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Smile! The IRS Wants You To Send Selfies to a Facial Recognition Company

Plus: What the U.S. should do about Ukraine, America’s geriatric music market, and more…

Reason · Jan 24, 2022

Editorial: Whether Republicans like it or not, companies aren't obliged to spread lies

The right-wing cable channel One America News is among the worst purveyors of disinformation today, spewing a steady stream of lies regarding the pandemic, election integrity and other issues. But OAN’s pipeline for its toxic product just got narrower. DirecTV’s recent announcement that it will soon stop carrying the channel…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Jan 24, 2022

US Tells Diplomats’ Families to Leave Ukraine, Weighs Troop Options

The US State Department announced Sunday it was ordering diplomats' family members to leave Ukraine, as US President Joe Biden weighed options for boosting America's military assets in Eastern Europe to counter a buildup of Russian troops. The order, which also allowed US diplomats stationed at the embassy in the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 24, 2022

‘I’m over Covid’: Bill Maher says Americans shouldn’t obediently follow all doctors’ advice

That the medical establishment ‘never even attempted to get people to live a healthier lifestyle as a response to this pandemic is a giant scandal to me,’ HBO host says

The Independent UK · Jan 23, 2022

Where Ukraine’s Sunflowers Once Sprouted, Fears Now Grow

On a warm spring day in Ukraine 26 years ago, three men smiled for cameras as they planted symbolic sunflower seedlings in freshly tilled earth where Soviet nuclear missiles had once stood ready. That placid scene was, briefly, a launchpad for hope that the demise of the Soviet Union would…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 23, 2022

U.S. tells diplomats' families to leave Ukraine, weighs troop options

The U.S. State Department announced Sunday it was ordering diplomats' family members to leave Ukraine, as U.S. President Joe Biden weighed options for boosting America's military assets in Eastern Europe to counter a buildup of Russian troops.

Reuters · Jan 23, 2022

Where egos dare: Manchin and Sinema show how Senate spotlight corrupts

The two Democratic senators chose to wreck American democracy, simply to feed their sense of their own importance

The Guardian - US · Jan 23, 2022

The super-rich live on a different planet. Their thoughts on US salaries prove it

A tweet from a professor at Wharton School reveals students in one class believed the average American makes over six figures

The Guardian - US · Jan 22, 2022

The hard math behind America's labor shortage

Demography is destiny, and U.S. demographics in the years ahead favor workers over employers.

Axios · Jan 22, 2022

Republican resistance to Trump rings hollow as ‘moderates’ say no on voting rights

Romney, Cheney and others were hailed as the conscience of the party but their deeds in the Senate have provoked accusations of hypocrisy

The Guardian - US · Jan 22, 2022