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The Democratic primary race in New York’s 12th congressional district can be best characterized as Hobbesian: nasty, brutish, and short. The newly drawn district, finalized at the end of May, consolidated the east and west sides of Manhattan and pitted two longtime members of Congress against each other, as well as a progressive young upstart hoping a divided field can propel him to victory.

When Joe Biden got his start in politics in the early 1970s, many voters still had vivid memories of Franklin Roosevelt. At Democratic Party gatherings, FDR’s theme song, “Happy Days Are Here Again,” remained a treasured part of the playlist. And few epithets in politics were more powerful than likening a Republican to Herbert Hoover.

In the past two years, the so-called Title 42 policy has been invoked about two million times to expel migrants along the southern border, the majority of whom were likely prevented from making the asylum claims to which they are supposedly entitled under other parts of the law. This situation, which has shut the door to humanitarian migration to hundreds of thousands of people and triggered mass death and suffering, emerged entirely from the single-minded anti-immigrant zealotry of former White House adviser Stephen Miller... Читать дальше...

Lindsey Graham was slated to give testimony this week to the grand jury that was empaneled to look into Donald Trump’s attempt to steal Georgia’s 16 electoral votes in 2020. But the South Carolina senator managed to hustle up a temporary legal reprieve from the 11th Circuit Court of Court of Appeals this weekend, which will postpone his trip to Fulton County.*

In the days before the pandemic, when I visited the Museum of Modern Art, I would stop at Mrs. Fields. Mrs. Fields does not have the best cookies, especially in a city teeming with boutique bakeries. But getting a snack there was never about the quality of the food itself. A Mrs. Fields cookie summons up a weekend in the early 1990s when my parents would pack me and my siblings into our Volvo station wagon and drive us half an hour over state lines to the mall in Stamford, Connecticut. There,... Читать дальше...