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The Biden administration unveiled its emergency rule for Covid-19 protections for large companies on Thursday, starting a two-month clock for firms that employ roughly two-thirds of the American workforce to adopt mandatory vaccination policies or take alternative steps. The new Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule comes two months after President Joe Biden announced a series of measures that he said would help swiftly end the pandemic.

The private sector is already well on its way to solving the climate crisis. That, at least, is what Biden administration officials attending the U.N. Climate Change Conference, or COP26, this week are trying to convince themselves while facing the legislative defeat of the White House’s climate spending proposals back home.

On Wednesday, New York City leaders announced they had struck a deal with a group of taxi drivers, some of whom have been on a hunger strike since October 20 to protest the predatory lending practices that have saddled them with debt and created what has been referred to as “modern-day indentured servitude.” According to the New York Times, the city could spend over $100 million to eliminate the vast amount of money tax drivers owe on their medallions, the city-issued tokens that allow a driver to pick up street fares. Читать дальше...

Over the past few weeks, political reporters have been publishing variations on the same story: A fractious Democratic coalition, unable to come to terms on the particulars of President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, has steadily hollowed out the Build Back Better Act and lessened the impact of what might have been a transformative congressional session. Beyond the sacrifices made to important initiatives, the endless cuts have snuffed whatever misplaced comparisons between Joe Biden and Franklin Delano Roosevelt may have once existed. Читать дальше...

In 2010, Nebraska became the first state to pass a 20-week ban on abortion, but it certainly wasn’t the last. The law was soon emulated by several other states, including Idaho, Indiana, and Alabama. The real goal of those who pushed to codify the arbitrary 20-week mark as some sort of bright line—based on bogus science pushed by anti-abortion activists, who claimed a fetus could feel pain at that gestational age—was clear at the time and even more obvious now: It was meant, as one anti-abortion lobbyist put it... Читать дальше...

I recently got engaged, which means I am, of late, very preoccupied by the question of how marriage will change my life. Though I fantasize about my future health insurance, I prefer imagining the romantic bits. Rarely do I pause to wonder how getting married will affect my professional life, but, according to the feminist economist Claudia Goldin, I should. In her blistering new book, Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity, Goldin analyzes a staggering quantity of data... Читать дальше...

Almost exactly a year after a Democratic president swept into office, obtaining a decisive victory in Virginia, a Democratic candidate lost the race to become governor of the purple state. National Democrats worried that this loss could be a harbinger of impending doom in the midterm elections the following year and questioned what this would mean for the new president’s ambitious legislative agenda.

The Supreme Court appeared poised to strike down a New York law that tightly restricts who can receive a concealed-carry permit, a move that could broadly reshape the laws governing how firearms are carried in American public spaces. Only about a half-dozen states, including New York, would be directly affected if the justices require less restrictive permit processes. But the court’s ruling could have wider implications for a host of other restrictions that regulate where and when guns can be carried. Читать дальше...