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Trump's impact on the politics of Europe over the past four years is already a chilly warning of the insidious effect of undemocratic tendencies in the White House. … [Read more...] about The world has more riding on Joe Biden than any US president in decades

Reagan claimed that he wanted to stop deficit spending, but his 1981 tax cuts increased the deficits (from 2.5% of GDP in 1981 to 5.9% of GDP in 1983), as did the 2001 tax cut under former President George W. Bush and the 2017 tax cut under Trump. Over time, the various tax cuts were not matched by offsetting spending cuts, since broad areas of federal spending were -- and continue to be -- very strongly backed by the public. In fact, according to the Pew Research Center, in 2019, there were strong majorities supporting increased government spending on many domestic priorities, including education, infrastructure and the environment. … [Read more...] about Joe Biden’s Ronald Reagan problem

Support from the feds in terms of production, supplies, distribution, staffing, and building mass vaccination centers can go a long way to ensuring that a large percentage of the population is vaccinated quickly. But any vaccination strategy must also include an emphasis on pharmacy chains, doctors’ offices, clinics, and hospitals, where vaccinations have always been given and can be quickly now. … [Read more...] about Dr. Marc Siegel: COVID and Biden – top 7 things new president and his team must do

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pressed Americans to not travel for Christmas earlier this month and the government’s top infectious diseases expert Anthony FauciAnthony FauciCOVID-19 is a precursor for infectious disease outbreaks on a warming planet Sunday shows - Capital locked down ahead of Biden's inauguration Fauci: Approval of AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines likely 'weeks away' MORE said this week that he won’t be seeing his three adult daughters for the holiday for the first time since they were born. … [Read more...] about Travel industry readies for disappointing Christmas

The FBI also needs to train state and local police officers to identify and expel extremists in their ranks. Here, too, there’s a lot of work to be done. In the days before the Capitol breach, Molly Conger, a citizen journalist who made her name covering the aftermath of the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Va., and now tracks down and exposes right-wing extremists, informed the police department for Prince William County, Va., that one of its officers was espousing violence against government officials on his Parler account. While Conger’s work is vital, it really shouldn’t be up to citizen journalists to play this role. Conger claims it took her about 10 minutes to identify the man she saw on Parler as a police officer, begging the question: How did the officer’s views go unnoticed by his supervisors and colleagues?   … [Read more...] about Why playing the long game is necessary to address the Capitol insurrection