Last week, Senate negotiators released the text of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal. For the first time since the deal was announced in June, we can actually see what’s in it.On its face, this isn’t a climate bill. It invests significantly in a federal road and highway system that encourages fossil-fuel-based travel in private cars and trucks.
In just a few hours, Americans will start reading headlines announcing all the lessons learned from today’s Democratic primary in Ohio’s Eleventh Congressional District. Political writers will treat the race as a parable: a warning for progressives or an admonishment of the Democratic Party’s establishment wing. Twitter pundits will publish threads about the winning candidate’s strategy to woo working-class voters.
The president’s remarks came after an independent investigation found that Cuomo had sexually harassed multiple women.
In May, I stood in the rear galley of an airplane and watched as a line formed to berate the flight attendant next to me. We were at a gate at LaGuardia, our flight half an hour delayed, and the air inside the cabin was acrid with the aromas of anxiety sweat and bags of fast food procured at the gate.
The governor of New York outright denied accusations of sexual harassment that were confirmed by a report from the state attorney general.
The first time I heard there was a problem, I was hanging out in a leather bar.A friend texted with news that Provincetown, Massachusetts, the queer beach town where I’d been vacationing, had experienced a spike of COVID-19 cases among vaccinated people. He asked about the mood in town. I looked around the room and saw burly guys—it was Bear Week—chatting over beers.
How did Democrats overcome Republican intransigence in order to to take on one of their highest priorities?
Alligators have nothing on me.
“We’re not trying to hide this,” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s executive director said.
A new book by two Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters provides fresh details on former President Trump’s response to the pandemic, his campaign to overturn the 2020 election results, and the events surrounding the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The book, “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J.
The Israeli Supreme Court this week offered Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah a compromise in their ongoing fight to block Jewish settlers from forcibly expelling them from their own homes. The high court proposed that Palestinian families could stay in their homes for now if they begin paying rent to the Jewish settler group that claims ownership over the properties — a deal the families rejected, insisting they are the legal owners.
The number of refugees trying to reach European soil continues to grow due to worsening poverty, violence and the climate crisis, and over 1,100 refugees have perished crossing the Mediterranean so far this year, according to the United Nations. We speak with Laurence Bondard of SOS Méditerranée, a humanitarian group that rescues migrants at sea, who says there is a severe shortage of search-and-rescue resources in the area to address the crisis.
I know my father-in-law thinks he’s doing something nice, but it feels more like he’s just trying to control us and the way we spend our time.
Parenting advice on lackluster fathers, bad COVID choices, and setting boundaries with kids.
Gov. Bill Lee, who grew up on his family’s ranch and refers to himself as a cattle farmer in his Twitter profile, has been far less enthusiastic about incentivizing herd immunity among humans.
What the beleaguered operator should do with $66 billion from Congress.
It resembles a giant planter plopped in the middle of Tokyo. That’s on purpose.
The boring-Congress theory of getting things done.
Fauci also warned, however, that “things are going to get worse” as the Delta variant continues to spread across the U.S.
Health experts and local leaders in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Washington state told POLITICO they expect the latest recommendations will be brushed off by a crisis-weary public.
This was an entirely new kind of media frenzy—the birth of virality as we now know it.
Some economists have already begun to ease back on forecasts for the rest of this year.
The growth is another sign that the nation has achieved a sustained recovery from the pandemic recession.
A new wave of cases followed by the looming expiration of enhanced jobless benefits, a ban on evictions and other rescue programs is sparking concern among lawmakers and economists.
Their absence could hurt the broader U.S. economy, so policymakers are weighing ways to help them return to work.
Both the Fed and the Biden administration have said rapid price increases are being stoked by temporary factors.
We go to Guatemala to speak with an opposition lawmaker and a Maya K’iche’ leader who joined Thursday’s major national strike demanding the resignation of right-wing President Alejandro Giammattei and other government officials facing allegations of corruption.
The speech will be part of the MCC Feszt, a deep-pocketed effort to create a new generation of conservative elite.
Officer Kyle DeFreytag served on D.C.’s Metropolitan Police force for about five years. He was 26.
