Today's Liberal News
I Struggle to Pay Our Bills. My Husband Just Bought His Dream Car.
He says he just can’t afford to help more.
FDA approves Alzheimer’s therapy despite mixed evidence
The FDA’s decision to approve the drug, siding with industry and patient advocates, raises new questions about whether it is lowering its burden of proof for drugmakers.
Biden’s vaccine push fails to gain traction with African Americans
Less than a quarter of Black Americans have received their first Covid-19 shot. That’s less than other racial and ethnic groups tracked by the CDC.
U.S. senators promise vaccines for Taiwan amid dispute with China
“I’m here to tell you that the United States will not let you stand alone,” Tammy Duckworth said.
The partisan divide in vaccinations is starker than you realize
The effort to reach the unvaccinated has become the latest political fault line in the Covid response.
What Are Harry and Meghan Really Up to With the New Royal Baby Name?
The name’s history may be less interesting than the intention behind it.
What It’s Like to Be a Flight Attendant Amid an “Unprecedented” Surge in Passengers Misbehaving
A flight attendant on how stir-crazy passengers are behaving.
I Can’t Seem to Do the One Move My Wife Really Wants During Sex
She has a suggestion for how to make it work, but I’m not sure it will.
Biden’s back door to wage hikes
Income growth has been relatively strong, particularly in the last couple of months, despite disappointing overall job growth.
Bargain hunters pounce as Trump condo prices hit decade lows
It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.
‘Hard to love it’: Modest job gains leave lingering doubts about recovery
The figure will provide some relief to the White House after the April report, but it’s well short of the pace predicted by many economists earlier this year.
Biden’s budget blowout predicts years of Obama-level tepid growth
Some analysts suggested that the administration is essentially admitting that its proposed surge in federal spending won’t actually boost the economy much at all.
A Biden-friendly economist is creating a big headache for president’s spending plans
The study adds fuel to an intense national debate about what is behind a suspected worker shortage and what policy changes are needed to accelerate Americans’ return to work as the pandemic subsides.
Socialist Teacher Takes Lead in Peruvian Election as Nation Reels from Pandemic & Political Crisis
We get an update from Peru, where socialist candidate Pedro Castillo has pulled ahead of his right-wing rival Keiko Fujimori in the country’s presidential election on Sunday. Castillo is the son of peasant farmers, and a union leader who led a nationwide teachers’ strike in 2017. Fujimori is the daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, who is in prison for human rights abuses and corruption.
Democracy Needs India
When the G7 group of rich democracies assemble this weekend in southwest England, they will discuss issues including COVID-19, taxes, and climate change. One item overhanging the formal agenda, however, will be the global deterioration of democracy itself, and the nation on which this question may hinge won’t be any of the hosts, but a guest invited to this year’s confab: India. Democracy’s fate there may determine its fate throughout the world.
News Roundup: Two government reports dodge accountability for Trump era violence
In the news today: The Keystone XL pipeline project is dead, for now. As the Senate releases a report on the Jan. 6 insurrection so focused on avoiding Republican ire as to be useless, a Trump-appointed inspector general announces that a violent push to clear Lafayette Park in the very moments before Trump announced he’d be taking a walk there was actually just a huuuuuuuuge coincidence.
Dubious educational agency backed by Trump and DeVos is stripped of its powers
Reagan National University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is no longer an accredited university. To anyone with half an education, this is no surprise. The only reason the school had received accreditation in the first place was because under previous Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the dubious Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges & Schools (ACICS) was resurrected to give it the distinction.
Meet the children who Joe Manchin is sacrificing on his altar of bipartisanship
It’s easy for Democrats to become frustrated at the “look at me” antics of Joe Manchin, prima donna senator from West Virginia, as he forces the Biden administration to indulge in a pointless exercise of jumping through hoops for Senate Republicans in hopes of achieving some imaginary bipartisan agreement on the president’s infrastructure bill.
Antisemitism in the U.S. is on the rise again and everyone has a role to play in combating it
On the streets of American cities, Jews are being attacked simply for being Jewish. In my hometown of New York City—home to over 1 million Jews—a man named Joseph Borgen was set upon by a group who “punched, kicked and pepper-sprayed him while shouting antisemitic slurs.” One man was arrested and faces charges for having committed second-degree assault as a hate crime, along with first-degree gang assault.
Wait, Does NYC Mayoral Candidate Eric Adams Really Live in New Jersey?
A late-breaking campaign controversy, explained.
Detained immigrants file civil rights complaint over unsafe conditions amid pandemic
A leading immigrant rights advocacy group has filed a complaint on behalf of two women alleging unsafe, dangerous conditions while in custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at an Indiana facility. They cite crowded conditions amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, guards who won’t wear masks, and insufficient soap to keep themselves safe. One of the women was tested for the virus while detained, but said that officials wouldn’t give her the result.
Jeff Bezos Has Reached His Final Form
Jeff Bezos founded his spaceflight company two decades ago, at the turn of the millennium. You may not have known that, because Blue Origin spent years developing its rocket technology in secret. But by now you’ve probably heard, because Bezos wants everyone to know: Blue Origin is sending passengers to space, and he’s going on the inaugural trip himself.
Trump Photo Op Not The Reason Park Police Cleared Lafayette Square, Watchdog Says
The Interior Department’s inspector general said protesters in the square were pushed out of the area to allow a contractor to install fencing.
Democratic Senate Hopeful In Missouri Mocks Opponent Who Pointed Gun At BLM Protesters
In an ad, Lucas Kunce called out Republican Mark McCloskey, who notoriously pointed a gun at racial justice protesters walking by his mansion last year.
Joe Manchin Can’t Have It Both Ways
Democrats did not like the Fifteenth Amendment.In the late 1860s, as Congress debated the proposal to bar disenfranchisement on the basis of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” Democratic senators and representatives charged Republicans with imposing a vile despotism on the southern states by enfranchising Black men.
Texas Lawmakers Urge Federal Board To Remove ‘Negro’ From Geographic Sites
This is the second time lawmakers have asked the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to approve the name changes. Its previous request, in 1991, failed.
Biden administration to buy 500M Pfizer doses for global distribution
President Joe Biden will announce the plan tomorrow ahead of the G-7 meeting in the United Kingdom.
I’m Wealthy. I Want My Girlfriend to Quit Her Menial Job.
I want us to travel and have more free time. She’s worried about looking like a gold digger.
State Bar Investigating Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
They’re exploring whether his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud amounted to professional misconduct.