Новости за 06.04.2023

Late last month, a disastrous fire at an immigration detention center near the U.S. border in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, left 40 people dead. And it turns out the migrants were stuck there because they couldn’t pay a $200 bribe to guards to be released, according to Vice.

Three years ago, Joe Biden won Wisconsin by just 20,000 votes—less than two-thirds of a percentage point. On Tuesday, Judge Janet Protasiewicz won a seat on the state’s Supreme Court by 11 points, tipping the balance of control from a conservative majority to a liberal tilt.

People are so mad about Bud Light’s latest ad campaign with a transgender activist that they are throwing their money—and beer—away.

On Election Day earlier this week, some Wisconsin voters found disturbing messages on their phones: Their children would be in danger from “trans madness” if they didn’t vote for Daniel Kelly, the conservative contender for an open seat on the state Supreme Court. The messages included a video, which told them, “Don’t leave your children in the hands of Janet Protasiewicz,” the liberal candidate in the race, and that “your family depends on it.”

Leading anti-vaccine activist Robert Kennedy Jr. has announced he is running for president as a Democrat.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has spent decades secretly enjoying lavish island-hopping excursions on superyachts and on-demand private jet rides courtesy of a billionaire Republican megadonor, ProPublica has revealed.

Idaho’s Republican governor, Brad Little, has signed a law banning people from helping others access abortions.

On the hunt for the means to reduce the federal deficit without raising taxes or futzing with Social Security and Medicare, congressional Republicans have recently turned to a well-worn idea for cutting federal spending: strengthening work requirements for low-income Americans to qualify for key social programs. But adding new work requirements, or supplementing existing ones, is not the silver bullet for balancing the budget that Republicans are seeking—and even if it were, Democrats are not... Читать дальше...

In recent weeks, both houses of New York’s legislature have approved a historic plan to start a publicly funded renewable energy program, the state’s best hope for meeting its own emissions-reductions goals. Only the Democratic governor is standing in the way. If the bill’s proponents prevail, New York could become a model for how state and local climate policy could lead the country forward in the coming years.

Whether you’re a canvasser knocking on someone’s door or a congress member building coalitions on the House floor, persuasion is a fundamental part of our politics. In recent years, deepening polarization has led to a renewed focus on turnout, but Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party, argues that persuasion needs to be a bigger part of progressive strategy.

Ever since Brandon Johnson began to ascend in the Chicago mayoral election, armchair experts hammered away at the notion that his campaign was “dogged” by issues surrounding crime. The thinking was that a candidate who has called for a reimagination of public safety is inherently signing up for an uphill battle, and cannot win without changing that vision.