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Republicans Dying at Higher Rates Since Vaccine Rollout Began
The National Bureau of Economic Research found that significantly more Republicans than Democrats have died from Covid-19 since the initial vaccine rollout in 2021.
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Ukraine: Stopping the Escalatory Ladder
Carden is a former adviser to the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission at the U.S. Department of State. He has written for The Nation, The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, The Spectator, UnHerd and other outlets.
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Pandemic’s Effects on Employment and Disability Among Older Americans
A new working paper from the National Bureau for Economic Research found that labor force non-participation remains high in older Americans. Disability benefits, meanwhile, are depressed relative to pre-pandemic levels.
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Should All Adults Under 65 Get Screened for Anxiety?
the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that primary care doctors should regularly screen all adults under 65 for anxiety, even those without symptoms. Neuroscientist and anxiety specialist Judson Brewer says that “screening by itself is not so helpful. If you screen for something you don’t have a treatment for––who cares?”
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How Nuclear Wars Can Start: Nuclear War Exercise, Then and Now
For the first time since World War II, troops were also deployed to The Netherlands. The unprecedented nature of the troop movements certainly attracted Soviet attention.
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New National Data on Long Covid
In a report on new Census data from the Household Pulse Survey from September, the Center for Economic and Policy Research write that about 4.4 million adults report symptoms from long Covid that reduce their ability to carry out day-to-day activities by a lot.
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Activists Demand a Halt to NATO Nuclear War Rehearsals; Congressional Action
RootsAction.org has launched a campaign “Tell Congress and President Biden to make NATO cease its nuclear war rehearsals.”
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Biden Pleads on Stock BuyBacks, but Why the Inaction?
“in 2005-2015 Exxon Mobil distributed $224 billion in buybacks on top of $101 billion in dividends (a combined 86 percent of net income). As Vice President, Biden was an outspoken critic of stock buybacks, and he should know that an executive order that bans buybacks is the only way in which the oil companies will cease using the profits…
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Call for Banning Killer Drones, from Ukraine to Ethiopia
“”Killer drones are a particularly inhumane type of warfare with high error rates causing the deaths of civilians. Moreover, killer drones seek to desensitize us from war, make war seem ‘easier’ and thereby increase the chances of yet more wars.”
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Critics of Intervention in Haiti
Experts say “the last thing the Haitian people want is another ‘humanitarian’ invasion and occupation by the U.S. and the ‘Core Group.'”