This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.House Democrats are rolling out a new strategy to protect civil rights post-Roe. Senate Democrats should get on board.But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
Of course Biden has COVID.
America’s self-obsession is killing its democracy.
The United States Secret Service is reported to have permanently deleted or lost a host of data, including text messages, that relate to the January 6 insurrection. The Secret Service says that the deletions came about as part of a routine, long-planned update to its phone system and that, as part of this update, it factory-reset its agents’ mobile devices, deleting all data.
And there it is: President Joe Biden has tested positive for the coronavirus, the White House announced Thursday morning, and is dosing up with Paxlovid to keep his so-far “very mild symptoms” from turning severe.In some ways, this is one of the cases the entire world has been waiting for—not sadistically, necessarily, but simply because, like so many other infections as of late, it has felt inevitable.
Biden, who is twice boosted and has already started Paxlovid, is experiencing mild symptoms, according to the White House.
Following the resignation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss have advanced to a runoff to succeed Johnson as Conservative leader, which would also make them prime minister. Both candidates would be “utterly devastating” for the U.K., says Guardian columnist George Monbiot. “What these people have to do to become prime minister is really to appeal to the worst instincts of humanity.
A massive heat wave has scorched much of Europe this week, with the U.K. shattering its record for highest temperature ever recorded Tuesday. We’re joined by author and environmental activist George Monbiot, whose latest column for The Guardian is headlined “This heatwave has eviscerated the idea that small changes can tackle extreme weather.
As heat waves scorch much of the globe, we look at who bears the brunt of the climate emergency and go to Kampala, Uganda, to speak with climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate. “The climate crisis has been here. It has been impacting the lives of so many people on the African continent, which is responsible for less than 4% of the global emissions,” says Nakate.
President Biden outlined new efforts to combat the climate crisis in a speech Wednesday but stopped short of declaring a national climate emergency — a move sought by the U.S. climate movement and many progressive lawmakers. This comes after Senator Joe Manchin just scuttled Biden’s Build Back Better climate legislation and as more than 100 million people in the United States are under heat advisories.
The agency has received criticism in recent months over its role in the infant formula shortage and its regulation of electronic cigarettes.
Lately, the fight has been concentrated in several Southern states, including West Virginia and Louisiana, where state courts have continuously blocked abortion bans.
Slower wage growth could help bring down prices and ultimately mean less sting for the average worker.
Lower-income and Black and Hispanic Americans have been hit especially hard.
Biden officials have repeatedly touted the jobs numbers as evidence of the economy’s underlying strength, but slowing the labor market is essential to helping tame consumer prices.
Fears have mounted that the central bank might trigger a recession sometime in the next year with its aggressive rate action.
Brig. Gen. Paul Stanton, the commander of Fort Gordon, confirmed the “terrible tragedy.
A bipartisan group of senators has reached agreement on proposed changes to the Electoral Count Act.
President Joe Biden announced executive actions to battle climate change today, even as record heat blasted much of the United States and Europe. Biden highlighted new offshore wind energy plans in particular, but without broader congressional action it’s difficult to see anything but worldwide catastrophe ahead.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) this month finally released the long-awaited report on the mistreatment of Haitian migrants at Del Rio last fall, but the demand for justice is nowhere near over. While the report said border agents used “unnecessary” force and derogatory language against migrants, investigators claimed they found “no evidence” that agents “struck, intentionally or otherwise, any migrant with their reins.
Interfering in GOP primaries is a questionable strategy, but it only works because of what the conservative base craves.
A bill Republicans introduced in the North Carolina House last year is attracting renewed attention amid GOP promises to revisit further abortion restrictions for the state in 2023. The bill in question would define the start to human life as the “moment of fertilization” and deem abortion first-degree murder. Sponsored by Republican state Reps.
Reports indicate that the rate of hate crimes against the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community seems to be getting worse each day. Across the country, an incident of hate targeting the AAPI community occurs nearly every day. Several reports have indicated the alarming rate of crimes against the Asian American community, however, the most recent seems to have documented more crimes than predicted.
The reorganization will put the office’s director on a par with those of larger agencies like the CDC and FDA
Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the NAACP on Monday, and if you’ve heard about it at all it’s probably because of a portion of her speech that focused on “fundamental freedoms,” including abortion rights, and the Supreme Court’s recent actions to curtail those rights.
“We know, NAACP, that our country has a history of claiming ownership over human bodies.
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.The pandemic made it possible for many Millennials to purchase their first home. Could it also have set the stage for a new breed of NIMBYs?But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
The world is burning once again.
This Court has revealed conservative originalism to be a hollow shell.
Tudor Dixon, a conservative commentator, is vying for the chance to take on Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D).
The Georgia law bans most abortions once a “detectable human heartbeat” is present.
In the second half of the 19th century, the figure of the cowboy emerged as the defining feature of American Western literature. Publishers found success with dime Westerns, novels mythologizing the lives of “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp, and other dubious frontiersmen.
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Among spiders, sex doesn’t just create life; it can also end it. Males of many species—including orb-weaving spiders, widow spiders, and wolf spiders—find their fortunes turning on a dime, as the females they’ve seduced begin to devour them alive, sometimes even before insemination is complete.
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