Новости за 03.03.2023

Texas Republicans want to ban public school libraries from having books that feature same-sex couples and transgender characters, part of the GOP’s increasing attacks on LGBTQ people across the United States.

On Friday, Amazon announced that it is pausing construction of its second headquarters (dubbed HQ2) in Arlington, Virginia, a project that the state committed up to $750 million in incentives for.

Maxwell Frost is an artist, so it makes sense that the first-term Florida Democratic congressman’s first policy tussle with the White House would be on behalf of his fellow creators.

A Florida Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require paid bloggers who write about elected officials to register with the state.

On April 20, 2021, the Biden administration called the “denial of self-governance” in Washington, D.C., “an affront to the democratic values on which our Nation was founded,” wholeheartedly endorsing efforts to give D.C. statehood. But now President Biden is supporting a congressional effort to actively deny D.C.’s “self-governance.”

A Texas Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill that would ban credit card companies from processing transactions for abortion pills, the state’s latest attempt to dramatically curb safe access to the medical procedure.

Raise your hand if you expected President Joe Biden’s first veto would protect the financial sector from excessive meddling by Congress. I don’t mind admitting this one took me by surprise.

Amid a rash of new bills in Florida, many of which have caused concern and drawn condemnation from people within the state and beyond, is House Bill 991, a drastic revision of laws regarding defamation of public figures. If signed into law, the bill would make it easier for public figures to sue (and win against in court) their critics—specifically, by accusing them of discrimination. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has made it clear that he would support such a measure, and his allies in the state... Читать дальше...

Fox News is not a news organization. This has long been apparent: It has functioned, more or less openly, as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party for years, but to a certain extent, the company was able to keep this reality somewhat veiled. Its opinion shows—running from Bill O’Reilly to Glenn Beck to Sean Hannity to, now, Tucker Carlson—were agenda-setting, pushing the issues and narratives that have defined GOP politics for decades. But they were opinion shows; Fox also boasted a news arm that... Читать дальше...

What is art? In recent months, the Supreme Court tackled this issue by wading into a copyright dispute between photographer Lynn Goldsmith and Andy Warhol’s estate over a portrait of Prince. Now the U.S. Copyright Office is jumping into the fray by first granting, and then revoking, the copyright of a comic book whose author used a “generative A.I. program” to illustrate it.

“I have this fear that one of these years, I’m going to stand up here and have nothing to say except, ‘We’ve run out of rock history to strip-mine.’” Jeff Gaspin, then executive vice president at VH1, said this at a press conference more than 20 years ago. He was quoted, by reporter Mark McGuire, in a syndicated article about the enduring popularity of the TV rock saga, both real-life and fictional.

On Wednesday the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced it would significantly lower the list price of some of its most common insulin products and cap the out-of-pocket patient costs to $35 per month. The decision to lower prices follows years of advocacy and political pressure to make insulin more affordable. Although the manufacturing costs of insulin have remained mostly the same, the cost of the four most commonly used types of insulin has tripled in the last decade, resulting in roughly... Читать дальше...

Mississippi lawmakers have introduced a bill that would give citizens back the right to vote on ballot initiatives—except on laws about abortion access.