Jenna Edwards runs the For a Day Foundation, a nonprofit that helps children with cancer during their hospital stays and has no actual office. So she assumed that getting a loan forgiven from the Paycheck Protection Program to cover two… Read More ›
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Biden's War Policy Offers Chance for Change — or More of the Same
Less than two months after taking office, most of President Joe Biden’s national security policy is under review. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is reexamining worldwide troop deployments, and the administration is taking a hard look at global counterterrorism operations. Biden’s… Read More ›
More Than $1 Trillion of the Pandemic Relief Bill Is Flying Under the Radar
Only the Democratic Party can put together a $1.9 trillion relief package and manage to get on the wrong side of public opinion for being too cheap. Yet that’s where we’ve arrived after two months of debating the party’s stimulus,… Read More ›
Verizon’s NFL Covid-19 Screening Cameras Are Based on Bad Science and Questionable Chinese Hardware
Technology companies have spent the past year in a manic sprint to reimagine (or at least re-market) their wares as coronavirus response tools, with often less than stellar results. Next up is telecom mammoth Verizon, whose latest initiative cashes in… Read More ›
Drug Lobby Asks Biden to Punish Foreign Countries Pushing for Low-Cost Vaccines
President Joe Biden’s administration is being asked to punish Hungary, Colombia, Chile, and other countries for seeking to ramp up the production of Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics without express permission from pharmaceutical companies. The sanctions are being urged by the drug industry,… Read More ›
Donald Trump’s Gab Account Uses an Email Address Belonging to the Extremist Platform’s CEO
Gab, the far-right social network that’s known as a safe space for hate speech, QAnon believers, Trump election fraud conspiracists, and white supremacist terrorists, was hacked pretty badly. The site exploded in popularity after the January 6 insurrection when Amazon… Read More ›
The Life and Death of an Anti-Fascist
Few anti-fascists were as influential on Portland’s recent protest scene as Sean Kealiher. He rarely missed a protest, and he would have been front and center last summer when the insurrectionary activism he had long advocated for became a staple… Read More ›
Andrew Cuomo Is Living to Regret the Deal He Pushed on Letitia James
In 2003, Letitia “Tish” James shook the New York Democratic political establishment, becoming the first City Council candidate to win office solely as a nominee of the Working Families Party. James spent the next 15 years as an outspoken, independent-minded… Read More ›
India Targets Climate Activists With the Help of Big Tech
Climate activist Disha Ravi is granted bail during a hearing at Patiala House Court in New Delhi on Feb. 23, 2021. Photo: Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times via Getty Images The bank of cameras that camped outside Delhi’s sprawling Tihar jail was the sort… Read More ›
Soldiers in Cameroon, a Close U.S. Ally, Commit Mass Rape, Report Says
In the predawn hours of March 1, 2020, more than 50 Cameroonian soldiers entered the village of Ebam and conducted an atrocity-filled raid that included the rape of at least 20 women, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch…. Read More ›