Why Republicans Are Passing Laws Protecting Drivers Who Hit Protesters
The GOP campaign to take back the streets, even if by force.
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How Does Police Reporting Work When Police Reports Can’t Be Trusted?
The original false account of George Floyd’s murder challenges old habits of journalism.
The Good News About the Insane Real Estate Market
Losing your umpteenth bidding war just might radicalize you.
What Substack Is Really Doing to the Media
The company is targeting one of news organizations’ weak points.
U.S. pledges medical aid for India to combat surge
America also intends to pay for an expansion of manufacturing capability for the vaccine manufacturer in India.
India’s crematoriums overwhelmed as virus ‘swallows people’
For the fourth straight day, India set a global daily record for new infections.
Democrats worry Biden’s hesitation on health care will doom campaign pledges
White House press secretary Jen Psaki further stoked those fears on Thursday when she listed health care as separate from the forthcoming infrastructure pitch.
Biden faces health industry fight over new ‘surprise’ billing ban
There’s a lobbying war over how HHS implements new protections shielding patients from large, unexpected medical bills.
How the Trudeau government plans to meet its climate goals
Chrystia Freeland uses Budget 2021 to reveal Canada’s new emissions target.
Biden’s spending plans collide with a resurgent U.S. economy
The numbers signal the U.S. is well on its way toward a revival, one that’s widely expected to reach record levels of growth later this year.
India’s Moral Failure
This month, Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, India’s capital and home to millions, tweeted that the city was facing an “acute shortage” of medical oxygen.
News Roundup: Census wins and losses; Arizona ‘audit’ looking shaky; boosting childhood nutrition
In the news today: Newly released census data results in some reapportionment surprises an Arizona Republican “audit” of the state’s vote totals is shaping up to be every bit the fiasco it was predicted to be. The Biden administration makes another move to boost childhood nutrition during the pandemic crisis.
Grandmother targeted by ICE is finally able to return home after four years in sanctuary
Nearly four years ago, Juana Luz Tobar Ortega became the first undocumented immigrant in North Carolina to publicly go into sanctuary under the previous administration. Nearly four years later, Tobar Ortega has been able to go home due to new Biden administration priorities, last week becoming the last undocumented immigrant in the state to leave sanctuary.
Why Louisiana’s Saturday runoff was much more than an establishment vs. progressive throwdown
The all-Democratic special election runoff for Louisiana’s vacant 2nd Congressional District saw state Sen. Troy Carter defeat fellow state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson 55-45 on Saturday. Carter will succeed Cedric Richmond, who resigned from this New Orleans area district in January to take a post in the Biden White House.
Many national observers saw the contest between Carter and Peterson (who are not related) as a battle between moderates and progressives.
How Many False Claims Did Biden Make In His First 100 Days Compared To Trump?
The Washington Post’s fact checker tallied all the false and misleading claims Biden made in speeches, interviews and tweets since taking office.
U.S. economic confidence hits positive territory for first time since the pandemic
A Gallup tracking poll found that consumer confidence in the nation’s economy was a net positive in April—+2 points to be exact—for the first time since Donald Trump declared a national emergency in early March 2020.
After the brief national lockdown, Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index dropped to -32 in early April 2020 and has been climbing out of a hole ever since. The latest survey was conducted April 1 to April 21.
GOP Group Is Rating Members’ Response To Trump’s Attempts To Overturn Democracy
The “GOP Democracy Report Card” gives grades to members of Congress based on whether they supported Trump’s lie about the election being stolen from him.
Fresh round of Jan. 6 insurrection arrests range from comical to tragic, but they keep piling up
While Republican officeholders like Kevin McCarthy double down on their strategy of gaslighting the public about what transpired at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a reality check may be in order: As prosecutors themselves earlier suggested, it is now apparent that this event is becoming the largest and most complex prosecution in U.S. history, as the Justice Department made clear over the weekend that it expects to charge more than 500 people in the matter.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom Recall Effort Qualifies For Ballot
The Democrat, who won by a landslide in 2018, must now gear up to fight for his job.
Fox News Anchor Admits Biden Burger Ban Claims Are False
“A graphic and a script incorrectly implied that it was part of Biden’s plan for dealing with climate change. That is not the case,” anchor John Roberts said.
Help! My Grandma Thinks She’s Marrying Toby Keith.
She has fallen for other scams before and lost money, and she doesn’t have much to begin with.
A Revolution Is Sweeping the Science of Ancient Diseases
When Johannes Krause was a graduate student working on the Neanderthal genome in the 2000s, so much of the DNA recovered from the ancient bone fragments came from everything else: the skin cells of excavators and scientists, the bacteria on those humans, the microbes in the soil. To get to Neanderthal DNA, you had to junk the rest.
Levar Burton Schools Meghan McCain On ‘Cancel Culture’
“I think we have a consequence culture, and that consequences are finally encompassing everybody in this society,” the “Reading Rainbow” host explained.
One Vaccine to Rule Them All
The pandemic is at its worst, globally, and expert eyes are trained on the role of new variants. Catastrophic surges are tearing across places where some thought the darkest days were already over. In India, where hospitals are running out of oxygen and COVID-19 cases are increasing exponentially, officials are concerned about a “double mutant” version of SARS-CoV-2 called B.1.167.
The Agony of Watching American Drivers Go Through a New Roundabout
Traffic circles make everyone safer (once you learn how to use them).
Biden admin will share millions of AstraZeneca vaccine doses worldwide
The company has produced about 10 million doses of the vaccine for the U.S. but the FDA has not yet authorized their use.
The Atlantic Announces VP of Engineering Jefferson Rabb and Head of Information Security Kas Mayanga
The Atlantic is announcing two senior leaders who will be joining the company: Jefferson Rabb, who will become VP of engineering; and Kas Mayanga, who will be the publisher’s first VP of information security. Both will begin with The Atlantic next month.Mayanga and Rabb will join The Atlantic’s product, engineering, and growth team, working to support and amplify the journalism, revenue growth, and experiences of The Atlantic’s readers and subscribers.
I’m Terrified of Everyone Knowing My Sexual Business
How do I live my life without becoming the talk of the town?
The GOP Is a Grave Threat to American Democracy
The hope of many conservative critics of Donald Trump was that soon after his defeat, and especially in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection, the Republican Party would snap back into its former shape. The Trump presidency would end up being no more than an ugly parenthesis. The GOP would distance itself from Trump and Trumpism, and become a normal party once again.But that dream soon died.
Biden Recognizes Armenian Genocide of 1915, Despite Decades of Lobbying & Denialism by Turkey
As President Joe Biden makes history by explicitly describing the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a “genocide,” we speak with Peter Balakian, Pulitzer Prize-winning Armenian American poet and professor at Colgate University. On April 24, 1915, the Ottoman Empire began a systematic, premeditated campaign targeting the Armenian people, an unarmed Christian minority living under Turkish rule.