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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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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory</strong> - To Christopher Rufo, a term for a school of legal scholarship looked like the perfect weapon. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/how-a-conservative-activist-invented-the-conflict-over-critical-race-theory">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Joe Biden Just Had a Summit with Vladimir Putin and Nothing Crazy Happened</strong> - The triumph of Geneva is that it was not Helsinki. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/joe-biden-just-had-a-summit-with-vladimir-putin-and-nothing-crazy-happened">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What Is Going On at Yale Law School?</strong> - The prestigious institution has tied itself in knots over a dispute involving one of its most popular—and controversial—professors, Amy Chua. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/what-is-going-on-at-yale-law-school">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Will Joe Biden and Lina Khan Cut the Tech Giants Down to Size?</strong> - A leading figure in the movement to rein in Silicon Valley monopolies has a powerful new post. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/will-joe-biden-and-lina-khan-cut-the-tech-giants-down-to-size">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Why Do So Many New York Politicians Want Paperboy Prince to Hit Them in the Face with a Pie?</strong> - “Y’all haven’t seen what I do with confetti,” the candidate bent on upstaging the mayor’s race said. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/why-do-so-many-new-york-politicians-want-paperboy-prince-to-hit-them-in-the-face-with-a-pie">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Your power company can turn up your smart thermostat remotely — if you let it</strong> -
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<img alt="A person operating a Google Nest smart thermostat." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/ISeEpa2KKdueeJE6cmLZddbTcRQ=/295x0:2247x1464/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/69483860/GettyImages_1230423891.0.jpg"/>
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Is your Google Nest smart thermostat being controlled by you or by your power company? | Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
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You may not be the only one controlling your smart thermostat.
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Texas’s power grid is unpleasantly surprising its users again. After last winter’s storm disabled parts of the grid for <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/2/16/22284140/texas-blackout-outage-winter-storm-uri-ercot-power-grid-cold-snow-austin-houston-dallas">several days</a>, causing potentially <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/texas-winter-storm-power-outage-death-toll">hundreds of deaths</a>, a summer heat wave is once again <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/climate/texas-heat-wave-electricity.html">threatening the grid</a>. One potential solution Texas power companies have found is to turn up the temperature on some customers’ smart thermostats. Problem is, some of those customers weren’t aware that their power company could and would do such a thing — until their homes got uncomfortably warm.
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One Houston family <a href="https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/texas/remote-thermostat-adjustment-texas-energy-shortage/285-5acf2bc5-54b7-4160-bffe-1f9a5ef4362a">told a local news affiliate</a> that their smart thermostat was turned up to 78 degrees with seemingly no notice other than a text sent after the fact. When they enrolled in a program called “Smart Savers Texas” — entering them in a sweepstakes to win up to $5,000 off their energy bills for the next year — these users didn’t realize that this also gave the power company permission to adjust their thermostat during high demand periods, like heat waves.
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The idea of a power company turning up your thermostat like a <a href="https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/dads-and-air-conditioning">stereotypical electricity-bill-conscious dad</a> might seem dystopian, but it’s also fairly common. There are programs like Smart Savers Texas all over the country, from <a href="https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/savings-solutions-and-rebates/smart-ac/smart-ac.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_smartac">California</a> to <a href="https://www.nationalgridus.com/MA-Home/Connected-Solutions/Thermostat-Program">New England</a>. The idea behind them is to decrease power consumption to alleviate stress on the electrical grid and avoid brownouts.
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Since customers aren’t likely to volunteer to use less of the power they pay for when they need it most, these programs give them an incentive and the means to do so easily (by proxy). Some programs provide better incentives than others. When it launched in 2011, Philadelphia’s Smart A/C Saver program gave participants a <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/philly/business/20110615_Peco_offers__120_to_customers_for_energy-saving_program.html">$120 bill credit</a> (apparently this was too generous, as it was reduced to $40 in subsequent years). But Smart Savers Texas only offers customers the chance to win free power for a year, and apparently it didn’t make its terms very clear.
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But sometimes, the program’s terms were a little too good for customers. New York City’s <a href="https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/money-matters/2016/06/13/keep-your-apartment-cool-on-the-go-with-con-ed-s-smart-ac-program">Smart AC Program</a>, which gave participants smart plugs and gift cards, ended in 2020 because, Con Edison said, it <a href="http://documents.dps.ny.gov/public/Common/ViewDoc.aspx?DocRefId=%7BA4FB6989-450B-4784-9DFD-9DE1CA57C677%7D">wasn’t cost-effective</a>. Philadelphia’s PECO <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/business/peco-discontinues-smart-a-c-saver-energy-conservation-program-20201118.html">ended its similar program</a>, with the $40 bill discount, last fall.
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Power companies usually do these programs in partnerships with the tech companies that provide the devices. Smart Savers Texas is administered by a company called EnergyHub and is available through smart thermostats made by Alarm.com, Lux, Google’s Nest, Radio Thermostat, Sensi, Vivint, and ecobee.
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Google’s Nest even has its own “<a href="https://store.google.com/us/collection/rebates_and_rewards?hl=en-US&GoogleNest">Rush Hour Rewards</a>” program available through participating power companies. The rewards vary. In one New York zip code, for instance, ConEd offers “up to” $85 if you enroll in the program, while National Grid is only giving out a $25 gift card. Some power companies also offer discounts on the smart thermostats themselves. And Google seems to hope there’s room to expand its Rush Hour Rewards beyond just temperature, too: Nest’s head of energy partnerships <a href="https://blog.google/inside-google/googlers/ask-techspert-how-can-we-fight-energy-rush-hours/">said in April</a> that “in the future, your electric vehicle or even your whole home may be able to join in.”
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These programs are currently opt in, unlike the aforementioned stereotypical electricity-bill-conscious dad. But if the Texas example is anything to go by, there are some people who didn’t realize what they were getting into. If you’re afraid you might be one of them and you don’t want to be, now would be a good time to check with your power company to make sure you aren’t, especially if you have a smart thermostat.
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It’s also a good reminder to always check the fine print, especially if you’re being offered something for what appears to be nothing in return. There’s always a catch.
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<li><strong>The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision on paying NCAA student-athletes, explained</strong> -
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Maryland Terrapins forward Jake Layman in a 2016 NCAA tournament. | Toni L. Sandys/Washington Post/Getty Images
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It’s a narrow win for the athletes, but it could foreshadow a much bigger victory.
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The Supreme Court handed down a heavily caveated victory for elite college athletes on Monday. The immediate impact of the Court’s unanimous decision in <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-512_gfbh.pdf"><em>National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston</em></a> is that many elite student-athletes will receive additional education-related compensations, such as additional scholarship money. But the case could have broader implications and could eventually lead to these athletes being paid salaries.
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The Court’s decision is the final chapter in a <a href="https://www.vox.com/22348385/supreme-court-ncaa-alston-football-basketball-march-madness-college-sports-antitrust">lengthy legal fight that began in 2014</a>. Several athletes from the highest levels of college sports — men’s and women’s Division I basketball, plus football players in the NCAA’s elite “Football Bowl Subdivision” — filed this suit seven years ago. They challenged rules enforced by the NCAA and various other governing bodies within college sports, which place fairly strict limits on athlete compensation.
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To be clear, these athletes weren’t uncompensated. Many elite athletes received scholarships that covered their tuition, room, and board. Some players could also receive <a href="https://casetext.com/case/alston-v-natl-collegiate-athletic-assn-in-re-natl-collegiate-athletic-assn-athletic-grant-in-aid-cap-antitrust-litig-1">small cash stipends</a> to cover living expenses, plus perks such as meals and medical care for sports-related injuries. But they did not receive anywhere near the sort of stratospheric salaries that are available to the best professional athletes — or any salary at all.
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Elite student-athletes receive fairly meager compensation, moreover, despite the fact that they are enormous profit centers for their universities — and an array of merchants and broadcasters that profit off of college sports. In the 2015-16 academic year, for example, Division I basketball and Division I-A football <a href="https://casetext.com/case/alston-v-natl-collegiate-athletic-assn-in-re-natl-collegiate-athletic-assn-athletic-grant-in-aid-cap-antitrust-litig-1">generated $4.3 billion in revenue</a>. The NCAA’s current broadcast agreement for its annual March Madness basketball tournament is <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-512_gfbh.pdf">worth over a billion dollars annually</a>.
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Over the course of the <em>Alston</em> litigation, two lower courts held that some — but not all — of the NCAA’s restrictions on athlete compensation must be struck down. As Justice Neil Gorsuch summarizes these lower court decisions in his opinion for the Supreme Court, the lower courts lifted “rules that limit scholarships for graduate or vocational school, payments for academic tutoring, or paid posteligibility internships,” while leaving in place “rules aimed at ensuring ‘student athletes do not receive unlimited payments unrelated to education.’”
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Gorsuch’s opinion leaves in place these lower court decisions.
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In essence, that means that athletes may receive additional education-related payments, such as scholarships for graduate school, but the Supreme Court’s decision still allows the NCAA to prevent student-athletes from being paid like professional athletes. That said, one member of the Court argues in a separate opinion that student-athletes should receive much broader relief if they file a new lawsuit challenging all of the NCAA’s limits on compensation.
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The NCAA hoped to avoid this outcome by arguing that it should effectively be exempted from antitrust rules that prevent businesses from colluding with their competitors to set workers’ compensation. The upshot of Gorsuch’s opinion is that, at least in a case like this one, the NCAA has to follow the same antitrust rules as everyone else — though that may not be true in every future case alleging that a sports league violates federal antitrust law.
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The NCAA claimed it was beyond the reach of antitrust law because it is a “joint venture”
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The NCAA’s rules limiting player compensation are, in the parlance of antitrust law, a “<a href="https://www.vox.com/22348385/supreme-court-ncaa-alston-football-basketball-march-madness-college-sports-antitrust">horizontal agreement</a>.” That is, they are an agreement to set prices among multiple businesses that compete at the same level within the college sports industry.
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As the Supreme Court explained in <a href="https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/468/85.html"><em>NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma</em></a> (1984), “horizontal price fixing and output limitation are ordinarily condemned as a matter of law under an ‘illegal per se’ approach because the probability that these practices are anticompetitive is so high.” When competitors collude with each other to depress wages, the courts typically come down upon those employers with a hammer.
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But the <em>Board of Regents</em> decision also suggests that federal antitrust law does not always apply with its full force toward sports leagues.
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Such leagues are known as “joint ventures” by antitrust lawyers. The very nature of team sports is that multiple teams must agree to compete together under a common set of rules. They must agree on when to schedule games and where those games will take place. For these reasons, the courts typically allow sports teams to engage in some degree of collusion with each other — and to form umbrella organizations such as the NCAA, which set rules for many teams — because competitive sports cannot exist without some amount of mutual agreement.
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The upshot of the Court’s decision in <em>Alston</em>, however, is that the special solicitude that antitrust law typically gives to sports leagues does not extend to the NCAA’s attempts to limit player compensation.
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The fact that some degree of collusion among competitors is “necessary to create or maintain a league sport,” Gorsuch writes, “does not mean all ‘aspects of elaborate interleague cooperation are.’” Though league sports cannot exist without common rules and a common schedule, “nobody questions that Division I basketball and FBS football can proceed (and have proceeded) without the education-related compensation restrictions the district court enjoined; the games go on.”
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Thus, the NCAA cannot dodge compliance with federal antitrust law.
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Additionally, the NCAA argued that paying their athletes more would fundamentally alter the product that the NCAA provides to consumers. That product, according to the NCAA, is “amateur” athletics offered by poorly compensated student-athletes, not by professionals paid a market salary. But the Court treated this argument fairly dismissively.
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Among other things, Gorsuch noted in his opinion, “the NCAA’s conception of amateurism has changed steadily over the years.” A former commissioner of college sports’ Southeastern Conference even testified that he’s “never been clear on … what is really meant by amateurism.”
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So it’s hard for the NCAA to claim that it offers some unique product, grounded in “amateurism,” when it can’t even stick to a single definition of what it means to be an “amateur” athlete.
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The lower courts struck down the NCAA’s limits on education-related compensation for athletes, but left in place other limits on compensation — and the Supreme Court upheld this baby-splitting result in <em>Alston</em>.
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But, as Gorsuch notes in his opinion, a major reason why the Supreme Court did not go further is that the plaintiffs did not ask them to do so. As he writes, “the student athletes [did] not renew their across-the-board challenge to the NCAA’s compensation restrictions” when their case reached the Supreme Court.
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Although the full Court did not weigh in on whether elite student-athletes should be entitled to more compensation than the <em>Alston</em> opinion requires, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a separate concurring opinion where he argues that “the NCAA’s remaining compensation rules also raise serious questions under the antitrust laws.”
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As Kavanaugh writes, “the NCAA’s business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America.” Among other things, the NCAA “controls the market for college athletes;” it “concedes that its compensation rules set the price of student athlete labor at a below-market rate”; and it “recognizes that student athletes currently have no meaningful ability to negotiate with the NCAA over the compensation rules.”
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks alongside Democratic members of the House about HR 1, known as the For the People Act, in Washington, DC, on January 4, 2019. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
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Getting Democrats’ <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/3/3/22309123/house-democrats-pass-voting-rights-bill-hr1">voting rights bill</a> passed isn’t just important to the Biden administration’s democracy agenda at home. It would also underscore a major pillar of the president’s foreign policy: strengthening the appeal of democracy worldwide by proving democratic governments can deliver for their people.
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The <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/3/3/22309123/house-democrats-pass-voting-rights-bill-hr1">800-page HR 1 legislation</a>, known as the For the People Act, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/06/21/voting-rights-bill-senate-poised-vote-republicans-opposed/7708277002/">passed in the House on a near party-line vote in March</a>. Among many other measures, the bill aims to make it easier for Americans to vote in elections, bring more transparency to how candidates are financed, and bolster government ethics provisions.
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Democrats say these changes are necessary to counter <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/1002101600/here-are-the-texas-gops-reasons-for-voter-restrictions-and-critics-replies">restrictive voting laws</a> being pushed by Republicans in many states; Republicans see the bill as a <a href="https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/report/the-facts-about-hr-1-the-the-people-act-2019">sweeping set of reforms</a> designed to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gop-warns-hr-absolutely-devastating-republicans/story?id=76555647">help Democrats win in future elections</a>.
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It’s unclear if HR 1 will pass in its current form, or at all. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will bring it up for a procedural vote on Tuesday, where lawmakers will decide if the bill should come up for an approve-or-deny vote in the future. Most analysts say the <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/06/21/this-week-in-washington-biden-takes-on-rising-crime-493306">bill won’t clear that hurdle</a>, potentially killing HR 1 for good in this Congress.
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That would be a serious blow to Biden’s domestic agenda. After the House passed the bill in March, the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/04/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-house-of-representatives-passage-of-h-r-1/">president said</a> its measures were “urgently needed to protect that right [to vote], to safeguard the integrity of our elections, and to repair and strengthen our democracy.” Biden even made <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/politics/kamala-harris-voting-rights-laws.html">Vice President Kamala Harris</a> his point person for voting rights.
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But on a grander scale, it could potentially harm the core message of Biden’s foreign policy. “Biden’s global democracy agenda depends on US democracy continuing to strengthen at home,” said Heather Hurlburt, a director at the New America think tank in Washington, DC, and so far the record is “terrible on voting rights and election integrity. So turning those around is important.”
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Simply put, Biden’s democratic vision for the world is intricately linked with HR 1’s future in Congress — and at the moment, that vision is in serious jeopardy.
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When speaking about his foreign policy views, Biden often says he sees the world locked in a struggle between democracies and autocracies. He wants to ensure democracies win.
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“We have to prove democracy still works. That our government still works — and can deliver for the people,” he said during his <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/4/28/22408735/joe-biden-congress-speech-democracy-autocracy">first address to Congress back in April</a>. Those who believe American democracy won’t prevail “are wrong, and we have to prove them wrong.”
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That’s why many see the passage of HR 1 as vital to Biden’s foreign policy; if it fails in Congress, it’ll be harder for Biden to push for a global democratic movement. After all, it’s awkward for any leader to tell others to push for democratic reforms while democracy dwindles in the country they lead.
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HR 1 is “probably the most important piece of legislation in terms of making sure we still have a democracy,” a senior Senate Democratic staffer told me, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. “It’s trying to unrig the game.”
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But there’s also a risk to Biden’s democracy vision if HR 1 actually makes it through Congress, Hurlburt told me. Republican-led states could slow-walk implementing many of the provisions in the bill. Such defiance might signal to other nations that the president can’t safeguard democracy in his own country, she said, which would be “terrible for all of US foreign policy, including the democracy agenda.”
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Some analysts are less convinced that the bill will significantly affect voting rights in the US or American foreign policy writ large, though.
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Domestically, critics say the measures were <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/06/21/this-week-in-washington-biden-takes-on-rising-crime-493306">drafted by staffers, not true democratic reform experts</a>, well before the election issues of 2020 became apparent to all. As for the international part, some analysts believe HR 1 won’t be a turning point for America’s global relations.
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“Foreign partners will not change their alignments based on the passage of this legislation,” said Justin Logan, a senior fellow at the CATO Institute in Washington. “Just as the contestation in the United States during the civil rights era did not tip the balance of power internationally, neither would restrictions on voting criteria in the states … affect the concrete realities of international politics.”
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Perhaps the bigger question is whether Biden is wise to have put so much stock in the global democracy agenda. While the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/5/3/22406391/hr1-poll-for-the-people-act">passage of HR 1 is popular</a>, a March poll from the Pew Research Center showed only <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/03/02/americans-put-low-priority-on-promoting-democracy-abroad-2/">20 percent</a> of US adults and 24 percent of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents said promoting democracy in other nations should be a top priority as a long-range foreign policy goal.
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Getting HR 1 through Congress might be a worthy idea, but Biden’s emphasis on it could be a problem for his global designs. Should it fail, he’ll have a steeper climb to prove democracies right.
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<em>Li Zhou and Ella Nilsen contributed to this report.</em>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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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>WTC Final | Fifth day’s play starts after half an hour delay</strong> - Only 141.2 overs of play have been possible in the past four days due to rain and wet outfield.</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>Watch: Batsman’s big six smashes windscreen of his own car</strong> - British amateur cricketer Asif Ali’s huge heave backfired last weekend.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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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>Nitish Kumar leaves for Delhi amid speculations about JD(U) joining Union government</strong> - “I do not know why his Delhi tour is being linked to the proposed Cabinet reshuffle,” said Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan, one of the closest aides of Nitish Kumar.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Amazon Prime Day 2021: All the deals that are actually worth your time [Updated]</strong> - Now updated with a “$50 for $40” gift card deal, OLED TV discounts, and more. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1774658">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Connecting to malicious Wi-Fi networks can mess with your iPhone</strong> - The world’s most secure consumer OS is bitten by a garden-variety programming bug. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1775157">link</a></p></li>
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A lawyer married a woman who had previously divorced 10 husbands. On their wedding night, she told her new husband, “Please be gentle, I’m still a virgin.” “What?” said the puzzled groom. “How can that be if you’ve been married 10 times?” "Well, Husband #1 was a sales representative. He kept telling me how great it was going to be. Husband #2 was in software services. He was never really sure how it was supposed to function, but he said he’d look into it and get back to me. Husband #3 was from field services. He said everything checked out diagnostically, but he just couldn’t get the system up. Husband #4 was in telemarketing. Even though he knew he had the order, he didn’t know when he would be able to deliver. Husband #5 was an engineer. He understood the basic process, but wanted three years to research, implement, and design a new state-of-the-art method. Husband #6 was from finance and administration. He thought he knew how, but he wasn’t sure whether it was his job or not. Husband #7 was in marketing. Although he had a nice product, he was never sure how to position it. Husband #8 was a psychologist. All he ever did was talk about it. Husband #9 was a gynecologist. All he did was look at it. Husband #10 was a stamp collector. All he ever did was… God! I miss him!
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In Africa they didn’t know what “food” meant.
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