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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about an unprecedented mobilization of advanced biotechnology on a worldwide scale. By any measure, progress in developing, testing and deploying vaccines has proceeded with breathtaking speed. Hardly more than a year after the pandemic started its lethal spread, scores of millions of people are being immunized using a variety of newly-developed vaccines with proven effectiveness against the Covid-19 virus. A technological and logistical basis now being laid will permit rapid responses to mutants as well as to future pandemic threats that may arise. All is not well, however.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Since taking office two weeks ago, President Joe Biden has signed 28 executive orders (EOs) covering a wide range of policies. His actions are not unprecedented, per se, but he’s on track to surpass one record held by Franklin D. Roosevelt—the record for most EOs signed in the first month in office. FDR had thirty. Additionally, Biden issued four proclamations, one ceremonial, ten memorandums, and two letters (rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization). It’s notable that sixteen of the twenty-eight orders are reversals of former President Trump’s own executive actions. Six of them specifically target the immigration policies of the previous administration.
With control of Congress and the White House, Democrats are making labor policy one of their first priorities. Ironically enough, that’s actually bad news for independent contractors and gig economy workers across the country. The legislation at the core of their agenda is the PRO Act, which Democrats just re-introduced with sponsors including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer. Among many other things, the bill would severely restrict the legal definition of independent contractors in a way that would largely end the gig economy as we know it.
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
During the normal flu season, the waiting rooms of hospitals and doctors’ offices are a source of concern for many patients. Cramped sitting rooms have the potential to expose patients to illness. The coronavirus pandemic only amplified this concern. It forced many medical practices to close their common areas and have patients wait for their appointments from the relative safety of their vehicles. While increasing patient safety, this solution has its own downsides: it’s hardly comfortable for the truly ill, and plummeting winter temperatures can be a problem for patients facing long-waits for delayed appointments. In response to that problem, many medical practices have started to emphasize telehealth. Digital appointments are now a normal patient experience. Polling suggests 76 percent of people today view telehealth as an option they’re willing to consider for medical care – even after the pandemic has receded.
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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
In the Age of Enlightenment, in the years in which the North Americans founded their independence, and a few years later, when the Spanish and Portuguese colonies were transformed into independent nations, the prevailing mood in Western civilization was optimistic. At that time all philosophers and statesmen were fully convinced that we were living at the beginning of a new age of prosperity, progress, and freedom. In those days people expected that the new political institutions—the constitutional representative governments established in the free nations of Europe and America—would work in a very beneficial way, and that economic freedom would continuously improve the material conditions of mankind.
President Joe Biden has promised to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 per hour. Some economists are of the view that the increase in the minimum wage could cause an increase in unemployment. Other economists think that the increase is unlikely to harm the labor market. Hence, they are of the view that raising the minimum wage could lift the workers' living standards.
The ironic thing about Michael Malice's book The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics is that it mostly deals with the Left. What unites the Right, argues Malice, is that they all hate the Left. ... Everyone from radical conservatives to Murray Rothbard–following anarchists to those whom the press sloppily calls "alt-right," all get lumped into the same category—hence the label. While almost everyone in those groups would strongly object to the affiliation, Malice has found the common denominator among them: they all hate the evangelical left. The New Right, as he sees it, is formed and fueled by this opposition, and so Malice spends page after page describing the progressive power that rules the social, intellectual, and political world.
An underlying theme throughout elite circles in government, media, and culture during the previous four years of the Trump administration was the overwhelming sense that the entire experience was some kind of unholy aberration. Somehow this buffoonish ogre had come to dwell in the great and holy temple of Democracy and had defiled it with his incessant tweeting and failure to play by the traditional rules of DC. However, at long last, the ogre and his demonic regressive hordes have been ejected from the temple, and their foul stench can be cleansed from the holy places (though this crowd still openly fantasizes about bringing such heretics before Rwanda-style “truth and reconciliation commissions”).
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from National Review RIGHT BIAS
Will today’s young girls have that hope? Will they have any chance of being the best in their schools, much less in their districts or states? I worry many won’t, and not just in tennis. Across the sporting world, the game is being rigged against women and in favor of biological men. President Biden is the latest man to do the rigging, which is strange coming from someone billed as a defender of women. In one of his first acts as president, he signed an executive order paving the way for a federal mandate that all schools receiving federal funding let biological men play on women’s sports teams. The order was framed as a matter of transgender rights. But really, it was an attack on women’s rights.
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from New Statesman
LEFT BIAS: "The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."The former president is being tried for his role in inciting anarchy but anarchia, in the Greek sense of “vacant office”, characterised his entire term.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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