian disaster in Gaza. The disruptions are raising questions about the limits of free speech and led a US senator to encourage people to “take matters in their own hands.” An activist in Bakersfield, California, blew t ...

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators shut down the Golden Gate Bridge and some of the US’s biggest airports and major highways. Traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area was snarled for hours as demonstrators shut down all vehicle, pedestrian and bike traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge and chained themselves to 55-gallon drums filled with cement across Interstate 880 in Oakland. About 20 protesters were arrested at the demonstration on the bridge and traffic resumed shortly after noon on Monday, according ...

U.S. workers are growing increasingly more detached from their employers, according to new data published Wednesday by Gallup. Less than one-third — 30 percent — of full-time and part-time U.S. employees in the Gallup survey reported feeling engaged at work, dropping 3 points from the 33 percent of workers who said they felt engaged in a survey conducted at the end of 2023. The share of employees who said they were actively disengaged at work remained unchanged in the first quarter of 2024 from ...