More voters trust Republicans on economy as interest in midterms hits high, polls say
According to an NBC News poll released Sunday, 70 percent of registered voters expressed interest in the upcoming election as a “9” or “10” on a 10-point scale.
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“Carbon Billionaires”: Oxfam Calls for Taxing Rich Who Profit from Emissions Fueling Climate Crisis
A new Oxfam analysis finds the investments of the world’s richest people are emitting 3 million tons a year — more than a million times the average person’s output. The report, titled “Carbon Billionaires,” suggests a wealth tax could help fund urgent climate action in developing countries.
Ranked-Choice Voting Backed in Midterm Ballot Measures, May Help “Crash-Proofing Our Democracy”
Voters in Nevada and a handful of cities across the United States appear poised to expand the use of ranked-choice voting in the aftermath of Tuesday’s midterm elections. The election method allows voters to select multiple candidates in descending order of preference. It is used in many other countries, and supporters say it can reduce polarization and give more voice to independent voters.
Delia Ramirez: Illinois Elects First Latina Congressmember; Ran on Medicare for All, Immigration Reform
We speak with Congressmember-elect Delia Ramirez, who won her election for Illinois’s newly redrawn 3rd Congressional District Tuesday, making her the first Latina elected to Congress from Illinois. Ramirez is a progressive Democratic state representative who is the daughter of Guatemalan immigrants and the wife of a DACA recipient. She campaigned on expanding healthcare and housing access for working people, as well as passing the DREAM Act.
The Story of Baby O: Rebecca Nagle on the Supreme Court Case That Could Gut Native Sovereignty
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Haaland v. Brackeen, a case challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act and ultimately threatening the legal foundations of federal Indian law. ICWA was created in 1978 to address the systemic crisis of family separation in Native communities waged by the U.S. and requires the government to ensure foster children are adopted by members of their Indigenous tribes, as well as blood relatives, before being adopted by non-Indigenous parents.
Lara Trump Takes Radically Different GOP Path: ‘We Need Trump Back!’
People “everywhere” are telling her, “please tell us he’s running,” Trump’s daughter-in-law claimed on Fox News.
Election-Denying Doug Mastriano Finally Concedes, 5 Days After Race Called
“I mean, who cares if he calls, right?” governor-elect Josh Shapiro said earlier Sunday.
Jan. 6 Firebrand Turns On Trump: ‘Dishonest, Disloyal, Incompetent, Crude’
GOP Rep. Mo Brooks, who helped spread Trump’s 2020 election lies, is now urging the party to abandon the ex-president.
U.S. Senate stays in Democratic hands
The U.S. Senate will stay in Democratic control in the 118th session of Congress, beginning Jan. 3, 2023. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s win in Nevada gives Democrats the 50 votes they need to stay in power. That gives this experiment in democracy at least a few more years. The work has to start anew when they return next week to finish out the current session.
It also means that Sen.
Elon Musk continues to mock privacy, legal concerns as the great Twitter garbage fire burns on
It’s simply not possible that Elon Musk purchased Twitter with the sole intent of destroying it. And by “not possible,” we mean “unlikely.
‘Georgia is still hugely important for dems’: Let’s maximize what we can do with Senate control
Democrats had our much-deserved moment in the sun in the hours after news broke on Saturday of Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s election victory in Nevada. She secured her second term as the first Latina elected to the U.S. Senate, earning Democrats control of the Senate with 50 seats and Vice President Kamala Harris’ expected tie-breaking vote.
Ukraine Update: ‘logistics’ might be boring, but it’s what drove Russia out of Kherson
UPDATE: Monday, Nov 14, 2022 · 1:49:02 AM +00:00
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This is so lovely: “A welcome to the Republican visitors to DKos here for the Ukraine coverage.”
If you’re reading Daily Kos, you are inherently smart. Objectively so. Ask anyone in the room around you—you’re the person they go to if they have questions about politics, or about COVID, or … about Ukraine.
Don’t Party Just Yet: Jamie Raskin Raises Specter Of House Speaker Trump
Republican election deniers are projected to constitute more than a third of the new House, which could give Trump a leg up.
‘The Office’ star Rainn Wilson changes his name to ‘Rainnfall Heat Wave Rising Sea Levels Wilson’
While Twitter continues its spiral into the billionaire black hole that is Elon Musk’s ego, some members of the Twitter community continue to try and use the platform to spread information about and awareness of more important things going on in our world. Actor Rainn Wilson, best known for his portrayal of Dwight in the American sitcom version of The Office, did just that.
Wilson has a very large Twitter following, numbering in the millions.
Top Democrats Warming Up To Denying GOP A Chance To Leverage Debt Limit
Raising the limit on government borrowing in the lame duck would help Biden but could risk other priorities.
The Midterms Message for Republicans
Liberals reacted to the election of Donald Trump in 2016 with dismay, horror—and curiosity. Reporters ventured to Trump counties to ask questions. Political scientists studied the voting effect of international trade. Hollywood made a movie out of J. D. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.Liberals didn’t like what had happened—but for exactly that reason, they wanted to understand it.
Does Dave Chappelle Find Anything Funnier Than Being Canceled?
Dave Chappelle’s comedy has always walked a practiced knife-edge; he’s one of America’s most successful and discussed stand-up comedians because he can suck the air out of the room in a second and fill it back up just as quickly. He can have his audience whispering “Did he just say that?” but will then undercut his own provocation with an impish grin.
Doctors Are Failing Patients With Disabilities
This piece was originally published by Undark Magazine.Ben Salentine, the associate director of health-sciences managed care at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, hasn’t been weighed in more than a decade. His doctors “just kind of guess” his weight, he says, because they don’t have a wheelchair-accessible scale.He’s far from alone. Many people with disabilities describe challenges in finding physicians prepared to care for them.
David Sims’s Culture Picks: Andor, Jane Eyre, and Jessie Buckley
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.Good morning, and welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer reveals what’s keeping them entertained.
The New Stalin Era
Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of international affairs at the New School in New York, went back to Moscow recently to complete work on her forthcoming book, a biography of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev—her great-grandfather. Khrushchev was the first Soviet premier to visit the United States, in 1959. To many Americans, he is best remembered as the leader during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. He agreed to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from Cuba in exchange for President John F.
Supreme Court races offer anti-abortion groups a win on a tough night
Their loss of state supreme court races in Ohio and North Carolina could imperil the future of the procedure in two of the country’s most populous states
Who killed the Covid-19 vaccine waiver?
The inside story of how lobbying, threats and the desire to protect industry gutted a proposal that was meant to make vaccines widely available in poorer countries.
Bitter GOP divisions leave abortion legal in South Carolina
Members of the state House refused to budge on their proposal to ban abortion starting at conception with exceptions for rape, incest and if the life of the pregnant person is in danger.
A predicted ‘red wave’ crashed into wall of abortion rights support on Tuesday
A surge in turnout among people motivated by the erosion of abortion rights carried Democrats to victory in multiple races.
South Dakota votes to expand Medicaid
The Republican-controlled state, where lawmakers have long resisted Medicaid expansion, is the seventh in the last five years to do so at the ballot box — and likely the last to do so for some time.
Fed jacks up rates again but Powell hints it might slow down
Inflation has cooled only slightly and job growth remains strong.
Voters remain gloomy despite recent economic gains
A new POLITICO-Morning Consult poll suggests voters’ views of the economy are baked in.
U.S. economy returned to growth last quarter, expanding 2.6 percent
Housing investment, though, plunged at a 26 percent annual pace, hammered by surging mortgage rates.
More voters trust Republicans on economy as interest in midterms hits high, polls say
According to an NBC News poll released Sunday, 70 percent of registered voters expressed interest in the upcoming election as a “9” or “10” on a 10-point scale.
“Carbon Billionaires”: Oxfam Calls for Taxing Rich Who Profit from Emissions Fueling Climate Crisis
A new Oxfam analysis finds the investments of the world’s richest people are emitting 3 million tons a year — more than a million times the average person’s output. The report, titled “Carbon Billionaires,” suggests a wealth tax could help fund urgent climate action in developing countries.