Today's news hit like a firehose
Today's news hit like a firehose, which is to be expected after the Thanksgiving holiday. This year, though, that normal firehose is intensified by the news of the new Omicron COVID variant that the World Health Organization has labeled a...
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Weird disconnect caused by voters wanting "normalcy"
Today, Nate Cohn noted in the New York Times that the policies President Joe Biden and the Democrats are putting in place are hugely popular, and yet Biden's own popularity numbers have dropped into the low 40s. It's a weird disconnect that Cohn...
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Guilty on 23 Counts of Murder
On Wednesday, November 24, just before the Thanksgiving holiday, a jury found Gregory McMichael (65), his son Travis McMichael (35), and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan (52) guilty on 23 counts in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery on February 23, ...
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Democracy Risk
The report identifies the United States as one of the democracies that is "backsliding," meaning that it has "experienced gradual but significant weakening of Checks on Government and Civil Liberties, such as Freedom of Expression and Freedom of...
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Talking Points Are Not Enough
The House progressive spoke about "demoralizing" congressional negotiations, how she was told to stay away from Virginia's elections, and what it means to excite the Democratic base. Last year, after Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the Democratic...
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Republican leadership doubling down
Today began with Republican leadership doubling down on its support for Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ), whom the House censured yesterday for tweeting a cartoon video of himself killing a Democratic colleague, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY),...
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