Новости за 06.05.2022

Republican Senator Rick Scott professed bafflement last week that President Joe Biden is “obsessed with my plan to rescue America.” It’s true, he kind of is. On Tax Day, the White House released a fact sheet that said Scott’s plan would “increase middle-class families’ taxes an average of nearly $1,500 this year alone and take $100 billion out of the hands of middle-class families each year.” This week, Biden cited the Scott plan again in a speech attacking the Republicans’ “Ultra-MAGA Agenda.”... Читать дальше...

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Add Donald Trump Jr. to the list of Trump family members who have quietly cooperated with the January 6 committee. On Wednesday the Associated Press reported that the eldest son of the former president has met with the panel. He talked with the committee on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear what Trump Jr. told the committee, but he was backstage at the Stop the Steal rally that preceded the mob attack on the Capitol. Trump Jr.’s sister Ivanka recently spoke with the panel... Читать дальше...

A major sticking point at the last U.N. climate change conference, known as COP26, was the matter of how much money rich countries are going to give poor countries to fight climate change. This question of so-called climate finance is usually framed as a matter of justice: Rich countries and their emissions have contributed far more to the climate problem, while the catastrophes unleashed by global warming are likely to affect poor countries even more. This case for “climate reparations” has been... Читать дальше...

Ever since the Supreme Court’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade surfaced, Democrats have been grappling with the fact that the worst-case scenario may very well be nigh. The emerging argument has been that if the law is overturned, governors and state attorneys general will become even more crucial as defenders of abortion rights across the country. That’s the rationale behind a new push the Democratic Attorneys General Association, or DAGA, is rolling out Friday, according to a memo obtained first by The New Republic. Читать дальше...

In July 2011, David Mockett was dividing his time between Yemen, where he worked as a marine surveyor, and England, where he, his wife, and two adult daughters lived. His job was to conduct independent investigations of incidents at sea for any one of the many interested parties when something goes wrong on a large commercial vessel—in this case, for insurers at Lloyd’s of London who wanted his assessment of an apparent incident of piracy involving an oil tanker named the Brillante Virtuoso, which... Читать дальше...

This summer, Roe v. Wade will fall. It should be dangerous to write such an emphatic prediction about a decision the Supreme Court won’t issue for at least a month, if not longer; at this point, we should still be allowed the solace, however slight, of entertaining more than one plausible future. But on an otherwise quiet evening in early May, in an unprecedented move, Politico published a leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Mississippi case that has been poised to determine Roe’s fate. Читать дальше...

With an eye to this November’s elections, Paul Spink—like many union leaders in Wisconsin—plans to do his utmost this year to salvage what’s left of democracy in his state. Spink, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME, in Wisconsin, says it’s vital to reelect the state’s Democratic governor, Tony Evers, to preserve some semblance of majority rule in Wisconsin and to keep some check on what he sees as a runaway Republican legislature that is pushing... Читать дальше...