Новости за 30.06.2020

With each passing day, the federal government’s pathetic response to the coronavirus pandemic becomes more and more outlandish. We have never seriously tried to implement a federal testing and tracing effort that might slow the virus’s rampages. We have forced workers to choose between risking their lives at work and feeding their kids—and for those locked out of that impossible choice, good luck getting unemployment even if you qualify. Congress sent everyone $1,200 and said, You’re good now, right? Читать дальше...

In an unexpected break from American politics as usual, several of the insurgent Congressional candidates who scratched out surprise wins (or are on track to winning) in last Tuesday’s primary elections—including Jamaal Bowman and Mondaire Jones in New York and Charles Booker in Kentucky—ran campaigns that eschewed corporate PAC contributions. While they’re not the first Democrats to make that pledge (Barack Obama did it back in 2008), relying on large numbers of small donations to fund a campaign... Читать дальше...

Ever since bailout talk began this spring, climate campaigners have worried funds would be funneled to Big Oil and other polluting giants. Now, it seems that fear was more than justified. While economic recovery money is being disbursed through multiple channels, including the Main Street Lending Program and various tax breaks, on Sunday the Federal Reserve released the list of bonds it has purchased so far through its BlackRock-managed Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility, in its attempt... Читать дальше...

In a seeming paradox, it is often the most flamboyantly patriotic Americans who appoint themselves guardians of a discredited rebel flag. A century and a half after the Union and Confederate flags were flown by armies at war, a certain kind of conservative thinks nothing of celebrating both symbols, sometimes even on the same hoodie. This strikes some as comically contradictory. “Nothing says ‘America First’ quite like Trump’s unadulterated support for the Confederacy,” the Lincoln Project, a band of Never Trump Republicans... Читать дальше...

There is a “climate of terror around having children” among China’s oppressed Uighur Muslim minority, according to a horrifying Associated Press report published on Monday. Over the last four years, the government has spent hundreds of millions to suppress the birth rate of Uighurs and other Muslims. Men have been imprisoned for having too many children; women have been forced to use birth control and have abortions. In some cases, women have been sterilized. The birth rate in Uighur regions fell 60 percent from 2015 to 2018. Читать дальше...