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The Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday banning gender-affirming care for minors, putting it on track to become the ninth state to target transgender youth.

On Thursday, the Senate voted 68–27 to advance legislation that would repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force, or AUMFs, against Iraq.

Beneath my powder-pink blindfold, I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. It was a chilly afternoon in January, and I had just arrived at my first sensory deprivation party—ominously titled “Games People Play,” per the sparse Parti.ful invitation. I had a headache and preemptive skepticism about this Silicon Valley vibe invasion of downtown Brooklyn. But the experiment had already begun: Two sighted hosts rotated 30 or so sleep-masked guests through a living room, encouraging us to speak to strangers we couldn’t see. Читать дальше...

On Thursday, the Senate voted 68–27 to advance legislation that would repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force, or AUMFs, against Iraq.

The North Dakota Supreme Court has upheld up a decision to temporarily block the state’s near-total abortion ban. The court also stated that residents have a “fundamental right” to abortions that preserve pregnant people’s health.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday slammed the Republican plan for what the United States should do if it hits the debt limit.

Maternal mortality in the United States shot up by 40 percent in 2021, one of the worst rates in the country’s history, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and the children were off from school in the Ferndale Area District Library in Michigan, zooming around the play area in the Kid’s Corner, where no one needs to be totally hushed, and where the youth desk toward the entrance is decorated with little snowflakes and a die-cut paper squirrel named Cornelius. Someone’s grown-up walked through the stacks (shorter ones than in the main room), balancing an armful of children’s books while the kids with her did their own browsing. Читать дальше...

On the warfront a soldier runs
his filthy fingers across his filthy lapel.
The ground gives under his weight.
(A blizzard calm beyond repairs.)
He gives
                in
                the snow
gives in
                to the snow
being       snowed
                              on
and on.
(They were dressed
up, always, as to meet a great tragedy.
They wore a trademark doom.
What made the soldier
kneel—the ills or the rash lifting
of them.)
                In the spring... Читать дальше...

Nearly two years after the hasty withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, advocates estimate that hundreds of thousands of Afghans who applied for special immigrant visas, or SIVs, remain trapped in Afghanistan. The Biden administration has taken some steps to streamline the process, but the delays caused by bureaucratic hurdles, institutional erosion, and a significant backlog of applications have left Afghan allies with little recourse.

After Republicans did significantly worse in the midterm elections than expected, the party’s establishment thinkers took stock of the situation and decided that things weren’t all bad. “Republicans: Trump is your problem. Wake up,” came the headline in The National Review, and much of what was left of the party’s anti-Trump faction agreed. Mitt Romney, who also pushed his colleagues to embrace fiscal responsibility, identified a paradox that had doomed his party: “If you get endorsed by him in the primary, you’re likely to win. Читать дальше...

Not long ago, I wrote that liberals had a heaven-sent opportunity to push back against the ultraright, ultraactivist supermajority on the Supreme Court by coalescing behind legislation to end Supreme Court justices’ anomalous status as the only federal judges who are not subject to an ethical code of conduct. Campaigning to plug that loophole, I stressed, would have broad bipartisan appeal, could spotlight the justices’ zest for de facto repeal of legal safeguards prized by everyday Americans... Читать дальше...

Among the many lessons to draw from the Biden administration’s depositor bailouts of two failing banks is that too many Democrats let the banks boss them around.

A truck delivers a forest back to itself
As lumber in the field where it once
Stood as trees—what is not lumber
Listens close, breathes witness into
The absence of what’s to become
Of what once was there, closing
The spaces between old shadows
Resolved into new forms, a single
Surface: Walls risen from one chaos
Stand alone against another chaos—
Who dares to breathe listens, or goes
Mad against the grain—tilled under,
Folded back against itself—a darkness
In the heart breaks its lost ground.

“This is going to be one of those moments that goes viral.” Right-wing commentator Bethany Mandel’s clairvoyance proved stronger than her ability to define a word she, in her own words, wrote a whole book chapter on.

Tennessee Representative Andy Ogles appears to have kept money raised through a charitable GoFundMe event, making him the second freshman Republican member of Congress in hot water over dubious fundraising efforts.