WEEKEND EDITION: Trump's Indictment Was Not the Biggest Story of the Week

 

April 02, 2023 Top News Asa Hutchinson, Enemy of Abortion Rights Who Kicked Thousands Off Medicaid, Announces White House Bid "He's just another extremist joining the ever-expanding race for the MAGA base." Jake Johnson 'Retaliation at Its Worst': Starbucks Fires Worker Who Sparked National Union Movement "I don't think it's a coincidence that two days after Howard Schultz had his ego bruised the way that he did that he started lashing out at Buffalo," said Alexis Rizzo, who was fired on Friday. Jake Johnson 'Bending the Knee' to Insurance Lobby, Biden Admin Delays Medicare Advantage Reforms "Medicare Advantage providers whined for months that they simply couldn't survive without being able to rip off the government, so the government said 'you can rip us off for just a little longer,'" said one critic. Jake Johnson 15 Million People Could Lose Coverage as Nightmarish Medicaid 'Purge' Begins "I feel sick," said one physician. "Medicaid is not enough: we need seamless, lifelong universal care now." Jake Johnson Amid Fears Over Russia-Belarus Nuke Deal, UN Official Calls for Talks to Ease Tensions "The absence of dialogue and the erosion of the disarmament and arms control architecture, combined with dangerous rhetoric and veiled threats, are key drivers of this potentially existential risk." Jessica Corbett Fetterman 'So Happy to Be Home,' Set to Return to Senate After Hospitalization for Depression "I'm excited to be the father and husband I want to be, and the senator Pennsylvania deserves," the freshman lawmaker said. Brett Wilkins

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Opinion Trump's Indictment Was Not the Biggest Story of the Week Hours before news of the former president's indictment took over the headlines, a study warned that "melting ice around Antarctica will cause a rapid slowdown of a major global deep ocean current by 2050 that could alter the world's climate for centuries." Bill Mckibben The Hidden War Against the World's Impoverished Migrants of Color The weaponization of natural spaces like El Tapón del Darién against impoverished migrants of color is a new and insidious form of global warfare. Maira Delgado Laurens The Second Cold War Is More Dangerous Than the First Americans have to ask themselves: Is it worth risking nuclear war—and an apocalyptic nuclear winter—for no loftier purpose than to maintain their country’s violently enforced grasp of overwhelming global power? Chris Wright

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