Новости за 19.01.2023

Pull out your Uggs-and-leggings combo outfits, brush off your DVD of season 4 of The Mentalist, and turn the volume way up on “Party Rock Anthem” by LMFAO, because if Joe Manchin has his way—and lately, he has—Washington will soon be partying like it’s 2011 again.

Nearly 500,000 school buses carry 25 million children to school across the country every day. And now, America is in a full-swing effort to replace those buses with electric ones, setting the country on the path to cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than 5 million tons—equivalent to removing one million cars from the road.

The Treasury is having to resort to “extraordinary measures” to prevent the U.S. from defaulting on its debt, which could plummet the country into a recession, Secretary Janet Yellen told Congress Thursday.

George Santos has lied about most of his background, including that his grandparents fled the Holocaust, that his employees died at the Pulse nightclub shooting, and that he was a star volleyball player at a school he didn’t attend.

The annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos used to be a better party, The Washington Post reports this week. “A decade ago, political power brokers and corporate bigwigs gathered here in the Swiss Alps under an upbeat theme,” Ishaan Tharoor writes. “It was time for ‘resilient dynamism,’ declared the organizers of the 2013 meeting.… Ten years on, there seems to be less optimism.”

At the wintry end of a ravenous year, Karl Marx rode a ferry from London back to his garret in Brussels, charged with a simple task: to pull together a written political program for a few hundred radical émigré workers who had decided to call themselves—openly, in defiance of all Europe’s spooks and cops—Communists.

It’s been an interesting week for everyone who’d prefer international financial institutions to not do crimes—and not just because the world’s plutocratic elites are meeting in Davos for their annual “What schemes will we come up with next?” confab. The Supreme Court appeared reluctant to rule that a Turkish state-owned bank couldn’t be prosecuted in U.S. courts during oral arguments on Tuesday, but gave no clear signs of where and how they would draw a line on legal immunity for foreign state-run... Читать дальше...

Kevin McCarthy owes his long-desired speakership to a group of 21 holdouts finally caving, all of whom have been rewarded for flipping with plum committee assignments.

George Santos has positioned himself as a proud, unabashed conservative—on social issues and all. He has expressed support for Florida’s regressive “Don’t Say Gay” law that bars teachers from discussing sexual orientation or gender identity in school. Accusing Democrats of wanting to “groom our kids,” Santos peddled right-wing talking points that equate discussing sexual orientation or gender identity with children as tantamount to sexual abuse. Such talking points often go further, holding that drag shows... Читать дальше...