Новости за 08.09.2022

Over the past few days, billionaire Peter Thiel and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have found themselves in a feud over funding Thiel’s endorsed Senate candidates in Arizona and Ohio. Earlier this year, McConnell urged Thiel to pour more money into a super PAC backing J.D. Vance, as Republicans fret over money disparities in Senate races across the country. Thiel refused, fueling frustrations among Republicans that the wealthy Thiel was abandoning the candidates he wanted Republicans to... Читать дальше...

For all the progress the United States has made on climate change—having just finally passed a bill aimed at reducing emissions—it’s still a political third rail to go directly after the leading driver of rising temperatures: fossil fuels. The Inflation Reduction Act’s passage in Congress was premised on providing giveaways to oil and gas drillers, whose indefinite profits Democratic Party leaders don’t see as incompatible with a habitable future. For years that was also the case in California... Читать дальше...

Blake Masters and J.D. Vance, Republican nominees for Senate in Arizona and Ohio, respectively, have two things in common. One is that they’re both terrible candidates—charisma-free voids, running on a slate of radical, unpopular policies. Another is that they’ve become Trumpworld favorites despite each having a history of MAGA heresies. Masters was in favor of unrestricted immigration before he was against it; Vance called Donald Trump “cultural heroin” and spent most of the 2016 election trying to position himself as a kinder... Читать дальше...

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper is used to campaigning in a tough environment. For most of his time in office, the two-term Democrat has had to deal with a Republican-controlled legislature, and his only real defense, as the legislature has passed bills to lift the state’s school mask mandate in early February and restrict mail-in voting, has been his veto pen.

When Judge Aileen Cannon granted former President Donald Trump’s request that she appoint a special master to review government documents he carted off to Mar-a-Lago and then refused to turn over to the National Archives, she didn’t follow the law. I’m no legal expert, but when William Barr and Laurence Tribe agree that a judicial ruling is wrong, who am I to disagree? 

Twenty-three years ago, computer programmer and writer Ellen Ullman noticed a change in the internet. In a lecture at the University of Vermont in 1999, she observed that between 1995 and 1998, it went from being a “private dream,” which one might experience in moments away from “real life,” to a site of extreme individualism, in which companies attempted “to isolate the individual within a sea of economic activity.” She described a Packard Bell ad from that time: First, it shows a seething dystopian... Читать дальше...