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“You Guys Are Not Immune”: Modi Government Cracks Down on Independent Media Amid Farmer Protests

by Contributing Writers
February 11, 2021

Indian farmworkers are continuing to take to the streets to demand Prime Minister Narendra Modi repeal three highly contested agricultural laws. Farmworkers say the laws, which seek to deregulate markets and allow large corporations to set prices, threaten their livelihoods. Dozens have died since the start of the protests, with many deaths caused by the harsh winter as tens of thousands of farmers have camped out in the cold on the outskirts of New Delhi and other parts of the country.

RIP Anne Feeney, Legendary Labor Songwriter, Whose Favorite Place to Sing Was on a Picket Line

by Contributing Writers
February 11, 2021

Anne Feeney, the legendary Pittsburgh folk singer-songwriter and self-described rabble-rouser, has died of COVID at age 69. Her death comes a decade after she joined in the Wisconsin uprising against a draconian anti-union bill and “sang its solidarity song,” remembers The Nation’s John Nichols, who covered the protests and is based in Madison.

“Dangerous to the Republic”: John Nichols Says Trump’s Senate Trial Is Most Important in U.S. History

by Contributing Writers
February 11, 2021

Democratic House impeachment managers laid out their case against former President Donald Trump on the second day of the Senate trial, releasing shocking video from inside the Capitol during the January 6 insurrection. The footage shows violent Trump supporters were just 58 steps away from lawmakers’ offices.

Capitol Attack: Impeachment Managers Build Case vs. Trump with Chilling New Video of Mob’s Violence

by Contributing Writers
February 11, 2021

On the second day of former President Trump’s second impeachment trial, House impeachment managers presented detailed documentation of the events leading up to the January 6 insurrection and shared dramatic new footage of the violence as it unfolded.

Help! My Mom Is Having an Affair With a Woman.

by Danny M. Lavery
February 11, 2021

I don’t want to out her, but I can’t keep this from my dad.

Ask a Teacher: My 12-Year-Old Has Developed a Vocal Tic. How Do I Protect Him From Teasing?

by Carrie Bauer, Matthew Dicks, Katie Holbrook, and Amy Scott
February 11, 2021

I want to make this transition back to school as easy as possible.

If Rush Hour Dies, Does Mass Transit Die With It?

by Henry Grabar
February 11, 2021

Downtowns won’t recover from the pandemic anytime soon. Public transportation must look elsewhere.

Let This Be the Winter You Finally Learn How to Dress for the Cold

by Christina Cauterucci
February 11, 2021

We still have several months of socializing outside. Get yourself some sexy mittens.

‘Clearly not healthy’: Markets are giddy about reopening — and that’s the problem

by By Ben White
February 11, 2021

Investors are pumping up bubbles across markets, with excitement growing about more stimulus and widespread vaccinations.

Even a Conservative Analysis Shows the $15 Minimum Wage Does More Good Than Harm

by Jordan Weissmann
February 11, 2021

The Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the proposed wage hike looks bad—because it was designed to be.

Forget Warm Weather and Low Taxes. Americans Are Moving to Be Near Family.

by Henry Grabar
February 11, 2021

What happens if a pandemic-era trend sticks around?

When Piggly Wiggly Tried to Stick It to Wall Street

by Shiva Nagaraj
February 11, 2021

A century before GameStop, a stock market outsider took on short sellers. It was a spectacle and a disaster.

The Best (but Mostly the Worst) Super Bowl Commercials of 2021

by Justin Peters
February 11, 2021

Weird year.

Larry Summers Has Some Weird Fears About the Biden Relief Plan

by Jordan Weissmann
February 11, 2021

He doesn’t fully spell out why he thinks Congress shouldn’t spend too much, because that would undermine his weird point.

Biden administration to begin shipping vaccines to health centers

by By Rachel Roubein
February 11, 2021

The program’s launch comes as White House officials are trying to address inequities in the nation’s vaccination push.

Democratic lawmakers push FDA to lift restrictions on abortion pill

by By Alice Miranda Ollstein
February 11, 2021

The group notes that the FDA suspended in-person requirements for many other drugs during the pandemic, including opioids.

‘The Democratic version of John McCain’

by By Burgess Everett
February 11, 2021

As the critical swing vote in a 50-50 Senate, Joe Manchin has emerged as the most powerful man in Washington.

U.S. backs Okonjo-Iweala, first woman and African, to head WTO

by By Steven Overly
February 11, 2021

The decision breaks with the Trump administration’s opposition to Okonjo-Iweala and brings the U.S. in line with much of the rest of the world.

Economy will return to pre-pandemic level this year, CBO predicts

by By Caitlin Emma
February 11, 2021

Employment levels, however, will not fully recover until 2024.

Biden confronts the limits of his executive power

by By Megan Cassella
February 11, 2021

Without help from Congress, he has few options to turn the U.S. economy around.

Fed’s Powell warns U.S. economy ‘long way from a full recovery’

by By Victoria Guida
February 11, 2021

“There’s nothing more important to the economy now than people getting vaccinated,” Jerome Powell said.

Trump’s Tweet Attacking Pence Came Right After Learning His VP’s Life Was In Danger

by Contributing Writers
February 10, 2021

A statement from Sen. Tommy Tuberville shows Trump turned his mob against Pence minutes after hearing his vice president had to be hustled from the Senate.

Lawmakers, local health officials decry California’s confusing Covid vaccination rules

by By Victoria Colliver
February 10, 2021

Gov. Gavin Newsom last month abruptly announced the state would play a bigger role in California’s vaccination drive.

Wednesday Night Owls: Young activists shift the focus to ‘intersectional environmentalism’

by Meteor Blades
February 10, 2021

Night Owls is a themed open thread appearing at Daily Kos seven days a week.

Cameron Oglesby at Grist writes—The generational rift over ‘intersectional environmentalism’

New eras are often marked by changes in language.

Whereas the Trump administration was calling natural gas “molecules of freedom,” the Biden administration has gone all-in on “environmental justice.

After General Motors poked fun of Norway in Super Bowl ad, Norway painfully hits back

by Walter Einenkel
February 10, 2021

The Super Bowl is usually good for one thing: talking about the big commercial campaigns that are launched and shown during the night. Sometimes the halftime show is worth a watch, and sometimes the game itself is interesting.

Gabe Ortiz with Michelangelo Signorile on immigration: ‘ICE is testing the Biden administration’

by Dorothy He
February 10, 2021

Daily Kos senior staff writer Gabe Ortiz, a national expert on immigration and Latino issues, recently joined Michelangelo Signorile on his eponymous SiriusXM show to talk about undoing the damage Donald Trump inflicted on immigrant communities, how the Department of Homeland Security has been transformed, and what’s at stake with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Maine hospital gave scarce COVID-19 vaccinations to out-of-state consultants there to bust a union

by Laura Clawson
February 10, 2021

Union-busters who traveled from other states to fight a union organizing drive at a Maine hospital got an extra-special bonus from hospital management: COVID-19 vaccinations. State officials are calling out MaineHealth over that violation of state vaccination policy and basic decency.

Anti-trans bill reaches House Judiciary Committee in red state and the public hearing is emotional

by Marissa Higgins
February 10, 2021

The nation is still facing the novel coronavirus, Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial is underway, and more than 400,00 Americans have died already due to COVID-19. In all of this, a slew of states have found time to push anti-trans legislation. Now, Alabama’s state legislator is considering a fiercely transphobic bill, HB 1 and SB 1, that would make it a felony for physicians to provide transgender youth with gender-affirming medical care.

There Is No Defense—Only Complicity

by David Frum
February 10, 2021

To understand what was at issue in the impeachment proceedings today, it helps to look at a video released yesterday by Senator Marco Rubio.Few Republican officials have more reason to hate former President Donald Trump than the defeated rival Trump so memorably nicknamed “Liddle Marco.” Trump brutally bullied Rubio throughout the presidential primary campaign in 2015 and 2016. Over the five years since, Trump imposed one humiliation after another upon Rubio.

Biden’s challenge: Creating enough tests and sequencing to track the virus

by By Joanne Kenen
February 10, 2021

The U.S. still struggles with basic public health measures a year into the coronavirus outbreak.

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