Новости за 17.11.2022

Never one to waste words, Nancy Pelosi didn’t bother acknowledging Donald Trump in her farewell speech as speaker of the House on Thursday.

Now that Republicans have taken control of the House of Representatives, they’re starting to indicate what their next steps will be … and it’s nothing good.

After leading the Democratic caucus for two decades, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is stepping down from leadership.

Former Vice President Mike Pence appeared at a CNN town hall on Wednesday night to discuss a lot of things—like his new book, his opinions on Donald Trump’s 2024 bid, the January 6 attack on our democracy.

Mike Pence has made his stance clear: January 6 was the one of the most harrowing days of his life, and also he will not cooperate with investigations of the attack.

Republicans finally clinched control of the House of Representatives, more than a week after Election Day, but it does not necessarily signal the end for Democrats.

One would not, in ordinary political circumstances, expect Florida Senator Rick Scott to see this moment as his opportunity to climb the ranks of Senate Republican leadership. As chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Campaign, Scott oversaw disastrous midterm Senate elections. Dealt a good hand—an unpopular president, horrible inflation, the perception of rising crime, and a record fundraising haul—Scott managed to play it badly, frittering away hundreds of millions on lackluster candidates. Читать дальше...

More than 100 million Americans watched the Super Bowl in February. Interspersed in the Los Angeles Rams’ victory over the Cincinnati Bengals was a barrage of television ads that urged viewers to buy cryptocurrencies on crypto exchanges. Coinbase bounced a Q.R. code linking to its website around the screen for 30 seconds. (The link crashed.) Crypto.com featured basketball star LeBron James interacting with a younger version of himself and its motto, “Fortune Favors the Brave.” EToro showed a new... Читать дальше...

Brad DeLong knows a thing or two about the U.S. economy. As one of the world’s leading macroeconomists, a former Treasury Department deputy assistant secretary, and the author of the new book Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century, DeLong is an expert on both the history and the theory of neoliberalism. And he’s as surprised as anyone that it came to power so completely and that it’s lasted this long. “In my heart of hearts, I still cannot believe that the New Deal... Читать дальше...

When Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan this summer, China immediately put high-level climate talks between its government and the United States on ice. This week there’s been a thaw. President Biden met with Xi Jingping at the G20 on Monday, and the two agreed to “empower key senior officials to maintain communication and deepen constructive efforts,” including on climate. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has meanwhile been speaking to his Chinese counterpart, Xie Zenhua, at U.N. climate talks in Egypt. Читать дальше...

In his 1949 essay “Everybody’s Protest Novel,” James Baldwin objects to fiction that seeks to say of Black oppression only, as Miss Ophelia does in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, “This is perfectly horrible! You ought to be ashamed of yourselves!” Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book was, Baldwin wrote, sentimental and self-congratulatory—using its characters to prove a point, without granting them the “undefinable, unpredictable” qualities of real people. “The protest novel, so far from being disturbing, is an accepted... Читать дальше...

Votes are still being counted, but one fact is already clear: The Republican Party’s effort to use the exaggerated “border crisis”—naturally with the propagandistic assistance of Fox News and other stars in the right-wing media constellation—as a major vote-getter has failed. Such efforts are, by now, a rote occurrence in the late stages of election season; this is where fearmongering over migrant “caravans” has become a traditional sight. Thankfully, the fear-stoking seems to have been a nonfactor... Читать дальше...

In 1835, John Ridge, one of the chief negotiators of a treaty between the U.S. federal government and the Cherokee Nation, wrote to the governor of Georgia insisting that the treaty include a provision allowing a Cherokee delegate to serve in Congress.

At least 32 transgender and gender-nonconforming people have been killed this year, the Human Rights Campaign said in a report published Wednesday, a few days before Transgender Day of Remembrance.

On Wednesday, the House passed the Speak Out Act, legislation that prohibits the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in cases of workplace sexual harassment or sexual assault. In other words, the bill empowers victims to speak out, share their stories, and seek justice without fear of retaliation for breaking previously signed NDAs.

A total of 37 Republicans senators voted Wednesday, in the year 2022, against advancing a bill that would enshrine marriage equality.