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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Hi there, we're Michael Bluhm & Graham Vyse from The Signal, a new current-affairs publication based in the U.S. and Canada. We've been thinking a lot about what the American Rescue Plan Act says about the state of the United States’ two parties and the new era the country's entering into. AMA. - Politics

Hi there, we're Michael Bluhm & Graham Vyse from The Signal, a new current-affairs publication based in the U.S. and Canada. We've been thinking a lot about what the American Rescue Plan Act says about the state of the United States’ two parties and the new era the country's entering into. AMA. - Politics


Hi there, we're Michael Bluhm & Graham Vyse from The Signal, a new current-affairs publication based in the U.S. and Canada. We've been thinking a lot about what the American Rescue Plan Act says about the state of the United States’ two parties and the new era the country's entering into. AMA.

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 09:01 AM PDT

Recently, we've talked with Dean Baker,the co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, who made the case that the Act represents the largest expansion of the social safety net since the Great Society reforms of the 1960s: Norm Ornstein, an emeritus scholar at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute, on why the Republicans could't do anything about the act and got stuck complaining about Dr. Seuss being canceled, and Randall Wray, a professor of economics at Bard College and one of the founders of modern monetary theory, about why he believes this expansive new government spending will help the country in a sustainable way, rather than driving up prices and public debt.

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www.thesgnl.com/2021/03/relief-legislation-dean-baker/

www.thesgnl.com/2021/03/stimulus-legislation-norm-ornstein/

www.thesgnl.com/2021/03/deficit-spending-randall-wray/

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Discussion Thread: Press Secretary Jen Psaki Holds a Briefing - 03/24/2021 | Live 12:30 PM ET

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 09:18 AM PDT

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki briefs reporters and responds to questions.

Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Cecilia Rouse, and Member of the Council of Economic Advisers Heather Boushey will join, today


The Press Conference is scheduled to begin at 12:30 PM ET. You can watch live online on

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Mitch McConnell Gets Instant Fact-Check Over Brazenly False Filibuster Defense

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 03:45 AM PDT

Congressman Pushes VA To Strip Benefits From Any Vet And Service Members Who Stormed Capitol

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 05:58 AM PDT

Harris Tells GOP To ‘Stop Pushing The False Choice’ Between Gun Ownership And Reform

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 07:09 AM PDT

'Strom Thurmond Disagrees': Historians Refute McConnell Claim That Filibuster Has 'No Racial History'

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 03:20 AM PDT

Republicans Bravely Announce Plans to Do Nothing to Stop Mass Shootings

Posted: 23 Mar 2021 10:36 PM PDT

Republican Senator’s Call For ‘Idiot Control’ Instead Of Gun Control Backfires Badly

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 04:24 AM PDT

Georgia Prosecutors Eye ‘False Statement’ Charges for Rudy Giuliani and Team Trump

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 05:14 AM PDT

The Most Important Thing Democrats Can Do With Their Power is Protect the Vote

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 05:35 AM PDT

Mitch McConnell is wrong. Here’s the filibuster’s ‘racial history.’ | From defending slavery to protecting segregation, the filibuster has been heavily used to block civil rights.

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 05:14 AM PDT

Radicalized Christian nationalism is one of the biggest threats facing the US. Christian leaders need to root the extremism from their communities.

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 06:39 AM PDT

America's billionaires got 44% richer during the pandemic while more than 80 million people in the US lost their jobs

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 12:52 AM PDT

Democrats Have a “Once-in-a-Century Moment” to Protect Voting Rights

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 06:32 AM PDT

Bernie Sanders Introduces Bills to Lower Prescription Drug Costs

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 12:09 AM PDT

VP Harris tells the GOP to 'stop pushing the false choice' that 'everybody's trying to come after your guns' after series of mass shootings

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 07:25 AM PDT

Former Trump election lawyer's defense: No 'reasonable people' would believe claims as fact

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 03:12 AM PDT

Prosecutors say Oath Keepers coordinated with Proud Boys ahead of Capitol riot

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 06:57 AM PDT

Plain Talk: The NRA Radicalized a Generation of Armed Extremists

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 06:21 AM PDT

Out senator Kyrsten Sinema’s favorability ratings are tanking & everyone knows why - The senator’s willingness to sacrifice LGBTQ civil rights in favor of the filibuster and opposition to raising the minimum wage has cost her support from Democrats.

Posted: 23 Mar 2021 05:20 PM PDT

US democracy on the brink: Republicans wage 'coordinated onslaught' on voting rights

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 04:06 AM PDT

Watchdog: DeVos made at least $225 million while in Trump's Cabinet

Posted: 23 Mar 2021 08:39 PM PDT

New evidence suggests ‘alliance’ between Oath Keepers, Proud Boys ahead of Jan. 6

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 06:51 AM PDT

Most investors now say the stock market is "rigged"

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 05:58 AM PDT

The Filibuster Isn’t the Key to Bipartisanship. I Know This Firsthand. - Republicans who say the filibuster promotes bipartisanship are ignoring the history of the last major bipartisan legislation to pass the U.S. Senate.

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 03:04 AM PDT

Jon Ossoff Is 44th Democratic Senator To Back DC Statehood

Posted: 23 Mar 2021 03:35 PM PDT

Angus King signals he would nix filibuster for voting rights

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 07:36 AM PDT

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Top Saudi official issued death threat against UN's Khashoggi investigator - All news

Top Saudi official issued death threat against UN's Khashoggi investigator - All news


Top Saudi official issued death threat against UN's Khashoggi investigator

Posted: 23 Mar 2021 05:29 AM PDT

Attack witnessed on Zoom leads police to bodies of two stabbing victims in California

Posted: 23 Mar 2021 05:08 AM PDT

'We knew he was getting closer': Boulder shooting survivor recounts how she and her son escaped

Posted: 23 Mar 2021 06:04 AM PDT

A doctor moves back home after living out of a camper for a year to keep her family safe from Covid-19

Posted: 22 Mar 2021 05:25 PM PDT

Massachusetts DA seeks to vacate thousands of drug convictions connected to botched evidence certification at state lab

Posted: 22 Mar 2021 08:22 PM PDT

Spring breakers accused of drugging, raping woman who later died in Miami Beach

Posted: 22 Mar 2021 04:50 PM PDT

Norway blocks Rolls-Royce's plan to sell engine maker to Russia

Posted: 23 Mar 2021 03:39 AM PDT

For a third time, judge rejects bail for Ghislaine Maxwell

Posted: 22 Mar 2021 03:09 PM PDT

Ellen DeGeneres Loses 1 Million Viewers After Apologies for Toxic Workplace

Posted: 22 Mar 2021 03:34 PM PDT

Global shortage in computer chips 'reaches crisis point'

Posted: 23 Mar 2021 02:25 AM PDT

Police: Man tackled 12-year-old, stabbed him in the neck at downtown McDonald’s – WPXI

Posted: 23 Mar 2021 12:09 AM PDT

Active shooter reported at grocery store in Colorado: Boulder police

Posted: 22 Mar 2021 02:11 PM PDT

Kim Janey becomes Boston’s acting mayor, makes history as first Black person, woman to hold the office

Posted: 22 Mar 2021 07:39 PM PDT

Top Fox producer dies from coronavirus

Posted: 22 Mar 2021 01:17 PM PDT

China Makes It A Crime To Question Military Casualties On The Internet

Posted: 22 Mar 2021 05:20 PM PDT

Zoom paid $0 in federal taxes on $664 million in pandemic profits, mostly by paying executives stock options

Posted: 22 Mar 2021 10:18 PM PDT

11 National Guard Soldiers transporting vaccines held at gunpoint in West Texas, suspect arrested

Posted: 22 Mar 2021 12:13 PM PDT

Woman of Asian descent assaulted in NYC on her way to protest anti-Asian violence

Posted: 22 Mar 2021 02:12 PM PDT

Judge rules Colorado cities unable to enact gun restrictions - March 18, 2021

Posted: 22 Mar 2021 10:28 PM PDT

UN says 15 dead, 400 missing in fire at Rohingya camp in Bangladesh

Posted: 23 Mar 2021 06:03 AM PDT

Seven-year-old girl in Myanmar killed when the military shot into her home.

Posted: 23 Mar 2021 08:43 AM PDT

Krispy Kreme will you give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you've been vaccinated

Posted: 22 Mar 2021 10:27 AM PDT

Tesla’s Autopilot Technology Faces Fresh Scrutiny | Federal regulators are investigating 23 recent accidents in which drivers were, or may have been, using the automatic steering and braking system.

Posted: 23 Mar 2021 07:01 AM PDT

U.N. calls for stop to 'horrific' sexual violence in Ethiopia's Tigray

Posted: 23 Mar 2021 03:44 AM PDT