In the news today: Newly released emails show that Trump and his staff leaned hard on his Justice Department to provide justification for overturning the election Trump had just lost. As Texas prepares for a big summer heat wave, Texas electricity prices for consumers are again skyrocketing—and blackouts may follow.
Donald Trump doesn’t read. Donald Trump doesn’t write. Donald Trump is little more than an undifferentiated wad of protoplasm that converts trans fats into lies. So when I saw that he’d claimed he was working hard on a book, I had to laugh. This guy wouldn’t have the attention span to complete the maze on a Denny’s placemat, even if you let him draw his own exit with a Sharpie.
This isn’t me saying that.
The former secretary of state may not have thought this one through.
Several thousand people gathered in Brooklyn, New York, to march in solidarity with and for Black trans youth over the weekend. This action would always be inspiring, important, and necessary, but especially so given the number of anti-trans bills Republicans have slung out amid the pandemic; and the number Republican governors have signed into law in recent months.
The conservative bogeyman, the scary monster hiding under your bed, the reason that all of their failed corrupt policies have led to a global economic and health crisis, is transgender rights! Most Americans really don’t have the profound issues that conservatives seem to have against trans children or adults.
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin is up for reelection, and just like that, he’s suddenly warming up to the idea of federal recognition of Juneteenth as a holiday—or at least, not sabotaging it.
“The idea is to whitewash American history of any legacy of racism,” said state Democratic Rep. James Talarico.
They just have to pay for the interest.
Mangrove rivulus fish hate enforced water aerobics. Despite her best efforts, Giulia Rossi, a biologist who recently received her doctorate from the University of Guelph, cannot coax the fish to swim against a current in a laboratory tank. “They refuse to exercise in water,” she told me. “They just let themselves hit the back mesh.”When plucked out of water, however, the stubborn swimmers quickly whip themselves into shape.
Every week, our lead climate reporter brings you the big ideas, expert analysis, and vital guidance that will help you flourish on a changing planet. Sign up to get The Weekly Planet, our guide to living through climate change, in your inbox.You wouldn’t know it today, but the silicon photovoltaic solar cell—the standard, black-and-copper solar panel you can find on suburban rooftops and solar farms—was born and raised in America.The technology was invented here.
The legislation passed unanimously on Tuesday after Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) dropped his objection.
New documents and interviews show how the president and his senior aides cherry-picked evidence and sidelined the government’s own virus sleuths.
GOP Senate candidates across the country are hoping the former president forgets their past attacks.
I really don’t want to cuddle.
“President Biden must have the opportunity to nominate a successor without delay,” reads their ad.
More than 1 million people in Puerto Rico were left in the dark this month after power transmission and distribution for the island was taken over by a private company under a 15-year contract. Much of Puerto Rico lost power after a fire at an electrical substation caused a massive blackout just days after the private U.S.
China says NATO is adopting a “Cold War mentality” after the military alliance singled out China and Russia for criticism during a summit in Brussels. In its final communiqué, NATO leaders said, “China’s stated ambitions and assertive behavior present systemic challenges to the rules-based international order.” NATO leaders also criticized Russia and called on Moscow to withdraw troops from Ukraine, Georgia and the Republic of Moldova.
Former National Security Agency contractor Reality Leigh Winner was released from prison Monday to serve the rest of her sentence in a halfway house. We get an update from the lawyer handling her commutation and pardon process. Winner was arrested in 2017 under the Espionage Act for leaking classified government information about Russian interference in the 2016 election to reporters at The Intercept.
John Marshall is America’s most important jurist. Biographers are universally laudatory of the “Great Chief Justice.” A recent documentary about him (in which I am interviewed) is subtitled The Man Who Made the Supreme Court.This icon of jurisprudence is central to America’s constitutional development. For nearly three and a half decades, longer than any other chief justice, he led the Court and shaped constitutional law.
I do not think it’s healthy to find a video game this important to self-esteem.
Parenting advice on racist in-laws, maternity leave, and potty humor.
Aduhelm is the first drug to target Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 years and will have cascading effects on health care costs.
The scandal was absurd, but the problems are broader than that.
“It wasn’t like driving a Ferrari. For someone who’s not great at parking, I wouldn’t recommend it.
It’s not what the pundits think. It’s what the money guys are doing.
The restaurants who needed them to survive? The humans who endured the pandemic city? Or their old owners, cars?
They push for a “timely, transparent, expert-led, and science-based WHO convened” investigation.
“This is a moral imperative,” Kristalina Georgieva said.
