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Sep 30 2021
News
How much blame does Biden shoulder for immigration struggles?
When President Biden took office, he vowed to “undo the moral and national shame” of the Trump administration’s hard-line approach to immigration. But in the intervening months, though Biden has reversed some of the most controversial policies, he has kept others in place — a tactic that has led to criticism from both the left and the right.
The dynamic came to a head last week in
Yahoo! The 360
Jan 08 2021
News
Wall St ends higher in renewed rally on hopes of further stimulus
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq scaled new highs on Friday as hopes of more stimulus from Washington were shaken by a senator’s comments but later bolstered after U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said his economic package will be in the trillions of dollars.
The latest rally in equities overcame labor market data early in the day that showed the U.S. economy shed jobs for the first time in
Reuters
Jun 17 2020
Opinion
Trump’s one last advantage: Resentment
There are endless reasons to believe President Trump will be unceremoniously kicked out of the White House in November after a four-year experiment in utter lunacy.
The most compelling is this administration’s flagrant incompetence in the hands of one of the worst managers in political history. From bumbling a global pandemic to exploiting and stoking racial divisions, destroying
S.E. Cupp
Apr 16 2020
News
WHO Funding
“President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was cutting off U.S. payments to the World Health Organization during the coronavirus pandemic, accusing the organization of failing to do enough to stop the virus from spreading when it first surfaced in China.” (AP News)
The left acknowledges problems with the WHO but sees funding cuts as counterproductive and dangerous.
The right
The Flip Side
May 07 2020
Analysis
Get ready for the corona coup
House Democrats, flummoxed by their failed attempt to remove President Trump earlier this year, are gearing up for another round of quasi-impeachment with their coronavirus oversight committee.
It’s been just a few months, believe it or not, since the House impeached the President for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, but the moment was quickly overshadowed by the global
The Spectator World
May 28 2021
Analysis
Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory is being taken seriously
Nearly a year and a half since Covid-19 was detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the question of how the virus first emerged remains a mystery.
But in recent weeks the controversial claim that the pandemic might have leaked from a Chinese laboratory - once dismissed by many as a fringe conspiracy theory - has been gaining traction.
Now, US President Joe Biden has announced an
BBC News
Aug 26 2020
Analysis
Americans are falling through the safety net. The government is helping predatory lenders instead.
You might think that right now is not a good time to make it easier for predatory lenders to take advantage of people and trap them in impossible-to-escape debt cycles. And yet.
The United States is in the midst of an unprecedented economic moment. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, and many facets of the economy have been slowed and shuttered as the result of a pandemic. And
Vox
Aug 26 2021
News
The CDC Only Tracks a Fraction of Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections, Even as Cases Surge
Meggan Ingram was fully vaccinated when she tested positive for COVID-19 early this month. The 37-year-old’s fever had spiked to 103 and her breath was coming in ragged bursts when an ambulance rushed her to an emergency room in Pasco, Washington, on Aug. 10. For three hours she was given oxygen and intravenous steroids, but she was ultimately sent home without being admitted.
Seven
ProPublica
Jul 16 2021
News
Banks are Reversing Course on PPP Loans to Small Business Owners
FOR 24 YEARS, Ericka Gray has owned her own mediation and arbitration business in Arlington, Massachusetts, helping organizations navigate workplace disputes. But when the Covid-19 pandemic began, her income completely dried up. “I had no business, nothing for a number of months,” she said. “Everybody was otherwise occupied.”
Her bank, Citizens Bank, kept sending her emails prompting
The Intercept
Jul 16 2021
Fact Check
Did the White House Suggest Cuban Protests Were Only About Vaccines and U.S. Sanctions?
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro claimed in a tweet Monday that the White House suggested that “this liberty movement [in Cuba] is solely about lack of vaccines and US sanctions.”
This tweet came after Biden administration official Julie Chung, who is the acting assistant secretary for the State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairstweeted that the protesters are
The Dispatch Fact Check