Новости за 08.12.2022

On Thursday, Representative-elect Maxwell Frost, who will become the first Gen Z member of Congress, said he was denied an apartment in Washington, D.C. due to his “really bad” credit. He also lost his application fee.

Here are the representatives who voted Thursday against the Respect for Marriage Act, which protects same-sex and interracial marriage. All 169 are Republicans.

Thursday morning, the Biden administration announced that Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner would be released from Russian detainment, in a one-for-one prisoner swap with former Russian military officer and arms dealer Viktor Bout.

The House of Representatives voted 258–169 Thursday to approve a historic bill enshrining the right to marriage equality.

Over one thousand New York Times employees have embarked on a 24-hour walkout, the first protest of its kind at the nation’s paper of record in more than four decades.

Thanks to a combination of boosted economic activity and higher temperatures, the Energy Information Agency projects that domestic power consumption is set to reach record highs this year. For utilities and gas drillers—many of them attempting to brandish environmental credentials—this is great news. Rising demand tends to mean rising profits. For the planet, however, this isn’t great—even if renewables start to make up a larger share of power generation.

The University of California—a system of higher education encompassing 10 campuses, 280,000 students, 230,000 faculty and staff, and an operating budget greater than that of 25 states—has offered several reasons why graduate-student workers deserve to be underpaid. The jobs are apprenticeships; hardship will be retroactively remedied by future employment. The jobs are part-time, meant to compliment workers’ role as students. But as prospects in higher education constrict, graduates face more contingent and contract work. Читать дальше...

Senator Elizabeth Warren is known as the plan-wielding policy wonk of the progressive movement. But underlying those plans is a simple idea: We are the government. “Government is the vehicle for letting us do together what none of us can do alone,” Warren tells hosts Michael Tomasky and Felicia Wong on episode 11 of How to Save a Country. “We all contribute, and it expands opportunity for all of us, and I feel like that’s what’s really been missing as we’ve become a post–New Deal nation.”

On April 23, 1967, George C. Wallace sat for a television interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, ready to reintroduce himself to America. To most Americans outside of the South, Wallace was known as the openly racist, defiantly pro-segregationist governor of Alabama: the one who, four years earlier, bellowed “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” in the face of the swelling civil rights movement, the one who, a year later, stood in front of a University of Alabama building to prevent two Black students from enrolling... Читать дальше...

After pledging to be the “most pro-union president leading the most pro-union administration in American history,” Joe Biden disappointed and angered many union members and labor leaders last week when he called on Congress to block a nationwide rail strike. But it’s not too late for Biden to defuse that anger and win back union support. He can do that by issuing an executive order that delivers on something the rail workers badly need: paid sick days.

Maxanne McCormick had every reason to believe she was dying of the same degenerative dementia that killed her mother. She’d been diagnosed in 2011, when she was just in her fifties: a devastating explanation for more than a decade of migraines, pain, brain fog, and fatigue so crushing that she had to quit her job as a physician’s assistant. Once, in the early days of her illness, she’d just arrived at work at a pediatric practice in Littleton, Colorado, and was struggling to clip on her badge—a dumb... Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared divided on whether to embrace a once fringe legal theory on state election laws during oral arguments in Moore v. Harper on Wednesday. The case, which is one of the most closely watched disputes of the current term, could upend how states craft and interpret their election laws. Critics of the independent state legislature theory have warned that it could have dire consequences for the integrity of American democracy.

The final text of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was released Tuesday, and absent was Senator Joe Manchin’s so-called “Dirty Deal,” a set of provisions he was promised in exchange for his support for the Inflation Reduction Act (a bill he massively watered down).