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Today’s News & Commentary — July 28, 2021

Today’s News & Commentary — July 28, 2021

Since hitting its peak of more than 3 million shots per day in mid-April, the mass-vaccination campaign has dwindled and waned in the United States, dropping to a current rate of around half a million daily jabs, alarming government officials both in the Biden Administration and in state public health departments across the country as […]

Weekend News & Commentary – July 18, 2021

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Weekend News & Commentary – July 18, 2021

New research suggests that extreme heat produces many more workplace injuries, concentrated among the poorest workers, than most official records suggest—a telling example of how, as the Times puts it, “climate change worsens inequality.” The UCLA study, led by public policy professor R. Jisung Park, compared records from over 11 million California workers’ compensation claims […]

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Today’s News & Commentary — July 13, 2021

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Today’s News & Commentary — July 13, 2021

In a last ditch effort to block the passage of a Republican-spearheaded voter suppression law, a group of Texas House Democrats fled the state yesterday and decamped for Washington, D.C. The exodus denies the GOP a quorum it needed to operate the legislature and pass their desired voting restrictions. Democrats intend to stay outside the […]

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