Новости за 22.02.2023

Multimillionaire Vivek Ramaswamy is running for president. The 37-year-old former biotechnology executive announced his run Tuesday night on Tucker Carlson’s show.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has called for a “national divorce,” voter suppression, and now seemingly civil war, appeals made all the more concerning by the key committee positions she holds in Congress.

It has long been the conventional wisdom that Jimmy Carter was a weak president and a saintly ex-president. His one-term presidency is remembered, as NPR’s Ron Elving put it last year, “for the Iran hostage crisis that consumed the last year of his presidency” and “his hapless struggles against inflation, high gas prices, and the threat of oncoming recession,” leaving “a legacy of frustration and fecklessness that has been difficult for Democrats to shake.” Meanwhile, in selflessly devoting his... Читать дальше...

Speaking on his Fox News program last week, Tucker Carlson went literary, channeling The Road with a dash of White Noise. After a train carrying thousands of gallons of dangerous chemicals derailed in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio, “those clouds of toxic smoke flew up and out and that toxic smoke almost immediately began killing animals,” he said. “Dead fish washed up on shore. As one hazardous material specialist put it, we basically nuked the town with chemicals.”

Congress is careening once more towards a brutal fight over raising the nation’s borrowing cap, with dire economic consequences in store should the United States default on its debts. Negotiations seem to be moving at a glacial pace even as the Treasury Department has resorted to “extraordinary measures” to ensure the bills are paid for the time being. Republican lawmakers insist they will not vote to raise the debt limit without significant spending cuts, while Democrats argue that the ceiling should be lifted in a “clean” bill... Читать дальше...

If you’ve seriously studied or written about the Midwest in the last, say, decade, you owe something to Jon K. Lauck. Starting in 2013 with The Lost Region—not a history of the region but of its historians—he has tirelessly promoted Midwestern history. Both through an impressive string of books and by helping to found the Midwestern History Association, he has worked to revive and reorganize the study of a region that sometimes forgets it has a history, a culture, or even, famously, an accent. Читать дальше...

The Mississippi Senate passed a bill Tuesday banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, the latest in a torrent of anti-trans legislation across the United States.

After seditiously calling for a “national divorce,” Marjorie Taylor Greene is now suggesting red states go ahead and block Democrats’ right to vote if they moved there from a blue state, because their values are just too different.

This week is Tech Week at the Supreme Court, at least unofficially. The justices returned from a month-long break to hear oral arguments on Tuesday in Gonzalez v. Google, the first of two back-to-back cases about Silicon Valley and legal liability. At stake is whether internet companies both large and small can be hauled into court for things that other people post on their websites.

George Santos just keeps on giving. Now, he tells Piers Morgan that he told all those lies in 2022 because, well, he told them in 2020, and no one caught him then!

George Santos just keeps on giving. Now, he tells Piers Morgan that he told all those lies in 2022 because, well, he told them in 2020, and no one caught him then!

George Santos just keeps on giving. Now, he tells Piers Morgan that he told all those lies in 2022 because, well, he told them in 2020, and no one caught him then!