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Aug 14 2021
Opinion
An Open Letter to Joe Biden on Afghanistan
The situation in Afghanistan is dire. But it is not too late to deploy forces to stabilize it, and ultimately turn it around. We can at least avoid the worst outcome, a collapse and slaughter that would be a catastrophe for the people of Afghanistan and a strategic and moral disaster for the United States.
We know this is doable: General John Allen, who served as commander of the
The Bulwark
Dec 23 2020
Opinion
Trump's media diet is endangering American democracy
President Donald Trump’s media diet is posing a frightening threat to American democracy in the final days of his administration.
The president is reportedly seeking advice and comfort from unhinged conspiracy theorists who are urging him on as he tries to overturn the election he lost, while raging at those who warn against those actions.
In Oval Office meetings over the last
Media Matters
Jul 19 2021
News
Haiti’s acting prime minister Claude Joseph says he will step down amid leadership dispute
Claude Joseph, who has nominally led Haiti as acting prime minister since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, said in an exclusive interview with The Washington Post on Monday that he had agreed to step down, handing over power to his challenger who has been backed by the international community.
The agreement ends a power struggle between two men who had been courting support
Washington Post
Jul 27 2021
News
Arrest Warrant Signed for Texas Dem Who Fled State
The GOP speaker of the house in Texas has signed a civil warrant to arrest state Rep. Philip Cortez, a Democrat who returned to Washington, D.C., on Sunday in an effort to block a Republican election reform bill from being approved by state lawmakers, The Texas Tribune is reporting.
However, the news outlet noted it is unlikely that Speaker Dade Phelan’s signed warrant will have any
Newsmax (News)
Nov 10 2021
News
VA: Religious Exemption Requests for Vaccine Won't Be Challenged
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) will not challenge staff on religious exemption requests for the coronavirus vaccine, the Washington Examiner has reported.
VA Secretary Denis McDonough described such claims as "self-executing" and stressed that the department is not "going to challenge the legitimacy of someone’s claims to a religious [exemption]."
However, McDonough did
Newsmax (News)
Jan 25 2021
News
Trump used his clemency power sparingly despite a raft of late pardons and commutations
Despite a burst of pardons and commutations in his last hours in office, Donald Trump used his executive clemency power less frequently than nearly every other president since the turn of the 20th century, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Justice Department data.
Trump granted 237 acts of clemency during his four years in the White House, including 143 pardons and 94
Pew Research Center
Sep 27 2021
News
Biden plan seeks to expand education, from pre-K to college
As Democrats push ahead with President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion rebuilding plan, they’re promising historic investments across the arc of an education — from early childhood to college and beyond — in what advocates describe as the most comprehensive package of its kind in decades.
The education provisions in Biden’s “Build Back Better” proposal would serve as a bedrock for schooling
Associated Press
Jul 20 2020
Opinion
University’s Return Plan to Classroom Ignores Pandemic’s Impact on Communities of Color
IOWA CITY — In early July, the United States surpassed three million COVID-19 cases. As of July 17, the country has confirmed more than 138,000 deaths stemming from the pandemic. Nonetheless, universities across the country are eager to send students, faculty, and instructional staff back into the classroom.
The University of Iowa (UI), where I am a graduate student and Teaching
Latino Rebels
Mar 19 2020
Fact Check
Coronavirus: Six of President Trump's claims fact-checked
President Donald Trump has been defending his handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States and has now introduced travel restrictions on European countries.
We've fact-checked some of the president's recent claims.
Claim 1 "The US has done a very good job on testing. When people need a test they can get a test."
In early March, the White House conceded that
BBC News
Sep 07 2020
Analysis
What Young, Healthy People Have to Fear From COVID-19
A new philosophy of COVID-19 is circulating through the Republican Party and conservative media. If you look closely, you might notice that it resembles an early philosophy of COVID-19 that circulated through the Republican Party and conservative media: If young people get this disease, it won’t be so bad—and it might even be good.
Scott Atlas, the new White House science adviser and
The Atlantic