Former FDA Commissioner: U.S. Can Still ‘Catch Up’ On Monkeypox
“I think there’s a potential to get this back in the box, but it’s going to be very difficult,” Scott Gottlieb said Sunday.
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News Roundup: Senate passes Inflation Reduction Act; Amnesty International report sparks outrage
The evenly divided Senate finally, finally passed the reconciliation package known as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 today. The vote was 51-50 along party lines, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie breaking vote. The package provides at least a starting point for climate mitigation actions, and represents a much-scaled-back version of the climate bill that Sen. Joe Manchin killed earlier in the Biden administration.
Unified Democrats pass critical climate and healthcare bill in face of Republican blockade
The Senate has voted to approve the reconciliation measure known as the Inflation Reduction Act today, after spending well over 24 hours in continuous session so that senators could offer amendments that had no chance of passing. The final vote was 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie breaking vote. A last-minute change backed by Sen.
Ukraine Update: Logistics, yet again; Amnesty International issues non-apology apology
Ukrainian fury over a report from Amnesty International released last week—a report that blames the Ukrainian military for fighting in urban areas, as they fight to keep Russia from capturing those same urban areas—doesn’t look like it will be abating anytime soon. Already a high-profile resignation has taken place, and there may be other fallout.
Watch/Listen: J and L pods come together for a sunny July visit to San Juan Island’s west side
FRIDAY HARBOR, Washington—So far, the summer of 2022 has been the most encouraging season in at least six years in terms of restoring the health of the Southern Resident killer whales’ native summer habitat in the Salish Sea. The last time the SRKWs visited as frequently as they have this year was 2016, a season that was shadowed by death and decline.
In 2022, they’ve been frequent though not entirely regular visitors to the Salish Sea and the San Juan Islands.
Monkeypox vaccine rollout stigmatizes gay men and ignores other marginalized communities
by Umme Hoque
This article was originally published at Prism
People across the country are melting in the summer heat as they wait for access to a vaccine for monkeypox, the nation’s latest health crisis.
Biden Expresses Solidarity With Muslim Community After Albuquerque Killings
President Joe Biden’s response comes two days after a fourth Muslim man was found dead in what New Mexico’s governor called a “targeted” attack.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘No One Can Convince Me’ Jan. 6 Rioters Weren’t Antifa
The 2020 election conspiracy theorist added that those criminally charged “for things they shouldn’t have done” during the Capitol attack are being unfairly treated.
History’s Greatest Obstacle to Climate Progress Has Finally Fallen
Updated at 5:19 p.m. on August 7, 2022
Climate change was born as a modern political issue in the United States Senate. On a hot June day in 1988, a senior NASA scientist warned a Senate committee that global warming, which was previously mooted only as a hypothesis, was not only real but already under way. “It is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here,” James Hansen said.An auspicious start, and an ironic one.
Senate Democrats Pass Sweeping Climate And Health Care Bill
The Inflation Reduction Act is poised to give President Joe Biden another major legislative victory ahead of November’s midterm elections.
GOP Objections Kill Proposed Cap On Insulin Costs In Private Insurance
Senate Democrats needed 10 Republican votes following a Parliamentarian ruling. They got only seven.
September Cover Story by Caitlin Dickerson Exposes Secret History of Trump Administration’s Family-Separation Policy
In an extensive investigation that is the cover story of The Atlantic’s September 2022 issue, staff writer Caitlin Dickerson provides the definitive account of the Trump administration’s family-separation policy, called Zero Tolerance: She lays out in painstaking detail one of the darkest chapters in recent U.S.
Escaping the Patriarchy for Good
On a cool spring evening, a woman prepares risotto in the spartan kitchen of a hunting lodge, eats it alone, and scoops some out for the dog. The next morning, she makes a startling discovery: At some point during the night, an invisible, impermeable barrier has appeared outside, dividing her from much of the Austrian countryside. She calls it, simply, “the wall.” When she presses her hand to it, it feels “like a windowpane.” She beats it with her fist; it holds.
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Fraud is the killjoy at the telehealth party
Congress is rushing to maintain telehealth access it promoted during the pandemic, but some fear virtual medicine without safeguards could enable fraud.
Clinton-era FDA commissioner to lead external review of key agency offices
Jane Henney will be spearheading the Reagan-Udall Foundation’s evaluation of the FDA’s food safety and tobacco divisions.
Pharma group leader says Dems who vote for reconciliation bill ‘won’t get a free pass’
PhRMA CEO Steve Ubl says the group is still fighting hard against the drug pricing provisions, but is making contingency plans — and promises — should reconciliation become law.
Biden administration declares monkeypox a public health emergency
The moves aim to speed up distribution of vaccines amid criticism of the federal government’s response.
The Deepening Mystery of Kyrsten Sinema
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona said that she’ll sign on to the Democrats’ climate bill—after advocating for a few adjustments that she apparently didn’t care to explain to anyone.But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
Fish Oil Is Good! No, Bad! No, Good! No, Wait
At first, it was all very exciting. In 1971, a team of Danish researchers stationed on Greenland’s northwest coast found that a local Inuit community had remarkably low levels of diabetes and heart disease. The reason, the researchers surmised, was their high-marine-fat diet—in other words, fish oil. Incidence of heart disease, which once afflicted relatively few Americans, had shot up since the turn of the century, and here, seemingly, was a simple solution.
Where the Fed’s inflation-crushing campaign may hurt the most
As the U.S. central banks raises interest rates, the rest of the world is feeling the squeeze.
Biden enters the Always Be Closing phase of his first term
Suddenly, overnight, real progress has been teed up for the White House.
Biden touts record jobs but faces new headwinds as GDP shrinks
Republicans are poised to cast aside all the economic technicalities and bash Democratic candidates up and down the midterm ballot over an economy that is already deeply unpopular with voters in both parties.
Albert Woodfox in His Own Words on 43 Years in Solitary, the Black Panthers & Fighting Injustice
Albert Woodfox, who was held in solitary confinement longer than any prisoner in U.S. history, has died at the age of 75 due to complications tied to COVID-19. The former Black Panther and political prisoner won his freedom six years ago after surviving nearly 44 years in solitary over a wrongful murder conviction of a prison guard. Fellow imprisoned Panthers Herman Wallace and Robert King were also falsely accused of prison murders, and they collectively became known as the Angola 3.
DOJ Charges Cops for Breonna Taylor’s Killing. Why Didn’t Kentucky’s AG Daniel Cameron Do the Same?
The Department of Justice has announced federal criminal charges against four former and current Louisville police officers over their roles in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. The charges come after the state of Kentucky failed to prosecute any police officers for Taylor’s death, despite nationwide Black Lives Matter demands to investigate.
Hungary PM Viktor Orbán Addresses CPAC as American Right Embraces His Authoritarian Rule
We speak with international affairs scholar Kim Lane Scheppele on the rise and fall of Hungary’s constitutional democracy and how Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has gained popularity among the American right ahead of his speech today at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “Orbán presents, especially for the American right, a kind of irresistible combination of culture war issues,” says Scheppele.
Ukraine Update: Oh goodie, the Tankies are losing their minds over Pelosi and NATO
It’s always interesting peering into the Tankie alternate reality, so let’s check in this Saturday morning. For those of you who don’t know, the Tankies oppose American imperialism (so far so good), but think only America can be imperialist. It looks like this:
If you’re on the side of the US empire on any issue you are on the wrong side.
Therapists flee Kaiser as mental health patients languish
With the health giant again under scrutiny by California regulators for alleged denial of care, many therapists are leaving for private practice.
By Jack Ross and Kristy Hutchings, for Capital and Main
When Susan Whitney was a therapist at Kaiser Permanente, her colleagues missed working in prison. Whitney’s coworkers first practiced mental health care in the region’s penitentiaries before joining the state’s largest health care provider.
Overstretched ‘sandwich generation’ caregivers need more support
by Pamela Appea
This article was originally published at Prism.
Julie Ramos first realized her husband’s forgetfulness was far more serious than she had previously suspected the day he and their then 6-year-old daughter got lost in Mexico City while walking in a familiar location near their relatives’ home. Ramos, who is using a pseudonym, ended up having to call the police to find her husband and daughter.