Новости за 23.02.2023

As she was barricading the door to her dorm room at Michigan State University, Emma Riddle had an overwhelming sense of déjà vu: She had lived through a school shooting before.

While the public is coming to understand how dangerously deregulated the railroad industry is, rail companies themselves are desperately trying to ward off regulation by finally giving workers the necessary benefits. In doing so, though, the companies reveal they could’ve done this of their own volition this whole time.

A media tour this week by the forewoman for the Georgia special grand jury on Donald Trump’s actions after the 2020 election has raised concerns across the board, especially after reports that the former president’s team might use her comments to block possible indictments.

A new poll measuring voter sentiment in and around six factory towns in the Midwest and Pennsylvania (much of which for all practical purposes is Midwestern) suggests these industrial-belt voters are more responsive to a populist Democratic message on the economy than you might suppose. It’s the Democrats themselves they can’t stand.

I never went to Dixmont, though lots of my high school classmates and friends did. My parents mildly discouraged me from venturing up into the thickly wooded hills where it sat, not because kids went there to drink and smoke and scare each other (which they did) but because the dilapidated buildings were full of friable asbestos and the underground tunnels were probably even more structurally unsound than the buildings. The property, at the time I was a teenager, had been essentially abandoned for more than a decade. Читать дальше...

Confederate statues are coming down everywhere. Mississippi changed its flag. In the U.S. Capitol itself, statues of slavers and other white supremacists are being replaced: Virginia removed Robert E. Lee in 2020 and replaced him with Black civil rights activist Barbara Johns.

Vivek Ramaswamy, the former biotech executive who announced his run for the Republican presidential nomination this week, has made China a central part of his message on the right-wing speaker circuit and Fox News. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed explaining his candidacy, he called the country “the greatest external threat to America” and argued “we must even be willing to bar U.S. companies from expanding into China until its government abandons theft and other mercantilist tactics.”

The Supreme Court appeared hesitant to allow victims of international terrorism to sue Twitter, Facebook, and other tech giants under a federal anti-terrorism law, queuing up a potential victory for Silicon Valley as it comes under increasing scrutiny throughout Washington. The case, Twitter v. Taamneh, is the second of two major tech-related cases before the court this week.