Tucker Carlson Predictably Gaslights Viewers On Trump Indictment
“This is too great an assault on our system,” said the Fox News host who called insurrectionists “sightseers.
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Pence Says Of Trump Indictment, ‘No One Is Above The Law,’ But Calls It ‘Outrageous’
The ex-president was indicted in Manhattan after an investigation of his role in a $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
Fox Business Host’s Prediction About Trump Indictment Ages Like Milk
Larry Kudlow, Trump’s former economic adviser, made the comments less than an hour before the indictment news broke.
What Donald Trump’s Indictment Reveals
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.A grand jury has reportedly indicted Donald Trump on criminal charges stemming from his role in a hush-money payoff to the porn star Stormy Daniels.
Florida GOP Boosts Funding For Deceptive Crisis Pregnancy Centers — With No Oversight
Republicans will likely hand $25 million annually to anti-abortion pregnancy centers with the passage of a six-week ban on abortions.
Accountability Arrives for Donald Trump
We can’t seem to escape his dark shadow.Donald Trump has added another shameful chapter in the life of this nation. On Thursday he became the first ex-president to be indicted, by a New York grand jury investigating alleged hush-money payments to a porn star.The wisdom of the indictment depends in large part on the facts of the case, which right now we know very little about.
An Astonishing, Frightening First for the Country
For months now, it has been apparent that Donald Trump might well become the first former president of the United States to be indicted. Now the once unthinkable has taken place. A grand jury in Manhattan has handed up an indictment of Donald Trump over his alleged coordination of hush-money payments in advance of the 2016 election. The indictment itself remains under seal.It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. For one thing, it wasn’t supposed to happen today.
The Woolly-Mammoth Meatball Is an All-Time Great Food Stunt
On Tuesday, two men at a museum in the Netherlands lifted a black sheet off a table to reveal a cantaloupe-size globe of overcooked meat perspiring under a bell jar. This was no ordinary spaghetti topper: It was a woolly-mammoth meatball, created by an Australian lab-grown-meat company called Vow.
Texas judge strikes down free HIV drugs, cancer screenings under Obamacare
The nationwide ruling holds that the health panel that decided what services insurers must cover is unconstitutional.
“The Tale” Filmmaker Jennifer Fox on Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse & Finally Naming Her Abuser
We speak with writer and filmmaker Jennifer Fox, whose 2018 movie The Tale dealt with childhood sexual abuse. She has now come forward to name her abuser. The film is a narrative memoir based in part on Fox’s own life experience about being abused by a coach as a young girl. While the main character is named Fox, the name of the abusive coach was fictionalized. Now Fox has revealed the man who abused her as Ted Nash, the legendary Olympic rower and coach who died in 2021.
Ex-Starbucks Worker Jaysin Saxton Describes Being Fired After He Helped Organize Union
We speak with Jaysin Saxton, one of the witnesses who testified at the Senate hearing Wednesday on Starbucks’ union-busting record. Saxton was a former Starbucks shift manager, fired after leading the union drive at a store in Augusta, Georgia. He tells Democracy Now! he and fellow workers were motivated to organize their store to address the “insane” working conditions, including understaffing and inconsistent schedules.
Bernie Sanders vs. Howard Schultz: Longtime Starbucks CEO Grilled on Company’s Union-Busting Tactics
Just weeks after the National Labor Relations Board accused Starbucks of engaging in “egregious and widespread misconduct” to prevent employees from unionizing, the company’s longtime CEO Howard Schultz appeared before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Wednesday to answer questions. Committee Chair Bernie Sanders of Vermont grilled Schultz on the company’s union-busting record and demanded an end to retaliation against workers.
Sex ed, birth control, Medicaid: Republicans’ ‘new pro-life agenda’
The fall of Roe has upended the traditional political battle lines.
Dem AGs clash with Biden admin over abortion pill restrictions
The Democratic officials’ case raises the likelihood that rules around pills will go before the Supreme Court.
Abortion pill access threatened in Nevada amid legal uncertainty
Drug distributor AmerisourceBergen, the sole supplier of the pills to all pharmacies, is accused of taking an approach that could limit access.
Elizabeth Warren: Fed chair has failed at both his jobs
Jerome Powell “stepped up and took a flamethrower to the regulations,” the senator said.
U.S. inflation eases but stays high, putting Fed in tough spot
The government said prices increased 0.4% last month, just below January’s 0.5% rise.
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.
Randall Robinson (1941-2023) on Haiti’s Unbroken Agony, from U.S. Coups to Haiti’s “Debt” to France
We continue to remember the lawyer and human rights activist Randall Robinson, the founder of the racial justice group TransAfrica, who died last week at age 81. Robinson was a leader in the U.S. movement against South African apartheid and was a prominent critic of U.S. policy in Haiti, including the U.S.-backed coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004.
Rep. Eric Swalwell Shares The Receipts In Takedown Of GOP Lawmakers’ Tweets
“We went from ‘backing the blue’ to ‘backing the coup,’” the California Democrat said as he took aim at a post from Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Trump’s Ugly New Boast About Dictators Backfires Spectacularly
“Tells you all you need to know,” Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle responded on Twitter.
Democratic Lawmaker Explodes At GOP Colleague Over Gun Violence: ‘Cowards!’
New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman lost it at Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky in a congressional hallway after yet another school shooting.
GOP Lawmaker Slammed For Ridiculous ‘No Such Thing As Gun Violence’ Take
Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins defended unborn fetuses while downplaying the role of guns as the leading cause of death for American children.
Kentucky GOP Lawmakers Override Veto Of Extreme Anti-Transgender Legislation
The state’s bill joins the 435 anti-transgender bills and ongoing efforts from lawmakers nationwide restricting the rights of transgender and LGBTQ+ people.
West Virginia governor signs ban on gender-affirming care
At least 11 states have now enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors.
A Great Day for The Atlantic
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.Pardon the intrusion, but I am asserting my right (such as it is) as editor in chief to seize temporary control of The Atlantic Daily from Tom Nichols (who I imagine is secretly grateful for this hijacking) in order to share good news about our magazine.
What Carl Sagan Understood About Human Cruelty
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.Question of the WeekThis week, five planets are aligning in the night sky: Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, and Mars will all be visible just after sunset, alongside the moon.
The Search for Earth Look-alikes Is Getting Serious
Updated at 5:30 p.m. ET on March 29, 2023.Several years ago, astronomers pointed a telescope at another star and discovered something remarkable: seven planets, each one about the same size as Earth. The planets were quite close to their small star—all seven of their orbits would fit inside Mercury’s.