Новости за 20.07.2023

The Libertarian Party is arguing that calling for insulin—a life-sustaining medicine for millions of people—to be free is “equally offensive” as slavery. And who prompted them to make the comparison? Former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner, who is Black.

The Senate Judiciary Committee finally made a move Thursday to tackle corruption on the Supreme Court, advancing a bill that would require the justices to adopt a code of ethics.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the nation’s leading anti-vaccine propagators, just said under oath that he is not anti-vax nor has he told the public to avoid vaccination.

The star witness strategy Republicans laid out with regard to the Hunter Biden case does not seem to be going according to plan.

Representative Stacey Plaskett absolutely destroyed Republicans on Thursday for their decision to let Robert Kennedy Jr. testify before Congress—calling them out for co-signing on his “idiotic, bigoted messaging.”

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy doesn’t want to endorse Donald Trump for president yet. So he instead promised that the House would expunge both impeachments against the former president—and do so before the August recess.

In her desperation to prove wrongdoing by Hunter Biden, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene may have sent his nude photos to minors.

Extreme heat is the single largest cause of weather-related deaths in the United States over the last three decades. Heat-related deaths here have increased by 74 percent since 1980, one study found. Last year, Maricopa County, Arizona, reported a 25 percent spike in heat-related mortality. In Phoenix this year, where temperatures hit 110 degrees Fahrenheit 10 days in a row this month, at least 18 people have died of heat-related causes since April, while an additional 69 deaths are under investigation. Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court is on summer vacation. It’s been a busy couple of years for the justices: In just the last two terms, the court’s resurgent conservative majority has overturned Roe v. Wade, expanded the Second Amendment’s protections for gun ownership, struck down the Biden administration’s plan for student debt relief, eliminated affirmative action in college admissions, and rejected the independent state legislature theory. While the court often makes history, it rarely makes so much so quickly. Читать дальше...

There was a good chance Barbie would topple under the weight of its expectations. In the 60 years since she debuted, Barbie has been embraced and disparaged as a paragon of idealized femininity, as a prompt for imaginative play, and as a tool of the patriarchy, upholding oppressive beauty standards and stereotypes. The Barbie movie winks at the doll’s cultural centrality, as it opens with a shot-for-shot remake of the first scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which depicts the dawn of human enlightenment. Читать дальше...

This was supposed to be the week it all turned around for Ron DeSantis. Struggling in the Republican presidential primary polls—on Monday he dipped below 20 percent for the first time in Real Clear Politics’s survey roundup—it was well past time for a reset. And so, DeSantis’s team did what struggling campaigns have done for decades. They reassured donors. They ran new ads. They tightened belts, moving staffers from the campaign to a pro-DeSantis Super PAC amid a reported cash crunch. They launched new attacks on the front-runner... Читать дальше...

“Joe Biden had the largest public investment in social infrastructure and environmental programs, that is actually finishing what FDR started, that LBJ expanded on, and Joe Biden is attempting to complete,” Marjorie Taylor Greene said at the conservative Turning Point Action conference over the weekend.