The moral implications of COVID-19 vaccines manufactured using cell lines derived from an aborted fetus have sparked a lively online debate. People who are opposed to abortion are wondering if they can be vaccinated in good conscience. Some Catholic bodies, including the commission on COVID-19 appointed by the Vatican, have urged people to take any […]
As President Joe Biden’s pandemic relief package steams through Congress, Democrats have hitched a ride for a top health care priority: strengthening the Affordable Care Act with some of the most significant changes to insurance affordability in more than a decade. The bill would spend $34 billion to help Americans who buy insurance on the […]
Prince Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey left many observers of the British royal family puzzling over one question: Why doesn’t their son Archie have the title of prince? Meghan, who married Harry in 2018, said she was shocked to discover while she was pregnant that Archie would not get the title of prince […]
Opponents of a voting rights bill would have you believe that the legislation will allow murderers, teenagers, welfare recipients and immigrants in the country illegally to vote en masse — and that every American will now only cast ballots by mail. These attacks on the legislation are rife with misinformation. Known as the For the […]
Ever since the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, lawmakers have been trying to get to the bottom of what exactly happened on that day. A Senate hearing on March 3 focused on why it took National Guard troops so long to arrive on scene after the Capitol Police requested assistance. The bipartisan hearing featured […]
Senate rules and Senate politics are working their will on the pandemic relief and stimulus plan. The total price tag is about $70 billion less than in the House version. The individual stimulus checks will still be $1,400, but won’t be sent to families with joint incomes over $160,000, a 20% haircut from the upper […]
Critics of President Joe Biden have long tried to paint him as soft on China. And they were quick to seize on a comment he made about Beijing’s repression of Uyghur Muslims as evidence for their case. In a CNN town hall Feb. 16, host Anderson Cooper asked Biden whether he had spoken to Chinese […]
On one side of the Capitol Hill hallway is a pink and blue flag, a symbol for transgender pride. Directly across is a sign that says: “There are TWO genders: male & female. ‘Trust the science!’” “Thought we’d put up our transgender flag so she can look at it every time she opens her door,” […]
A recent Facebook post offered a hopeful scenario for supporters of former President Donald Trump: It laid out a plan by which Trump could be president again in 2023, and then run again in 2024. The Feb. 25 post offered a photograph of a smiling Trump at a lectern in the White House, with the […]
There’s been chatter online recently about the recent spike in gasoline prices — and whether President Joe Biden is to blame. One Facebook post features a photograph of Biden with the caption, “Gas prices going up? How do you like me now?” Figure 1: Biden gas meme 1 Another Facebook post uses a different picture […]
The plaudits have faded for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Once hailed as a paragon of pandemic governing, he’s since come under scorching criticism for undercounting the state’s Covid deaths among nursing home residents by as much as half. The tallying flap drew attention to another misstep: a policy last March that directed nursing homes […]
A law credited with birthing the internet — and with spurring misinformation — has drawn bipartisan ire from lawmakers who are vowing to change it. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields internet platforms from liability for much of what its users post. Both Democrats and Republicans point to Section 230 as a law […]