Новости за 15.03.2022

On Friday, an energetic Joe Manchin spoke to a room full of oil and gas executives in Houston. The following Monday, after long declining to state his position publicly, he came out against Biden’s nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin to become the top banking cop at the Federal Reserve, as vice chair of supervision. Like his Republican colleagues on the Senate Banking Committee—who boycotted a vote on all pending Fed nominations over Raskin’s professed willingness to incorporate the reality of the... Читать дальше...

This month marks the two-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic disrupting our lives and livelihoods, the abrupt transition from everyday existence to quarantine, and a new political reality that wishful thinking could not scrub away. Nearly one million deaths later—a loss that once seemed impossible but is now inevitable—politicians are eager to proclaim a return to normal for an exhausted public. After the stress of the omicron variant surge early this year, mask and vaccine mandates are now falling away in every state... Читать дальше...

On its busier days, the volunteer-run Tampa Bay Abortion Fund receives up to 15 calls requesting support. Callers might seek money for abortions or need assistance traveling to a clinic—whatever the ask, the fund shoulders it. Alongside the four other abortion funds based in Florida, the Tampa Bay Abortion Fund helps provide a patchwork safety net for those who need abortions but have little other recourse. Calls come not only from Florida but outside, too: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia... Читать дальше...

To live in Washington, D.C., is to accept a series of undeniable truths: The temperature will drop from 70 to 30 in the span of a day, no single metro line will run for longer than a month without a disruptive service outage, and the political party ruling the U.S. Congress will always use D.C. as a bargaining chip to get what it wants—at the expense of District residents. For the better part of the last decade, that honor has belonged to Republicans, whose members have tried to gut Washington’s progressive gun laws... Читать дальше...

There are 94 federal judicial districts in America, but one has become the primary venue of choice for Republicans looking to challenge President Biden’s every move: the Northern District of Texas.

I have been reading David Leonhardt’s New York Times newsletter, The Morning, for the better part of the last year, and I cannot for the life of me decide if he is Dr. Pangloss or if he is Candide—the relentless crackpot optimist or the disappointed student who finally throws up his hands and concludes that we must, each of us, tend our gardens alone. 

Speaking to ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos earlier this month, Marco Rubio succinctly rejected one trendy option for protecting Ukraine from Russian bombs: establishing a “no-fly zone” over the country. “‘No-fly zone’ has become a catchphrase, but I’m not sure a lot of people understand what that means,” the Republican senator said. “It means World War III.”