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An attack ad started airing recently in Nevada. It was a 30-second spot from incumbent Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto’s campaign hitting her Republican opponent, Adam Laxalt, on pushing the Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. The ad starts out with clips of rioters storming the Capitol, before pivoting to Laxalt, as a narrator says, “Adam Laxalt, the proud face of the Big Lie in Nevada, repeatedly pushing conspiracy theories without evidence.”

Herschel Walker, Georgia’s Republican nominee for Senate, has confessed what some of the American electorate knows to be true: He is dumb. When reporters asked the former football star about an upcoming debate with incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock, Walker tempered expectations: “I’m a country boy. I’m not that smart. He’s a preacher. Warnock is smart and wears these nice suits. So, he is going to show up and embarrass me at the debate October 14, and I’m just waiting to show up and... Читать дальше...

In December 1969, President Richard Nixon convened a historic conference to address hunger and nutritional well-being, issues that had only recently risen to the national consciousness. That colloquy produced nearly 1,800 recommendations and has been credited with revitalizing the country’s food and nutrition policy. Its influence has been felt for a half-century, thanks to expansions of the food stamp and school lunch programs, as well as the creation of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, or WIC. Читать дальше...

When she died last week, Hilary Mantel was internationally mourned as one of the great British novelists, a genius, a beloved mentor and cherished friend. But her acclaim came late. Mantel was 57 when Wolf Hall, the first volume of her trilogy about Oliver Cromwell, was published to ecstatic reviews and impressive sales, winning her her first Booker prize and propelling her to the top of the literary pyramid. 

The official Defense Department definition of terrorism—“the calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear … in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological”—turns a stunning and largely verboten conclusion into an undeniable banality: The dominant Trump-cult wing of the American right is a terrorist movement. Only a minority of Republican voters behave violently, but Republican leaders in Congress, and the most influential right-wing media personalities... Читать дальше...

John Fetterman was the poster dude for “green jobs“ during the first year of the Obama administration—that brief window of time when that administration seemed excited to address the climate crisis. As mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a once-prosperous town that has never recovered from the exodus of the steel industry from the area, Fetterman starred in a 2009 video for an Environmental Defense Fund campaign called “Carbon Caps = Hard Hats.” Wearing work boots, he argued that a cap on carbon pollution would... Читать дальше...