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Jul 27 2020
News
Yes, Fake News Is a Problem. But There’s a Real News Problem, Too.
What do you call it when a hedge fund buys a local newspaper and squeezes it for revenue, laying off editors and reporters and selling off the paper’s downtown headquarters for conversion into luxury condos or a boutique hotel?
The devastation has become common enough that some observers have resorted to shorthand for what collectively amounts to an extinction-level event. One former
New York Times (News)Aug 19 2021
News
Those Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers Probably Don’t Help and May Make Things Worse
Covid precautions have turned many parts of our world into a giant salad bar, with plastic barriers separating sales clerks from shoppers, dividing customers at nail salons and shielding students from their classmates.
Intuition tells us a plastic shield would be protective against germs. But scientists who study aerosols, air flow and ventilation say that much of the time, the barriers
New York Times (News)Dec 10 2020
News
Tech Sector Update
On Wednesday, “YouTube [said] it will start removing newly uploaded material that claims widespread voter fraud or errors changed the outcome [of the presidential election].” (AP News)
“The U.S. government and 48 states and districts sued Facebook Wednesday, accusing it of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller competitors and seeking remedies that could include
The Flip SideApr 05 2021
Analysis
Republicans mobilize for showdown that will help define the Biden presidency
A defining political clash took shape Sunday over Joe Biden's latest effort to reshape the US economy, with Republicans mobilizing against a massive infrastructure plan that could put the President in historic Democratic company.
GOP office holders launched a broad assault on the package, arguing it was too expensive and was stuffed with overly partisan programs that had nothing to do
CNN DigitalDec 16 2021
Headline Roundup
Biden's Build Back Better Bill Delayed Amid Opposition
Stalled negotiations between President Joe Biden and a key centrist Democrat will likely delay passage of Biden's $1.75 trillion spending plan until 2022.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), a moderate Democrat, has for months been one of the bill's prominent detractors, and his reservations about the spending plan were a primary reason for its pricetag being cut down from the original $3.5
CNBC CNN Digital The Daily CallerJun 07 2019
News
Dems set to use McConnell's legislative graveyard against him
House Democrats are hoping to use Sen. Mitch McConnell's “legislative graveyard” as a messaging tool to topple GOP candidates in 2020.
McConnell (R-Ky.), the Senate majority leader, is embracing his role as a roadblock to the Democrats' legislative agenda, casting himself as the “Grim Reaper” poised to kill the Democrats’ top policy priorities. The barrier has frustrated Democrats as
The HillDec 17 2019
News
Johnson Rules Out Extension as EU Warns of Cliff: Brexit Update
Boris Johnson spooked markets by putting the threat of a no-deal Brexit back on the table. His plan to change the law to ensure the transition phase in the U.K.’s divorce from the European Union is not extended past Dec. 31, 2020 triggered a sharp fall in the pound and a warning from the bloc to prepare for a new “cliff-edge situation.”
Key Developments: Prime minister plans to change
BloombergSep 02 2021
Analysis
What’s in the new Republican voting law that passed in Texas?
On August 31, both houses of the Texas Legislature passed an elections bill that inspired many of the state’s elected Democrats to flee Texas in an unsuccessful attempt to block the bill. The Texas Constitution requires two-thirds of each house’s members to be present in order to approve legislation, so Democrats delayed passage of this bill by preventing the state House from achieving a
VoxMay 26 2021
News
Georgia park wants to ‘tell the truth’ about world’s largest Confederate monument. Others want it gone.
A record number of Confederate memorials fell last year amid a push to reject racism after the killing of George Floyd — but the biggest Confederate monument in the world still stands in Georgia, just a short drive from Atlanta. Carved into a mountain, Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and Jefferson Davis tower over visitors to a state park.
Then there are the Confederate flags
Washington PostDec 05 2021
Opinion
Immigration Isn’t the Issue — National Identity Is
Among the species that populate the American political marshland, we are paying too much attention to the youngest. Pollsters were first sighted at the end of the previous century, but this non-native kind has since proliferated. Earlier this year, when the journalists (indigenous animals, by comparison) turned to the focusing event at the southern border that is still occurring, Echelon
The American Spectator