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Figuring out the true cost of Biden’s gigantic coronavirus relief packages
As Congress begins to deal with President Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion covid-19 reliefpackage, we’ll be in for a debate about...
U.S. Urges China to Talk With Taiwan in Early Nod From Biden
The U.S. State Department urged China to engage in a dialogue with Taiwan and halt military pressure on the island,...
Read Biden’s executive order on safely reopening schools
Not long after President Biden took the oath of office on Wednesday, he jumped into the task of mobilizing resources...
Universities face pressure to vet ex-Trump officials before hiring them
There is a long tradition of political appointees moving into academia — former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice returned to...
Coronavirus: Why South Africa has yet to roll out vaccines
By Peter Mwai BBC Reality Check More than a third of all Covid-19 cases in Africa have been in South...
The Real Threat to Civilian Control of the Military
As soon as Joe Biden announced that he would nominate General Lloyd Austin to serve as his secretary of defense,...
Biden Rejects Trump Plan to Rescind EU, U.K., Brazil Travel Bans
President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration rejected a move by President Donald Trump to rescind coronavirus-related travel bans for non-American citizens...
The West Helped Cripple Uganda’s Democracy
A mob of violent thugs, incited by an authoritarian president, storm a democratic legislature and disrupt controversial constitutional proceedings. The...
Trump’s most enduring legacy could be the historic rise in the national debt
One of President Donald Trump’s lesser known but profoundly damaginglegacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that...
The dire wolf was a distinct species, different from the gray wolf, biologists discover
The iconic, prehistoric dire wolf, which prowled through Los Angeles and elsewhere in the Americas over 11 millennia ago, was...