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The January 6 committee may have closed up shop when the GOP took over the House, but that doesn’t mean that Bennie Thompson, the Mississippi Democrat who was its chairman, has stopped scouring the landscape for targets. On Thursday, Thompson, the ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, called on Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari to resign, citing deleting “business” texts on a government-issued phone and bungling an investigation into deleted Secret Service text messages. Читать дальше...

Tim Scott has positioned himself as the Republican most serious about police and civil rights reform. But it turns out he may have sabotaged a (very moderate) police reform bill he and Senator Booker worked on in 2021, perhaps in preparation to run for president.

The Supreme Court effectively ordered the state of Alabama to draw a second majority-Black congressional district on Thursday, handing an unexpected victory to voting-rights activists in a court that is rarely friendly to them. In a 5-4 decision in Allen v. Milligan, the justices held that Alabama’s refusal to draw a second district had violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The House is taking a pass on probing a Biden administration child labor scandal. Here’s the reason why.

Donald Trump cannot accept that he was found liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, and on Thursday asked for a new trial in the decided case.

The Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday that Alabama’s congressional district map discriminated against Black voters could have bigger implications for several Southern states—and could help Democrats retake the House in 2024.

This was supposed to be a perfect week for Saudi Arabia, but it only ended up being a very good one. Taking over pro golf, which Saudi Arabia literally did on Tuesday, is a pretty good achievement—even though the deal will likely face antitrust scrutiny. (They did, after all, literally take over golf.) But the controversial kingdom also took its biggest steps yet to taking over soccer.

New York is enveloped in a dense, ominous haze of smoke, a looming reminder of what may come without a green transition. Meanwhile, Kathy Hochul is trying to push through a Republican and climate denialist donor to lead the state’s energy and power operations.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of voting rights for Black residents of Alabama, in a total shock to everyone.

This week, for the first time in months, I put on an N95 mask to go for a walk outside. Despite the threat Covid-19 still presents, that’s not why I masked up.

More than 100 million people are under air quality alerts, with numerous American cities experiencing among the worst air quality in the world, as heavy, hazardous smog from raging Canadian wildfires swallows much of the United States. And while people are putting their masks on to navigate their new reality, a Republican has come out to bravely say it’s too soon to talk about climate change.

Televangelist Pat Robertson, who founded the Christian Broadcasting Network, died Thursday at age 93.

The House GOP spent the past four months screaming about the deficit. “We must move towards a balanced budget,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on February 6. McCarthy felt so strongly about this that in April he pushed through the House a bill threatening default unless the Biden administration agreed to $4.8 trillion in spending cuts. Eventually, McCarthy settled for about $1.5 trillion. House leaders crowed that it was “the largest deficit reduction package in American history.”

Since the Reagan administration, conservatives and their allies in the business community have had regulatory agencies in their crosshairs. Institutions like the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA; the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA; and the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA—all aim to protect the health and safety of the citizenry. But the agencies, and the dedicated civil servants who work at them, are seen in some quarters as examples of unnecessary executive authority. Читать дальше...

The nicest thing you can say about Chris Licht’s short, disastrous time at CNN is that he was unlucky. Some of what happened was beyond his control—maybe much of what happened. Licht took the reins at the cable news network last May at a moment when interest in the news was at a nadir. After the sugar rush of the Trump era—a period that was very, very good for business for most in the media, particularly in cable news—everything came crashing down. Viewers, having white-knuckled it for years, wanted a break. Читать дальше...

One week into Pride month, it appears that the biggest Pride story is, as multiple outlets have put it,  a “backlash” against Target over its in-store displays of LGBTQ-affirming merchandise. Fox News (obviously) has played its part in constructing this narrative, offering everything from sympathetic coverage of the so-called backlash to flat-out fictions about children’s swimwear designed for tucking. (The product was for adults.) Target removed other LGBTQ-affirming merchandise from some stores... Читать дальше...

The British poet Amy Key was 14 when she first heard Joni Mitchell’s 1971 album Blue. Her best friend had come round for a sleepover, and the two of them listened to the album on cassette by the light of Key’s lava lamp (it was 1992). The songs on Blue are restless and reflective, full of longing and regret, and they “ignited [Key’s] desire and ambition for romantic love.” In particular, she was seduced by Mitchell’s acknowledgment of love’s complications: Love made you suffer, made you make others suffer, but somehow was worth it. Читать дальше...

Lauren Boebert doesn’t have the time of day for people who survived mass shootings.