Новости за 01.03.2023

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has accused the news media of being “jealous” that Fox News host Tucker Carlson got there first to ask for access to the security footage from the January 6 attack.

Senator Bernie Sanders is continuing to use his newfound committee influence to hold corporate leaders’ feet to the fire. Now he’s calling to subpoena Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, on allegations of the company’s union-busting.

Don’t miss it—Congress might actually be doing something to hold railroads accountable and make workers and the broader public safer.

Already there are a few patterns emerging about the 2024 presidential race. For one, some of the leading Republican aspirants are skipping this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, which starts on Wednesday just outside of Washington. That absence just happens to coincide with CPAC honcho Matt Schlapp facing allegations of making sexual advances on another man. But there’s also the fact that it’s a bit of a lost cause for them to prostrate themselves at CPAC. That’s Donald Trump’s arena. Читать дальше...

Julie Su is on track to become the first Asian American person to serve as a Cabinet secretary under the current administration.

On a congressional delegation last week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was photographed grinning, arm in arm with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Schumer pledged that the United States “will stand behind Israel with our fullest support.” Visiting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the same trip, Schumer redoubled his commitment to fostering strong ties there too, calling India “precisely the kind of partner that the U.S. needs” to take on China and promote democracy. Читать дальше...

Every four years when I was growing up, my mother would scoff at the influx of presidential nominees pretending to care about Ohio voters. Now the town of East Palestine is being subjected to that spectacle in an off year. 

ChatGPT, the hot new artificial intelligence text generator, is fun. Part of a larger profusion of MadLibsy AI technologies—on par with “recordings” of Joe Biden and Donald Trump fighting about video games or “paintings” of scenes from Star-Trek: The Next Generation by Van Gogh—it’s a diverting way to spend a few minutes. I am particularly fond of making it write poems about professional athletes in the style of the great 19th century Romantics. (“Thou art like a sprite on the court / J.R. Smith... Читать дальше...

It’s no coincidence that Stanford University was founded in Palo Alto, where many decades later scores of tech companies also got their start. Palo Alto is the birthplace of the “Palo Alto system,” an approach to training race horses that attempted to speed up the process by applying techno-scientific principles and injecting lots of cash. This ethos of optimization, argues the writer Malcolm Harris, defined Stanford, which in turn helped define Silicon Valley and the ideology it has spread throughout the world. Читать дальше...

Phones across the immigration policy world began buzzing last week with some dreaded news: The Biden administration had proposed a new federal rule to severely restrict access to asylum at the border. Coming ahead of the administration’s plan to phase out the so-called Title 42 policy, the rule would render migrants who had crossed through another country on their way to the U.S. border ineligible for asylum unless they had already applied for and been rejected for asylum in the country of transit first. Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court appears inclined to strike down the Biden administration’s student loan debt forgiveness plan, but major procedural hurdles could still hinder the court’s conservatives from unwinding an estimated $400 billion in debt relief that could help as many as 20 million Americans if it goes into effect.

The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday blocking the Labor Department from implementing a rule that encourages retirement plans to consider environmental, social, and corporate governance, in Republicans’ latest manufactured culture war.

Republicans have spent weeks criticizing the response to the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment, lobbying attacks at any target close enough for something to stick. Seldom have they directly confronted the clear as day culprit: corporate-bought deregulation. The charade has now hit another milestone, as Republicans line up behind a party-wide push to deregulate water protection in the United States.