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After news broke this week that the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago—former President Donald Trump’s personal Elba—prominent conservatives reacted with unalloyed fury. Top Republicans, ranging from Ted Cruz to Ron DeSantis to Ronna McDaniel told their supporters that “they” would be coming after “you” next. In this context, “they” meant the Biden administration, the FBI, the IRS, and “you” meant the average Trump supporter. Those conservatives and others described the search as a tipping point towards an American dictatorship. Читать дальше...

As the Inflation Reduction Act progressed through the Senate last week to great acclaim, the House of Representatives quietly received a bill that would address not just inflation, but also climate change, more directly. The Emergency Price Stabilization Act—introduced by New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman—would create a new sub-task force of the existing White House Supply Chains Disruption Task Force to compile data on prices in several key sectors, including energy, transportation, food, housing... Читать дальше...

One of the most compelling things about Merrick Garland is how fundamentally uncompelling he is. Back when then-president Barack Obama nominated him for the Supreme Court, he was tapped because he was an uncontroversial choice, all the better to win some votes from Republicans. (Things, obviously, didn’t go according to plan.) Now, he’s possibly the least charismatic member of the Biden Cabinet. The least photogenic as well: I can tell you firsthand what a struggle it is to find an interesting photograph of him. Читать дальше...

When Americans go to the polls in November, they won’t be able to vote Justice Samuel Alito out of office for his ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. That decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to obtain an abortion along with it, isn’t on the ballot this year. Nor are any of the justices who are responsible for it.

For Democrats, 2022 is the ultimate manic-depressive election, except that the extreme moods have come in reverse order.

The moral of a story is not always clear, or the same to everyone in the audience. This is true of the narratives we construct to make sense of our lives: We attempt to give devastating events a silver lining, or ordain our good fortune with the authority of fate, though others may not see it. One person sees their heartbreak, in hindsight, as the thing that taught them to re-evaluate what love, community, and friendship can really mean. Their friend, meanwhile, wishes they would have learned not to date married men. Читать дальше...