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Editor's letter

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Battle over voting restrictions arrives at Congress


Battle over voting restrictions arrives at Congress
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What 
happened
With Republican-controlled state legislatures mounting an unprecedented push to restrict voting access, House Democrats last week passed a sweeping bill that would reduce barriers to voting in federal elections. H.R. 1 would require the automatic registration of eligible voters and the expansion of voting by mail and early voting. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said H.R. 1 would “put a thumb on the scale in every election in America so that Democrats can turn a temporary majority into permanent control.” The bill stands little chance of passing the 50-50 Senate, where it would require at least 10 Republican votes unless Democrats scrap the filibuster. Moderate Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) oppose that idea, but Manchin has indicated he is open to reforming the filibuster, making it more “painful” by requiring senators to actually give speeches if they want to stop legislation.

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The Democrats' mammoth Covid stimulus bill

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Covid relief package nears finish line

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Vaccines ramping up rapidly


Vaccines ramping up rapidly
What happened
Hopes that the end of the pandemic is in sight rose this week, as President Biden announced that the U.S. will have enough coronavirus vaccine “for every adult in America by the end of May”—two months sooner than previously projected. With tens of millions of new doses due to arrive in coming weeks, the president said, the federal government will make immunizing all teachers by the end of March a priority. Biden accelerated his vaccine timeline after the FDA gave emergency authorization to a third Covid-19 vaccine: a single-shot regimen from Johnson & Johnson, which shipped 3.9 million doses this week. With help from the administration in obtaining supplies and logistics, Johnson & Johnson will make vaccines around the clock, and plans to produce 94 million doses by June. To speed production, the White House brokered a historic deal for pharmaceutical giant Merck to dedicate two of its facilities to making the vaccine of its rival, Johnson & Johnson. Moderna and Pfizer BioNTech have pledged to deliver enough of their two-dose vaccines to protect 200 million Americans by the end of May, meaning there will be enough shots to cover all 260 million eligible adults.

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Speed Reads

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Biden pledges vaccines for all by August


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 this week, to nearly 1.7 million shots a day, and 13.5 million doses were distributed to states, up 57 percent since January. By the end of the year, Biden told a CNN town hall, “significantly fewer” Americans may need to socially distance or wear masks, though he added, “I don’t want to over-promise anything.” Just days earlier, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, had walked back his recent projection that vaccines would be widely available to the general public by late April. That timeline had been based on Johnson & Johnson shipping 30 million doses of its vaccine in the next two months, if the shot receives FDA authorization in the coming weeks. Production delays mean fewer than 20 million J&J doses will likely go out by late April.

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Editor's letter


Editor’s letter
Editor-in-chief
America needs two viable, sane political parties. Parties provide voters with a coherent choice of governing philosophies, and galvanize people to unite behind an agenda and candidates; without opposition, any party inevitably falls prey to corruption and extremism. Liberalism and conservatism are yin and yang, parts of a whole, each contributing insights and values to guide the zigzag path forward. But when parties become enamored with unpopular and foolish ideas, they can die: The Federalists, the Whigs, and the Know Nothings all once flourished and then perished. (See The Last Word, p. 36.) Many Republicans—including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell—now worry that if their party can’t evolve beyond blind fealty to Donald Trump, the GOP will also fade into history. (See Controversy, p. 6.)

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