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By Astead W. Herndon @ NYTimes.com, Sept. 11.
I read it after I saw a couple of other reporters congratulating Herndon on the story on the live debate chat and on twitter, and found it much better than the usual of this type. For those that care about this type of thing: Herndon is black.
Here is how our reporters covered the Sept. 12 Democratic presidential debate in real time. You can also catch up with our recap, takeaways and fact checks.
Hosted by Lisa Lerer, On Politics newsletter. With White House Correspondents Annie Karni, Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker and National Politics Reporters Sydney Ember and Astead Herndon watching with students from Texas Southern University on a different part of campus.
consider the 36 years that then-Sen. Biden spent defending the uniquely pro-corporate laws of his home state, Delaware — laws that protect America’s biggest companies from taxes, lawsuits and accountability; fuel economic inequality; and prioritize the interests of shareholders over those of consumers, debtors and workers.
By Rebecca Falconer @ Axios.com, updated 4 hrs. ago, with numerous photos
Some 2,500 people are listed as missing in the Bahamas more than a week after Hurricane Dorian devastated the Caribbean islands, National Emergency Management Agency spokesman Carl Smith told a news conference Wednesday.
The latest: The death toll remained at 50 but the large number of people missing meant it would significantly increase, Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said in a national address. Smith cautioned that the missing persons list had yet to be checked against government records of who had been evacuated.
- About 5,000 people have been evacuated from the 2 hardest hit islands, [....]
Fifteen consecutive years of United Nations peacekeeping operations in Haiti are coming to a close in October. UN News takes a look at the UN’s legacy in the Caribbean country.
If doctors won’t help fix the problems of health care, they shouldn’t be outraged when outsiders try to do it for them. Guest op-ed by Dr. Sandeep Jauhar (cardiologist, contributing opinion writer & author of “Heart: A History.”) @ NYTimes.com, Sept. 11
On Jan. 1, 2020, a new Medicare policy is scheduled to go into effect that will eventually require doctors to use a computer algorithm to vet imaging tests to determine “appropriateness.” If the tests, such as CT scans and M.R.I.s, do not meet certain “appropriate-use criteria,” Medicare may not reimburse the cost. Intended to reduce unnecessary imaging, the policy may penalize doctors who don’t comply by requiring them to get “prior authorization” before ordering imaging tests in the future — in other words, to follow another regulation.
Predictably, many doctors want the policy reversed or at least delayed so that they can come up with an alternative. They say that there is little evidence that the regulation will achieve its intended aim. They have concerns about how the computer algorithm will interact with existing electronic medical records. More generally, they complain of burdensome regulations, created largely without physician input, that doctors already must follow. The new policy, they say, is another intrusion on physicians’ decision-making authority — an authority gained over many years of difficult training.
These are all valid points, and yet after almost six years of delays — the law was passed in 2014 — doctors have not advanced an alternative solution [....]
Russian authorities have swept through at least 150 homes and offices of opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s allies across the country early Thursday as part of what his allies say is a politically motivated investigation.
This is at least the third wave of raids linked to Navalny in the past week. The first two were reportedly part of an investigation into alleged mass civil riots during July 27 anti-government protests and an early August criminal case into Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) over alleged money laundering.
“We haven’t had a massive hit on FBK and regional offices like that before,” Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh tweeted.
The searches were carried out in homes and offices of Navalny’s allies in at least 34 cities, including St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg, the Mediazona news website reported [....]
By ABC News via msn.com, Sept. 11
[....] "Is it possible to put the body in a bag?" asked Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, a senior member of the team, 12 minutes before Khashoggi arrived on Oct. 2.
Dr. Salah Muhammed Tubaigy, who served as forensic chief at the Saudi General Security Department, responded, "No. Too heavy, very tall too." "I know how to cut very well," Tubaigy added. "I have never worked on a warm body though, but I'll also manage that easily. I normally put on my earphones and listen to music when I cut cadavers. In the meantime, I sip on my coffee and smoke. After I dismember it, you will wrap the parts into plastic bags, put them in suitcases and take them out." [....]
the linked page also has video from 9/10: "Watch Netanyahu rushed off stage during Gaza rocket attack"
with NYTimes.com Sept. 10 lede: This is a transformational moment. Do the Democrats understand how to take advantage of it? Tweeted by Thomas Edsall, so quite an endorsement to read:
By Deborah Barfield Berry @ USAToday.com, Sept. 10
WASHINGTON – Led by African drummers, a parade of Congressional Black Caucus members, including civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis, marched into Emancipation Hall on Tuesday to mark the 400th anniversary of the first Africans brought to the English colonies.
“All of our history is what makes this country a great country,’’ said Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, noting the nation has been reluctant to embrace all of its history, including slavery.
The ceremony was held in Emancipation Hall, an ornate foyer in the Capitol Visitor Center, named after the slaves who helped build the U.S. Capitol. With a statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass only a few feet away, Republican and Democratic leaders cited the work of civil rights activists like Douglass and the contributions of African Americans to the building of the country.
They also noted how far the country has come and how much more needs to be done.“This is not history, this is today,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York [....]
Thomas has moved from black nationalism to the right. But his beliefs about racism, and our ability to solve it, remain the same.
Essay by Corey Robin @ NewYorker.com, Sept. 10 (This piece was drawn from Corey Robin's “The Enigma of Clarence Thomas,” which is out this month, from Metropolitan Books. Robin is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, also author or “The Reactionary Mind,” and “Fear.”)
Clarence Thomas is the longest-serving Justice on the Supreme Court. When he joined the bench, on October 19, 1991 [....] Since then, Thomas has written more than seven hundred opinions, staking out controversial positions on gun rights and campaign finance that have come to command Supreme Court majorities. “Thomas’s views,” the Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar has said, “are now being followed by a majority of the Court in case after case.” That was in 2011. Today Thomas is joined on the Court by Neil Gorsuch, who frequently signs on to Thomas’s opinions, and Brett Kavanaugh. Eleven of his former clerks have been nominated by Trump to the federal bench. Four of them sit on the Court of Appeals, just one step away from the Supreme Court.
By consensus, Thomas is the most conservative member of the Court. So it’s surprising that the central theme of his jurisprudence is race. When he was nearly forty years old, just four years shy of his appointment to the Court, Thomas set out the foundations of his vision in a profile in The Atlantic. “There is nothing you can do to get past black skin,” he said. “I don’t care how educated you are, how good you are at what you do—you’ll never have the same contacts or opportunities, you’ll never be seen as equal to whites.” This was no momentary indiscretion; it was the distillation of a lifetime of learning, which began in the segregated precincts of Savannah, during the nineteen-fifties, and continued through his college years, in the sixties. On the Court, Thomas continues to believe—and to argue, in opinion after opinion—that race matters; that racism is a constant, ineradicable feature of American life; and that the only hope for black people lies within themselves, not as individuals but as a separate community with separate institutions, apart from white people.
This vision is what sets Thomas apart from his fellow-conservatives on the bench, who believe that racism is either defeated or being diminished. It’s a vision that first emerged during Thomas’s early years, when he was on the left and identified, on a profound level, with the tenets of black nationalism [....]
“I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration,” Trump tweeted, adding that he would name a replacement next week.
Op-ed by David Leonhardt @ NYTimes.com, including some quite scary charts from recent polls on issues some Dems candidates are supporting
[....] They have instead devoted substantial time to wonky subjects that excite some progressive activists — and alienate most American voters. Recent polls suggest that the Democrats really are increasing the chances Trump will win re-election.[...]
[....] They should be casting Trump as a plutocrat in populist’s clothes, who has used the presidency to enrich himself and other wealthy insiders at the expense of hard-working middle-class families. It’s a caricature that has the benefit of truth. When pundits yearn for economic triangulation, they’re the ones confusing their own policy preferences with good political advice.
[...] Democrats are frittering away their advantage — and damaging their image. Last fall, most Americans had a favorable view of the Democratic Party, according to the Pew Research Center. That makes sense, because Democrats ran a populist campaign in the 2018 midterms, focused on pocketbook issues that dominate many people’s lives, like wages and medical costs.
[...] This year, the polling has flipped. Most Americans now have an unfavorable view of the party, no better than their view of the Republican Party. Likewise, slightly more voters say the “ideas being offered by the Democratic candidates” would hurt the country than say would help, according to the NPR poll [....]
By Nate Silver @ FiveThirtyEight.com, Sept. 9
[....] On ABC News’s This Week on Sunday, I gave a quick answer to this question.1 (p.s. Our “Do You Buy It?” segment on This Week, usually featuring yours truly, is airing almost every Sunday now, so we hope you’ll tune in!) But this is fairly challenging question, so let me give a longer answer here.
The question is challenging because it really involves two distinct components [....]
By Emily Stewart @ Vox.com, Sept. 9
The president is tweeting more — and he’s moving markets with it.