Little is yet known about who Biden will eventually nominate to the Supreme Court to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. Her judicial philosophy remains unknown. Her approach to the shadow docket, to oral arguments, or to the rest of the court’s day-to-day work is a mystery. How she will get along with her colleagues and persuade them—or be persuaded by them—remains to be seen.
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Peter Thiel, the free press–hating, alleged young-blood enthusiast who also happens to be one of the richest people alive, has emerged as the Republican Party’s latest kingmaker. Thiel is, per OpenSecrets data, the co-leader among GOP donors this cycle, funding an array of pro-crypto, anti-China candidates, spending tens of millions on congressional candidates during an election year in which Republicans are expected to triumph without his involvement. A longtime donor, Thiel nevertheless will... Читать дальше...
Donald Trump is having a very bad week. In fact, all of winter has been a storm of legal setbacks and noteworthy news developments that make him look guilty as not yet charged. But what impact might this have on the midterms or the 2024 presidential election? The short version is, Trump is in trouble with the law, but Republicans won’t necessarily feel the heat of that at the ballot box this year. Yet the possibilities of real indictments, from Manhattan to Fulton County, Georgia, may be a factor in 2024. Читать дальше...
The Culinary Workers Union, Local 226 of Unite Here, in Las Vegas, is the most successful private-sector union local in America. During the past three decades, as union membership dwindled nationally, the Culinary Workers tripled its membership. It has won contract guarantees for hotel housekeepers to work 40-hour weeks when nonunion housekeepers more typically work 25- or 30-hour weeks. It’s built a health care plan with no monthly premium and no deductible. And it’s “catapulted thousands of dishwashers... Читать дальше...
In late March 2015, just one month after 15 graduates of the for-profit Corinthian Colleges announced the first-ever student debt strike, a group of those activists traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with federal regulators.
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Indiana Stonewall Democrats have responded in a novel way to Republicans’ sponsorship of a sports ban targeting trans students, alongside other anti-trans bills: with a Freedom of Information request, aiming to expose and highlight the sponsors’ relationship with national anti-LGBTQ groups. These relationships are no secret. But the Stonewall Democrats are hoping, in particular, to get documents on Alliance Defending Freedom, a group that has spent the past decade drafting, advising on, and testifying... Читать дальше...
Self-consciously “conservative” movies inhabit a strange category. Those low-rent Steve Bannon and Dinesh D’Souza documentaries, or Christian blockbusters about the scourge of atheism (like the God’s Not Dead series, now in its fourth instalment), constitute their own strain of camp. They are, to borrow an academic term, paracinema: not so much a part of cinema as movie-like artifacts that exist beside it, like soft-core pornos and old state-subsidized hygiene films. Beyond their rough and ready... Читать дальше...
