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The Week in Review

'Carpetbagger' Charges Fly as Georgia GOP Senate Candidate Walker's Texas Tax Break Exposed Democratic opponent Sen. Raphael Warnock asked, "How can Herschel Walker represent Georgians when he doesn't even claim our great state as his primary residence?" Read more → 'A Death Sentence': Biden Blasted for Approving Oil Export Project "It is peak hypocrisy for President Biden and Secretary Pete Buttigieg to shorten the fuse on the world's largest carbon bomb by greenlighting additional oil export terminals right after lecturing the world about increasing climate ambitions at COP27," said one critic. Read more → Teachers' Union Leader Hits Back After Pompeo Calls Her the 'Most Dangerous Person in the World' "Maybe spend a minute in one of the classrooms with my members and their students and you will get a real lesson in the promise and potential of America," said AFT president Randi Weingarten. Read more → Outrage as Starbucks Moves to Close First Unionized Shop in Its Home City of Seattle "Starbucks and Howard Schultz believe they are above the law. They believe they can do whatever they want and get away with it," said Starbucks Workers United. "This is unacceptable and will not stand." Read more → Scientists Revive ‘Zombie’ Virus After 50,000 Years Trapped in Siberian Permafrost Researchers documented 13 never-before-seen viruses that have been lying dormant, frozen in thick ice, over tens of thousands of years. Read more →

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Opinion

Taxing the Rich Requires More Than Policy The Left is finally waking to the power of ballot initiatives as tools to advance egalitarian and redistributive policy. by Benjamin Fong, Benjamin Case Read more → The Not Very Smart Elon Musk As Twitter implodes under Musk's rule, a lawsuit argues Tesla is vastly overpaying the world's richest man. by Sam Pizzigati Read more → Don't Be Fooled. This Is What Elon Musk Is Really Up to With Twitter As a private fief, Twitter could never be the world's public square. That was never the point. by Yanis Varoufakis Read more → Mike Pompeo Just Proved He Is the Stupidest Person in the World Only strong unions will fight for the teaching profession—and the children our educators cherish and serve—against the hostility of bombastic fools like Pompeo. by Diane Ravitch Read more →

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