COVID Authoritarianism

• President Biden mandates COVID-19 vaccines for large companies as well as federal employees (Daily Signal)

• RNC to sue Biden administration over vaccine mandates (Washington Examiner)

• “Will fight them to the gates of hell”: Governors immediately push back on unconstitutional plan (Daily Wire)

• “We will fight”: Ron DeSantis promises to battle Biden’s sweeping mandates (Daily Wire)

Afghanistan

• Pentagon top brass to testify before Senate panel on chaotic U.S. pullout from Afghanistan (Washington Times)

• GOP letter to Biden flags Afghan evacuees’ “rushed and incomplete” vetting (Fox News)

• Taliban lets plane carrying Americans and other foreign nationals leave Kabul (CBS News)

• “Their interior minister has an ‘FBI Wanted’ poster”: White House challenged after calling Taliban “businesslike and professional” (Daily Caller)

• New and improved? Hardly: Taliban tortured journalists who covered protests in Kabul despite “free press” pledge (Daily Wire)

• Fort Hood terrorist congratulates Taliban from death row in handwritten letter (Washington Examiner)

Politics

• Merrick Garland’s Justice Department suing Texas over pro-life law (The Federalist)

• Rand Paul calls for Anthony Fauci to be jailed for lying to Congress (Washington Examiner)

• DOJ moves to release FBI documents on investigation into possible Saudi-9/11 hijacker links (Washington Examiner)

• Team Biden puts systemic racism at center of U.S. foreign policy (National Review)

Health

• The CDC quietly changed the definition of “vaccination” so as to fit the political narrative (Not the Bee)

• Los Angeles school officials order sweeping vaccine mandate for students 12 and older (LA Times)

• FDA declines emergency use authorization for Humanigen COVID-19 drug (The Hill)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: Wage stagnation and its discontents: Rethinking the safety net to encourage a more dynamic economy (Manhattan Institute)

• Policy: Why Japan’s next prime minister matters (National Review)

• Satire: Jussie Smollett disguises self as Larry Elder so people will commit real hate crimes against him (Babylon Bee)

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