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Aug 27 2020
Analysis
The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
Michael Mina is a professor of epidemiology at Harvard, where he studies the diagnostic testing of infectious diseases. He has watched, with disgust and disbelief, as the United States has struggled for months to obtain enough tests to fight the coronavirus. In January, he assured a newspaper reporter that he had “absolute faith” in the ability of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The AtlanticAug 24 2021
News
CIA director meets Taliban leader in highest-level Afghanistan talks yet
Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns met in person with top Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar during a low-publicity rendezvous in Kabul on Monday.
Burns, a former diplomat and deputy secretary of state, traveled to the war-torn capital city of Kabul in Afghanistan for undisclosed negotiations with Baradar, according to reports first shared by the Washington Post. While
Washington ExaminerJul 31 2021
News
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says parents should decide if their children wear masks to school
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday barred local school districts from requiring students to wear masks even as the nation fights a resurgence of coronavirus.
The Sunshine State's chief executive said he disagreed with guidelines issued Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recommends that all students in kindergarten through 12th grade wear coverings when
NBC News DigitalNov 16 2020
News
Major GOP names to help Perdue, Loeffler raise big bucks in Georgia Senate runoffs
Some very well-known Republicans are teaming up help raise money for the GOP candidates in Georgia’s twin Senate runoff elections, which will determine whether their party holds on to its majority in the Senate or if the Democrats will control both houses of Congress in addition to the White House.
Fox News has confirmed that Republican strategist Karl Rove will serve as national
Fox News DigitalDec 11 2020
News
GOP divided by pro-Trump Texas election suit
Senior Republican lawmakers are expressing serious misgivings about a lawsuit the Republican attorney general of Texas is leading against the election results in four swing states, reflecting deep divisions in the party over the legal strategy.
Even as more than 100 House Republicans on Thursday signed an amicus brief in support of the Texas lawsuit aimed at overturning the election
The HillJul 16 2020
Analysis
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp Protects Public Health By Nixing Local Mask Requirements
Yesterday, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp issued an Executive Order striking down mask requirements in at least fifteen local jurisdictions.
While the governor has encouraged Georgians to mask up to prevent the spread of coronavirus, he has called mandates “a bridge too far.” So despite growing evidence that masks work, and Kemp’s own exhortation that people should mask up if they want to
Above The LawJul 18 2013
Opinion
You Are Not Trayvon Martin
His death wasn’t about race, guns, or your pet issue. It was about misjudgment and overreaction—exactly what we’re doing now to the verdict.
SlateMay 19 2014
News
Bipartisan support for background checks
A majority of likely voters in swing congressional districts and states this year support stricter background checks on gun purchasers and the support spans both parties. a new POLITICO poll finds.
PoliticoAug 06 2020
News
Work on hydroxychloroquine delayed promising studies of convalescent plasma
Robust scientific studies on convalescent plasma, a potentially promising COVID-19 treatment, have gotten off to a slow start in the U.S., in part because some researchers were more focused on enrolling their sickest patients in other trials, including some for hydroxychloroquine.
"You always have that hindsight and say, oh man, we should have put our efforts into something else," said
NBC News DigitalApr 16 2020
News
Beneath Trump-WHO spat, a US-China race for leadership
Was the World Health Organization too uncritical of China? Its power to challenge member states is limited, say experts, and withholding U.S. funding amid the pandemic only opens the door to greater Chinese influence.
Late in February, when President Donald Trump was still minimizing the impact he anticipated from the coronavirus on the United States, he had only glowing remarks to make
Christian Science Monitor