Democrat Candidates Election 2020
Nashville DA’s Office Seeks to Vacate Claude Garrett’s 29-Year-Old Murder Conviction
Almost 30 years after Claude Garrett was accused of setting a fire that killed his girlfriend, Lorie Lance, the district attorney’s office in Nashville, Tennessee, has concluded that there is no evidence the fire was arson — and that Garrett was wrongfully convicted of Lance’s murder. In a notice of intent filed in Davidson County Criminal…
Read MoreKyle Rittenhouse, Ahmaud Arbery, and the Future of Right-Wing Vigilantism
Jurors in the trial of three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery began deliberations Tuesday. Last week, a jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse of all charges, including two counts of homicide. This week on Intercepted: We discuss the details of these two cases, how they differ, and the questions they raise about the normalization of violence…
Read MoreValor de empresas e de papéis do agronegócio explode com desmonte de leis ambientais
Em 7 de outubro de 2021, o Jornal Nacional foi aberto com a notícia de que a economia patina. O comércio sofre, a indústria virou pó, o consumo segue no congelador. O telejornal mais importante do país passou à margem de um acontecimento que, talvez, tenha sido o mais importante do dia no noticiário econômico:…
Read MoreHow Unaccountable Institutions are Shaping Your LifeThree…
How Unaccountable Institutions are Shaping Your Life Three centers of power increasingly dominate our lives, but are less and less accountable: The Supreme Court, the Federal Reserve, and Big Tech. The Supreme Court Start with the high court. These nine unelected individuals – all appointed for life – are about to revolutionize America in ways the…
Read MoreKyle Rittenhouse Bridged The Divide Between The Far Right And Mainstream Conservatives
Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial may have ended, but his veneration is only beginning. On Friday, a jury acquitted Rittenhouse on all charges after he shot three men, killing two and injuring one, during protests against the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020. Ever since the shootings, far-right groups online have fixated…
Read MoreA grana da sua gasolina de R$ 7 abastece o Auxílio Mercado de Bolsonaro
Foto: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg via Getty Images Embora o Auxílio Brasil ainda siga incerto, nos últimos anos, sem muito alarde, criou-se no Brasil um dos maiores programas de transferência de renda de todos os tempos: o Auxílio Mercado Financeiro. Depois do impeachment controverso da presidenta Dilma Rousseff, o mercado financeiro capturou de uma só vez o…
Read MorePolitics Podcast: What The Two Parties Should Be Thankful For
FiveThirtyEight More: Apple Podcasts | ESPN App | RSS On Friday, House Democrats passed the Build Back Better bill, which if made into law would allocate approximately $2 trillion dollars to social programs, climate change prevention and more. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses what the future of the…
Read MoreWhat ‘The Squad’ Tells Us About Progressives’ Ability To Win Voters Of Color
Back in 2018, a quartet of Democratic women — known commonly as “The Squad” — broke barriers on their way to Congress: They were young women of color with no prior congressional experience who, in some cases, bested a white incumbent to represent their now racially diversifying districts. They were heralded as the “future of…
Read MoreDevonia Inman Sees His Conviction Overturned After 23 Years Behind Bars
More than 20 years after Devonia Inman was sentenced to life in prison for a murder he swears he did not commit, a judge in Georgia has overturned his conviction, writing that state misconduct and woefully inadequate defense lawyering rendered Inman’s 2001 conviction unconstitutional. “Either of these constitutional violations, standing alone, demonstrates the fundamental unfairness…
Read More“The First Wave” Shows What We Haven't Seen of Covid-19
At Long Island Jewish Medical Center, a loudspeaker announces an emergency in one of the rooms. It is March 2020, and the Covid-19 pandemic has just begun to take hold in the U.S. A team of nurses and doctors in the hospital is preparing a patient for intubation. A doctor leans over the patient. “George,” the doctor shouts,…
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