Fewer than eight months out from Election Day, some Democrats are appearing to acknowledge that some of their biggest priorities are more likely to be accomplished by executive order than legislative action.
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On Friday morning, President Joe Biden spent close to two hours speaking with Chinese President Xi Jinping to convince and cajole him into rejecting Russian pleas for military and economic assistance—and publicly condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
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Here’s what happened this week
It was a comparatively slow week in that we saw no new subpoenas or other big developments, but there were some new developments with the Republican National Committee’s lawsuit against the select committee, discussed in last week’s recap. The select committee was set this week to receive data it had subpoenaed from Salesforce, the company used by the RNC for its email communications platform. The RNC revealed in a court filing on Tuesday that Salesforce would... Читать дальше...
The Senate’s vote earlier this week to make Daylight Saving Time permanent is a great window into how American politics really works. For one, it was semi-unintentional: Senators only approved the measure by unanimous consent; some said after the fact that they had no idea what was being voted on and that they would have objected if they had known (it only takes one objection to negate unanimous consent). Ending the biannual clock-changing is fairly popular among voters. But this is the United States Senate... Читать дальше...
“Do you think Americans give a fuck about Ukraine?!”
—Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaking to NPR broadcaster Mary Louise Kelly in January 2020
Whatever Americans were thinking two years ago, when Pompeo gave his NPR interview, they now do give a fuck about Ukraine—and therein lies a problem: For more than 25 years, the party of Reagan has been transforming itself into the party of Putin, only to discover that Vladimir Putin may not be a great role model after all. As a result... Читать дальше...
Former Maine Governor Paul LePage has called people of color and “people of Hispanic origin” the “enemy right now” in his war on crime. He’s said drug dealers come from states like New York and Connecticut, sell heroin, and “impregnate a young, white girl before they leave.” He’s threatened a state Democratic lawmaker for whom he left a voicemail calling him a “socialist cocksucker.” One of his first policy moves as governor was to dramatically weaken the state’s environmental laws. After leaving office, he opted to move to Florida. Читать дальше...
Sarah Bloom Raskin’s nomination to become the Federal Reserve’s top banking cop may be dead, but the climate-related financial regulations that Republicans and Joe Manchin oppose aren’t going anywhere. The Washington Post reported earlier this week that the Securities and Exchange Commission plans to require all publicly traded companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and the risks climate change poses to their business—rather than relying on voluntary disclosures, which has created a patchwork and incomplete picture. Читать дальше...
They both made their names through real estate development. They’ve been entangled in potentially treasonous activity with foreign dictators (Saddam Hussein for one, Vladimir Putin for the other). They’re misogynists who have cheated on their wives, and neither seems particularly fond of his perpetually disappointing children (despite naming his eldest son after himself). The similarities are uncanny. See if you can identify which of the following quotes come from George Bluth Sr., one of the lead characters from Arrested Development... Читать дальше...
The New Republic’s literary editor, Laura Marsh, spoke last week with journalist Alexander Zaitchik, frequent TNR contributor and author of the new book, Owning the Sun: A People’s History of Monopoly Medicine From Aspirin to Covid-19 Vaccines.
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