The Coronavirus Crisis
Drugmakers Promise Investors They'll Soon Hike Covid-19 Vaccine Prices
Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson pledged affordable vaccines — but only as long as there’s a “pandemic.”
Politics
The War on Immigrants
Biden’s Justice Department Is Defending a Trump Rule That Restricts Options for Immigration Relief
A federal judge in California last week suspended implementation of the rule, while a judge in D.C. has questioned the Biden administration's defense of it.
White Supremacists, Conspiracy Theorists Are Targeting Cell Towers, Police Warn
Extremist groups joined forces in the weeks after the election to target critical infrastructure and “incite fear,” an NYPD intelligence report said.
What Biden’s Talking Filibuster Could Look Like
Ending today's filibuster rules would not be radical for Biden — just a return to how things worked when he entered the Senate in 1973.
Liberal Think Tanks Outline Steps to Resuming Student Loan Payments in September
But Biden had expressed openness to extending the payment moratorium beyond that point.
The Coronavirus Crisis
Amazon Retaliated Against Chicago Workers Following Spring Covid-19 Protests, NLRB Finds
Workers are now waiting to see how, and if, Amazon will agree to settle the claims.
Cuomo’s “Women’s Equality Party” Might Just Be the Most Cynical Political Move of His Career
Cuomo deployed the “WEP” to back male machine candidates over women with a real shot at winning.
The Coronavirus Crisis
CIA Headquarters Got Vaccinated in Early January, Rankling Intelligence Officers Abroad
“Nobody gives a shit about the overseas workforce,” a former CIA officer complained.
Secret Brazil Archive
In Sharp Rebuke, Brazil Supreme Court Rules Judge Who Locked Up Lula Was Biased
By ending Lula's political ban and finding that ex-judge Sergio Moro was biased, the Supreme Court shook up Brazilian politics.
Inside Gab, the Online Safe Space for Far-Right Extremists
The hacked data from Gab contains 65 gigabytes of data, including 4 million Gab accounts, 31,000 groups, and 39 million posts.