When I read the May 5
New Republic article entitled “Our Friend, the Trump Propagandist,” by Ronald Radosh and Sol Stern, I thought of the novelist Martin Amis and the late critic Christopher Hitchens. They were best buddies, but on at least one occasion they reviewed each other’s work scathingly. In his 2002 book
Koba the Dread, Amis excoriated Hitchens, a longtime self-styled Trotskyite, for soft-pedaling Stalin’s atrocities; in reply, Hitchens savaged Amis’s book in the
Atlantic. You might expect that disagreement on such a topic would have led to an incurable rift; yet Amis and Hitchens remained close, and the former ended up delivering the eulogy at the latter’s funeral.
Updated: 10:25 AM EDT May 18, 2021 By Fredreka Schouten, CNN West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, issued a letter this week urging Congress to find a bipartisan path forward to reauthorize the decades-old Voting Rights Act.The missive to congressional leaders in the House and Senate seeks to break through the impasse on voting rights legislation as Republican-led states around the country erect new barriers to the ballot box. Since enactment, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has been reauthorized and amended five times with large, bipartisan majorities, the senators wrote. Protecting Americans access to democracy has not been a partisan issue for the past 56 years, and we must not allow it to become one now. But partisan battles have dominated voting rights debates in Washington and in the states, and bipartisan compromise appears elusive on any of the federal voting bills.Here s a look at the competing election b
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(Bloomberg) Democrats and Republicans in Congress are in favor of reviving an Obama-era bond program for states and cities to help spur increased spending on infrastructure projects.
(Bloomberg) Democrats and Republicans in Congress are in favor of reviving an Obama-era bond program for states and cities to help spur increased spending on infrastructure projects.
Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon who chairs the Senate Finance committee, said at a hearing of the panel Tuesday that there is bipartisan support for creating a new borrowing program akin to Build America Bonds as President Joe Biden seeks to enact a major infrastructure spending plan. The federal government paid some of the interest bill for such securities under a temporary program enacted after the last recession.
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