By Ethan Young

Another presidential election cycle is underway and familiar debates are breaking out on the Left about whom to support, if anyone. These discussions are often framed by three myths about electoral politics that inhibit the development of a Left opposition to the Center/Right.

Community advocates, environmental activists and local officials came together August 17 on Rockaway Beach to protest the Port Ambrose liquified natural gas facility currently being proposed for the area. Attendees crowded behind a large banner asking New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to veto the project, and speakers at the event described the dangers that such a facility could bring to the region. The project would be built 19 miles off of Long Beach, which was the site of a similar event one week earlier.

As Greeks suffer in multiple ways the effects of the economic crisis their country is going through, Germany has profited handsomely from the Greek crisis. This is a conclusion of research carried out by the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH). The study shows that the Greek debt crisis resulted in a reduction in German bund rates of about 300 basis points (BP). This led to interest savings of more than EUR 100 billion (equivalent to more than 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) during the period 2010 to 2015.

In early June of this year, the State Bar of Texas stripped Charles Sebesta of his law license and formally disbarred him. His crime? Prosecutorial misconduct that led to the wrongful conviction of exonerated death row prisoner Anthony Graves.