Ohio Introduces An Even More Extreme Texas-Style Abortion Ban
Just a day after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on S.B. 8, Ohio Republicans introduced a copycat bill to ban abortion at any point in a pregnancy.
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Powell is rolling back Fed aid to the economy. Here’s what comes next.
The long-awaited move signals both optimism about the pace of job growth and wariness about price surges that have pushed inflation up to its highest level in decades.
We’re Heading Straight for a Demi-Armageddon
The COP26 international climate-change negotiations have just begun in Glasgow, Scotland, and the vibes are … ambivalent. The leaders of Russia and China haven’t bothered to attend, but did promise to help end deforestation by 2030—though many observers are skeptical that they will keep their word.
The Enormous Hole That Whaling Left Behind
In the 20th century, the largest animals that have ever existed almost stopped existing. Baleen whales—the group that includes blue, fin, and humpback whales—had long been hunted, but as whaling went industrial, hunts became massacres. With explosive-tipped harpoons that were fired from cannons and factory ships that could process carcasses at sea, whalers slaughtered the giants for their oil, which was used to light lamps, lubricate cars, and make margarine.
You Can’t Win Elections by Telling Voters Their Concerns Are Imaginary
Glenn Youngkin’s victory over Terry McAuliffe for the governorship of Virginia should make Democrats—and anyone else who fears that a Republican Party still beholden to Donald Trump poses a serious threat to American democracy—very worried about what is to come.Republicans are now favored to recapture Congress in 2022. Betting markets indicate that Trump is the most likely victor of the 2024 presidential election.
At Least 8 Republicans Who Were At The Jan. 6 Rally Just Got Elected To Office
And even more attendees of the rally that turned into the Capitol riot will likely be on the ballot in 2022.
Uproot the System: Filipina Activist Mitzi Tan on How Capitalism & Colonialism Fuel Climate Crisis
We speak to Mitzi Tan, a climate activist based in the Philippines, who will join Greta Thunberg of Sweden and Vanessa Nakate of Uganda in speaking at a major march and rally in Glasgow on Saturday. Among their demands are reparations from the Global North to the Global South to help rebuild the lives of those most impacted by the climate crisis.
Hurricane LUMA: Puerto Ricans Fight Big Coal & Privatized Energy Amid Climate Disasters, Blackouts
As we cover the fight against Big Coal with climate activists attending the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, we look at the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which has experienced some of the most extreme weather over the last two decades. Hurricane Maria destroyed the island’s electrical grid four years ago and left residents in the dark for months.
Kumi Naidoo at COP26: Will Rich Countries Deliver Pledged Billions for South Africa to Get Off Coal?
On day three of the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, we look at the fight against Big Coal, starting with leading South African climate activist Kumi Naidoo. South Africa is one of the world’s largest coal producers, and the United States has joined the European Union and other wealthy nations to announce a new deal to provide $8.5 billion to the country to help it decommission its coal plants and invest in renewable energy.
The Nation’s John Nichols: Democrats Must Deliver on Promises or Voters Will Punish the Party
We speak with The Nation’s John Nichols about key outcomes from Tuesday’s election night. In a major blow for Democrats, Republican Glenn Youngkin, who President Biden warned is an extremist in the vein of former President Trump, won the Virginia governor’s race against former Governor Terry McAuliffe.
Pregnant people were shut out of Covid vaccine trials — with disastrous results
Only about 34 percent of pregnant adults are fully vaccinated and more than 200 have died of the virus, according to the CDC.
Covid-19’s global death toll tops 5M
The death toll is about equal to the populations of Los Angeles and San Francisco combined.
5 questions when the Supreme Court takes up the Texas abortion law
Though the Court split 5-4 in declining to block the unique ban before it took effect in September, the justices now have before them evidence of the sweeping impact it’s had.
Companies mull ending government contracts over vaccine mandate
Members of the aerospace, distribution, defense and trucking sectors are warning the Biden administration they will not be able to meet the vaccine deadline.
Trouble ahead for Dems: A barrage of attacks over the economy
It’s not just Republicans who are assigning responsibility to the administration for the rocky economic recovery, polls show.
U.S. economy slowed to a 2% rate last quarter in face of Covid
Thursday’s report from the Commerce Department estimated that the nation’s gross domestic product declined sharply from the 6%-plus annual growth rates of each of the previous two quarters.
Yellen expects inflation to linger, then ease later in 2022
The most recent Consumer Price Index showed prices have gone up 5.4 percent in the past 12 months.
Opinion | How Corporations Keep Their Own Workers in Debt
Too many employers are imposing crippling debt on workers. Biden can do something about it.
What the Republican Win in Virginia Means for the Country
Republican Glenn Youngkin’s victory in Tuesday’s Virginia gubernatorial election was about schools. It wasn’t about Donald Trump, or inflation, or defunding the police, or Medicare for All, or President Biden’s infrastructure agenda. It wasn’t really about critical race theory or transgender rights—though those issues shaded the situation a bit by highlighting anxieties surrounding the education system.
Democratic Disaster: Glenn Youngkin Wins Virginia Governor’s Race In GOP Clean Sweep
Democrats lost control of a state that has provided some of its biggest recent gains to a Republican who leaned into Trump’s culture war — and won where Trump couldn’t.
If Democrats Can Lose in Virginia, They Can Lose Almost Anywhere
LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va.—The beer was flowing, the handmade potato chips were self-serve, and hope was in the air. Early in the night, the Loudoun County Democrats who gathered at the Döner Bistro in Leesburg were cautiously—anxiously—optimistic: Sure, it had been a rough year. A global pandemic, regular protests at the local school-board meetings, and the contentious governor’s race, rife with misinformation, had pitted neighbor against neighbor.
News Roundup: ‘Mandates’ are working; Republicans growing embrace of violence
In the news today: While anti-vaccination shouters are getting all the press attention, vaccination requirements continue to be wildly successful. Yet more polling emphasizes the willingness of the pro-Trump Republican base to engage even in violence, rather than abide non-Republicans continuing to win elections.
QAnon Trumpists flock to Dallas in order to see the resurrection of … JFK Jr.
The QAnon conspiracy cult, whose venn diagram with the MAGA crowd is almost in eclipse, is as wide-ranging a conspiracy theory as exists in the modern era.
Michelle Wu Makes History As First Woman And Person Of Color Elected Boston Mayor
Wu is the first person who is not a white man to be elected mayor of Boston.
Right-wing hack running for Pennsylvania Supreme Court forced to change ad after State Bar warning
Kevin Brobson is the Republican candidate on the ballot for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The race has garnered an unusually high degree of right-wing “dark money” involvement since Democrats currently enjoy a 5-2 majority on that court and the race is to replace retiring Justice Thomas Saylor.
There are no more ‘dog whistles.’ There’s just blatant racism from the GOP vs. the rest of Americans
In a way, it’s good to have this finally stated. Over the past 30-odd years, we’ve been treated again and again to more than obvious attempts by the Republican Party to channel racism from their base of support.
Live coverage: Election night 2021
It’s election night 2021! Numerous important races are on the ballot across the country, and we’re liveblogging the top contests below.
Georgia Secretary Of State Says Trump ‘Had No Idea How Elections Work’
Brad Raffensperger said Trump’s requests on their infamous phone call indicated a limited understanding of elections procedures.
GOP Senators Distance Themselves From Anti-Biden Meme: ‘I Wish It Would Stop’
The “Let’s go Brandon” meme, shorthand for an explicit phrase bashing the president, isn’t being embraced by every corner of the Republican Party.
Tight Virginia Governor Race May Be Test Of Biden Popularity
The nation’s most closely watched off-year election wrapped up Tuesday in Virginia after becoming partly a referendum on President Joe Biden’s first year in office.