Category: Politics

Who The Fuck Are All These Fucks

A Very Special Episode of Who The Fuck Are All These Fucks: Andrew Cuomo

Update 8/10/21 12:12 PM: Andrew Cuomo has resigned as Governor of New York. The original article continues below. Assuming we can get this article up fast enough, Andrew Cuomo is the 56th and current Governor of New York, the fourth most populous state (California, Texas, and Florida) and the dominant state of the American northeast (sorry, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, but it’s true). Cuomo’s tenure in … Continue reading A Very Special Episode of Who The Fuck Are All These Fucks: Andrew Cuomo

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Health in America

Hemmed In at Home, Nonprofit Hospitals Look for Profits Abroad

By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News Across the street from the Buckingham Palace Garden and an ocean away from its Ohio headquarters, Cleveland Clinic is making a nearly $1 billion bet that Europeans will embrace a hospital run by one of America’s marquee health systems. Cleveland Clinic London, scheduled to open for outpatient visits later this year and for overnight stays in 2022, will … Continue reading Hemmed In at Home, Nonprofit Hospitals Look for Profits Abroad

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Politics

After two decades, Congress is repealing the president’s nearly unlimited war power

9 /11 was, for those who remember it vividly, terrifying. It’s right there in the world “terrorism.” On that day, and in the days and weeks after, it was hard to fathom that this was the same year we were introduced to “Island in the Sun.” It was a different world – a scarier world. And Americans have pretty much just the one response to … Continue reading After two decades, Congress is repealing the president’s nearly unlimited war power

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COVID-19, Politics

Some Americans don’t want the pandemic to end. They have good reasons.

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.

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Politics, Quickie

Surprise, Mitch McConnell’s big pitch for the midterms is “I won’t confirm a Supreme Court justice”

Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader and close relative of Grimace, has his big pitch for why voters should support Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections. If you think that pitch is “we will work hard to improve things for the good of the nation,” you have been asleep for a few decades. No, no, McConnell says that he wouldn’t confirm a Supreme Court justice and … Continue reading Surprise, Mitch McConnell’s big pitch for the midterms is “I won’t confirm a Supreme Court justice”

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Politics

It’s been a while since we checked in on former president Donald – oh, no

George W. Bush, a fan of famed British politician Winston Churchill, was inspired by Churchill’s essay “Painting as a Pastime” to take up the art of painting himself. Painting has given him something to do since leaving the White House in 2009; Bush is now 74 years old, younger than the current president and his immediate predecessor and although ARTnews described him as “inelegant” and … Continue reading It’s been a while since we checked in on former president Donald – oh, no

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Politics

We already have a multiparty system. We should act like it.

Two-hundred and nineteen of the current members of the U.S. House of Representatives are members of the Democratic Party. Two-hundred and eleven are members of the Republican Party. In many countries, this would imply that roughly half of MCs are aligned with one party and roughly half are aligned with the other party. Like so: This is the way we almost always think about, discuss, … Continue reading We already have a multiparty system. We should act like it.

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Politics

Or we could just add more House seats

There are now 331 million Americans, the U.S. Census Bureau says. That means big changes are coming for the fifty states, which each receive a slightly different allotment of government funds based on their respective populations. But each state also gets a certain number of members of the U.S. House of Representatives based on an approximate formula that starts with each state getting one member … Continue reading Or we could just add more House seats

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COVID-19

More Americans died in 2020 than in any other year ever

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

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Our Long National Nightmare

House Republicans propose solution to DC statehood: strip it of its electoral votes

D.C. residents have been vocal for decades about how the city has a larger population than several states but limited self-government of its own. In recent years, they’ve gained the attention of Democrats nationwide who have slowly taken up the cause for D.C. statehood. Democrats might be into D.C. statehood because they’ve been coming around to Puerto Rico statehood (arguably more so than Puerto Ricans … Continue reading House Republicans propose solution to DC statehood: strip it of its electoral votes

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