Over the past decade, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz Party have transformed a democracy into something close to an autocracy. Shortly after his first reelection in 2014, Orbán gave a speech outlining his political project.
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He said that “almost all businesses” understand the $600 additional benefit is “a disincentive.
The central bank signaled that it would keep interest rates low through 2022.
The country’s unemployment rate will drop to 9.3 percent by the end of the year, according to the Fed’s forecasts.
States grappling with budget shortfalls are slowly reopening and lifting stay-at-home orders.
“Neither party represents the future that we need in this country — both parties remain connected to corporate capitalism,” Angela Davis says of the 2020 election. “We’re going to have to translate some of the passion that has characterized these demonstrations into work within the electoral arena, recognizing that the electoral arena is not the best place for the expression of radical politics.
The vice president urged state leaders to share the “progress that we are making” while pushing a misleading White House talking point.
“No words can describe what he meant to me and all who knew him,” the Minnesota Democrat said.
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Andrea Germanos at Common Dreams writes—To Support an ‘Urgently Needed Clean and Just Energy Transition,’ 450+ Groups Demand Federal Regulators Rebuff Attack on Community Solar:
Over 450 environmental, faith, and consumer advocacy groups on Monday urged federal regulators to reject a proposal from a secretive rightwing organization that would upend policies seen as “foundational to a
Beyoncé has become the latest celebrity to use her platform to advocate for justice in the death of Breonna Taylor. The 26-year-old emergency medical technician was asleep when Louisville police kicked in her door on a no-knock search warrant and shot her at least eight times even though no drugs were found in her home, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Everything is bad and we can’t have nice things so, instead, please enjoy this long, drawn-out Twitter war between two of the least liked Republican lawmakers in America and … um, famous actor Ron Perlman, for some reason. The pushing-off point was Florida man Rep. Matt Gaetz grunting that well, if there’s going to be be kneeling during the national anthem, maybe we just shouldn’t have soccer at all, you soccer meanies.
Former Buffalo police officer Cariol Horne tried to do the right thing back in 2006. In 2006, a white police officer Horne was working with began choking a handcuffed Black suspect. Horne pulled that officer off of the suspect and was summarily fired for her protection of a Buffalo citizen. At the time, Horne was called out for what higher ups called her “extreme lack of professionalism.
The Trump administration is determined to steal everything it can for the rich in the COVID-19 crisis, and do it in secret. Last week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin decided that information about which businesses are getting taxpayer-funded loans and how much they are getting is going to be kept secret. Turns out, that’s just the start of it.
“We don’t know why he chose Tulsa, but we can’t see any way that his visit will be good for the city,” says the Tulsa World editorial board.
The state representative for Tulsa told HuffPost that the president’s record shows a visit would be a bad idea.
About half of all facilities have yet to be inspected for procedures to stop the spread of coronavirus.
Associated Press1. The Supreme Court ruled that a 1964 civil-rights law protects gay and transgender employees from workplace discrimination.Today’s ruling hinged on the Court’s interpretation of a three-letter word in the Civil Rights Act of 1964—sex. As Todd S. Purdum recounted last year, the word’s inclusion in that bill was somewhat of a fluke: A segregationist member of the House proposed adding it, in what was seen as an attempt to sink the legislation.2.
One Twitter user took the president’s logic to its extreme and suggested, “If you stopped charging people with murder you’d have no murder convictions.
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Extremists have celebrated attacks like these for years. But there’s even more to the story.
The pandemic made it impossible for customers to hang out there—but they already weren’t.
The Trump administration is leaving big gaps in race and ethnicity information.
With millions of people suddenly video chatting their doctors, there’s pressure on Washington to make telehealth a permanent option.
He said that “almost all businesses” understand the $600 additional benefit is “a disincentive.
