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May 28 2021
Opinion
Biden’s announcement is the beginning, not the end, of a real covid origin investigation
President Biden took an important but limited step Wednesday toward a genuine investigation into the origins of covid-19. He issued an order directing his intelligence agencies to “redouble their efforts” to look into the two competing hypotheses about the source of the pandemic (a random viral spillover in nature or an accident at one of the Chinese labs studying bat coronaviruses in Wuhan).
Washington Post
Dec 30 2020
News
Americans are worried about the spread of disinformation as belief in COVID-19 and QAnon-related conspiracies attract a substantial minority, poll finds
More than one in three Americans believe in the existence of an anti-Trump 'deep state,' according to a new poll by NPR/Ipsos.
The poll found that 39% of Americans agree that the deep state, a term used by both the president and QAnon, is actively working to undermine President Donald Trump.
Among white men and rural voters, almost half — 49% — agreed with this statement. A
Business Insider
Jul 21 2021
News
Trump ally Thomas Barrack accused of trying to use influence to help United Arab Emirates
Thomas J. Barrack, a billionaire businessman and longtime friend to former president Donald Trump, was arrested Tuesday in California and charged with violating foreign lobbying laws, obstructing justice and making false statements, officials said.
He and two other defendants are accused of acting and conspiring to act as agents of the United Arab Emirates between April 2016 and April
Washington Post
Sep 07 2021
Perspectives Blog
Joe Rogan, Ivermectin, and False Stories: The Weekend in Media Bias
Ivermectin was all over the news this weekend.
Some accused media outlets such as NPR (Center) of peddling misinformation after the media outlet framed ivermectin as a treatment meant for cows, when it also has uses in humans after podcaster Joe Rogan said he took the drug after coming down with COVID-19. Meanwhile, media outlets such as Rolling Stone (Left), MSNBC (Left), and
Julie Mastrine
Dec 04 2020
News
Uber Is Asking the CDC to Give Drivers Priority Vaccine Access
On Thursday, Uber submitted a public comment to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices asking that Uber's ride-hail drivers and delivery drivers be considered "non-health essential workers" and thus prioritized in early distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine.
To bolster its case, Uber cited an advisory memo by the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity &
Vice
Jan 29 2021
Opinion
The First Post-Reagan Presidency
During Donald Trump’s presidency, I sometimes took comfort in the Yale political scientist Stephen Skowronek’s concept of “political time.”
In Skowronek’s formulation, presidential history moves in 40- to 60-year cycles, or “regimes.” Each is inaugurated by transformative, “reconstructive” leaders who define the boundaries of political possibility for their successors.
Franklin
Michelle Goldberg
Oct 30 2020
Analysis
NFL Veteran Connects Race And Abortion
Benjamin Watson has been a regular speaker at prominent events like the March for Life for years, but Divided Hearts of America is the soft-spoken NFL star’s most significant foray into pro-life advocacy to date. More fundamentally, as our disagreements over the rights of the unborn occur in the context of increasingly irreconcilable philosophical divisions, the new documentary is also a
The American Conservative
Nov 25 2020
Opinion
You can ignore pseudoscientific rules and celebrate Thanksgiving responsibly
Politicians and bureaucrats are trying to control and even eliminate holiday gatherings. As a physician, however, I urge you to make your own responsible choices.
Not long ago, Americans wouldn’t have even considered the possibility of government agents entering their homes to cancel their Thanksgiving. Then came COVID-19. Gov. Cuomo has imposed a 10-person cap on New Yorkers’
New York Post (Opinion)
Feb 06 2021
News
The Supreme Court Just Ordered California to Reopen Churches
Late Friday evening, the Supreme Court, in South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom, issued emergency relief suspending California’s broad ban on indoor religious services. The Court ruled that California was “enjoined from enforcing the . . . prohibition on indoor worship services . . . pending disposition of the petition for a writ of certiorari.” The order is limited: Relief was “
National Review (News)
Nov 25 2020
Opinion
The Bleak Public Health Outlook of America’s Coming Coronavirus Thanksgiving
As Americans hunker down for the Thanksgiving holiday, the country hit a series of worrying coronavirus milestones that indicate the virus could be on the verge of spiraling even more out of control. The U.S., for the first time, reported more than a million new cases in consecutive weeks the past two weeks. Over the past week, the U.S. has averaged 173,000 new cases of the coronavirus daily,
Slate