If Republican candidates dominate in the 2022 midterm elections, it will have no direct effect on the price of gas or automatically solve inflation. It won’t magically reduce crime rates. But we can be sure it will advance the cause of Christian nationalism.
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Hakeem Jeffries, a representative for New York’s 8th congressional district, is a rising star in the Democratic Party and the likely frontrunner to succeed Nancy Pelosi as House leader. He’s also quite the policy wonk, as co-hosts Felicia Wong and Michael Tomasky learn in episode six of How to Save a Country.
What drives the chair of the House Democratic Caucus, and what’s his vision for the next generation of leadership?
Jeffries, who grew up in a union family in Crown Heights... Читать дальше...
The sovereign, as George Orwell once observed, has an inveterate habit: He exerts control over not just the present but the past. Books are burned. Dissenters are purged. Official records are written—and then rewritten. The signal revelation of Orwell’s dystopian classic, 1984, is that the past is mutable and therefore vulnerable; it survives in fleeting, unguarded snippets like papers and memories. Today, Anglo-American life is riven by deep contests over history as it relates to its founding myths. Читать дальше...
Candy prices jumped more than 13 percent over the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the largest single-year jump ever, reports The Wall Street Journal. It used to take nine years for the price of candy to rise 13 percent, notes National Public Radio. Now it takes 12 months. Happy Halloween!
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