Opinion | How Corporations Keep Their Own Workers in Debt
Too many employers are imposing crippling debt on workers. Biden can do something about it.
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The political peril that Biden didn’t see coming
The current inflation spike now appears to be on track to persist deep into 2022.
Opinion | What the Supply Chain Crisis Reveals About American Infrastructure
Politicians like to argue in favor of more infrastructure — and more spending on it. But we can use the capacity we already have in much smarter ways.
Public Citizen Blasts Pfizer for Putting Corporate Profit Over Increasing Access to COVID Vaccines
A damning new report shows that one of the leading COVID-19 vaccine makers appears to have played a role in restricting access to those very vaccines. The report, “Pfizer’s Power,” published this week by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, examines Pfizer’s contracts with the United States, United Kingdom, European Commission, Albania, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Dominican Republic and Peru.
Sen. Joe Manchin’s Opposition to Biden Agenda Backed by History of Putting Corporations Over People
As President Biden negotiates the final size and scope of the Build Back Better Act with fellow Democrats, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has emerged as a major hurdle to his agenda. The conservative Democrat and his family would potentially profit from his opposition to the key planks of the bill, including green energy investment and raising corporate taxes to pay for the package.
How Kyrsten Sinema, Once a Socialist, Is Now Obstructing the Democrats’ Progressive Platform
President Biden acknowledged Thursday his Build Back Better agenda is in jeopardy due to two Senate Democrats: Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. Both senators have pushed Biden to slash in half his $3.5 trillion proposal that would be spent over 10 years to vastly expand the safety net and combat the climate crisis. We take an in-depth look at the two lawmakers, starting with Sinema.
As Murder Trial Begins in Ahmaud Arbery’s Killing, Family Worries About Impartiality of Jurors
We go to Brunswick, Georgia, for an update as jury selection began this week in the trial of three white men who fatally shot 25-year-old unarmed man Ahmaud Arbery while he was out for a jog last year. Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael claim they were attempting a “citizen’s arrest” of Arbery last February when they pursued him in their pickup truck.
Trump Has Weekend Freakout Over ‘Horrible’ Fox News Ads
The former guy had a meltdown over his once-favorite network for running ads critical of him.
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: He wasn’t afraid of any COVID, but Black people? Terrified of those
Facebook is a menace. COVID-19 is a menace. Conservatism is a cesspool. Together, those three ingredients have created a toxic stew of malevolent death and devastation. We can talk about all those things in the abstract, look at the numbers and statistics, and catch the occasional whiff of seditionist right-wing rhetoric.
Gov. Ron DeSantis Offers Bonuses To Anti-Vax Cops To Come Work In Florida
The Florida governor plans to offer $5,000 bonuses to police from other states who refuse to be vaccinated so they can interact with his constituents.
News Roundup: AT&T reeling, but still pro-hoax; Obama singles out Ciattarelli
In the news today: Barack Obama went on a candidate-boosting tour this weekend, and his words for New Jersey Republican Jack Ciattarelli, who is attempting to unseat Gov. Phil Murphy, were especially pointed. (Ciattarelli attended a post-election rally last November premised on overturning the results of the presidential election on Donald Trump’s behalf, labeled “Stop the Steal,” but is now claiming he didn’t know why he was there or what the theme of the rally was.
How a Show as Cynical as Succession Stays Entertaining
This story contains spoilers for the second episode of Succession Season 3. Before he joined Succession, the actor James Cromwell insisted that his character have some scruples. In a recent interview, Cromwell said that the show’s original scripts portrayed the stone-faced Ewan Roy as holding a personal grudge against his brother, the right-wing-media baron Logan Roy.
It Looks Like Trump Is Trying To Trademark ‘Truthing,’ ‘Retruth’ And ‘Follow The Truth’
The attorney who trademarked “Truth Social” before Trump announced his new social media venture is now trying to grab rights to other words and phrases.
California synagogue shooter gets life sentence; you might be surprised by why he hates Jews
On the last day of September, the antisemitic terrorist who in 2019 shot and killed Lori Gilbert Kaye and wounded three others in a Poway, California, synagogue was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. One of the wounded was Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, whose life Gilbert Kaye saved when she jumped in front of him and took the fatal bullet. After that, the terrorist turned his fire on the congregation, and 8-year-old Noya Dahan was also wounded.
Twitter Suspends GOP Rep. Jim Banks For Intentionally Misgendering Trans Official
Dr. Rachel Levine is the nation’s first openly transgender four-star officer and federal official confirmed by the Senate.
Nuts & Bolts: Hey, why don’t you talk about specific voting tools?
Welcome back to the weekly Nuts & Bolts Guide to small campaigns. Every week I try to tackle issues I’ve been asked about. With the help of other campaign workers and notes, we address how to improve and build better campaigns or explain how we can strengthen our party.
Neil Cavuto Begs Fox News Viewers To Think Of Others And Get Vaccinated
“Last time I checked, everyone, regardless of their political persuasion, is coming down with this,” the immunocompromised Fox News anchor said.
‘I am a prophetic dreamer’: California GOP candidate claims she can kill witches through prayer
We all know that Republicans love to take credit for things they didn’t do, but in this case, taking credit for something may be far-fetched. A GOP candidate for California’s Secretary of State claims she helped kill a “witch” through prayer. In a campaign speech at Fresno City College on Oct.
The Most Poetic Marvel Film Yet
The 10 members of the Eternals are the most powerful protagonists in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far. They are neither humans nor gods, but immortal attendants of humanity. And during the 7,000 years they’ve spent living on Earth, they haven’t interfered with civilization’s affairs unless Arishem—a colossal cosmic entity who manipulates seemingly all energy in the universe—told them to. (So, no, they didn’t do anything about Thanos.
The Unfunny Transformation of Joe Biden
President Joe Biden’s long career can be measured in decades, in legislative achievements, and in Saturday Night Live impersonations: Seven different actors have played him over the years. His first send-up on the show happened in 1991, when Kevin Nealon portrayed him as a straight-faced inquisitor of Anita Hill’s sexual-harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas during the the judge’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
Yellen expects inflation to linger, then ease later in 2022
The most recent Consumer Price Index showed prices have gone up 5.4 percent in the past 12 months.
CDC director encourages Halloween trick-or-treating
“If you are spread out doing your trick-or-treating, that should be very safe for your children,“ Rochelle Walensky said.
Poem in Autumn
Illustrations by Miki LoweMay Sarton was a novelist and an avid keeper of journals, but she considered herself a poet above all else. Novels and journals, she said in 1983, are concerned with growth over time, but “the poem is an essence … it captures perhaps a moment of violent change but it captures a moment.” In “Poem in Autumn,” she seizes just that: fall’s fleeting turning point between a memory of warmth and the cold’s inevitable creep.
Palestine Isn’t Ferguson
In the imagination of the Christian West, Jews have been forced to fill every role. For 2,000 years, they have been seen as the ultimate shape-shifters: craven, feeble, abject, weak, and humiliated, but also powerful, conspiratorial, and demonic. They are the prime, indeed fatal, danger to the societies in which they live: arch-capitalists and arch-revolutionaries. Jews are a symbol, a metaphor, an essence.
Dems eye slimmed-down drug price deal to advance social spending bill
Democrats say it’s likely the final bill will involve very limited government negotiation of drug prices.
Biden meets with top FDA candidate
President Joe Biden spoke Friday with Robert Califf, in the clearest sign yet he’s poised to nominate Califf to run the Food and Drug Administration.
CDC gives green light to Moderna, J&J boosters plus mix-and-match strategy
The advisory committee endorsed the FDA’s decision to authorize a Moderna booster for people 65 and older and for all adults who either have underlying conditions or work in high-risk settings.
Insurers look to make Dems’ latest pay-for plan politically toxic
Industry-allied groups have spent $2.6 million on television advertisements opposing cuts to Medicare Advantage since the spring.
Texas asks Supreme Court to let its abortion ban stand
The Justice Department this week asked the Supreme Court to take emergency action that would block Texas’ abortion ban from being enforced while litigation over its constitutionality goes forward.
The Atlantic Daily: January 6 Isn’t Going Away
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Certain moments in history leave long shadows. The January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is sure to be one of them, even though the fallout is far from settled. Not even a year has passed, and already we are seeing glimpses of its disturbing cultural legacy.