Death Panel

We review the Biden administration's new "Path Out of the Pandemic" and new employer vaccine mandate, contrasted against the quiet end of pandemic unemployment assistance on Labor Day. Then, we discuss the rise of Kathryn Paige Harden and her new book, "The Genetic Lottery," in light of her recent New Yorker profile.

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Beatrice speaks with Charlotte Shane about the Texas abortion ban and why a politics that stops at "access" and "choice" is insufficient to meet the needs of the moment.

Read Charlotte's piece "Stop Being Stupid About Abortion" here: https://www.gawker.com/politics/stop-being-stupid-about-abortion

Charlotte Shane is the author of Prostitute Laundry, and a co-founder of TigerBee Press. Follow her on twitter @CharoShane.

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We discuss where are with the TRIPS waiver months after the Biden administration announced their purported support for it, and the difficulty of mobilizing pressure against hegemonic and unaccountable international organizations like the WTO.

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Note: The piece we refer to as coming out in the New Inquiry today has been delayed to next week. We'll update the episode description with a link when it goes live, and post it in the Discord.

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We discuss the Supreme Court's move to strike down the eviction moratorium, the state of rent relief programs in Louisiana following Hurricane Ida, and read from the court's memorable, if bizarre, written decision.

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We discuss what it means that so many of the soon-to-expire pandemic social supports were given arbitrary end dates not tied to the actual end of the public health emergency. Then we take a moment to unravel Glenn Greenwald's unusual new take, "The Bizarre Refusal to Apply Cost-Benefit Analysis to COVID Debates."

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Read Phil's essay on the first topic, "The Waning of Pandemic Time" here: https://medium.com/3streams/the-waning-of-pandemic-time-41d56947392b

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We discuss reporting from over the weekend that Abbott Laboratories, makers of a widely used covid test, systematically destroyed hundreds of thousands of tests; new details on the prevalence of consulting groups in the White House and in state public health responses; and how to make it look like you're responding to a pandemic when you're going about business as usual.

Runtime 1:22:55, 23 August 2021

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Epidemiologist Abby Cartus joins us to discuss why nothing is being done about fall school reopenings and the increasing prevalence of pediatric covid hospitalizations. We also take the opportunity to check in on our rogue's gallery of cloyingly positive pandemic influencers, like Emily Oster and Monica Gandhi.

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We discuss the FDA and CDC's decision last week on booster vaccine doses for immunocompromised people, the state of the pandemic, and of course: the resignation of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Runtime 1:07:31, 16 August 2021

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We survey the extremely messy history that led to the passage of original Medicare, the role private insurers and other industry groups played in its creation, and some of its unintended consequences we live with to this day.

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Alex Sammon joins us to discuss why progressive groups have spent months promoting Biden as "the new FDR" even as the administration has routinely shut out even the most modest demands of these same groups.

Alex is a staff writer at The American Prospect. You can read his work below or find him on twitter @alex_sammon

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"How Joe Biden Defanged the Left" https://prospect.org/politics/how-joe-biden-defanged-the-left/

"Nina Turner Lost to the Redbox"

https://prospect.org/politics/nina-turner-lost-to-redbox-ohio-shontel-brown/