 |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| Today's newsletter is being led with a column from The Editorial Board on President Biden's first year in office. We also have an opposing view from Press Secretary Jen Psaki. |
| |
| By The Editorial Board |
| Joe Biden entered the White House a year ago carrying Americans' hopes that he would restore the nation's confidence in itself and in its commander in chief after four years of Donald Trump's ineptness and dishonesty. But Biden in his first year as president has proved to be agonizingly ineffective. |
| Biden's signature piece of legislation, the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better plan, remains on the shelf after the president failed to secure enough votes for it in the Democratic-controlled Senate. |
| The same failure has now beset voting rights legislation, despite Biden's assertion last week that those who oppose the bills were siding with racists and traitors. |
Today's Editorial Cartoon |
 | | Mike Thompson, USA TODAY | | USA TODAY | |
| |
| |
| By Jen Psaki |
| A year ago, few would have imagined that 2021 would be the greatest year of job growth in American history. That the unemployment rate would be at 3.9% now, down from 6% at the start of 2021 – the biggest one-year drop in history. And that unemployment claims would be at historic lows because so many Americans were back to work, often at better jobs with better pay. |
| None of that was preordained. President Joe Biden entered office in a time of chaos, with a pandemic at its most deadly peak, and with an economy sputtering at only 60,000 jobs per month. |
| But President Biden responded with the American Rescue Plan, which he got to work on before he even came into office. It put money in families' pockets, helping them stay afloat during a pandemic recovery we knew would be rocky. |
| |
| By Stephen Levin |
| After the murder of George Floyd, the protest movement of 2020 forced many of us to take a long look in the mirror and ask, as Americans, are we doing everything we can to live up to our foundational principles and ideals? |
| As a New York City Council member, I decided to explore ways to make police more accountable when an officer engages in misconduct. I knew from research, history and common sense that police accountability actually enhances public safety by cultivating police-community relationships and bolstering confidence in law enforcement and the rule of law. |
| When I examined the most serious impediments to police accountability, one obscure concept came up again and again: qualified immunity. |
Other columns to read today |
| |
Columns on qualified immunity |
| We are doing a series examining the issue of qualified immunity. For more on the series read here. |
| |
| This newsletter was compiled by Jaden Amos. |
| |
| |
| |
| |
Belum ada tanggapan untuk "Today marks one year of President Joe Biden"
Posting Komentar