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Biden’s Victory: A Eunuch Presidency Beckons Biden’s Victory: A Eunuch Presidency Beckons Whatever was set to happen on November 3, President Donald J. Trump would not lose.  Falling in that establishment firebreak against democracy known as the Electoral College would not erase, let alone repudiate him.  His now victorious opponent, far from convincing, strengthened by only one fact – not being Trump – remains a projection of all the unresolved problems of the republic. A Joe Biden ...

Biden pledges vaccines for all by August Administering Covid vaccines in St. Albans, W.Va. What happened With new daily cases of Covid-19 in the U.S. falling to their lowest level since October and the pace of vaccinations accelerating, President Biden this week sought to temper expectations about the pandemic’s end by saying that coronavirus shots should be available for all adults by late July—and a return to normal life possible by Christmas. The vaccination rate climbed 11 percent...

Your right-wing relatives think advocates of green energy caused the Texas blackouts. They are, as usual, wrong.

The hot economic debate of the moment is over the size of President Joe Biden’s pandemic relief plan and fears, raised by economists Larry Summers and Olivier Blanchard, that it might be so large as to cause the economy to overheat and result in surging inflation. Over at New York magazine’s Intelligencer, Eric Levitz puts that debate into some important historical context. In doing so, he also lays out the significance of recent policy shifts by the Federal Reserve and of Fed Chai...

Facing a tough legislative task, arguably the Democrats' most important ally is the man Trump and Senate Republicans chose to lead the Federal Reserve.

ILLUSTRATION BY AESTHETIC APPARATUS/MICHAEL BYZEWSKI “We are a working-class party now,” Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley tweeted at 10:53 p.m. Eastern time on election night in November. “That’s the future.” A few minutes later, Fox called Arizona for Joe Biden, beginning a string of reversals for Donald Trump and pointing toward a future quite different than the one Hawley had probably imagined when he posted. Hawley arrived in the Senate two years into the Trump era, and sin...

The most effective avenues to preserve life still remain.

Eleven of the best reads for your Sunday.

× Rubio and Lee jab Romney: Your plan to send checks to families isn’t tax relief, it’s welfare Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rubio and Lee jab Romney: Your plan to send checks to families isn’t tax relief, it’s welfare AllahpunditPosted at 2:36 pm on February 5, 2021 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A consequential follow-up to yesterday’s post about Romney’s shockingly progressive proposal to send monthly checks to American families for every child they have (with a total ...

Three variables to watch to determine how the bizarre saga could unfold in its second week.