Новости за 19.06.2023

Donald Trump is banned from talking on social media about evidence in the classified documents case, thanks to a protective order issued Monday.

The Department of Justice waited a year to investigate Donald Trump for his alleged role in the January 6 insurrection, The Washington Post reported Monday.

Two of Donald Trump’s ex-advisers warned over the weekend that the former president poses a massive threat to national security, in light of his recent indictment for allegedly mishandling classified documents.

Dr. Peter Hotez is a respected vaccine scientist, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, who has devoted his career to improving global public health. He is also the author of Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad, a book that draws on his experience as a doctor and the father of an autistic daughter. Podcaster and conspiracy... Читать дальше...

Governor Greg Abbott signed an extreme bill targeting drag performances on Sunday, making Texas the fourth Republican-led state to enact such a law.

In Samuel Beckett’s 1953 play, Waiting for Godot, the foppish aristocrat Pozzo reflects on his own angst and sadness, lamenting, “Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all.” 

Last December, Representative Abigail Spanberger won an important election within the Democratic caucus. House Democrats in competitive seats voted 37-20 to make her “battleground leadership representative”—a new role designed to steer Democratic strategy in competitive districts. And Spanberger, at first blush, appears well-suited for the role, having ended a 36-year GOP hold on the seat in 2018, and then going on to win reelection twice, in a district Hillary Clinton lost by over six points and Joe Biden won by just one. Читать дальше...

The climate crisis once appeared confined to the great outdoors: rising oceans, bracing wildfires, and surging temperatures. So too were the most obvious signs of broader environmental degradation, like lead in the river, plastics in the ocean, and smog in the atmosphere. 

While the teaching of Black history has long been a topic of controversy in the United States, over the past few years conservative forces have coalesced to remove books in public schools and libraries from Black and LGBTQ authors at an alarming rate. This assault has come into sharp focus in Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis’s 2022 Stop WOKE Act has banned the teaching of “critical race theory” in public schools and the state’s recent rejection of the new A.P. African American Studies course... Читать дальше...

We’re heading toward late June, and political Americans, especially liberals, know what that means: a raft of disturbing to outrageous Supreme Court decisions.

In 1978, from a shiny metropolis off China’s southern coast, a giddy Milton Friedman glimpsed the world as he thought it should be. “If you want to see how the free market really works,” he told viewers of his PBS series, Free to Choose, “this is the place to come.” He was speaking of Hong Kong, a place that had miraculously mined freedom and prosperity from “barren rock” through hard work, risk-taking, and a state “limited to its proper function”—a grim euphemism that Friedman meant as high praise. Читать дальше...