Новости за 27.04.2022

When House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy touched down in Texas on Monday to lead a flock of Republican lawmakers on a tour of the Southern border, he wanted to hammer one specific attack line. 

The midterms are expected to be about inflation, and that’s a losing issue for Democrats. The consumer price index in March was up 8.5 percent over the previous year, and even though Republicans complain the CPI is a worthless inflation yardstick whenever it’s used to adjust Social Security benefits, they treat it as holy writ whenever they want to beat up a Democratic president for letting it get too high.

The United States of America, as a name, is slightly misleading. It’s true that this country consists mostly of 50 states bound together in a federal union. It’s also true that, for various historical reasons, the United States also includes a constellation of territories that it acquired in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some of these lands, like Hawaii and Alaska, have since joined the Union as states. Others, like the Philippines, are now independent countries.

Max Sterling has to travel up to three hours every other week to get to the methadone clinic closest to his home in Joseph City, Arizona—an hour and a half there and an hour and a half back on the days when traffic is bad. While the 48-year-old former heroin user says the journey is costly, prohibitive, and annoying, it isn’t the most arduous barrier he’s faced since starting his current methadone maintenance treatment in 2009. His previous clinic, for instance, was located in Phoenix, three and a half hours away... Читать дальше...

Asked during a town hall meeting about the future of Twitter in the wake of Monday’s seismic news that Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, had bought the social network, current CEO Parag Agrawal was cagey. “Once the deal closes, we don’t know which direction the platform will go,” he said.