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NYT > U.S. > Politics50 minutes ago
Latin America Unrest Forces Biden to Confront Challenges to Democracy Close to Home
U.S. influence began waning in the region over the past decade, as successive administrations turned toward fighting terrorism in the Middle East. read more
 

NYT > U.S. > Politics52 minutes ago
Texas Democrats Flee State to Highlight G.O.P. Voting Restrictions
The move is an attempt to block Republicans from passing a new voting bill while also applying pressure on Congress to pass legislation at the federal level. read more
 
A dramatic move.
It is effective.
 
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F.D.A. Attaches Warning of Rare Nerve Syndrome to Johnson & Johnson Covid Vaccine
Federal regulators concluded that the risk of developing the syndrome was low, and that the benefits of the vaccine still strongly outweigh it. read more
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/health/covid-guillain-barre-vaccines.html
 
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Child Tax Credit Monthly Payments to Begin Soon
The Biden administration will send up to $300 per child a month to most American families thanks to a temporary increase in the child tax credit that advocates hope to extend. read more
 
Very soon.
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/your-money/child-tax-credit.html
 
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Biden to Promote Plan to Reduce Gun Violence
President Biden’s plan largely encourages jurisdictions across the country to do what they can to bring down crime as hopes for federal legislation grow dim. read more
 
The Trump  party likes guns.  No  gun legislation will clear the senate this term.

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Pfizer to Meet With U.S. on Boosters, Which Officials Say Aren’t Needed Now
The clash between the companies and the Biden administration, however muted, prompted Biden officials to invite Pfizer representatives to present their data to administration scientists. read more
 
Pfizer should be working on a booster by studying the class of coronaviruses.
 
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E.U. Delays Digital Levy as Tax Talks Proceed
The postponement came as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrived in Brussels to continue pushing for a global minimum tax. read more
 
France and Ireland hold that there is national advantage in corporate tax policy.
The game continues.
 
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Months After Riot, Capitol Police Face Multiple Crises
The department that protects Congress is damaged and depleted following the Jan. 6 assault, with funding, staffing and operational problems plaguing a deeply demoralized force. read more
 
Defeat by means of command failure is traumatic.
 
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It’s Situation Normal for U.S. Diplomats in Kabul, Despite Taliban Gains
The Biden administration is determined to keep a diplomatic presence in Afghanistan as the 20-year conflict comes to a close. read more
 
The diplomats will keep talking.
 
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Senate Returns With Infrastructure on the Agenda
Democratic leaders have mapped out a monthlong sprint for senators, warning them to prepare for late nights and even the cancellation of part of their beloved August recess. read more
 
The Republicans continue to say no.
 
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Top U.S. General Steps Down in Afghanistan
Gen. Austin S. Miller is leaving as the United States prepares to end its two-decade war in Afghanistan, and as Taliban fighters sweep across much of the country. read more
 
Withdrawal continues.
Afghani alies have not been rescued.
 
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Edwin Edwards, Flamboyant Louisiana Governor, Is Dead at 93
He served four terms, charmed voters with his escapades and survived a score of investigations before going to prison in 2002 for racketeering. read more
 
All politicians grow old and die.
Edwards did both.
 
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Rob Portman Says Republicans Should Work With Biden on Infrastructure
The Republican senator who is leading negotiations for his party on a bipartisan infrastructure plan says Republicans have nothing to lose and much to gain in cutting a deal with the president. read more
 
Biden will get his infrastructure.
 
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E.U. Delays Digital Levy as Tax Talks Proceed
The postponement came as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrived in Brussels to continue pushing for a global minimum tax. read more
 
Taxes  work better when the taxing authorities cooperate rather than compete.

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Voters Chose Boring Over Bombast. They Got Biden’s Penchant for Pontificating.
Even the president labeled a speech boring recently, an admission that highlights a tendency toward delivering minutiae-filled discourse over scaling oratorical heights. read more
 
People like progress rather than promises.
 
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Biden called his own speech boring recently, highlighting his tendency toward ‘explainer in chief.’
 
Biden was elected as a boring technocrat to solve the problems of democratic government.
 
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BioBonds Use Wall Street Tools to Fund Medical Research
Karen Petrou invented a new funding model for curing blindness. Proposed legislation aims to apply it to medical research more generally. read more
 
This is a venture capital scheme.
It might work in the proper market.
 
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Trump Lawsuits Against Facebook, YouTube and Twitter Face First Amendment Hurdles
A unanimous 1974 Supreme Court decision said newspapers could not be forced to publish replies from politicians they had criticized. read more
 
The Florida law should be struck down as conflicting with the 1974 unanimous decision.
 
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Ian Welsh1 day ago
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 11, 2021
[image: Story 452991022] Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 11, 2021 by Tony Wikrent *Strategic Political Economy* Inside Operation Warp Speed: A New Model for Industrial Policy [American Affairs Journal, via The Big Picture 7-5-2021] Operation Warp Speed was a triumph of public health policy. But it was also a triumph and validation of industrial policy. OWS shows what the U.S. government can still accomplish when it comes to tackling a seemingly unsolvable technological challenge. It demonstrates the strength of the U.S. developmental state, despite *forty years of ideolo... read more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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