Tag: government

January 7, 2021

Today’s historic and terrifying coup attempt by pro-Trump extremists in Washington, D.C. played out live the same way it was fomented — on social media. Once again Twitter, streaming sites and other user-generated media were the only place to learn […]

January 6, 2021

With the days counting down to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, the Trump administration has been undertaking a series of actions that will make it more difficult for its replacements to reverse any of its policies or pursue new […]

December 30, 2020

  The COVID-19 pandemic and the crisis that followed have transformed 2020 into a year of change, unrest, and anxiety. Like most of the world, U.S. experienced protests, police brutality, elections, demands for change, and hope for a brighter future. […]

December 18, 2020

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will receive Covid vaccinations in coming days, after the attending physician in Congress urged lawmakers to sign up. The physician, Dr. Brian Monahan, cited federal guidelines designed to ensure the […]

December 14, 2020

Congress is now truly down to the wire with only one week left to put pen to paper on a relief package. On Friday, Congress passed a one-week spending bill to avert a government shutdown and to give leaders another […]

December 11, 2020

Escalating the chaos in what has already been a busy week on Capitol Hill, two senators are currently threatening to obstruct a continuing resolution that would temporarily fund the government until a more comprehensive spending bill can be agreed upon […]

November 30, 2020

  The feasibility of remote working for government employees has always been a questionable subject. Although both pros and cons to this alternative are plausible, the digital workplace of 2020 has put a lot of strain on IT and security […]

November 16, 2020

President Donald Trump is coming to grips with his re-election defeat, according to aides and advisers, even as he continues to publicly discredit the outcome and delay the start of the official transition to President-elect Joe Biden’s administration. Trump began […]

November 13, 2020

The fate of TikTok in the United States got even more confusing this week. The U.S. Justice and Commerce Departments sent conflicting messages today about TikTok’s future, which is now up in the air with the upcoming administration transition. The […]

November 12, 2020

President-elect Joseph Biden has plucked Ron Klain, a longtime colleague and confidant and the current executive vice president of the venture capital firm Revolution, as his White House chief of staff, reports The New York Times. Klain was Biden’s chief […]

November 10, 2020

Bill Zhang lowered himself into lunges on a squishy mat as he explained to me the benefits of the full-body training suit he was wearing. We were in his small, modest office in Xili, a university area in Shenzhen that’s […]

November 5, 2020

On the same day that the U.S. officially withdrew from the global pact to reduce emissions that cause climate change, presidential contender Joe Biden committed that he would rejoin the Paris Agreement if elected. In a tweet late Wednesday, Biden […]

October 29, 2020

The latest presidential debate was probably one of the last chances for President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden to meet and argue their cases in front of a nationwide audience. Both the President and the former Vice […]

October 28, 2020

The line between our personal and professional lives is blurring in an unprecedented fashion as we approach the 2020 presidential election. From Oracle and Walmart’s plans to invest in TikTok to a bug in Joe Biden’s campaign app that exposed […]

October 28, 2020

The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google will appear before the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday in big tech’s latest showdown with Congress. The Senate hearing will have a narrower, more policy-centric scope than other recent high profile tech hearings, […]

October 23, 2020

Walmart Inc. sued the federal government in an effort to preempt regulators’ claims that the retailer added fuel to the U.S.’s opioid crisis by filling suspicious painkiller prescriptions in its pharmacies. The world’s largest retailer argues in the suit that […]

October 2, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that the continuity of government remains in place following President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis. Pelosi, 80, who is second in line to assume the duties of the presidency, said on MSNBC that “out of […]

September 25, 2020

In a speech unveiling his health-care “vision” for America, President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement: that cash cards will soon be sent to millions of seniors using the government health insurance program Medicare. “Under my plan, 33 million Medicare […]

September 16, 2020

Over half of US citizens are estimated to be willing to share their medical data and records due to COVID-19, and beyond, but fears of a surveillance state remain. As the number of confirmed novel coronavirus edges close to 30 […]

September 3, 2020

A 2016 Forester Research report found that the federal government had a “near monopoly on the worst experiences.” By 2019, the company’s Customer Experience Index survey showed that Americans’ experiences with federal services “remains weak and uneven,” even though the […]