Новости за 27.02.2023

Idaho conservatives introduced a bill Monday that would ban drag performances from public places and target Pride celebrations, making it the latest in a long line of states trying to limit LGBTQ rights.

Tennessee Representative Andy Ogles appears to have lied about his background, making him the latest freshman member of Congress to come under fire for apparently fabricating parts of his résumé.

On Monday, Democratic Representative Elissa Slotkin announced her candidacy for outgoing Senator Debbie Stabenow’s Michigan seat. Slotkin is the first Democrat to enter what may be among the most highly contested and expensive Senate races in 2024.

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan said he won’t attend the Republican National Convention if Donald Trump is the presidential nominee, a lackluster and pretty on-brand rebuke.

More than 245 years ago, an unassuming Scottish tutor to a young British duke published a sprawling manuscript about how, when, and why nations become materially prosperous. At first glance, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations might not have seemed likely to become an intellectual landmark. To call it wide-ranging is an understatement; the opposite of a tightly focused, logical argument, its five volumes and 1,000-plus pages range over everything from the problems with... Читать дальше...

To hear some tell it, gas stoves are just better: Induction stoves, one Brooklyn chef fumed at the height of the gas vs. electric controversy last month, would be “impossible” in the context of “fine dining.” Another restauranteur grumbled to the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post that cooking with an electric stove “takes forever and people don’t like the results.” The right, and the fossil fuel industry, constantly score culture war points by pitting the planet and public health against pleasure and convenience in this way. Читать дальше...

Paul Vallas is not your typical Democratic candidate for mayor—not anywhere in the country, but certainly not in Chicago. He once spoke at a fundraiser for Awake Illinois, an anti-LGBTQ group that called Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker a “groomer” and incited harassment against a suburban bakery for planning a family-friendly drag brunch. He’s been endorsed by Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police, which recently hosted Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for an event, and whose Trump-supporting president has defended the January 6 insurrection. Читать дальше...

Republican officeholders keep saying they don’t want to cut Social Security and Medicare, something even a 64 percent majority of Republican voters oppose. But that doesn’t make it true. President Joe Biden says he doesn’t want to raise Social Security taxes on people earning less than $400,000. But that doesn’t make it smart.

When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a pair of legal challenges to President Biden’s student debt relief plan on Tuesday, February 28, the justices will be weighing the question of whether the Biden administration overstepped its authority by wiping away the debt owed by tens of millions of Americans. Whatever the court’s decision, there is a more profound question at play than whether the six states that brought the suit will lose tax revenue should the plan be allowed to stand.