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Feb 11 2021
News
‘The country needs you’: Enlisting veterans to fight extremism
Veterans are revered in American culture, making them prized recruits for far-right and supremacist groups. Following the Capitol siege, some former service members hope to use their stature to counter violent nationalism.
Kristofer Goldsmith’s discharge from the Army following a suicide attempt in 2007 sent him spiraling into anger and alienation. The Iraq War veteran, diagnosed with
Christian Science MonitorFeb 17 2021
Fact Check
SciCheck Video: The Facts About Fauci and Masks
In this video, we explain how accumulating scientific evidence ultimately led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change its guidance on the wearing of face coverings to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, continues to be criticized for saying in a March 2020 interview that “there’s no
FactCheck.orgAug 22 2020
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House Passes $25 Billion USPS Bill Opposed by Trump
Members of the House have passed a bill that allocates $25 billion to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and puts a freeze on operational changes at the agency that have been the subject of heated controversy, with Democrats arguing they have slowed mail delivery and are part of the Trump administration’s bid to undermine mail-in balloting ahead of November’s election.
The bill, called H.R
The Epoch TimesJul 11 2018
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OPINION: Enough with the euphemisms. They’re not ‘family residential centers.’ They’re jails.
I spent the Independence Day weekend on a pilgrimage to the Tule Lake Segregation Center, one of 10 World War II American concentration camps. I saw the breadth of an enormous prison camp that confined as many as 18,000 innocent human souls, and I tasted the grit of Tule Lake’s pervasive yellow summer dust. Those held there 75 years ago against their will, solely because of their ethnicity,
Washington PostJul 29 2021
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U.S. Economy Grows Beyond Pre-Pandemic Level
U.S. gross domestic product grew at a 6.5% annual rate in the second quarter, up slightly from earlier in the year, pushing the economy’s size beyond its pre-pandemic level.
The growth came as business reopenings and government aid powered a surge that is expected to gradually slow in coming months, with Covid-19 variants and materials and labor disruptions clouding the outlook.
Wall Street Journal (News)Aug 31 2019
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It’s time to talk about James Mattis’s involvement with the Theranos scandal
Former Defense Secretary James Mattis is back in the public eye with a book to promote, doing interviews and speaking in public about his career in government service.
That’s a golden opportunity to finally ask some tough questions about his prior service on the board of Theranos, a company that allegedly peddled fake blood tests and peddled connections to influential people in the
VoxJul 16 2021
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The fourth wave of COVID-19 cases is here. Will we escape the UK's fate? It's too soon to know.
A doubling of COVID-19 cases in the last two weeks suggests the United States has entered a fourth wave of the pandemic.
No one knows what the next month or two will bring, but the example of the United Kingdom suggests the infection rate could get quite high, while hospitalizations and deaths stay relatively low.
Instead of the virus raging through entire communities, it is
USA TODAYMay 24 2021
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Over the past century, African-American life expectancy and education levels have soared
AT THE turn of the twentieth century, a newborn white American could expect to live for around 48 years. That was 15 years longer than a newborn African-American could expect. Improvements in hygiene, medicine and other public-health measures led those numbers to rise dramatically. By mid-century, life expectancy for African-Americans had nearly doubled, to 61 years, while for white Americans
The EconomistSep 21 2020
Data
A New Way to Look at the Data: Similarities Between Groups of People Are Large and Important
Most published research focuses on describing differences, while neglecting similarities that are arguably at least as interesting and important. In Study 1, we modified and extended prior procedures for describing similarities and demonstrate the importance of this exercise by examining similarities between groups on 22 social variables (e.g., moral attitudes, human values, and trust) within
American Psychological AssociationJul 14 2019
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Republicans ready to dive off a cliff on Obamacare
Republicans have no real plan to establish a new health care system if the courts strike down the Affordable Care Act before the 2020 election. But plenty of them are rooting for its demise anyway — even if it means plunging the GOP into a debate that splits the party and leaves them politically vulnerable.
Politico