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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Recovering from the Emotional Challenges of the Pandemic</strong> - A psychologist considers the possible effects of a global experience of long-term stress. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/recovering-from-the-emotional-challenges-of-the-pandemic">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Clubhouse Feels Like a Party</strong> - But is it a good one? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/in-the-clubhouse">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Movement to Exclude Trans Girls from Sports</strong> - The opposition is cast as one between cis-girl athletes on the one hand and a vast liberal conspiracy on the other. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-movement-to-exclude-trans-girls-from-sports">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Biden’s New Deal and the Future of Human Capital</strong> - The President introduced the first part of his economic program, involving airports and bridges. The second, which invests in “human infrastructure,” could define his Administration. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-populism/bidens-new-deal-and-the-future-of-human-capital">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What Alexey Navalny Is Experiencing in Prison</strong> - As the Russian opposition leader’s health appears to deteriorate, plans are under way for more mass protests demanding his release. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-alexey-navalny-is-experiencing-in-prison">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Did you work remotely last year? A surprise tax might be waiting for you.</strong> -
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Remote workers who’ve been working out of state during the pandemic might be in for a tax surprise. | Getty Images/iStockphoto
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Working remotely can be a boon or a bust for your taxes, depending on where you live.
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The pandemic has accelerated the move to remote work and with it the possibility that those employees can live anywhere they please. That could mean a higher standard of living and a lower income tax rate for the <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22331447/10-ways-office-work-pandemic-future-remote-work">growing number of remote workers</a>. But in some instances it could mean having to pay taxes for a place where they now neither live nor work — or even being <a href="https://taxfoundation.org/remote-work-from-home-teleworking/">taxed on the same income twice</a>.
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It can be a very complicated situation, and the internet abounds with people trying to figure out what’s going on. Reddit, specifically, is full of questions about where remote workers should file their taxes this year: If you <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/tax/comments/lpykxf/temporary_remote_work_and_filing_multiple_state/">quarantined with family for a couple months</a> in a different state than where you work but didn’t update your tax withholdings, do you have to file two state tax returns? If you <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/newhampshire/comments/mg1ziy/remote_work_ma_state_tax_question/">worked remotely in a state without income tax</a> but your job is in a state that has income tax, do you have to pay it? What do you do if you’re being <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/comments/lsclzg/help_me_understand_state_taxes_when_working/">taxed by a state you haven’t set foot in</a>?
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The answers, unsatisfyingly, depend on a number of factors, including which states and how long you were there, according to tax experts we spoke with. Ahead of tax season, here’s what to look out for when filing your taxes on remote work.
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The convenience rule conundrum
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Generally, your income tax is based on where you’re physically located when earning the income. So, if your job’s office is in state A, but because of the pandemic you’re living and working full time in state B, you’d pay income and all other taxes to state B. If state B has lower income taxes than state A, that would be a boon for remote workers who moved. It could also be a reason for more people to pull up stakes now that they’re less tethered to the office.
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Taxes are, of course, more complicated than that, especially if your job happens to be based in one of seven convenience of the employer, or “convenience rule,” states — Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania and, since the pandemic, Massachusetts — while you’re living and working elsewhere.
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The convenience rule can obligate employees to pay income tax to states they might now never step foot in, since it taxes income based on the location of the employer’s office.<strong> </strong>Typically, when this happens, the state where the person lives would award a tax credit to offset taxes in the state where that person works. But in some cases, when the worker is totally living and working in a state, that state might rightfully want to tax that income and not offset taxes for the non-living, non-working state, leading to cases of double taxation, according to tax policy nonprofit Tax Foundation.
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To avoid this, it’s important to notify your job where you’re living so it can withhold tax from the correct state. It’s also important to consult a tax professional, since the tax situation — as well as what it takes to be a resident of that particular state — varies drastically by state and is far from intuitive.
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If your job is in California but you’re living full-time and working remotely in Texas, for example, you wouldn’t have to pay taxes on your wages, since Texas doesn’t have income tax. If your job is in New York, a convenience rule state, but you lived and worked in Texas, you would have to pay New York income tax. If your job is in New York but you lived and worked in Virginia, it’s possible you’d have to pay income tax in both states. Even when states provide a credit, workers will have to shoulder that double tax burden until their tax returns come.
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So the convenience rule can feel very inequitable.
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“If you’re not doing anything to avail yourself of that states’ government services or resources, not only does it seem unfair but it creates conflicts with every other state’s income tax code,” Jared Walczak, vice president of state projects at Tax Foundation, told Recode.
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Pay extra-close attention this tax season
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As with many things that happened during the pandemic, decisions about remote work often happened swiftly and without much planning. As a result, the majority of Americans who worked remotely during the pandemic weren’t aware of the possible tax consequences of working remotely and weren’t aware they had to change state tax withholding to match where they were actually living, according to a <a href="https://www.aicpa.org/press/pressreleases/2020/aicpa-harris-poll-reveals-taxpayers-unaware-of-state-tax-liabilities-related-to-working-remotely.html">Harris Poll on behalf of the American Institute of CPAs</a> (AICPA). Nearly half didn’t know each state has different laws related to remote work.
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It’s also not clear how many people are moving to different states to work remotely, since there’s a lag in IRS data. But moving <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/select/states-with-no-income-tax/">data from United Van Lines</a> last year suggests people are increasingly moving from states with high taxes to states with lower or no income taxes. A <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/whats-next-for-remote-work-an-analysis-of-2000-tasks-800-jobs-and-nine-countries">McKinsey Global Institute analysis of 800 jobs</a> found that the ability to work remotely is highly concentrated in a handful of high-skill occupations and industries, including finance, management, professional services, and information technology.
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Catherine Stanton, vice-chair of the AICPA’s state and local tax committee, says she’s fielded an increasing number of questions about out-of-state remote situations from clients, both employees and employers.
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“I think it’s happening a lot, for sure,” Stanton said. And depending on where your job is and where you live, it can be financially beneficial. “I think it’s a great strategy,” she added, “but you have to make sure you’re not working for those employers that have convenience of the employer rules and then maybe you pressure those employers to set up an office somewhere else.”
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If you work at a larger company, for example, they can assign you to an office outside of convenience rule states so you can avoid being taxed by a state you aren’t in, Stanton said. The Tax Foundation’s Walczak said that by looking for short-term tax windfalls, convenience rule states might lose long-term tax gains by driving businesses elsewhere.
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One should also note that states without income tax often make up for it with higher sales, property, and other taxes. There are trade-offs between what those states buy with that tax (think schools and roads).
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For now, some governments are trying to alleviate the situation. A <a href="https://www.aicpa.org/content/dam/aicpa/advocacy/tax/downloadabledocuments/coronavirus-aicpa-list-of-recommendations-for-state-societies.pdf">number of states</a> have allowed people currently telecommuting to be taxed in the state where their job is located. New Hampshire, where many people who work for firms in Massachusetts currently live and work, <a href="https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2021/03/18/new-hampshire-v-massachusetts-and-the-human-capital-implications-of-work-from-home">filed suit</a> in the Supreme Court over Massachusetts continuing to collect income tax on people working remotely in New Hampshire, which doesn’t collect income tax. A number of other states, including <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/23/new-jersey-latest-state-to-join-supreme-court-battle-remote-worker-tax.html">New Jersey, Connecticut, and Iowa, have filed amicus briefs</a> in the case. There’s also bipartisan interest at the federal level to stop the practice, including proposed legislation called the <a href="https://www.grantthornton.com/library/alerts/tax/2020/SALT/general/COVID-19-impact-remote-work-state-tax-policy-11-30.aspx">Multi-State Worker Tax Fairness Act of 2020</a> that would tax remote workers by residence only.
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For now, though, remote employees — and tax professionals — are going to have to navigate labyrinthine state tax laws one by one.
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Former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden during the final 2020 presidential debate. | Brendan Smialowski, Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
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Sure, there are some similarities. But Biden’s foreign policy is very, very different from Trump’s.
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There’s a growing argument, coming mostly from the left, that President Joe Biden’s foreign policy is essentially the same as former President Donald Trump’s.
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It goes something like this: Two months into his administration, Biden is pursuing many of the same objectives as his predecessor. Sure, the tone has changed — namely, talk of rebuilding alliances and defending democracy and human rights — but much of the substance remains the same.
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For example, Biden has taken an adversarial stance toward <a href="https://www.vox.com/22338506/usa-china-anchorage-alaska-strategy-relationship">China</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/26/22250858/biden-putin-call-election-ukraine-navalny-bounties-solarwinds">Russia</a>; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/politics/egypt-missile-sale/index.html">sold billions in weapons to a dictator in Egypt</a>; kept the economic sanctions Trump imposed on <a href="https://www.vox.com/22242208/iran-nuclear-deal-bien-haines-blinken-psaki">Iran</a> and the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/03/04/trump-biden-icc-sanctions/">International Criminal Court</a> (ICC) in place; <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/2/27/22304505/democrats-biden-mbs-khashoggi">declined to sanction</a> Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his role in ordering the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi; and is unlikely to drastically slash the Pentagon budget.
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In effect, they argue that US foreign policy right now is Trump’s with Bidenesque characteristics.
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That critique is coming from a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/25/progressives-biden-foreign-policy-478042">small but vocal </a><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/bidens-foreign-policy-more-similar-trumps-you-think-opinion-1575528">chorus of analysts</a>, activists, and noted commentators like <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/noam-chomsky-bidens-foreign-policy-is-largely-indistinguishable-from-trumps/">Noam Chomsky</a>. Stephen Miles, executive director of the progressive foreign policy group Win Without War, recently told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/25/progressives-biden-foreign-policy-478042">Politico</a> that “There’s this fear of being attacked on the right of not being tough enough on China or Iran or other issues.”<strong> </strong>The problem, he adds, is “there doesn’t seem to be as much concern about the overwhelming majority of the Democratic Party.”
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It’s a provocative case, but it’s not very convincing. While there are some similarities between the two presidents, Biden and Trump have extremely different foreign policies. Any claims that they’re the same are incomplete at best.
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The case for Biden’s foreign policy as the same as Trump’s, briefly explained
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In December, I wrote a <a href="https://www.vox.com/22153765/joe-biden-foreign-policy-team-revenge-blob">story</a> about how Biden wanted the US to pursue a traditional, post-World War II foreign policy to defend the “liberal international order” — essentially the diplomatic and economic rules and norms that run the world. As Biden formed a team to do just that, progressives I interviewed couldn’t mask their displeasure.
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“Americans are looking for a complete, fundamental shift in US foreign policy,” Yasmine Taeb, a senior fellow at the progressive Center for International Policy who’s leading the left’s critique of Biden’s team, told me at the time. “I hope they recognize that the vast majority of the American people have rejected establishment foreign policy and the trajectory that we’ve been on for decades.”
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Now, Taeb and others are essentially saying, “I told you so.” They argue that two months into Biden’s presidency, it’s clear that “complete, fundamental shift in US foreign policy” hasn’t happened yet. What Americans have gotten instead is a Biden foreign policy that echoes Trump’s more than progressive critics like.
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Take Biden selling <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/17/us-sells-200m-in-weapons-to-egypt-despite-human-rights-abuses">$200 million in missiles to Egypt</a>, a country led by a dictator who has routinely <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/04/10/egypt-al-sisi-should-end-rights-abuses">violated human rights</a>, jailing thousands of political dissidents and killing hundreds more. Biden’s detractors compare that to Trump’s decision to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-arms/defying-congress-trump-sets-8-billion-plus-in-weapons-sales-to-saudi-arabia-uae-idUSKCN1SU25R">sell $8 billion worth of weapons</a> to Saudi Arabia, even after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the 2018 murder of US resident Jamal Khashoggi.
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They also point out that Biden’s team hasn’t lifted sanctions the Trump administration placed on the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/03/04/trump-biden-icc-sanctions/">ICC</a>. Trump took that action because the ICC was considering opening two investigations: one into <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/6/12/21287798/trump-international-criminal-court-sanctions-explained">alleged war crimes</a> committed by US troops during the Afghanistan war, and one into alleged war crimes committed by Israelis and Palestinians during the 2014 Gaza War; the court was also considering making a determination on whether Israeli settlements in the West Bank constitute a war crime.
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Two months in, Biden’s team has kept those sanctions in place. It’s not exactly clear why; when asked by reporters, the administration usually declines to comment. But <a href="https://www.axios.com/israel-icc-political-pressure-prosecutor-18b8af1d-96e8-424d-a6e8-aea601852d88.html">Axios</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/26/biden-trump-sanctions-icc-prosecutors-israel">the Guardian</a> last month noted that Jerusalem is lobbying allies, including the US, to keep the financial pressure on the court in hopes that it will drop the case.
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That rationale — that the Biden administration is keeping Trump’s sanctions on partly at Israel’s behest — tracks with comments some US officials have made.
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“We have serious concerns about the ICC’s attempts to exercise its jurisdiction over Israeli personnel,” State Department spokesperson <a href="https://www.state.gov/opposing-international-criminal-court-attempts-to-affirm-territorial-jurisdiction-over-the-palestinian-situation/">Ned Price</a> said in a February statement. “The United States has always taken the position that the court’s jurisdiction should be reserved for countries that consent to it, or that are referred by the UN Security Council.”
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For these and the other reasons cited above, critics say Biden’s foreign policy represents more continuity than change from the Trump years. That seems fair on the surface, but the truth is Biden’s foreign policy is nothing like Trump’s. Not even close.
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Biden and Trump are “a bit different” on foreign policy
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Consider either what Biden has done or has said he wants to do on foreign policy:
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He <a href="https://www.vox.com/22241348/president-biden-climate-change-paris-agreement-executive-order-keystone-pipeline">rejoined the Paris climate agreement</a> after Trump pulled the US out of it, and has made tackling climate change a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/priorities/">top priority</a>.
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He made the <a href="https://www.vox.com/22291086/biden-covax-united-states-covid-19-vaccinations-world-g7">US a member of Covax</a>, the global effort to fund and deliver Covid-19 vaccines around the world, which Trump didn’t do.
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He ended the “<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/1/20/22235986/biden-trump-travel-muslim-ban">Muslim ban</a>” that Trump put in place.
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He reversed Trump’s decision to withdraw from the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/20/22238609/biden-inauguration-paris-climate-deal-world-health-organization">World Health Organization</a> (WHO).
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He ordered the US to rejoin the <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-administration-rejoin-u-n-human-rights-council-another-reversal-n1256997">United Nations Human Rights Council</a> after Trump took America out of it.
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He immediately extended the <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/putin-and-biden-confirm-extension-of-new-start-treaty/">New START arms control pact with Russia</a> for the maximum of five years, which the Trump administration didn’t want to do outright.
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He lifted the “<a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/2/5/22269255/biden-yemen-houthis-terrorist-organization">foreign terrorist organization</a>” designation off Yemen’s Houthis that the Trump administration imposed.
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He ended America’s support for <a href="https://www.vox.com/22268082/biden-yemen-war-saudi-state-speech">offensive operations</a> in the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
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He declined to make <a href="https://twitter.com/GalloVOA/status/1376649995303198723">summitry with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un</a> the centerpiece of his diplomatic strategy; Trump met with the dictator three times.
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He repeatedly expressed a desire to get the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/world/middleeast/iran-biden-trump-nuclear-sanctions.html">US back into the Iran nuclear deal</a> after Trump withdrew the US from the pact.
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There’s more, but it’s already notable that Biden and Trump just don’t see the world the same way.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/5rRdw24_zA_ND5GsLUjaV5EmeMw=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22411540/1232007099.jpg"/> <cite>Drew Angerer/Getty Images</cite>
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President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Covid-19 response on March 29 in Washington, DC.
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What’s more, Biden’s different tone — defending democracy and supporting human rights, among other things — is in itself a substantive policy change from the Trump years.
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“I made it clear that no American president [should] ever back down from speaking out of what’s happening to the Uyghurs, what’s happening in Hong Kong, what’s happening in-country,” <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/03/25/remarks-by-president-biden-in-press-conference/">Biden said during a press conference</a> last week about his conversations with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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“The moment a president walks away from that, as the last one did, is the moment we begin to lose our legitimacy around the world,” he continued. “It’s who we are.”
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Biden has followed through on his rhetoric by <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/biden-admin-announces-sanctions-against-chinese-officials-over-human-rights-n1261745">sanctioning Chinese officials</a> for human rights abuses against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang and for <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/3/17/22335622/us-sanctions-chinese-officials-crackdown-hong-kong-democracy">cracking down on Hong Kong’s democracy</a>.
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But don’t take it from me or Biden. Trump administration officials also note the wide gap between the current president’s positions and the old one’s.
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Indeed, the list above didn’t just come from my head. It came from conversations with Trump-era staff who said US foreign policy would be “a bit different,” according to one, if the Republican had won a second term.
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Among other things, they said the US wouldn’t have extended New START for five years, rejoined the WHO, lifted the terrorist label on the Houthis, or pushed for a return to the UN Human Rights Council.
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And already former Trump administration officials, like then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby, are blasting Biden for pursuing a foreign policy built around defending democracy and human rights instead of pure national interests.
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<strong>“</strong>The central theme of President Biden’s foreign policy is a global, muscular liberalism,” he wrote in the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/21/bidens-global-muscular-liberalism-is-an-indefensible-foreign-policy-2021/">Washington Post</a> last week. “But it is not a sensible policy today,” he wrote, partly because the US is no longer the unquestioned global power.
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While he didn’t specifically mention Trump in the piece, he argued the more economic-focused course Trump took — “making sure we can determine our future free of external coercion and being able to trade and invest overseas on terms that promote a broad-based national prosperity” — would be better.
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So no, Biden’s foreign policy isn’t nearly the same as Trump’s. But the meme persists, it seems, mostly because Biden has yet to return the US to the Iran nuclear deal.
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<h3 id="IBe1yS">
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How the Iran nuclear deal keeps the myth of Biden-as-Trump alive
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Those who argue Biden is pursuing a Trump-like foreign policy have one overriding complaint: that <a href="https://twitter.com/NegarMortazavi/status/1376681996743798785">Biden hasn’t lifted Trump-imposed sanctions on Iran</a> as a way to return swiftly to the nuclear pact — a decision <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/opportunity-beckons-in-the-mideast-11615750526">praised by Jared Kushner</a>, Trump’s senior adviser and son in law.
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But Biden’s team says the situation isn’t as simple as progressives and Iran doves make it out to be. <a href="https://www.defensenews.com/global/mideast-africa/2020/06/05/un-agency-says-iran-is-violating-all-restrictions-of-nuclear-deal/">Tehran is in violation of the agreement</a>, namely by enriching uranium at levels beyond caps outlined in the deal. Until the US can verify Iran has come back into compliance, there’s no reason to remove the economic leverage America has.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/9kR2kXr5x0TcBEjaR7NhcVIowpY=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22411553/464050403.jpg"/> <cite>Kazem Ghane/IRNA/AFP/Getty Images</cite>
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|
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|
|
International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors and Iranian technicians at the Natanz nuclear site in Iran in 2014.
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Indeed, Biden’s team feels they inherited a bad situation. After Trump withdrew the US from the pact in 2018, Iran decided to violate the deal as a way to pressure the US back into the accord. Dropping the sanctions now, some in the new administration would say, rewards Tehran for no longer abiding by the nuclear deal’s terms.
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Hence the delay. The US would “have to evaluate whether they were actually making good if they say they are coming back into compliance with their obligations, and then we would take it from there,” Secretary of State <a href="https://www.vox.com/22242208/iran-nuclear-deal-bien-haines-blinken-psaki">Tony Blinken</a> said in his January confirmation hearing.
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But even here there’s a yawning gap between how Trump and Biden handle the issue. The Trump administration wanted Iran to change <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/2018/5/21/17375760/pompeo-iran-nuclear-deal-sanctions-strategy-speech">nearly every aspect of its foreign policy</a> before winning sanctions relief. Biden just wants Iran to abide by the nuclear pact again, and has even <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/29/us-biden-iran-nuclear-deal-478354">proposed partial sanctions removal for partial compliance</a>.
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Ryan Tully, who served as a top official on Trump’s National Security Council, confirmed his team would’ve pursued a different course. “We wouldn’t give sanctions relief to get to the negotiating table with Iran,” he told me.
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The US may not be back in the nuclear deal, then, but it’s at least trying to get there. “Biden is offering Tehran a way out that doesn’t involve either its capitulation or collapse,” said Henry Rome, an expert on US policy toward Iran at the Eurasia Group consulting firm. “It’s a very different ballgame.”
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“A very different ballgame” goes not only for Biden’s Iran policy, but his entire foreign policy. There are clearly some similarities between the last two administrations — it’s been only two months, after all — but overall, they are vastly different.
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<img alt="White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Holds Briefing At The White House" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/_igvPW9paLvmCgoQV_wVsTFOtig=/0x0:4488x3366/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/69059586/1295116108.0.jpg"/>
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Kayleigh McEnany speaks at the White House on January 7. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
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The network will soon feature multiple shows hosted by former Trump administration officials.
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Fox News fancies itself, at least outside of its <em>Hannity</em>-style programming, as a journalistic outlet. But its recent string of hires tells a different story.
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Despite the Trump administration’s legacy of unrelenting dishonesty and Trump’s recent turn against Fox, the network has hired several former Trump officials of late, basically becoming a jobs program for any former Trump aide who desires gainful employment — and ensuring that Trump’s brand of politics will have a regular, prominent place on national television.
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On Tuesday, the network announced that former Trump administration press secretary Kayleigh McEnany will be co-hosting the weekday afternoon <em>Outnumbered</em> talk show starting April 6. That announcement came just a few weeks after Fox News first hired McEnany as a contributor. As press secretary, McEnany is perhaps best remembered for <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1311695004788822017">castigating reporters</a> and providing misleading spin — such as making a <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1325916724512890880">mockery of the Hatch Act</a> by working for the White House and Trump campaign at the same time, and insisting that Trump’s loss to Joe Biden was tainted by fraud when she couldn’t produce a single example of an illegal ballot being cast.
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McEnany can’t cite a single specific example of an “illegal vote” being cast <a href="https://t.co/H6ul298p1K">pic.twitter.com/H6ul298p1K</a>
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— Aaron Rupar (<span class="citation" data-cites="atrupar">@atrupar</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1325920625991540737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2020</a>
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In a <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210330005792/en/Kayleigh-McEnany-Named-Co-Host-of-Outnumbered">statement</a> announcing her promotion, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott whitewashed McEnany’s past, and instead said her “unique background in politics and law coupled with her experiences confronting women’s health challenges and life as a new mom will add robust insight to <em>Outnumbered</em>.”
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News of McEnany’s promotion came just a day after Lara Trump, a former senior Trump campaign official and the daughter-in-law of Donald Trump, announced during a <em>Fox & Friends</em> appearance that she’s been hired as a contributor, while basically acknowledging that Fox News served as an unofficial arm of the Trump campaign.
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“I sort of feel like I’ve been an unofficial member of the team for so long,” she said. “You guys know it was kinda a joke, over the past five years I would come there so often that the security guards were like, ‘Maybe we should just give you a key.’”
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Fox hired Lara Trump<br/><br/>Ainsley: Let’s bring in Lara Trump, fmr senior advisor for the Trump campaign, and we have a big announcement, she is a new Fox News contributor. Welcome to the family, Lara.<br/><br/>Lara: I sort of feel like I’ve been an unofficial member of the team for so long <a href="https://t.co/doofIJomDO">pic.twitter.com/doofIJomDO</a>
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In addition to bringing aboard McEnany and Lara Trump, the network gave former Trump administration economic adviser Larry Kudlow his own show on Fox Business. And while he hasn’t been hired by Fox, former Trump adviser Stephen Miller — known for helping to develop Trump’s nativist immigration policy — has become a fixture as a guest on Sean Hannity’s and Laura Ingraham’s shows.
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There’s an irony to this hiring spree, given <a href="https://www.vox.com/22187529/fox-news-post-trump-identity-crisis-matt-gertz-oan-newsmax-media-matters">how angry Trump was at Fox News</a> in the weeks following the election for what he took to be the network’s disloyalty.
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During the campaign, Trump took umbrage because Fox wouldn’t rig polls for him and sometimes booked Democrats for interviews, but things boiled over after the network <a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-election-premeditated-lie-ebaf4a1f-46bf-4c37-ba0d-3ed5536ef537.html">foiled his plan</a> to prematurely declare victory on election night with its early call of Arizona for Biden.
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“.@FoxNews daytime is not watchable. In a class with CNN & MSDNC. Check out <span class="citation" data-cites="OANN">@OANN</span>, <span class="citation" data-cites="newsmax">@newsmax</span> and others that are picking up the slack,” he tweeted on December 6. “Even a boring football game, kneeling and all, is better!”
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Trump’s promotion of Newsmax and OAN initially appeared to have an impact. Fox News’s ratings <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/27/22250976/fox-news-ratings-drop-explained-post-trump">slumped</a> relative to MSNBC and CNN during the period between November 3 and the January inauguration. Newsmax, meanwhile, competed with Fox News from the other side of the ideological spectrum, even scoring its first ever ratings <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/media/newsmax-fox-news-ratings/index.html">win</a> in December.
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But the January 6 insurrection marked a turning point of sorts. Trump’s subsequent <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/16/22234971/trump-twitter-facebook-social-media-ban-election-misinformation-zignal">banishment</a> from Twitter and Facebook brought an end to his days of live-tweeting cable news, and Fox News’s ratings stabilized (albeit at a lower level from a year earlier) after he left office and the relevance of the MAGA propaganda programming on offer from Newsmax and OAN waned.
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In general, Trump’s departure from the White House has <a href="https://deadline.com/2021/03/ratings-cnn-msnbc-fox-news-1234724646/">hurt ratings across the cable news networks</a>, as the relative order of the Biden administration makes for less compelling viewing than the chaos of the Trump days.
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Instead of promoting Newsmax or denigrating Fox in the tweet-like statements he’s been releasing through his ex-presidential office — statements that are largely ignored by the mainstream press — Trump has steered clear of media criticism. And in recent weeks, he’s kept himself in the public eye by calling in to Fox News for softball interviews with hosts Harris Faulkner, Laura Ingraham, and Jeanine Pirro where he’s able to lie with impunity.
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Trump pushes the big lie live on Fox News, gets no pushback from Harris Faulkner <a href="https://t.co/WOLjsy8WXG">pic.twitter.com/WOLjsy8WXG</a>
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— Aaron Rupar (<span class="citation" data-cites="atrupar">@atrupar</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1374016460343947272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2021</a>
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While there’s ample precedent for former White House officials making the leap into news media when their tenure in government is through — George Stephanopoulos went from the Clinton White House to ABC News, for example, and Dana Perino went from the George W. Bush White House to Fox News — the volume of former Trump officials Fox News has hired is notable, particularly because Fox News staffing itself with Trump family members and former staffers will keep Trumpism relevant.
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Lara Trump, for example, is still <a href="https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article250285315.html">teasing</a> a possible 2022 US Senate run in North Carolina even though she was just hired as a commentator for Fox. And Kayleigh McEnany’s installation as a daytime host means that the political news of the day will be filtered through a MAGA lens.
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Donald Trump, meanwhile, can self-promote by calling in to friendly hosts who will let him opine about Biden’s purported failures on national TV, even if he can no longer post tweets<strong>.</strong>
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It won’t be good journalism, but that’s rarely the point with Fox. What it will do is help Trump maintain control over the Republican Party heading into the 2022 midterms — and beyond.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>IPL 2021 | Hazelwood pulls out for the sake of international season</strong> - The pace bowler aims to be in his best mental and physical form ahead of the long international calendar.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Auckland to host 2023 women’s World Cup opener, final in Sydney</strong> - Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth will also host games in Australia, with New Zealand’s Dunedin, Hamilton and Wellington completing the nine host cities for the global showpiece.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Rajasthan Royals team preview | Cellar dwellers last year, new-look RR eye the penthouse</strong> - After finishing bottom in 2020, Rajasthan has ambitions of climbing to the top with a new captain and director of cricket, and IPL’s most expensive player ever</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>ITF women’s tennis | Riya Bhatia bows out</strong> - Qualifier Riya Bhatia was beaten 6-2, 6-4 by Anastasia Zakharova of Russia in the pre-quarterfinals of the $25,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament here</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Physicists give antimatter the chills</strong> - If anything’s odd about antimatter, we need to slow it down enough to see it. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1753637">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>HoloLens for 120,000 Army personnel: Microsoft inks $21.9 billion deal</strong> - Was originally pegged at $480 million in 2018, follows scrutiny over other DOD deals. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1753570">link</a></p></li>
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