A popular joke among leftists on the internet is that Republicans like to put white heterosexual men in power to bomb foreign countries while Democrats like to put people of color, LGBTQ+ people, and women in power to bomb foreign countries. Despite their differences on social and cultural issues, the two major political parties have had a nearly unified foreign policy since the Cold War … Continue reading Let them Google tests
On September 4, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an order temporarily halting residential evictions in the United States. The order, made under the Public Health Service Act, was intended to slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus and was issued in part because states had different levels of protection against eviction. A few months later, Congress authorized billions in rental assistance. … Continue reading Some Americans don’t want the pandemic to end. They have good reasons.
As 2020 came to an end, many of us were celebrating what we hoped would be the better year ahead. These were the days before a last-ditch effort to overthrow the U.S. government and install a permanent Trump dictatorship, remember, and COVID vaccines in the world and a new president inbound, the last thing we wanted to do was confront the daunting morbidity of 2020. … Continue reading More Americans died in 2020 than in any other year ever
President Trump signed, late Sunday, an omnibus appropriations bill in which he did not get a single thing he wanted. He demanded changes to the bill – upping stimulus payments from $600 to $2,000 and scrapping a ton of foreign aid chief among them – but caved after just a few days. That he caved was no big surprise. Trump’s demands were political poison. Republicans … Continue reading The World’s Greatest Negotiator has obtained nothing
Faced with rising COVID-19 cases, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted at the end of November to prohibit outdoor dining countywide. The ban goes much further than nearly any other in the U.S., where outdoor dining is seen as a mostly safe way to keep restaurants afloat. Supervisor Sheila Kuehl voted in favor of it and then went out for one last meal … Continue reading Why do Democratic leaders keep ignoring their own COVID-19 rules?
Arthur Allen When he started researching a troublesome childhood infection nearly four decades ago, virologist Dr. Barney Graham, then at Vanderbilt University, had no inkling his federally funded work might be key to deliverance from a global pandemic. Yet nearly all the vaccines advancing toward possible FDA approval this fall or winter are based on a design developed by Graham and his colleagues, a concept … Continue reading Government-Funded Scientists Laid the Groundwork for Billion-Dollar Vaccines
Katheryn Houghton and Matt Volz October 21, 2020 Just 15 days ahead of the election, Montana Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney laid out his ideas on how he’d handle the COVID-19 pandemic if elected governor. Details were few, but the Democrat’s plan became one of only a handful being offered by candidates in the 11 U.S. governor’s races about how they’ll approach what’s certain to be … Continue reading Despite Pandemic Threat, Gubernatorial Hopefuls Avoid COVID Nitty-Gritty
By Emmarie Huetteman October 12, 2020 The week that Iowa reported its 90,000th confirmed case of COVID-19, Sen. Joni Ernst sat behind a plexiglass partition and told a debate audience watching from home what she thinks about masks. “Even though they’re homemade, they work,” said Ernst, an Iowa Republican, showing off a mask emblazoned with the logo of Iowa State University, the largest university in … Continue reading With Senate Control at Stake, Trump and COVID Haunt Ernst’s Fight to Keep Her Seat
In April, the United States Postal Service drafted a press release to announce that it would deliver, for free, face masks to every household in the country. It was a healthcare effort on a massive scale – though, admittedly, one the USPS has to deliver on every day – “beginning in areas which [the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] has identified as experiencing … Continue reading The White House scrapped a plan to provide free masks because it couldn’t contradict the president’s message
For nearly four decades, local authorities in the United States pursued a policy of sterilization in poor Latina areas. Puerto Rico’s Law 113, a voluntary program that many women there felt they had to follow because of discriminatory practices towards mothers, led to the sterilization of one in three Puerto Rican women by 1965. In the 1960s and 70s, Mexican-American women in the Los Angeles … Continue reading “Everybody’s uterus cannot be that bad”: Is the U.S. sterilizing Latina women… again?
