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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and view in December, 2021

Note: Excerpts are from the authors’ words except for subheads and occasional “Editor’s notes” such as this. 

 

Dec. 2

Top Headlines

• New York Times, Analysis: Supreme Court Seems Poised to Uphold Mississippi’s Abortion Law, Adam Liptak
• Washington Post, ‘We are pulling out all the stops’: White House details strategies to fight variants
• New York Times, Germany announces tough restrictions for unvaccinated people
• Washington Post, Michigan school shooting prosecutor suggests she will charge parents
• New York Times, The 15-year-old suspect in the school shooting was charged with murder and terrorism

 

Virus Victims, Responses

• Washington Post, Omicron variant identified in U.S.: First case of covid-19 linked to new variant found in California
• New York Times, Omicron Could Knock a Fragile Economic Recovery Off Track
• Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals: U.S. Deaths: 805,004
• Washington Post, 196.8 milliion in U.S. fully vaccinated

Trump Watch, White Supremecists, Cults

• Washington Post, Trump could pocket $100 million in deal for money-losing D.C. hotel
• Palmer Report, Opinion: The real reason Mark Meadows is such a problem for Donald Trump, Bill Palmer

 

U.S. Law, Courts, Immigration

• Washington Post, Number of immigrants held in private facilities grows despite Biden’s promise to end practice

 

Abortion Case Reactions

• Washington Post, Opinion: The question is not whether ‘Roe v. Wade’ is overturned — but how, Ruth Marcus
• Washington Post, Potential loss of Roe v. Wade as a legal standard shakes political landscape
• New York Times, Opinion: What We Learned From the Supreme Court’s Abortion Arguments, Charles M. Blow, Ross Douthat, Michelle Goldberg and Lulu Garcia-Navarro
• Steady, Opinon: The End of Roe? Dan Rather
• Washington Post, Editorial: Gutting ‘Roe’ would devastate millions of Americans — and the court itself
• Washington Post, Justices hear arguments over Miss.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative November 2021 news and views

Note: Excerpts are from the authors’ words except for subheads and occasional “Editor’s notes” such as this.

 

Nov. 1

Top Headlines

• New York Times, Live Updates: ‘Climate Change Is ‘Ravaging the World,’ Biden Tells Summit; ‘We Are Digging Our Own Graves,’ U.N. Leader Warns
• Washington Post, Pandemic slowly wanes in U.S., bringing hope and uncertainty
• Washington Post, Investigation: How Trump’s 187 minutes of inaction led to Jan. 6 bloodshed, Washington Post Staff
• Washington Post, Investigation: Red Flags: FBI, other agencies failed to heed red flags weeks ahead of Jan. 6
• The Hill, WaPost won’t publish full Trump response due to ‘unrelated, inflammatory claims‘
• Palmer Report, Opinion: Ugly new Michael Flynn scandal surfaces, Bill Palmer
• Proof, Investigative Commentary: GOP Senate Candidate Tells FBI He Has Evidence Michael Flynn Is Working With Foreign Intelligence As Part of Treasonous Plot to Overthrow Federal Government, Seth Abramson
• Wayne Madsen Report (WMR), Investigative Commentary: Durham’s phony investigation a waste of scant DOJ resources, Wayne Madsen

 

U.S. Elections, Budget Bills, Governance

• Washington Post, Justice Dept. tells Supreme Court abortion law threatens constitutional rights
• Washington Post, Opinion: Take the win, Democrats, and don’t look back, E.J. Dionne Jr.
• New York Times, Manchin Refuses to Endorse Safety Net Bill, Dampening Hopes of a Quick Vote
• New York Times, Both Parties Await Result in Virginia, and What It Bodes for the Battles Ahead, Jonathan Martin
• Washington Post, Va. went big for Biden, but on eve of another election, many voters say Democrats have not delivered
• Washington Post, Analysis: Nearly 4 in 10 who say election was stolen from Trump say violence might be needed to save America, Aaron Blake
• Washington Post, Biden seizes on G-20 summit to reverse Trump’s approach to world problems
• Washington Post, Treasury Secretary Yellen expresses openness to defusing debt ceiling without GOP votes

 

Virus Victims, Responses

• Washington Post, White House finalizes vaccine requirement rule, expects to release details this week
• Washington Post, Anti-vaccine protesters warn of possible violence over mandates for children
• New York Times, Opinion: No, Vaccine Mandates Aren’t an Attack on Freedom, Paul Krugman 
• Unz Review, Investigation and Commentary: What America’s 17 Intelligence Agencies Won’t Say About the Origins of Covid, Ron Unz
• New York Times, N.Y.C.’s

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative October 2021 news and views

Note: Excerpts are from the authors’ words except for subheads and occasional “Editor’s notes” such as this. 

 

Oct. 2

Top Headlines

• New York Times, U.S. Covid Death Toll Surpasses 700,000 Despite Wide Availability of Vaccines
• Washington Post, Opinion: What the 700,000 flags I put on the National Mall really mean, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg
• New York Times, Hitting a Blockade Over His Agenda, Biden Tacks Left, Jonathan Martin and Jonathan Weisman
• Washington Post, Biden urges patience as he seeks to unite Democrats on infrastructure

 

Virus Victims, Responses

• New York Times, Merck Says Covid Antiviral Pill Is Effective in Trial
• Washington Post, New York sees rise in vaccination rates for health-care workers after mandate
• Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 718,984
• Washington Post, 214.3 million U.S. vaccinated

 

 U.S. Elections, Politics, Governance

• Bad News, Opinion: Ladies and gentleman, we got him — Or, How Gottheimer’s gambit failed, Ryan Grim
• Washington Post, White House confronts grueling choices as it debates major cuts to Biden economic plan
• New York Times, Arizona Vote Review ‘Made Up the Numbers,’ Election Experts Say
• Washington Post, Wis. election review ramps up as former judge issues subpoenas to officials
• New York Times, Supporters of Abortion Rights Struggle to Gain Marchers and Momentum
• New York Times, Opinion: Are We Too Burned Out to Defend Roe v. Wade? Michelle Goldberg
• New York Times, A Congresswoman’s Story: Raped at 17, ‘I Chose to Have an Abortion,’ Sheryl Gay Stolberg

 

Jan. 6 Pro-Trump Insurrection

• New York Times, Whistle-Blower to Accuse Facebook of Contributing to Jan. 6 Riot, Memo Says.
• Washington Post, Former Special Forces soldier and onetime congressional candidate arrested in Capitol riot case

 

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative September  2021 news and views. This is Part 1 of our tw excepts during a heavy news month

 

Sept. 21

Top Headlines

• Washington Post, U.S. careens toward shutdown, financial crisis amid stalemate in Congress
• Washington Post, More centrist Democrats question size of $3.5 trillion economic plan
• New York Times, Live Updates: In U.N. Debut, Biden Confronts Doubts About U.S. Global Leadership
• New York Times, Democrats to Pair Spending Bill With Raising Debt Ceiling, Pressuring G.O.P.
• Washington Post, Opinion: Biden’s Entire Presidential Agenda Rests on Expansive Spending Bill

 

U.S. Terrorists, Election Fraudsters, Money Sources

• New York Times, Trump Campaign Knew Lawyers’ Voting Machine Claims Were Baseless, Memo Shows, Alan Feuer
• Palmer Report, Opinion: Serious new legal trouble for everyone involved with Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, Bill Palmer
• Washington Post, Huge hack reveals embarrassing details of who’s behind Proud Boys and other far-right websites
• Washington Post, Opinion: How serious is the threat to democracy, and how do we defeat it? Jennifer Rubin
• Washington Post, Two GOP operatives indicted for allegedly routing money from Russian national to support Trump campaign
• Washington Post, Treasury Department will sanction crypto exchanges that help channel payments to hackers

 

Canadian, Russian Elections

• Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: Neo-fascist party in Canada makes a mark in election; its vote count shouldn’t fool anyone, Wayne Madsen
• New York Times, Live Updates: Justin Trudeau to Remain Prime Minister of Canada: Falls short of a majority
• Washington Post, Putin’s United Russia party gains big majority in parliamentary elections
• Wayne Madsen Report, Opinion: Russian fascism shows weak links; Biden missed an opportunity, Wayne Madsen

 

Virus Victims, Responses

• Washington Post, Second dose of J&J vaccine increases covid protection, company says
• Washington Post, Live Updates: U.S.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative September  2021 news and views. This is Part 2 of our excepts during a heavy news month.

 

Sept. 22

Top Headlines

• New York Times, F.D.A. Authorizes Pfizer Booster Shots for Older and At-Risk Americans
• Washington Post, House passes bill to avert shutdown, but legislation faces grim prospects in Senate
• Washington Post, U.S. default this fall would cost 6 million jobs, wipe out $15 trillion in wealth, study says
• Washington Post, U.S. careens toward shutdown, financial crisis amid stalemate in Congress
• New York Times, Trump Campaign Knew Lawyers’ Voting Machine Claims Were Baseless, Memo Shows, Alan Feuer
• Washington Post, Opinion: New details about Trump’s Dominion scam help explain our authoritarian slide, Greg Sargent
• Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: Covid and Trumpism lead to coups and rumors of coups, Wayne Madsen
• Washington Post, More centrist Democrats question size of $3.5 trillion economic plan
• New York Times,  In U.N. Debut, Biden Confronts Doubts About U.S. Global Leadership

 

Virus Victims, Responses

• Washington Post, Second dose of J&J vaccine increases covid protection, company says
• New York Times, Pressure Grows on U.S. Companies to Share Covid Vaccine Technology
• New York Times, People with serious conditions are waiting weeks for non-Covid surgeries as hospitals are inundated once again
• Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 696,918
• Washington Post, 212.3 million U.S. vaccinated
  

 

U.S. Governance, Politics, Elections

• Washington Post, Former treasury secretaries tried defusing debt-ceiling bomb in talks with Yellen, McConnell
• Washington Post, Fed projects new interest rate hikes in 2022, signals upcoming easing of supports if economy continues to heal
• New York Times, What’s at Stake in the 2022 Races for Governor
• Washington Post, ‘I’ve never seen maggots this big’: New Orleans hasn’t picked up some people’s trash since Ida.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative September  2021 news and views.

 

Sept. 2

Top Headlines

• New York Times, Supreme Court, Breaking Silence, Won’t Block Texas Abortion Law
• Washington Post, Opinion: Texas shows us what post-democracy America would look like, Dana Milbank
• Washington Post, Manchin calls on Democrats to ‘pause’ and cut their $3.5 trillion spending plan, dealing potential blow to Biden agenda
• Washington Post, Live Updates: U.S. could work with Taliban against terrorists, Pentagon says
• Washington Post, Questions hang over diplomatic mission as next phase of U.S.-Afghanistan relationship begins
• Washington Post, Perspective: The viral photo of the last soldier in Afghanistan is powerful — and deceptive, Philip Kennicot

Virus Victims, Responses

• Washington Post, Joe Rogan has covid-19, is taking unproven deworming medicine
• Washington Post, Texas district closes schools after covid kills two teachers in one week
• Washington Post, Four conservative radio talk-show hosts bashed coronavirus vaccines. Then they got sick
• Washington Post, Georgia professors are quitting over their universities’ lax mask rules: ‘This is a matter of life and death,’
• Washington Post, FDA to hear from outside experts on coronavirus boosters just days before shots become available
• Washington Post, Opinion: Yes, you can get some immunity from having covid-19. But no one should wait to get vaccinated, Leana S. Wen
• Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 659,927
• Washington Post, 205 million U.S. vaccinated
• New York Times, Opinion: The Buying of the American Mind, Paul Krugman

 

More On Supreme Courts, Abortion, Votes, Democracy

• New York Times, Supreme Court, Breaking Silence, Won’t Block Texas Abortion Law (continued)
• Washington Post, Opinion: Texas shows us what post-democracy America would look like, Dana Milbank, (continued)
• Washington Post, Opinion: Say goodbye to Roe v. Wade, Paul Waldman
• New York Times, Citizens, Not the State, Will Enforce New Abortion Law in Texas
• Wayne Madsen Report, Opinion: Texas actions make it a prime candidate for international sanctions, Wayne Madsen

 

Pro-Trump Election Claims, Capitol Riot

• Washington Post, Liz Cheney appointed vice chair of panel investigating Jan.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative August 2021 news and views.

 

Aug. 3

Top Headlines

• Washington Post, 70 percent of U.S. adults have gotten at least one shot, hitting Biden vaccine goal a month late
• Washington Post, Florida breaks record for new cases as surge of infections hits state
• Washington Post, Senate unveils details of bipartisan infrastructure proposal

 

U.S. Insurrection Probes, Commentaries

• Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: Foreign cash bought the White House for Trump, Wayne Madsen
• Proof via Substack, Investigation: Trump Adviser Roger Stone Was Closely Attended By a Leading Proud Boy Just Before a Proud Boy Arson, a Proud Boy Riot, and the Proud Boys’ Capitol Attack, Seth Abramson
• Washington Post, Opinion: Biden cannot sit back and let our democracy sink. He’s now showing us he gets that, E.J. Dionne Jr.
• Washington Post, As many Republicans try to rewrite history of Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Sen. Ron Johnson suggests FBI knew more than it has said
• Washington Post, Maricopa County defies Arizona Senate subpoena seeking to expand GOP ballot review

 

Virus Victims, Responses

• New York Times, Where a Vast Global Vaccination Program Went Wrong, Benjamin Mueller and Rebecca Robbins
• New York Times, Live Updates: Workplace Vaccine Mandates Reveal a Divide Among Employees
• Washington Post, Lindsey Graham tests positive for the coronavirus after meeting senators without masks
• Washington Post, 190.5 million U.S. vaccinated
• Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 629,868

 

U.S. Governance, Politics, Elections

• Washington Post, Liberals erupt in fury at White House over end of eviction moratorium
• New York Times, Government scientists who quit during the Trump administration haven’t returned, stunting President Biden’s climate plans
• New York Times, Two House Races in Ohio Could Challenge Democratic Divisions and Trump’s Sway
• New York Times, New York Is Pushing Homeless People Off the Streets.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative July, 2021 news and views.

 

July 31

Top Headlines

• New York Times, Where the Delta Variant and Low Vaccination Rates Are Colliding
• Washington Post, Ban on evictions expires as renters face rising covid cases, lack of aid
• Washington Post, Analysis: Newly revealed notes drag congressional Republicans into Trump’s election-subversion effort, Philip Bump
• Washington Post, Jan. 6 panel faces choice of whether to call GOP lawmakers to testify
• Palmer Report, Opinion: Merrick Garland: how do you like me now? Bill Palmer
• New York Times, Biden Promised to Restore the Iran Nuclear Deal. Now It Risks Derailment 

 

Virus Victims, Responses

• New York Times, Vaccinated People With Rare Breakthrough Cases Can Spread Virus, C.D.C. Reports
• New York Times, New Rule Raises Question: Who’ll Pay for All the Covid Tests?
• Washington Post, Disney, Walmart mandate workers to be vaccinated as cases spike nationwide
• Washington Post, Vaccine holdouts relent as delta variant takes hold
• Washington Post, ‘We can’t take another blow’: Some restaurants may not survive renewed mask mandates
• Washington Post, 190.5 million U.S. vaccinated
• Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 629,065
• Washington Post, French police clash with anti-vaccine protesters amid tensions over ‘health pass’ plans,

 

2020 Tokyo Olympics

• New York Times, Olympic Soccer Live Updates: U.S. Women’s Team Beats Netherlands in Shootout‘
• Washington Post, The Tokyo Games went on. But American viewers aren’t coming along 
• Washington Post, The Tokyo Olympics schedule, day by day 

 

U.S. Politics, Governance

• Palmer Report, Opinion: Tucker Carlson over the edge
• New York Times, Carl Levin, the Senate Scourge of Corporate America, Dies at 87

 

Jan. 6 Pro-Trump Insurrection

• Daily Beast, NFL Star’s Ex Brought Knife to Capitol, Got Framed as Antifa

 

World News, Corruption, Human Rights

• New York Times, Hong Kong Protester Is Sentenced to 9 Years in First Security Law Case
• Washington Post, Beijing police detain Chinese Canadian pop star Kris Wu on rape allegations

 

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative July, 2021 news and views.

 

July 3

Top Headlines

• Washington Post, U.S. military vacates main air base in Afghanistan, underscoring withdrawal expected within days
• New York Times, As Afghan Forces Crumble, an Air of Unreality Grips the Capital
• Washington Post, Massive ransomware attack on widely used IT tool hits hundreds of companies
• Washington Post, Hours-long standoff between police, heavily armed men in Massachusetts ends with 11 arrests
• Washington Post, Craving freedom from virus, U.S. heads into July 4 with sharply divided risk 

 

Trump Probes, Jan. 6 Insurrection 

• HuffPost, 6 Months After Deadly Capitol Riot, Pipe Bomb Suspect Still Eludes Authorities
• Washington Post, Trump’s company cloaked him in gilded fame. Now it faces felony charges, debt and a tainted brand
• New York Times, In Case Against Trump’s Company, Echoes of His Father’s Tactics on Taxes
• Washington Post, FBI launches flurry of arrests over attacks on journalists at Capitol riot
• New York Times, As president, Donald Trump is said to have called an Arizona official who was being pressured to investigate election fraud claims
• Washington Post, Alleged Oath Keeper arrested in Capitol riot turned over firearm
• Washington Post, Trump seeks to use indictments as a political rallying cry as he tries to survive latest legal threat
• New York Times, Editorial: The Supreme Court Abandons Voting Rights
• Washington Post, Opinion: Nancy Pelosi has backed Kevin McCarthy into a corner, Greg Sargent
• Washington Post, As prosecutors indict the Trump Organization, Trump indicts himself, Dana Milbank
• Washington Post, Opinion: The Trump case may be unusual. But if true, it’s brazen tax fraud, Ruth Marcus

 

Virus Victims, Responses, Jobs 

• Washington Post, Facing the delta variant wave with few vaccine doses, African countries suffer — and bristle with anger
• Washington Post, Johnson & Johnson says its coronavirus vaccine is effective against delta variant
• Washington Post, 182.1 million U.S.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative July, 2021 news and views.

 

July 31

Top Headlines

• New York Times, Where the Delta Variant and Low Vaccination Rates Are Colliding
• Washington Post, Ban on evictions expires as renters face rising covid cases, lack of aid
• Washington Post, Analysis: Newly revealed notes drag congressional Republicans into Trump’s election-subversion effort, Philip Bump
• Washington Post, Jan. 6 panel faces choice of whether to call GOP lawmakers to testify
• Palmer Report, Opinion: Merrick Garland: how do you like me now? Bill Palmer
• New York Times, Biden Promised to Restore the Iran Nuclear Deal. Now It Risks Derailment 

 

Virus Victims, Responses

• New York Times, Vaccinated People With Rare Breakthrough Cases Can Spread Virus, C.D.C. Reports
• New York Times, New Rule Raises Question: Who’ll Pay for All the Covid Tests?
• Washington Post, Disney, Walmart mandate workers to be vaccinated as cases spike nationwide
• Washington Post, Vaccine holdouts relent as delta variant takes hold
• Washington Post, ‘We can’t take another blow’: Some restaurants may not survive renewed mask mandates
• Washington Post, 190.5 million U.S. vaccinated
• Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 629,065
• Washington Post, French police clash with anti-vaccine protesters amid tensions over ‘health pass’ plans,

 

2020 Tokyo Olympics

• New York Times, Olympic Soccer Live Updates: U.S. Women’s Team Beats Netherlands in Shootout‘
• Washington Post, The Tokyo Games went on. But American viewers aren’t coming along 
• Washington Post, The Tokyo Olympics schedule, day by day 

 

U.S. Politics, Governance

• Palmer Report, Opinion: Tucker Carlson over the edge
• New York Times, Carl Levin, the Senate Scourge of Corporate America, Dies at 87

 

Jan. 6 Pro-Trump Insurrection

• Daily Beast, NFL Star’s Ex Brought Knife to Capitol, Got Framed as Antifa

 

World News, Corruption, Human Rights

• New York Times, Hong Kong Protester Is Sentenced to 9 Years in First Security Law Case
• Washington Post, Beijing police detain Chinese Canadian pop star Kris Wu on rape allegations

 

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