The current budget fight in Congress is offering up a perfect opportunity for industries to call in favors. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has been tapped to re-write the climate portion of the budget bill. This is the same Senator Manchin who owns between $1-5...
This is a repost of an article from the Johns Hopkins News-Letter, published on September 20, 2021 written by Michelle Limpe A year and a half after George Floyd protests began, a socialist organization called Speak Out Now hosted a discussion about police brutality...
On Wednesday President Biden announced new plans to help the global vaccination effort, saying now is not the time for “half-measures or middle-of-the-road ambitions. We need to go big and we need to do our part.” This is an ironic statement, considering the U.S.’s...
In China, the giant real estate company Evergrande is on the verge of bankruptcy, drowning in debt. Its total liabilities have ballooned to an extraordinary 1.97 trillion yuan or U.S. $305 billion. This is 2% of China’s gross domestic product (GDP). The company’s...
On September 14, the number of recorded deaths from COVID-19 in the United States reached 663,913. This is 1 in 500 of the April 2020 U.S. Census population, 331.4 million. This staggering death toll is the work of both the Trump and Biden administrations, and the...
