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Jul 20 2020
Analysis
America is sleepwalking toward economic catastrophe
The country is ambling toward a cliff, putting millions of Americans’ lives and livelihoods in danger and all but ensuring prolonged economic distress nationwide. It didn’t have to be this way. Yet here we are, unable to shake out of it.
The Covid-19 pandemic tossed much of the US economy into disarray earlier this year. Millions of Americans lost their jobs, and businesses across the
Vox
Jul 20 2020
Opinion
Brace for the Backlash
According to science, which we recently learned is racist except when it is useful to the libs, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Putting aside the gender and pallor privilege of Sir Isaac Newton that has the sociology students in Goucher College’s “Physics for Liberal Arts Majors and other Dummies" course literally shaking, his Third Law of Motion provides a glimpse of
Townhall
Apr 09 2020
News
Another 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week
Another 6.6 million people filed for unemployment benefits last week, according to the US Department of Labor, as American workers continue to suffer from devastating job losses, furloughs and reduced hours during the coronavirus pandemic.
It was the second largest number of initial unemployment claims in history, since the Department of Labor started tracking the data in 1967.
CNN Digital
Feb 27 2017
News
3,000 from seven banned countries arrived in days after extreme vetting halted
The U.S. did see a surge of people entering from the seven terrorism-connected countries in the days after a federal judge halted President Trump’s extreme vetting policy, according to government statistics that back up Mr. Trump’s claims of a “big increase in traffic.”
Washington Times
Dec 09 2019
News
At War With The Truth
U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.
Aconfidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become
Washington Post
Mar 05 2020
Analysis
The Establishment Strikes Back
In the span of 72 hours, a candidate who had never won a single state in three fumbling bids for the presidency has muscled his way to the top of the Democratic field. Former Vice President Joe Biden had the greatest night of his lifelong quest for the White House tonight, winning major Super Tuesday prizes after an improbable late surge in the polls.
On Saturday, Biden trounced Senator
The Atlantic
May 03 2017
News
Mulvaney responds to Jimmy Kimmel's health care plea
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney responded Wednesday to a heartfelt appeal to lawmakers by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel that children not be denied care because of pre-existing conditions – with Mulvaney saying he agrees, and Republicans aren’t looking to kick people off their health care.
Fox News Digital
Dec 17 2015
News
Why swing voters are vanishing from US politics
People no longer switch allegiances between parties from election to election, adding to the rise of more-extreme candidates and changing the nature of campaigns.
Christian Science Monitor
Oct 03 2015
News
#MemeOfTheWeek: That Article From The Onion About Mass Shootings
You might have seen the article by now: "'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.'" The Onion, a satirical news site that runs fake news stories, has published a story with that headline three times over the last year and a half: this week after a shooter killed nine people at an Oregon community college; in June of this year after a violent rampage in a black
NPR (Online News)
Jan 05 2019
News
Democrats to honor sad anniversary in introducing gun background checks bill on Tuesday
Tuesday is January 8, the eighth anniversary of the shooting that nearly killed then-Rep. Gabby Giffords and did kill six people. And on Tuesday, House Democrats are introducing H.R. 8, a bill to require universal background checks for gun sales.
Giffords will join Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Mike Thompson,, the head of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, in introducing the
Daily Kos