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What the Fear of China Is Doing to American Science

In what is becoming a familiar scene in American higher education, a Chinese-born scientist at a high-profile university was recently arrested for his ties to the Chinese government. About a month ago, Gang Chen, a naturalized American citizen and highly respected professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, was indicted by a grand jury for “failing to disclose contracts, appointments and awards from various entities in the People’s Republic of China.

Anissa Jordan Took Part in a Robbery. She Went to Prison for Murder.

Anissa Jordan was born in Oakland, California, in 1968, the last of eight children. For years, her mother’s live-in boyfriend beat and molested her and her half sister Althenia. The girls didn’t tell their mother. “It was our secret,” Jordan told me. When Jordan was in fourth grade, Althenia was murdered. The case was never solved.Jordan was held back in school, started acting out, and was sent to juvenile hall.

Monday Night Owls. Reich: With Trump out, will the U.S. finally bury Reaganism?

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

Robert Reich writes—Out of the Ashes of Trump, Will the U.S. Finally Bury Reaganism? Ronald Reagan convinced the nation that big government was the problem. It was rubbish.

Republican infighting has created a political void into which Democrats are stepping with far-reaching reforms.

‘Enough’: Publix heiress funds Trump rally and worker denied right to wear mask dies of COVID-19

Families are boycotting the Publix Supermarkets chain weeks after The Wall Street Journal reported that an heiress to the chain had a hand in funding the rally former President Donald Trump used to incite the deadly Capitol attack. Julie Jenkins Fancelli, who the journal identified as “a prominent donor to the Trump campaign,” paid $300,000 of the total $500,000 rally, according to The Wall Street Journal.

GOP voters are deeply dissatisfied, driving support for a third party in the U.S. to all-time high

Americans’ support for the formation of a third political party has reached 62%, a 5-point uptick since last fall and an all-time high in Gallup’s polling. Likewise, just 33% of Americans think the nation’s two parties are adequately representing the interests of the public, according to the survey, which was conducted Jan. 21-Feb. 2 (before news surfaced that former GOP officials have been discussing just such an effort).

Local Florida officials pass a resolution to mock a newspaper columnist’s identity and work

As the year continues, Republican officials just keep stooping lower and lower. Using the time meant to be “devoted to county issues,” local Republican officials in Florida attempted to shame and mock a journalist by creating a resolution in her name. The journalist, identified as Isadora Rangel, wrote opinion columns for Florida Today, often criticizing Brevard County officials.