Mar 2, 2021Everything hangs in the balance for the millions of the nation's unemployed
In just two weeks, the $300 weekly unemployment insurance (UI) boost from the federal government to unemployed workers could end. At the same time, two additional emergency pandemic unemployment programs could start to wind down, expiring over the next month for about 7.3 million people. That is,...
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Mar 2, 2021Morning Digest: These are the top 10 state supreme court battles of the coming cycle
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.
Leading Off
● State Supreme Courts: In...
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Mar 2, 2021Abbreviated pundit roundup: The Republican attacks on the right to vote
Knowing that they are losing America’s support in the policy marketplace of ideas, Republicans are working feverishly post-election to attack the right to vote. We begin today’s roundup on this issue with analysis from Eugene Robinson at The Washington Post:
The Republican Party’s...
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Mar 2, 2021Supreme Court will hear the case that could shred the remains of the Voting Rights Act this week
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a critical challenge to what's left of the Voting Rights Act after the Chief Justice John Roberts' majority decision in 2013 carved out the core of the law. At issue Tuesday are two Arizona laws, one requiring election officials to toss ballots that are cast in...
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Mar 2, 2021Democrats Are Learning Fast Why Being in Power Can Suck
Drew Angerer/GettyIt sounds so easy: Kamala Harris just has to ignore the parliamentarian’s ruling that the minimum wage increase doesn’t belong in the COVID relief bill, and just like that, the minimum wage increase happens. So why don’t these feckless Senate Democrats—and the Senate...
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Mar 1, 2021The Only Way Forward Is to Drain the Swamp and Lock Trump and His Gang Up
Olivier Douliery/GettyThere’s only one way to restore a cynical and traumatized majority’s faith in the rule of law and the Department of Justice, and that’s to drain the GOP swamp, hold Trump accountable for his numerous crimes, and—to quote from Gladiator—“unleash hell” on his...
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Mar 1, 2021Cuomo Was Always New York’s Bad Guy. Here’s Why He Was Finally Exposed.
Pacific PressI do sometimes wonder why it took so long.Why is it now, in 2021, that so many people are finally waking up to the reality of Andrew Cuomo? A year ago, he was elevated to the status of hero and myth, so absurdly lauded—the magazine covers, the self-declared Cuomosexuals, the Emmy,...
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Mar 1, 2021Teleprompter Trump Is the Most Tired Act in America
Joe Raedle/GettyBy Day Three of the CPAC conference, I usually want to die, just because watching all the propaganda and self-aggrandizement is exhausting and also sort of weirdly soul-crushing. But this year there was a kind of anxiety that I’ve never felt, because the former guy or the 45th...
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Mar 2, 2021Amazon Has Become a Prime Revolving-Door Destination in Washington
Everything about Amazon is big. It’s the second-biggest retailer in the world. Its founder, Jeff Bezos, possesses the biggest fortune in the world. And the company has developed a big revolving door in Washington through which government officials and employees whisk and land in well-paying...
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Mar 2, 2021How Inequity Gets Built Into America’s Vaccination System
This story was published in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. It’s a fact that simply being eligible for a vaccine in...
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Mar 1, 2021Even With the Proposed Wealth Tax, Billionaires Would Get Richer Faster Than Everyone Else
On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Brendan Boyle (D-Penn.), rolled out a new version of the ultrawealth tax plan she proposed during her 2020 presidential campaign. This seemed inevitable, given that billionaires’ wealth has soared...
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Mar 2, 2021The US Reaches 500,000 Deaths From the Coronavirus
Andrea Arroyo
The pandemic is disproportionately impacting communities of color.
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Mar 2, 2021Happy 90th Birthday, Mr. Gorbachev
Archie Brown
Future generations of Russians will surely recognize the magnitude of his achievements and honor the man who broke with an authoritarian and totalitarian past.
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Mar 2, 2021$15 an Hour Is the Compromise
John Nichols
Biden and the Democrats need to deliver on the wage hike they promised—by any means necessary. Anything less is a moral and political failure.
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Mar 2, 2021Even Blue States Suppress Student Voters
Najwa Jamal
The ongoing struggle to diminish the student vote in New York’s 19th Congressional District, a purple patch of the Hudson Valley, has echoes nationwide.
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Mar 2, 2021First case against mandatory vaccination filed in New Mexico: report
A detention center officer in New Mexico filed a lawsuit over a workplace requirement to receive the coronavirus vaccine, the first lawsuit against mandatory COVID-19 vaccination in the U.S.The detention center off...
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Mar 2, 2021Who is the Senate parliamentarian and why is she important?
The Senate parliamentarian is the official who interprets the Senate's complex, arcane rules and has a major influence in the day-to-day running of the upper chamber.What is her role? Then-S...
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Mar 2, 2021Biden to sanction Russia over Navalny poisoning, jailing
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced new sanctions on Russia in response to Moscow's poisoning and jailing of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, accusing Russia's main intelligence agency of attempting to...
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Mar 2, 2021Merck to help make Johnson & Johnson vaccine
President Biden will announce Tuesday that Merck will help make Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine, administration officials said, a partnership between rival companies that could help produce more doses.John...
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