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The hope peddlers, stenographers of current events, professional centrists and too many other members of the mainstream American news media have a new obsession. They keep telling the American people that the Republican Party is in the midst of a “civil war,” is in “disarray,” is “tearing itself apart” or experiencing a “crisis of meaning” and…

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Stocks of major pharmaceutical corporations plummeted Wednesday after the Biden administration announced its support for a coronavirus vaccine patent waiver, a measure that would free vaccine recipes from Big Pharma’s stranglehold and help enable generic manufacturers to ramp up global production.

As CNBC reported, shares in Pfizer, BioNTech,…

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The majority of Android and iOS apps created for US public and private schools send student data to assorted third parties, researchers have found, calling into question privacy commitments from Apple and Google as app store stewards.

The Me2B Alliance, a non-profit technology policy group, examined a random sample of 73 mobile applications used…

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The lawsuit fills out the details of the raid. And the narrative throws a considerable amount of shade at the participating officer with one impeccably worded paragraph.

Despite both screen door and storm door at the front entrance of Ms. Reynolds’ home remaining unlocked, SWAT officers used an entry tool attached to the front of an armored…

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Venezuela was once one of the most prosperous countries in Latin America. The popular classes enjoyed major advances from the Bolivarian Revolution initiated by Hugo Chávez. Today Venezuela is experiencing an unprecedented economic crisis with severe humanitarian consequences.

The US government blames the crisis on the mismanagement and…

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If we want fewer civilians shot by cops—particularly Black and brown people—then we should get armed police out of the business of enforcing most traffic violations and turn it over to unarmed civilians, much like meter maids (or increasingly men) enforce parking violations.

Twenty-seven percent of unarmed civilians killed by police began wit…

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Given the rhetoric from well-to-do communities dependent on gig work before and during the pandemic honoring essential workers, it may come as a surprise that one community board in Manhattan’s Upper West Side had nothing but venom for a relatively innocuous suggestion during a community Zoom meeting last week that was spotted by Streetsblog New Y…

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Jackie had run her home child care for nearly a decade when she’d opened Damion’s Place in February 2020. The center, which was awaiting its license, was her chance to present a quality option to working-class parents, who could usually only afford to leave their kids with relatives or in caregivers’ homes. She was proud to provide its ameni…

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Cleveland has a long tradition of being represented in Congress by Democrats who understand this lesson from history and do not just go along to get along. That is exactly the tradition we need right now.

Today, our city is at the center of America’s problem of poverty, inequality, deindustrialization, and racial inequity. That means we need to…

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In the run-up to the 2020 election, when Donald Trump urged his supporters to ditch mail voting across the country, he made an exception for Florida. “In Florida the election system is Safe and Secure, Tried and True,” Trump tweeted in August 2020. “So in Florida I encourage all to request a Ballot & Vote by Mail!”

Trump voted by mail in the sta…

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The tax rates the Biden administration has just proposed come nowhere near those 90-plus or even 70-plus Rooseveltian rates. If Congress goes along with the Biden plan, any personal income over $400,000 from employment or the ownership of a business will just face a 39.6 percent tax, a rate only up slightly from the current 37 percent.

But what…

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Attorney for Bryant’s family also wants probe into handling of 16-year-old’s foster care placement
Andrew Ginther, the mayor of Columbus, Ohio, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday asking for an investigation into the city’s police department following several police killings of Black people, including the fatal shooting of…

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Proponents are pushing Washington to change course before another WTO meeting on the issue on April 30.

Critics say waiving the WTO’s agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property could reduce the safety of vaccines, and that setting up production in new places would sap resources needed to boost production in existing l…

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Health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group held a webinar to pressure its rank-and-file employees to mobilize against efforts in Connecticut to create a state-level public health insurance option, according to a video of the presentation we obtained.

“It does sound like it’s just an option. But the problem is that it would exist on an unlevel pla…

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