Новости за 10.11.2022

If you voted Republican on Tuesday because you thought inflation was raging out of control, you should know that the latest consumer price index, or CPI, figures, released Thursday morning, show that in October inflation rose by the smallest 12-month increment since January 2022. Prices were up 7.7 percent compared to October 2021, down from the September figure of 8.2 percent. Even the dread “core” inflation rate, which disregards volatile gas and food prices, fell a little bit, to 6.3 percent... Читать дальше...

Turns out there was a “red wave” on Election Day after all, just not the ones that Republicans hoped for. Women, particularly women of color, voted overwhelmingly Democratic during the 2022 midterms, exit polls found. Inevitably, some found the joke that was ... just sitting there.

Young voters turned out in record numbers for Election Day and overwhelmingly voted Democratic—sending Republicans into a moralistic panic over the voting age.

In the wake of Republicans falling short of their foretold “red wave,” right-wing media reactions have run the whole gamut.

Although there was no feared “Red Wave” on Election Day, it’s still a tight race for Democrats to maintain control of Congress.

A few days before Donald Trump left the presidency, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell appeared in the Oval Office to propose a plan to keep the president in power. Lindell, who had by that time earned his way into the president’s confidence, was photographed just outside the White House, holding papers that he later presented to Trump. Those papers apparently advocated for invoking the Insurrection Act, urging “martial law if necessary.”

Unless something weird happens with the remaining contests, President Joe Biden appears to have done better in his first midterms than any of his recent predecessors. Republicans lost 41 House seats and gained two Senate seats in 2018 under Donald Trump, while Democrats lost 63 House seats and nine Senate seats in 2010 under Barack Obama. Only in 2002 has a party—George W. Bush’s Republicans in the aftermath of 9/11—actually gained House and Senate seats during a president’s first midterms in this century. Читать дальше...

One of the ways New York City set itself apart from the rest of the world as an economic capital in the twentieth century was by setting itself apart from its water supply. Proximity to fresh water is an age-old problem for human settlements; as cities consume, they (sorry) excrete things too—cumulatively, in the form of sewage and solid waste, which taint that most sensitive local resource, water. The famous first water source for lower Manhattan’s Dutch and English colonists was the Collect Pond... Читать дальше...

Political scientists and journalists watch elections through completely different lenses. Whereas journalists think of key moments and momentum swings, political scientists say pshaw to all that. Elections are about the fundamentals; the “natural political forces,” in the words of John Sides, that history shows are more powerful than ads and debate slipups.

The midterms failed to produce the predicted red wave, but the working class’s migration to the GOP continued, and that isn’t good news for the Democrats.

The morning after Election Day, How to Save a Country hosts Michael Tomasky and Felicia Wong looked at how progressive ideas—particularly progressive economic ideas—fared throughout the country. On episode 8, they discuss why we might be in a new era of midterms, what the media got wrong about election narratives, what political ads can tell us about economic policy, and whether elected officials can connect the dots between rhetoric and reality.

As it became clear that the long-rumored red tsunami was anything but—try a red trickle—former President Donald Trump took the stage at Mar-a-Lago to insist that not only was it not his fault but that everything was going fine, actually.

In the lead up to the election, pundits strained themselves bending over backwards to claim that Democrats’ focus on so-called “social issues” leaves them out of touch from the everyday concerns “ordinary” people deal with.

For the third election cycle in a row, Democrats around the country woke up happy on Wednesday morning. The red wave that had been predicted to wash across the shores of this midterm election failed to materialize and many of Trump’s handpicked candidates fell across the country—Doug Mastriano and Dr. Mehmet Oz lost in Pennsylvania, Don Bolduc flopped in New Hampshire, and Herschel Walker failed to avoid a run-off in Georgia. But while pundits love appearing on Wednesday morning to announce that... Читать дальше...

Kenneth Mejia was elected Los Angeles city controller by putting the city’s police budget on blast—and on a billboard for all to see.