In today’s CapCon:
Did New York issue a commercial driver’s license to an undocumented immigrant, as Rep. Elise Stefanik repeated this week? We fact-check that claim.
President Donald J. Trump has reversed a $187 million cut in counterterrorism funding for New York.
What if lawmakers and the governor had to permanently forfeit their salaries when the state budget is late?
The island of Java is one of several that make up the archipelago nation of Indonesia, located in Southeast Asia. Stay with me.
Java is where most of the Javanese people live. They’re the largest ethnic group in Indonesia, with different sources hovering around an estimate of about 100 million people. That’s nearly half of Indonesia’s population.
This is no small group. They’re predominantly Muslim but incorporate Hindu practices into their culture as well.
Another part of the Javanese culture is their practice of using only one name without a surname. Instead of my name being Dan Clark, it might be Danclark if I was Javanese. Many in that culture simply do not have a last name.
Indonesia, as a whole, recognizes all parts of someone’s name as one thing, called a mononym. They don’t have separate first, middle and last names. It...
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