Новости за 13.01.2023

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress on Friday that the nation will hit the debt ceiling on Thursday, January 19. If lawmakers don’t suspend or raise the debt ceiling, Yellen wrote, there will be “irreparable harm” to the U.S. economy as well as global financial stability.

Kevin McCarthy made countless concessions to become speaker of the House, but one of those deals could pose a major risk to security in the Capitol.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul barely held onto her seat in the last election, and now she’s alienating her own party by nominating Hector LaSalle as chief judge for the state Court of Appeals.

The Trump Organization was fined $1.6 million Friday morning for tax fraud, conspiracy, and other crimes as part of a 15-year scheme that compensated top executives off the books.

In the fall of 1996, I was a 22-year-old graduate student, freshly arrived at New York University. In my introductory seminar, we toured the NYU’s Fales collection. I remember the archivist excitedly showing us a copy of a 1980s literary journal called Between C and D—named for the East Village avenues where cheap rents lasted the longest. Printed on the fanfold computer paper, it bore the tagline: “Sex. Drugs. Danger. Violence. Computers.” It was stored in plastic, making it look suited to an archive, even though it was barely a decade old.

The latest star of the culture war is a kitchen appliance. For years, research has shown that gas stoves are bad for the environment and for public health, particularly for the developing brains of young children. Cities and states—mostly blue ones—have begun to consider and implement bans, citing these health risks. And the growing body of research on the detrimental impacts of gas stoves has, unsurprisingly, found its way to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. On Monday, the CPSC’s chairman... Читать дальше...

When asked by the poet and critic Mark Ford for The Paris Review who the major poets of his era were, and for his thoughts on the state of contemporary poetry, Charles Simic refused to take the bait. Unlike Robert Lowell, who was known, unasked, to rank his contemporaries (Lowell was first, Berryman second, then came the rest), Simic always seemed to float bemusedly through his evergreen success. “Ask me in a hundred years,” he responded. This is the only reasonable response.

In the weeks leading up to the 2022 midterm elections, many political observers presumed that Democrats were due for a historic shellacking. Instead, they gained a seat in the Senate and only narrowly lost the House. Abortion rights advocates point to a single event as the source of this relative victory: The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June.