Some Disabled People Are Paid Below Minimum Wage. This Bill Would End That.
A group of bipartisan senators and representatives introduced legislation last week that would end subminimum wages for disabled people.
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Merrick Garland Is No Pushover
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.Many critics of Donald Trump concluded long ago that Attorney General Merrick Garland was not equal to the challenge of holding the former president accountable. It might be time for them to reassess.
‘Dangerous and unacceptable’: White House condemns efforts to stop pharmacies from dispensing abortion pills
Abortion pills are the most common way to end a pregnancy in the United States.
Why Is Biden Attacking Democracy?
Give President Joe Biden democracy, self-rule, and statehood for Washington, D.C. But not yet.Yesterday, Biden announced that he would not veto Congress’s override of a new criminal code for D.C. passed by its city council. “I support D.C. Statehood and home-rule—but I don’t support some of the changes D.C. Council put forward over the Mayor’s objections—such as lowering penalties for carjackings,” Biden tweeted.
There’s Something Odd About the Dogs Living at Chernobyl
In the spring of 1986, in their rush to flee the radioactive plume and booming fire that burned after the Chernobyl power plant exploded, many people left behind their dogs. Most of those former pets died as radiation ripped through the region and emergency workers culled the animals they feared would ferry toxic atoms about. Some, though, survived. Those dogs trekked into the camps of liquidators to beg for scraps; they nosed into empty buildings and found safe places to sleep.
The Vindication of Ask Jeeves
It was a simpler time. A friend introduced us, pulling up a static yellow webpage using a shaky dial-up modem. A man stood forth, dressed in a dapper black pinstriped suit with a red-accented tie. He held one hand out, as if carrying an imaginary waiter’s tray. He looked regal and confident and eminently at my service. “Have a Question?” he beckoned. “Just type it in and click Ask!” And ask, I did. Over and over.
Jazz Just Lost One of Its All-Time Greats
In a 2014 interview, the saxophonist Wayne Shorter was asked how often his working quartet rehearsed. His reply was evasive and illuminating: “How do you rehearse the future?”This was classic Shorter—gnomic, gnostic, mischievous, wise. It was a bit of a humblebrag too. For more than six decades, he conjured the future of music into being, with or without the benefit of rehearsal.
Meet Thelma Cabrera, the Indigenous Leader Barred from Running in Guatemala’s Presidential Election
Guatemala’s presidential election this year is taking place against a backdrop of worsening repression against journalists, human rights activists and Indigenous environmental defenders. The Guatemalan Constitutional Court on Thursday upheld a decision by the country’s electoral tribunal to bar Indigenous human rights defender Thelma Cabrera from running.
Opposition Disputes Nigeria’s Election Results After Ruling Party’s Bola Tinubu Declares Victory
Opposition parties are disputing the results of Saturday’s presidential election in Nigeria, where the country’s Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the winner to be Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress party. The former governor of Lagos played a key role in helping outgoing Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari win two terms in office and campaigned using the slogan “It’s my turn.
Meet the Bronx Activists Who Won a Historic Settlement for NYPD’s Violent Attack at 2020 BLM Protest
New York City has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with peaceful protesters who were violently “boxed in” or “kettled” by NYPD officers during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in response to the police murder of George Floyd in 2020.
Trump ties GOP in knots over Medicare and Social Security
The former president is assailing his primary opponents for entertaining entitlement cuts in the past — and exacerbating divisions among Hill Republicans in the process.
DeSantis is championing medical freedom. GOP state lawmakers like what they see.
The Florida governor and likely presidential candidate has secured a place for the movement in the conservative mainstream.
GOP divided on how to respond to ‘lab leak’ report
The spectrum of responses played out on Tuesday across nearly a dozen hearings and legislation markups.
Dodgy science, poor access and high prices: The parallel medical world of medicinal marijuana in America
It’s been nearly three decades since California pioneered the therapeutic use of cannabis, but patients still face a confusing patchwork of rules.
Biden on economy: ‘It’s understandable why people are just down’
“I can’t think of a time when there’s been greater uncertainty,” the president said.
Biden’s 2022 State of the Union report card: Where he delivered — and fell flat
The president promised a lot last year. Here’s how we graded him on some of those pledges.
Biden on robust jobs numbers: The ‘critics and cynics are wrong’
Noting the 3.4 percent jobless rate, the lowest since May 1969, the president said “the Biden economic play is working.
Wall Street’s biggest bear: Fed’s Jerome Powell
Fed officials are signaling that they’re determined to keep their vise-like grip on the economy through the end of 2023.
Longest Alabama Strike Ends as Warrior Met Coal Miners Return. Record Coal Prices Help Break Strike
In Alabama, hundreds of striking miners are set to return to work Thursday after nearly two years spent on picket lines in the so-called right-to-work state. This was the longest strike in Alabama history. Its end comes after the Warrior Met Coal company successfully used replacement workers to keep its mines running, reporting large profits to shareholders due to the skyrocketing price of coal.
Student Debt Relief in Jeopardy as Conservative Supreme Court Justices Question Biden’s Plan
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two challenges to the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan, which could give tens of millions of federal borrowers up to $20,000 of relief. During arguments, several conservative justices expressed skepticism over the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan, while liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the Republican states who brought one of the lawsuits.
Tucker Carlson Ridiculed For ‘Weak Men’ Rant: ‘Feels Like Projection’
Without any hint of irony, the Fox News personality said the “most dangerous” men will “do anything to save themselves.
Donald Trump Jr. Mocked For Most Head-Spinningly False Claim About His Dad Yet
This claim falls apart pretty quickly.
Exposed: Dallas Humber, Narrator Of Neo-Nazi ‘Terrorgram,’ Promoter Of Mass Shootings
Her propaganda canonized white supremacist murderers as “saints.” She may have helped inspire a shooting at a gay bar. Now she’s been unmasked.
Walgreens won’t distribute abortion pills in some states where they remain legal
The decision is the latest to demonstrate how widely abortion access can vary state to state in a post-Roe America.
Supreme Court Signals It May Avoid Ruling In Blockbuster Independent State Legislature Case
The court is asking for new briefs after the North Carolina Supreme Court granted a rehearing in the underlying case.
Big Cities Are Ungovernable
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.Pity the poor mayors. Or don’t—most voters clearly don’t. On Tuesday, Chicagoans unceremoniously kicked Lori Lightfoot to the curb, depriving her of the chance to win a second term in an April 4 runoff election.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein Hospitalized With Shingles
“I hope to return to the Senate later this month,” the California Democrat said.
The States That Reopened First
This is an edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf. On Wednesdays, he rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.
Conspiracy Theories Have a New Best Friend
History has long been a theater of war, the past serving as a proxy in conflicts over the present. Ron DeSantis is warping history by banning books on racism from Florida’s schools; people remain divided about the right approach to repatriating Indigenous objects and remains; the Pentagon Papers were an attempt to twist narratives about the Vietnam War.
The Atlantic Announces “The Future of Democracy” Event at SXSW on March 12
As part of SXSW 2023, The Atlantic is announcing a full day of interviews on Sunday, March 12, that will bring elected officials and other national leaders to the festival for conversations about the future of democracy.