As part of the process of Brexit – the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union – the country has had to grapple with a complicated topic. Under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, residents of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have a right to move freely across the national boundary between them. This was fine when both countries were in the European Union, … Continue reading What to do when your predecessors dislike you
Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News and Margo Snipe, Tampa Bay Times CLEARWATER, Fla. — Betty Jones voted for President Donald Trump in 2016, but the lifelong Republican has her doubts she will do it again this year. The federal response to the coronavirus pandemic that has killed about 200,000 Americans and forced older adults to restrict their activities has her contemplating a leadership change. It … Continue reading Trump-Biden Race Could Hinge on How Florida’s Pinellas County Swings
Sure enough, a vacancy on the highest court in the United States has appeared. Far from being merely in an election year – as happened in 2016 – this vacancy has occurred during the election itself, a time when the political work of government comes to a slow drip while elected officials wait to see who has won the hearts and minds of the country. … Continue reading The hypocrisy is the point
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
Testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee Thursday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the U.S. has seen an effort by Russian-backed actors to interfere in the election but that those efforts do not appear to have been fruitful. But Wray also said he’s not as worried about foreign interference as he is about collapsing confidence in the integrity of American elections. “The steady drumbeat … Continue reading FBI Chief: Fear of rigged election in U.S. is “a perception, not a reality”
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?
Late Sunday, the news dropped that ByteDance, the Cayman Islands-based but Beijing-headquartered parent company of the popular app TikTok, had picked Oracle to … do something. The initial news centered about how Oracle, a company that doesn’t really compete in the social media space or the advertising space, had beaten out companies like Microsoft – owner of LinkedIn and a fairly large advertising kingdom – … Continue reading The TikTok sale is getting weird
Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News September 10, 2020 The public is deeply skeptical about any coronavirus vaccine approved before the November election, and only 42% would be willing to get a vaccine in that scenario, according to a new poll. The results of the poll by KFF reveal widespread concern that the Trump administration will bring pressure on drug regulators to approve a vaccine before … Continue reading Most Adults Wary of Taking Any Vaccine Approved Before the Election
PART ONE: EVERYTHING IS ABOUT COVID NOW As the COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly across the country and the death count in the U.S. crossed 100,000, observers noted the indifference that the Trump administration had to the whole thing. Whether by incompetence or by malice, the federal government seemed to be incapable of addressing the pandemic or showing any human emotions about it. “But wait,” said … Continue reading 9/11, Nineteen Years Later
Welcome to our recurring series “Who The Fuck Are All These Fucks?” in which we profile, in brief, each of the 2020 candidates for president. This series is not meant to be exhaustive, and you’re encouraged to look into each candidate on your own. NAME: Deval Laurdine PatrickAGE: 63CURRENT JOB: Managing Director, Bain CapitalPREVIOUS JOB: 71st Governor of MassachusettsWHY IS THIS HAPPENING?: To make “ok … Continue reading 2020 Candidates: Deval Patrick
