Britain’s Economic Unraveling May Be Boris Johnson’s Real Legacy
Much of the world is reeling from high inflation and sluggish economic growth, triggered in part by the pandemic, and the energy and food crises that Russia’s war against Ukraine has exacerbated. However, some countries are doing worse. Britain is especially vulnerable after Brexit. It is isolated from its erstwhile European partners, its European imports […]
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Biden Administration Has No Plan for Monkeypox Vaccine Access in Prisons
Original publication by The 19th. Aziza Ahmed describes it a public health catastrophe: A lot of people living in tight quarters, insufficient healthcare, staff coming to and going, and no vaccines. Ahmed is a Boston University Professor of Law and an expert in legal issues related to health. Ahmed is one of a number of […]
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Poll Finds 3 in 4 Voters Want to Expand Social Security By Taxing the Rich
New polling finds that bipartisan majorities of voters support plans to expand Social Security by taxing the rich, showing that the public overwhelmingly backs Democrats’ recent proposals to bring stability and funding to the program. Data for Progress conducted a poll last month found that 81 percent of respondents strongly or somewhat support Democrats’ plans […]
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The Far Right Doesn’t Want to Defund FBI. They Want It to Follow Their Orders.
“Defund the FBI” is the growing call by Republicans after the FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Alex Vitale, the author of The End of PolicingHe outlines reasons to defund it. FBIThey have nothing to do Trump. Vitale examines the history and development of the FBI, which he says has “always been a […]
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Biden Is Using Law Enforcement to Cling to Power
Tucker Carlson is a Fox News host eviscerated the Biden administration Monday night for using law enforcement to target its political adversaries, most recently with the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home. “This could get very bad, very fast and the Biden people know that perfectly well,” Carlson told viewers. “They know what […]
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Comment: Sustainable gas is part of the answer to Russia’s gas squeeze
It is better to deal with the problem at source than with its symptoms. Yet European governments vary widely in their response to the Russian gas supply shortage, the principal cause of Europe’s cost of living crisis. Germany and others are working to curb demand. They also plan to increase supply by sustainable biogas. Despite […]
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Workers face the largest pay slump in years
New figures show that the average wage has fallen by 3% since 2001, when records began. This is the fastest fall since 2001. The Office for National Statistics stated that the average annual increase in average pay was 4.7% in the three-month period ending June. This was against a background of low unemployment and high […]
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Greta Van Susteren Dissects FBI’s Raid on Trump Home
Many questions remain unanswered since the FBI’s Aug. 8 raid on the Florida home of former President Donald Trump. “First of all, make no mistake about it. There are rules that the president is not supposed to keep records,” veteran journalist and lawyer Greta Van Susteren says. “The public records—I’m talking about the non-classified ones—do […]
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Comment: Keir Starmer is out of excuses on drug policy reform
Major new polling from the APPG for drug policy reform demonstrates the extent to which the public are ahead of politicians on embracing changes to our drug laws, and adds to a growing body of evidence dismissing the caricature of the ‘red wall’ as a socially conservative backwards-land. The researchThe poll, conducted by Redfield and […]
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What Happened and What’s Next
It was quite a week! On Aug. 8, roughly 30 federal agents executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida home of former President Donald Trump – an unprecedented action. While Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray have acknowledged approving the filing of the search warrant application–which was approved by a federal […]
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