Новости за 21.07.2022

Every 10 years, the Census Bureau tries to count every person in the United States. While the Constitution grants many powers to the federal government, conducting the census is one of the few things that it explicitly commands. The once-in-a-decade count is required to reapportion the House of Representatives to reflect changes in the nation’s population. Since House districts are used to apportion the Electoral College and states use census data to reapportion their own legislatures, the census... Читать дальше...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Government rested its case against Stephen K. Bannon for criminal contempt of Congress for his failure to comply with a subpoena from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol. With witness Stephen Hart, an FBI special agent on the stand, prosecutor Molly Gaston walked the jury through some gems from Bannon’s Gettr account, showing screenshots of posts linked to articles with headlines such as, “Steve Bannon tells the January 6 select... Читать дальше...

“This is an emergency, an emergency,” President Biden reiterated against a scorched earth Massachusetts background on Wednesday, referring to the climate crisis, “and I will look at it that way.” 

One of culture’s biggest lies is that great poets and artists are somehow more interesting than the rest of us—deserving to be scanned, emulated, interpreted, explained, and packed up in big valise-size biographies with the usual accessories: indexes, bibliographies, chronologies of where they went and what they ate, and directions to the nearest library-sponsored, well-humidified collections of their tattered letters and scribbly notepads. In fact, it’s often hard to read a prominent poet or... Читать дальше...

It has been six months since parents received their last disbursement of the expanded child tax credit, with inflation and higher gas prices only making things worse for families in the time since. The implementation of the credit was one of Democrats’ crowning achievements in 2021, and the failure to extend it one of their most crushing blows.

This story was produced in partnership with Type Investigations with support from the Wayne Barrett Project.

The Trump family is hardly known for its humanitarian impulses, but for a moment Donald Trump Jr. seemed like an exception. Back in 2010, Trump Jr. and his business partners made a surprising vow to build millions of units of prefabricated low-cost housing for some of the world’s poorest families and ship them to countries across the globe. The company also had what it marketed... Читать дальше...

When was the last time you expected to see something good on the front page of the paper? Certainly not in this decade. Roughly four in 10 people globally now say they sometimes or often avoid contact with the news, according to a new poll conducted by the Reuters Institute. For more than half of American respondents, it’s simply a matter of mood: Wherever you are along the political spectrum, a growing percentage say the news simply bums them out.