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After Biden’s first year, the virus and disunity rage on
From the inaugural platform, President Biden saw American sickness on two fronts — a disease of the national spirit and the one from the rampaging coronavirus — and he saw hope, because leaders always must see that.
Restaurants call for more federal aid as business plummets amid the Omicron surge
They want Congress to replenish the rescue plan’s Restaurant Revitalization Fund, which blew through its $28.6 billion funding last year after only about a third of eligible restaurants received grants to help cover lost revenue from the pandemic.
For Oath Keepers and founder, Jan. 6 was weeks in the making
Two days after the election on Nov. 2, 2020, the Oath Keepers were already convinced that victory had been stolen from President Donald Trump and members of the far-right militia group were making plans to march on the US Capitol.
After a rough first year, CDC director Rochelle Walensky tries to correct course
A series of stumbles by the former Mass General star have underscored just how rough the transition from running an infectious disease department at a hospital to a sprawling, public-facing government agency has been.
‘Jim Crow relic’: A short history of the filibuster
Dating to the 1800s, the filibuster has been used by lawmakers to both advance and thwart Black racial progress — but it is in the thwarting of that progress that it has been used with greatest frequency and success.
Census memo cites ‘unprecedented’ meddling by Trump administration
The issues involved crucial technical aspects of the count, including the privacy of census respondents, the use of estimates to fill in missing population data, pressure to take shortcuts to produce population totals quickly, and political pressure on a crash program that was seeking to identify and count immigrants living in the country illegally.
Biden backers ‘not seeing the results’ a year into his term
Just over a year ago, millions of energized young people, women, voters of color, and independents joined forces to send Joe Biden to the White House. But 12 months into his presidency, many describe a coalition in crisis.
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Biden is ending his first year in office with arguably the worst week of his presidency
Next week, President Biden will celebrate his first year in office. But the past week was so bad for Biden on multiple fronts that it might be hard to claim victory on much.