But in Tuesday’s Republican major, the ardent critic of former President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede that he misplaced in 2020 suffered a crushing defeat of her personal.
“Cheney’s smartest move would be to join the Biden administration in a bespoke senior-level role where her mandate is clear: coordinate the fight for free and fair elections and wage all-out war against the anti-American and undemocratic forces that Trumpism has unleashed. Cheney is the ideal crusader in this fight.”
Marc A. Thiessen, additionally in the Post, wrote that the rationale for Cheney’s defeat was clear: “Cheney believes that Trump is the greatest threat facing our country today, greater than the serial disasters President Biden has unleashed since taking office — among them, the worst inflation in 40 years…” He added, “The vast majority of Republicans disagree.”
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The Inflation Reduction Act will not
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden signed the $750 billion invoice Sen. Joe Manchin touted because the “Inflation Reduction Act.” It has been hailed by local weather activists for provisions that may velocity up America’s transition from fossil fuels to renewable vitality and by well being care advocates for enabling Medicare to barter the value of many generally used prescribed drugs.
Sachs argued that the local weather provisions will solely ship “modest results” and that the invoice falls far wanting what progressives have been searching for from the Biden administration: “The Dems abandoned earlier proposals for universal pre-kindergarten and subsidized child care, paid family and medical leave, free community college and expanded child tax credits, among other initiatives.”
Republicans have criticized the invoice’s massive enhance in funding for the Internal Revenue Service, Casey Michel famous. “The GOP has been trying for years to starve the IRS of revenue and resources, in the hope — to borrow a phrase from anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist — to make it small enough to drown in a bathtub.”
Oz tried to focus on the consequences of inflation in a video he posted of himself looking for substances to make “crudités,” solely to be lampooned by his challenger John Fetterman, whose marketing campaign mentioned it raised $500,000 after the Democrat tweeted, “In PA we call this a…veggie tray.”
Married vs. single life
“It pays to be married,” wrote Jill Filipovic, commenting on new information from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which was reported by the Wall Street Journal. Married {couples} are actually value practically 9 occasions as a lot as single households — a major bounce from 2010, when {couples} have been value 4 occasions as a lot.
“Some of this is just math: Households with two adults in them have more resources,” she famous. “They will be able to split the cost of rent and groceries and more easily qualify for a mortgage or save for a down payment on a house.”
“Being married provides a slew of advantages, from tax breaks to Social Security benefits to health insurance.”
Insulin
It was solely after Jesse Lutgen’s loss of life 4 years in the past that his mom discovered he had been rationing doses of insulin after dropping his full-time job and medical insurance. Janelle Lutgen, a well being care advocate and former chair of the Republican Central Committee in Jackson County, Iowa, identified that Jesse is one in all not less than 14 diabetic Americans to die because of rationing since 2017.
“What happened to my son, who felt like he had no choice but to ration his insulin, is happening all over America — because insulin is not affordable for most people who are uninsured. A month’s supply can cost over $1,000 out-of-pocket, something I only learned after Jesse was gone…”
“And uninsured diabetics, like my late son, stay susceptible. The IRA may have no affect on listing costs paid by the uninsured.”
FBI
Controversy continued to swirl around the FBI’s search at Mar-a-Lago for documents, including some highly classified ones, that were taken from the White House in the closing days of the Trump administration. On Thursday, a federal magistrate judge released more information on the potential offenses the Justice Department is investigating, including “willful retention of nationwide protection info.”
FBI and Homeland Security officials have warned of a wave of “violent threats” against federal law enforcement. An armed man tried to enter the FBI’s office in Cincinnati on August 11 and was later killed after he fled from the scene and exchanged gunfire with authorities in a standoff that lasted hours.
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New and old diseases
While Covid-19 continues to take its toll, scientists are sharing their concerns about other diseases, some new, like the Langya virus in eastern China, and some old, like the possible recurrence of polio in the US.
“Just once you thought that 2022 already offered a century’s value of scary infectious ailments, from Covid-19 to monkeypox to polio, final week’s headlines warned of one more,” wrote infectious disease expert Dr. Kent Sepkowitz. “The Langya virus could have jumped from the white-toothed shrew to people. It has sickened dozens of individuals, however has triggered no reported deaths.
“Many may wonder just what is going on here. Why are so many infections appearing so quickly? Several explanations are plausible: Perhaps a globally warmed and densely populated world is more hospitable to all sorts of new pathogens; perhaps new molecular techniques are allowing us only now to diagnose the cause of the endless unnamed sniffles, colds and rashes that previous generations could not name, creating a concrete ‘outbreak,’ not just a ‘lousy winter.'”
As epidemiologist Syra Madad wrote, the invention of a polio vaccine in the Nineteen Fifties was an enormous triumph. “Church bells rang out across America and people flooded into the streets to celebrate with parents hugging their children in relief … The celebration was warranted; through vaccination, the US eliminated wild, or naturally occurring, poliovirus more than 40 years ago.”
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Fleeing autocracies
Since Xi Jinping “took power in China in 2013, the number of asylum applications has grown nearly eight times, reaching nearly 120,000 last year, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, with about 75% of asylum-seekers requesting to live in the United States. … Putin and Xi will continue to claim their systems are superior to democracy. They will point to the flaws, to the struggles of democratic systems, which certainly exist. But those who disagree with them at home, unable to speak out, will either keep quiet, keep their criticism to barely-audible whispers, or vote with their feet, heading toward freer lands.”