Julian Assange Kidnapping Plot Casts New Light on 2018 Senate Intelligence Maneuver
The CIA labeled WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service” while entertaining plans to kidnap or assassinate its founder.
Politics
The Coronavirus Crisis
Network of Right-Wing Health Care Providers Is Making Millions Off Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, Hacked Data Reveals
The data also reveals that 72,000 people paid at least $6.7 million for Covid-19 consultations promoted by America’s Frontline Doctors and vaccine conspiracist Simone Gold.
The Coronavirus Crisis
“Precarity”: A Short Film on Women Working in the Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis has had a disproportionate impact on women, particularly women of color.
Nina Turner Files 2022 Campaign Papers but Demurs on Decision to Run
The former Sanders surrogate lost the Democratic primary to Shontel Brown in August.
Nancy Pelosi Delays Infrastructure Vote After Progressive Pressure
Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus vowed to vote against infrastructure unless reconciliation came along with it.
Kyrsten Sinema Used the Winery Where She Interned to Fundraise With Private Equity
The Arizona senator, who is blocking tax increases on the rich, spent the summer courting donors who stand to lose under major tax reform.
Voices
$3.5 Trillion for the Build Back Better Agenda Is Much, Much Less Money Than You Think
This big, scary-sounding number represents just 1.2 percent of U.S. GDP over the next 10 years.
How Moderate Democrats Derailed Police Reform
Centrists demanded a police reform bill that didn’t go too far. Now they don’t get one at all.
Origins of Covid
Leaked Grant Proposal Details High-Risk Coronavirus Research
The proposal, rejected by U.S. military research agency DARPA, describes the insertion of human-specific cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses.
Amendment to Stop Saudi War on Yemen Is Really an Excuse for Business as Usual
A proposal by Rep. Gregory Meeks is undermining a separate amendment to end U.S. complicity in the yearslong offensive.