Новости за 23.11.2022

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has already pivoted to blaming Tuesday night’s mass shooting on the U.S. “mental health crisis,” despite pushing policies that would actually have a detrimental effect on mental health care.

Herschel Walker has lied about paying for a girlfriend’s abortion, about graduating in the top 1% of his college class (or graduating at all), about being a police officer, and much, much more. And now it seems like he’s lying about where he even lives.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has taken his anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in the wake of the Colorado Springs shooting a step further, accusing the community of continuing to bring the violence on itself.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, who promised to roll back gun control in the state of Virginia, now says he’s heartbroken after the latest shooting in his state.

After FIFA forbade team captains from wearing the rainbow OneLove armband at the World Cup in Qatar, the German team has made their opinion on LGBTQ rights loud and clear.

Before the spectacular implosion of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried was angling to become one of the biggest power players in Democratic politics. He allowed reporters to write extensive profiles from his Bahamas group home. He donated over $45 million to political candidates and organizations in recent years, according to a New Republic analysis, most of it to Democrats (with a healthy chunk to Republicans as well). He floated spending $1 billion in the 2024 campaign cycle. Читать дальше...

In 1996, the philosopher Michael Sandel observed a significant feature of American public life. Americans, he noted, tended to consider political philosophy a discipline with only a tenuous connection to the real world. In the preface to his book Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy, published that year, he wrote of the common notion that “Principles are one thing, politics another,” that “philosophy may indulge our moral aspirations, but politics deals in recalcitrant... Читать дальше...

“First thing you need to do,” a fellow retail worker told me my first day at Jerry’s Liquor in Santa Monica, California, during the summer of 1978, “is forget all that ‘the customer is always right’ crap. In this place, the customer is usually an asshole.” One or two nights later a dissatisfied patron started whacking at the plate glass storefront with a hunk of plywood. He staggered away before the cops came.

It’s been nearly six months since the Supreme Court handed down its blockbuster ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. The 6–3 ruling, which fell along the court’s usual ideological divide, introduced a sweeping new history-and-tradition test for lower courts to use when scrutinizing restrictions on Americans’ ability to own and carry firearms. This has resulted in a series of lower court decisions that could radically reshape where and how guns fit into everyday American life. Читать дальше...

Nancy Pelosi will long be remembered as the first female speaker of the House, as adept and stylish as anyone who has ever held that office. But her most consequential achievement was one that has largely fallen out of the lexicon of American politics: She was a brilliant party builder.

This month’s collapse of FTX, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, has sparked a media frenzy and a reinvigorated call for new regulation of the crypto industry. But this renewed push ignores two key questions: What exactly is a cryptocurrency, and what is its fundamental value? To build appropriate guardrails for the industry, it’s important to first identify the real socioeconomic value of this asset class. In this case, bespoke regulations for crypto would offer little beyond... Читать дальше...

No surprises here: Elon Musk is now devoting the powers of his rapidly dwindling workforce to reactivating the Twitter accounts of violence-promoting reactionaries suspended before he took over. On Friday, for example, he proudly announced the restoration of two accounts suspended for posting anti-transgender content. But now it seems he’s not done. As an anti-trans moral panic pushed by Musk-favored Twitter accounts like Libs of TikTok escalates, and in the wake of the massacre at Club Q, a queer club in Colorado Springs... Читать дальше...

Joe Biden continues to lean in, and not out, of his ambition to support millions of borrowers nationwide. On Tuesday, President Biden announced an extension of the payment pause for federal student loans, while his debt cancellation plan confronts legal challenges in court.

Calls to boycott tampon brand Tampax went viral Tuesday on Twitter, purportedly over a controversial tweet from the company.

Among the most influential voters in America today: the rich, the well-connected, and apparently now, Taylor Swift fans.