Новости за 16.11.2022

Don’t call it a comeback—because God help us, Donald Trump never left.

There are various plausible explanations for why Elon Musk acquired Twitter. Maybe, blinded by incompetent ego, Musk believes he alone can make Twitter transcend new boundaries. Perhaps his billionaire lifestyle has led him to desire new stimulation, and that comes in the form of owning one of the largest social media companies in the world.

Despite the fact that a University of Virginia student opened fire on his former football teammates over the weekend—the latest in a grim trend of U.S. school shootings—somehow guns are not what Republicans are worried about in schools.

In a further sign the Republican establishment is souring on Donald Trump, Fox News cut away multiple times from his ill-advised presidential campaign announcement.

After laying off half of Twitter’s workers, allowing some of the most crucial ones to resign, and firing yet more staff if they tweeted anything he didn’t like, Elon Musk is now making final cuts for anyone not ready to be “working long hours at high intensity.”

By most metrics, the midterm elections were good for Democrats and for American democracy in general. With the reelection of Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Democrats will retain control of the Senate. They can also break the 50-50 deadlock there if Senator Raphael Warnock wins his runoff against Herschel Walker, allowing Democrats to control committees and end the need for discharge petitions. Democrats also avoided the traditional huge midterm losses in the House. Republicans are projected to end up with about 219 seats... Читать дальше...

Tycoons are susceptible to the misconception that if you know how to make billions you know how to spend them. Sam Bankman-Fried, the “unkempt millennial” (The Wall Street Journal) and founder of the cryptocurrency firm FTX, demonstrated that he knew how to make a fortune that peaked at $26.5 billion. Then he demonstrated that he also knew how to lose it, under circumstances that are now under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department. But what caught my... Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to block the House January 6 committee from obtaining the phone records of Kelli Ward, the Arizona Republican Party chair, as part of its investigation into the attack on the Capitol last year. Ward and others had asked the court in October to block the subpoena for allegedly violating her constitutional rights, including her First Amendment right to free association.

A glossy, immaculately dressed woman, Amy (Michelle Monaghan), is showing her new nanny, Aisha (Anna Diop), around her Upper East Side apartment. The space appears somehow both soothing and sinister—high-ceilinged but claustrophobic, a lot of tasteful grays and dark wood and vaguely industrial metal. (These familiar, almost corporate perfections, we learn later, don’t extend to the room set aside for the nanny’s occasional overnight stays, the ceiling of which is afflicted with a nightmarish creeping... Читать дальше...

As Democrats spent the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections fretting and hand-wringing about a potential red wave, they had one silver lining: the emergence of a new superdonor. Sam Bankman-Fried, the wunderkind 30-year-old founder and CEO of FTX, the upstart cryptocurrency exchange, was splashing money around everywhere. He was young. He was rich. He seemed smart. And he looked like the successor to George Soros, the 92-year-old billionaire who had given Democrats more than $100 million during the midterm cycle. Читать дальше...

Against the will of his advisors, many of his party’s officials, and a large chunk of the country, Donald Trump is running for president for a third consecutive time.

On Tuesday, Florida Senator Rick Scott announced his intentions to run for the Senate Republican leader, challenging current Leader Mitch McConnell.

When I profiled Representative Tom Emmer for The New Republic’s summer issue previewing the midterms, the Minnesota Republican seemed to be on a gilded path toward rising through his party’s ranks and wielding the power he’s long sought in Washington. As the chair of the National Republican Campaign Committee, Emmer was expected to oversee a “red wave” surge that would produce a massive GOP House majority, collecting IOUs and plaudits from new members along the way. Instead, Republicans still don’t control the Senate... Читать дальше...