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A top Tennessee Republican who voted alongside his party to expel three Democratic representatives for breaking House “decorum” has resigned after the findings of a sexual harassment investigation became public.

President Joe Biden’s nominee for labor secretary, Julie Su, who is currently deputy secretary and acting secretary, appeared Thursday before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. The confirmation hearing clarified a few things about Su’s Republican opponents.

In the next 36 hours, the Supreme Court could end access to mifepristone and revive a Victorian-era law used to criminalize abortion. Or it might not—or not yet.

Twitter on Thursday began removing blue verification checkmarks from people who do not pay for the platform’s subscription plan.

Republican Representative Nancy Mace thinks her party is the new wave of feminists because it passed a bill banning transgender women and girls from women’s sports.

Florida’s drag ban has not yet been signed into law, and yet it is already stopping Pride celebrations in the state.

The police do not seem to have been provoked when they shot and killed Manuel Esteban Paez Teran.

It turns out that every person who pays taxes is also paying for Fox to further radicalize their neighbors.

Republicans seem to be getting exactly what they want on abortion, and yet suddenly none of the party’s top members want to talk about it.

A central paradox of contemporary politics is that class resentment is its lingua franca yet policies to help working people are a hard sell. Republicans oppose these policies. Democrats favor them, but inconsistently.

In her book The Sum of Us, Heather McGhee explores the ways racism negatively affects how public goods and services are perceived and implemented. She argues that the “zero sum mindset”—the belief that any policy that benefits people of color comes at the expense of white people—has resulted in trends like declining support for public infrastructure.

During a trip to Colombia in early March, I spoke with two normally tight-lipped former senior security officials who agreed to meet thanks to an introduction brokered by a mutual friend. Initially cautious, the men soon warmed up and were surprisingly direct—almost shockingly so—in regard to new leftist leader President Gustavo Petro, whom they painted in darkly sinister terms.

Overcast morning, cool and grey.
The white cat bends low
to drink from the swimming pool.
I bend to snip off
a few dead twigs
from a miniature orange tree
with its miniature oranges.
In an hour I will talk
to some students about a poem
I wrote over 30 years ago.
I think I will start off
by telling them about
the miniature orange tree
with its miniature oranges
in a terracotta pot by the pool
and just go from there.

Richard Nixon and his Madison Avenue handlers invented the modern political culture war. Running for office in 1968, Nixon drew on his grudges against the East Coast elites and the liberal media, finding that such resentment resonated with many Americans. He exploited racism and fueled white fears about crime and chaos, a playbook that defines Republican politics to this day. As president, he exploited mainstream America’s suspicion of hippies, calling drug legalization crusader Timothy Leary... Читать дальше...

Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal didn’t waffle Tuesday when asked by reporters if the Senate Judiciary Committee he sits on should subpoena Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Florida’s House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would let the state take transgender minors away from their families if they are receiving gender-affirming care.

Republicans have introduced a debt ceiling plan that really just increases social, environmental, and financial costs.