The Feds Are Going After Bogus Coronavirus Products. Should Alex Jones Be Worried?
Jose Luis Magana/AP As concern over the coronavirus continues to grip the world, misinformation is spreading almost as quickly as the epidemic itself. And some companies are trying to turn that misinformation into profit. Case in point: The US Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission sent letters last week to companies warning…
4 Recommendations for Dealing With the Coronavirus from a Public Health Dream Team
A sign is shown next to a sanitizing station.Rick Bowmer/AP On Friday, the liberal advocacy organization Center for American Progress hosted a four-person panel of public health experts focused on the emerging threat novel coronavirus poses to the American public. The panelists were heavyweights of Democratic policy circles, with expertise spanning from national security to…
Democrats Win Right to See Full Mueller Report
Win some, lose some. Today Democrats won one: House Democrats scored a major legal victory Tuesday as a federal appeals court panel granted them permission to access grand jury secrets from Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. The 2-1 ruling from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision in favor of the House’s…
Is a Payroll Tax Cut a Good Idea?
Yesterday President Trump announced that he was considering a big slug of fiscal stimulus to keep the economy going in the face of the coronavirus epidemic. And what would this stimulus consist of? A tax cut, of course. However, the tax cut he has in mind is the payroll tax that funds Social Security and…
A Top Coronavirus Official Was Forced to Dance Around a Big Question: Should Trump Hold Rallies?
Alex Wong/Getty Last week, Anthony Fauci, a member of President Trump’s coronavirus task force and one of the country’s most trusted infectious disease experts, told Politico, “you don’t want to go to war with a president.” “But,” he cautioned, “you got to walk the fine balance of making sure you continue to tell the truth.” On…
Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Optimism, Explained
Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images via ZUMA Why is President Trump so obsessive about insisting that the coronavirus is no big deal, everything is under control, no worries, etc.? It seems self defeating. Obviously the virus is going to do what it does regardless of what he says, and Trump’s Pollyanna routine is just going to make…