While an onslaught of voter suppression bills work their way through state legislatures, @AriBerman walks @mehdirhasan through the GOP’s backup plan: fighting election certification.
46% of parents say the pandemic has affected their teens’ mental health.
“There still needs to be a reckoning for the sacrifice we asked young people all around the country to make on our behalf,” says @AlecMacGillis.
Plus, @EmEsfahaniSmith’s advice to parents.
“Every time there’s a cataclysm in this country, it reveals the fissures of the society.”
@sarahschulman3 explains similarities between Covid now and the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
What does @RepRoKhanna say to the 9 Republican and 2 Democratic Senators who couldn’t be bothered to show up for today’s Jan. 6 commission vote?
“I really don’t understand it.”
On the day that American deaths from Covid reach levels we haven't seen since March 2020, @Anandwrites says:
"The plague year was not only a killer, not only a terrorizer, not only a thief of dreams. It was also a teacher.”
Pres. Biden has ordered a probe into Covid’s origin as people debate whether the virus was leaked from a Chinese lab. So where does @ashishkjha stand on this question? “At the end of the day, I really don’t know.”
After a court ordered Shell to cut greenhouse gas emissions, @emorwee says not to look at it as a loss for Big Oil but as “a win for life on Earth for you and me, for everything we hold dear.”
Covid-19 infections in India have decreased in the past two weeks, but the death rate remains steady.
@mehdirhasan asks, “shouldn’t the rest of the world be doing more to help the second-biggest population on Earth?”
He’s baaaaack! Former GOP House Speaker and VP candidate Paul Ryan is criticizing Trump’s hold on the Republican Party in a speech tonight. But as @MehdiRHasan points out, Ryan “is only pretending to be a guy with a conscience.”
President Biden pushed today in Cleveland, OH for raising the federal minimum wage to $15/hr. @MehdiRHasan asked Labor Secretary Marty Walsh where things stand on getting legislation passed. WATCH:
President Biden wants to radically revamp the American economy, but Republicans (shocker!) aren’t exactly on board.
@SecMartyWalsh is on with @mehdirhasan tonight to discuss.
Live at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV
Media coverage has moved on, but the scourge of Covid-19 in India has not.
@ashishkjha joins @mehdirhasan live at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV to discuss the burgeoning health crisis.
WATCH: It’s been 60 years since JFK had to deny he was “the Catholic candidate for president.” So why, @MehdiRHasan asks in tonight's mini-rant, did the leading candidate for VA lt. governor have to put up with a debate question like this?