The House January 6 committee has spent most of the last 18 months working behind the scenes to investigate last year’s attempted coup d’état. That will change when it holds its first public hearing on Thursday in prime time, hoping to refocus the nation’s attention on the Capitol Hill attack and the events that led up to it.
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When the first case of monkeypox raised alarm in the United Kingdom on May 13 and the headlines about potential spread began circulating, many people wondered: Is this the new pandemic, the next threat to worry about, even more than Covid-19, which is currently at some of its highest peaks in the United States? Or is this a distraction from the primary public health crisis—a “charismatic” new pathogen stealing attention because privileged Americans have decided they are done with Covid? The answer, unfortunately, is neither—and both. Читать дальше...
You have to wonder about fiscal policy in any country where “Rich People Pay Taxes” is big news. In the United States, the default presumption is that rich people don’t pay taxes. As ProPublica reported last year, Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, paid no federal income tax in 2007, 2011, and 2018. Neither, in 2018, did the world’s second-richest man, Elon Musk. Yet tax receipts this year are expected to reach $2.6 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That’s a 26 percent increase over receipts in 2021. Читать дальше...
If you spend much time examining the wreckage of America’s gun violence epidemic, you may eventually surrender to a feeling often categorized as numbness—not apathy, just a coping mechanism, a separation of yourself from the ongoing American tragedy. I’ve found the best way to beat back this sensation is to search for signs of hope in the wasteland. Here’s one such marker: In the 2020 federal spending bill, Congress allocated $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the... Читать дальше...
