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Mar 22 2022
Analysis
Everyone wants forgiveness, but no one is being forgiven
The state of modern outrage is a cycle: We wake up mad, we go to bed mad, and in between, the only thing that might change is what’s making us angry. The one gesture that could offer substantive change, or at least provide a way forward — forgiveness — seems perpetually beyond our reach.
In the public sphere, we’re constantly being asked to weigh in on the question of forgiveness as a
Vox
Jan 16 2013
News
President Obama set to unveil new gun plan
President Barack Obamas wide-ranging gun control plan to be unveiled midday Wednesday is already under attack by the National Rifle Association, which is hoping to keep Congress solidly opposed to any of what the White House is proposing.
Politico
Oct 03 2019
Opinion
The Whistleblower Executive
Every call with a foreign leader is now subject to congressional review.
The impeachment process is barely underway and already some constitutional norms are being trampled without a note of media notice or political concern. To wit, can a whistleblower inside the intelligence bureaucracy override a President’s right to executive privilege merely with an accusation?
That seems to
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)
Jan 19 2016
News
Supreme Court refuses to take another Obamacare case
The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to take up an appeal that says Congress flouted the Constitution by kick-starting Obamacare in the wrong chamber.
Justices have already weighed in on the Affordable Care Act’s mandates, government subsidies and birth control rules, but declined to wade into a bid by a conservative group to scrap the entire law based on the origination c
Washington Times
Jan 17 2022
News
Omicron surge shows signs of easing in states hit early by the fast-spreading variant
Following weeks of soaring infections, the latest Covid surge is showing signs of slowing in a handful of areas hit earliest by the omicron variant — offering a glimmer of hope that this wave is starting to ease.
The U.S. has reported an average of nearly 800,000 cases per day over the past week, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, more than three times the level
CNBC
Dec 12 2013
Opinion
NAPOLITANO: A conspiracy so vast
The conspiracy Edward Snowden revealed is vast - It involves former President George W. Bush, President Obama, their aides, a dozen or so members of Congress, federal judges, executives and technicians for American computer servers, and telecommunications companies and the thousands of NSA employees
Washington Times
Nov 22 2021
News
Everything Shortage to last past Christmas
America's supply chain crisis, which has driven prices higher and made all sorts of goods harder to find, may last long after the holiday season.
The big picture: If goods aren't off a boat by now, it's highly unlikely that they'll make it onto store shelves before Christmas. And there are dozens and dozens of ships anchored offshore at the country's biggest ports.
Around 40% of
Axios
Jan 05 2022
Data
What Percentage of Americans Consider Themselves Overweight?
Forty-one percent of U.S. adults, on average over the past five years, from 2017 to 2021, have characterized themselves as overweight, while the slight majority (53%) have said their weight is about right and 5% reported they are underweight.
The percentage overweight is up from 36% in the prior five-year period, from 2012-2016, but similar to the rates between 2002 and 2011.
Gallup
Jan 05 2022
News
26 states will raise the minimum wage this year
The federal government isn’t moving on raising the minimum wage from $7.25 — but states and cities are.
The big picture: A total of 26 states are set to raise their minimum wage in 2022, according to an analysis by consulting firm Wolters Kluwer.
On top of that, 56 municipalities will bump their pay floors, for a record year of increases, according to the National Employment Law
Axios
May 28 2021
News
WHO says Covid origin investigation is being ‘poisoned by politics’
A top World Health Organization official said Friday that investigations into the origins of Covid-19 are being “poisoned by politics.”
U.S. President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he’s ordered intelligence agencies to conduct “a report on their most up-to-date analysis of the origins of Covid-19, including whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a
CNBC