Новости за 12.03.2021

Andrew Cuomo is hanging by a thread. He may hold onto his job for another day or another week, or even longer. But he is well past the political point of no return. Given what needs to be done just in the next two months alone—virtually the entire state of New York has to be reopened—there’s simply no conceivable way a figure as damaged as Cuomo is can do his job. 

Eager to stake out some claim to his party’s post-Trump identity, Senator Marco Rubio on Friday took to the op-ed section of USA Today to argue that unions might be good sometimes if they help workers fight against “woke CEOs.” Specifically, he expressed measured support for workers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, who are in the midst of a tense union drive with the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union.

Amazon has become so obviously villainous that even Republican politicians like Florida Senator Marco Rubio are now supporting the worker unionization effort in Bessemer, Alabama. Or at least, that’s what Rubio would like readers of a bizarre new USA Today op-ed to think.

In July 2019, about 30 scientists from around the world gathered in Manaus, Brazil. Their goal was to map out all of the ways the Amazon absorbs and releases greenhouse gases. In a new study published Thursday, they found something startling: The Amazon may emit as much as or more than it sequesters. Thanks in large part to human decisions, one of the greatest rain forests left on earth may now actually be warming the planet.

In 1813, the East India Company’s James Forbes published an explosive story about monkeys. While traveling in India, he had stayed beneath an enormous banyan tree near the Narmada River. One day, a friend of his shot a langur monkey out of the tree, then took its body into a tent. Soon, Forbes wrote, a screeching horde of monkeys approached. When one male refused to be scared off, Forbes’s friend gave him the body he seemed to be petitioning for. “With tender sorrow he took it up in his arms, embraced it with conjugal affection... Читать дальше...

Over the past year, Meghan McCain has made a number of statements from her mainstream pundit perch on ABC’s The View that, if you didn’t know better, might suggest that she is a liberal. The daughter of the late John McCain said she would vote for Joe Biden. After the Capitol riot, she called on Mike Pence to use the 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump from office and on Congress to impeach him.

The past few months have been rough for Texas—and for the Texas Republican Party in particular. Republicans in the state led the charge to overturn the 2020 election results, centering their anti-democratic arguments on fantasies of stolen ballots and smothered voices. Then, a once-in-a-generation winter storm revealed the extent to which years-long GOP control had rotted the state’s infrastructure, providing a searing illustration of collapse that gripped the news-cycle and the nation. (And leading to Sen. Читать дальше...

Even before he was elected to the Senate at age 29, Joe Biden always believed that he could make the sale—that he could close the deal about anything. There is a relentlessness at Biden’s core, an intensity often masked by his Uncle Joe political persona.