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U.S. Rep. Marie Newman (IL-03) is being sued by Chicago college professor Iymen Chehade, who alleges that she violated a contract to offer him a job in exchange for dropping out of the March 2020 congressional primary. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)
OAK LAWN, IL A college professor is suing U.S. Rep. Marie Newman, claiming that she violated a contract to give him a job on her staff if he dropped out of the 2020 Democratic primary in the 3rd Congressional District.
In March 2018, the complaint asserts, plaintiff Iymen Chehade, an adjunct history professor at Columbia College, began mulling a run in the 2020 congressional Democratic primary. Newman also planned a second run for Congress in the 3rd District, having lost the primary district by a narrow margin to incumbent Dan Lipinski. Conscious of the district s large Palestinian-American community, Newman reached out to Chehade in 2018, offering him a job on her staff sh
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The Pandemic is Now Effectively Over in the US, But the Politics of It May Never End
By John ZieglerMay 17th, 2021, 9:23 am
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Imagine if there was a war which was never declared over, not because it wasn’t won, but because many of those in power, including the news media, wanted it to last as long as possible. In many ways, that is the current situation with regard to the Covid pandemic.
In much of the United States, the pandemic is now, regardless of what you are being told by those with a self-interest for this “new normal” to maintained, effectively over. (If you don’t want to believe me, just look at what even the notoriously pessimistic University of Washington projections are saying.) The data and the science make this conclusion exceedingly obvious, but there has been almost no public rejoicing, and life in much of the country is nowhere near back to normal, especially in our public schools, which we now know should never have been nearly