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Jan 11 2023
News
The right-wing media push for a debt ceiling crisis is underway
Prominent right-wing media figures are encouraging House Republicans to use the debt ceiling as leverage to extract their political aims from a Democratic White House and Senate. Their hostage-taking approach courts an economic catastrophe and the unraveling of the constitutional order.
Fox News prime-time host and Republican propagandist Sean Hannity used a Tuesday night interview with
Media MattersSep 29 2022
News
Biden Admin Spends Tens Of Millions To Deliver Fiber Internet To Only About 90 Rural Alaska Households
President Joe Biden’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) is spending tens of millions in tax dollars to bring fiber optic internet to rural southeast Alaska.
As part of USDA’s “Reconnect Program,” it awarded a roughly $33 million grant to the Alaska Telephone Company (ATC), the agency announced last Thursday. Fiber will be delivered to 92 households and a total of 211 people and five
The Daily CallerOct 06 2022
News
Feds weigh charges against Hunter Biden, outcome of yearslong case could be 'imminent': source
Federal investigators are weighing whether to charge Hunter Biden with various tax and foreign lobbying violations, false statements and more, with a former official telling Fox News that an outcome to the case could be "imminent."
Fox News first reported in July that the federal investigation into President Biden’s son had reached a "critical stage." Hunter Biden has been under federal
Fox News (Online News)Oct 03 2022
Perspectives Blog
What the 2022 Candidates are Saying About Immigration
Immigration and border security are key issues in every election, and the upcoming 2022 midterm elections are no exception. With the elections approaching, this contentious political issue is once again brought to the forefront as a topic for every candidate to tackle.
Across the political spectrum, candidates see immigration and border security as an area in which reform is necessary
Rose MercerDec 29 2022
News
Cancellation-plagued Southwest has raked in billions from US government for upkeep
Southwest Airlines, which has canceled or delayed tens of thousands of flights this holiday season, has received massive amounts in federal subsidies in the last several years, records show.
Southwest has canceled over 15,700 flights since winter weather began to affect air travel on Dec. 22, far more than any other commercial United States airline, according to records compiled by
Washington ExaminerSep 23 2022
News
11 Climate Activists Arrested at Sit-In Protest of Sen. Joe Manchin’s “Dirty Side Deal”
In Washington, D.C., Capitol police arrested 11 environmental and community leaders Thursday as they nonviolently blockaded the entrance to the Senate Office Building. The sit-in protest came a day after West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin unveiled a permitting reform bill that would speed federal review of energy projects. The legislation would limit environmental and community
Democracy Now!Dec 22 2022
News
'Major failure': Ways and means chairman says IRS program was dormant under Trump
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) blasted the IRS's mandatory audit program under former President Donald Trump, calling it "dormant at best."
The committee's investigation into the program was released after the panel voted to release Trump's tax returns. In a press release about the investigation, Neal levied harsh criticism against the IRS for its perceived
Washington ExaminerDec 20 2021
News
Manchin undercuts Biden, leaving his agenda in limbo
Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) stunned fellow Democrats on Sunday by announcing he would not vote for President Biden’s ambitious climate and social spending bill, which his allies saw as the crowning legislative achievement of his first term.
Biden’s plans to address global warming and wealth inequality will now have to be substantially reworked if they are to become law, with many of his
The HillJan 04 2023
Opinion
Population Growth Still Isn't a Problem. Anti-Immigrant Groups Still Think It Is.
When Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb in 1968, he predicted that the 1970s would see an unavoidable period of widespread famine and death. That decade—and many since—have proven Ehrlich wrong. But that didn't stop him from warning of another impending catastrophe in a Sunday 60 Minutes appearance, claiming that "the next few decades will be the end of
ReasonMar 15 2022
News
How a Murdoch Hopes to Save American Democracy
Over the last decade, as America’s two dominant political parties pulled farther apart, a group of centrist-minded donors was growing increasingly frustrated.
A gridlocked Congress made bipartisan policy wins close to impossible. Campaign-finance reform? The Supreme Court effectively put a stake in it in 2010. Climate legislation? Time and again, it hit a phalanx of Republican
New York Times (News)