Democrats Seek To Expand Access To Home And Community Services For Disabled People
The Home and Community Based Services Access Act would mandate Medicaid coverage of long-term support for disabled people in their daily lives.
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DeSantis Visits Iowa As Interest In Likely Trump Rival Rises
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is visiting Iowa, introducing himself to expectant audiences of Republicans ahead of a likely 2024 presidential bid.
Michael Cohen To Testify Monday In Trump Hush-Money Probe
Donald Trump’s former lawyer served prison time after pleading guilty to arranging payouts to porn actor Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal.
Anti-Masker’s Bizarre Airplane Story Has Rough Landing On Twitter
Steve Kirsch said he offered $100,000 to a fellow passenger if she took off her mask. But he didn’t realize he came across as the seatmate from hell.
Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure Is Now Everyone’s Problem
Whispers about insolvency. A bank run. A desperate attempt to raise funds. A bank failure. Market gyrations. Concerns about financial contagion.History is repeating itself. Today, California regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank, a lender aimed at start-ups, technology firms, and wealthy individuals. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation stepped in as the bank’s receiver.
You Won’t Regret Starting a K-Drama
Don’t write off popular Korean-language TV series as sappy melodrama. These shows will expand your conception of what storytelling can be. Read on for recommendations for your weekend.But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
Trump gets a taste of his own medicine.
The Oscars’ incredible knack for being wrong
Live closer to your friends.
To describe the plot of Crash Landing on You to the uninitiated is to invite mockery.
Glenn Beck Wins Collection Of Roe v. Wade Artifacts At Auction
Roe v. Wade attorney Linda Coffee auctioned off a collection of around 150 documents from the famous case — and there was a surprise buyer.
Trump Gets a Taste of His Own Medicine
“This is not normal,” Donald Trump’s opponents warned as he took office and began enacting his agenda. He gave them so many chances to use the phrase that it became first a cliché and then a sorry joke.But the warning was not wrong: Trump acclimated Americans to many egregious actions by exposure therapy. What was once novel and frightening became familiar; familiarity bred contempt, but also enough acceptance to let Trump get away with a lot.
Congress sends bill requiring declassification of Covid-19 origin intel to Biden
The president hasn’t said if he will sign it, or issue his first veto.
The Value in Decoding Fairy Tales
The wolf’s yellow eyes, sharp claws, and snapping teeth haunt our fairy tales and idioms, Erica Berry writes in her recent book, Wolfish. She asks why the animal has persisted as such a potent symbol of fear, arguing that this may color the way we see the world we share with animals and one another.
What You Can’t Say on YouTube
Recently, on a YouTube channel, I said something terrible, but I don’t know what it was. The main subject of discussion—my reporting on the power of online gurus—was not intrinsically offensive. It might have been something about the comedian turned provocateur Russell Brand’s previous heroin addiction, or child-abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. I know it wasn’t the word Nazi, because we carefully avoided that.
“Barbaric Restrictions”: 5 Women Sue Texas After Being Denied Abortions Despite Deadly Health Risks
Five women in Texas who were denied abortions are suing the state for denying them necessary medical care even though their pregnancies were nonviable and posed serious risks to their health. “I cannot adequately put into words the trauma and despair that comes with waiting to either lose your own life, your child’s life, or both.
Rep. Barbara Lee on Cutting the Military Budget, Abortion Rights & Why She’s Running for Senate
As President Biden proposes his new budget, which expands military spending, as well as social services, we speak with Democratic Congressmember Barbara Lee, co-chair of the Defense Spending Reduction Caucus. She recently reintroduced the People Over Pentagon Act to cut $100 billion from the Pentagon budget and reallocate funds to overlooked priorities like healthcare and education.
Historian Alfred McCoy: As Tensions Rise over Taiwan, U.S. & China “Edging Ever Closer” to War
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines is calling China the “most consequential threat” to U.S. national security. Meanwhile, the Chinese parliament has unanimously voted to give Xi Jinping a third five-year term as president. On Monday, Xi directly accused the United States of suppressing China’s development, stating, “Western countries — led by the U.S. — have implemented all-round containment, encirclement and suppression against us.
Republicans take aim at Medicaid as budget talks heat up
Republican House and Senate leadership have been adamant that they will not cut Social Security and Medicare, but have said less about Medicaid.
Trump’s CDC director says Fauci shut down debate on Covid’s origin
In an interview with POLITICO, Fauci dismissed the charge.
Biden’s next battle in his opioids fight: His own bureaucracy
Government controls on a lifesaving treatment for opioid use disorder have dissuaded doctors from prescribing it, and pharmacies from carrying it.
Florida Republicans seek ban on abortions after 6 weeks of pregnancy
The proposal allows for exceptions to save a patient’s life or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
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.
“Torture”: El Salvador’s Abortion Ban Condemned, Highlights Horrors Facing U.S. After Roe Overturned
As we mark International Women’s Day on March 8, we look at the criminalization of abortion with filmmaker Celina Escher, who directed the award-winning documentary Fly So Far about abortion in El Salvador, which has enforced an abortion ban since 1998, and dozens of people have been convicted and imprisoned after having miscarriages, stillbirths and other obstetric emergencies.
Ex-Trump Lawyer Posts Cruel Video Mocking Mitch McConnell’s Hospitalization
CNN’s Jake Tapper torched Jenna Ellis for her “basic lack of humanity.
Jim Jordan, Stacey Plaskett Get Into A Fiery War Of Words At Committee Hearing
Plaskett blasted Republicans for bringing Musk’s “public scribes” to the hearing before several exchanges with Jordan on Thursday.
House Republicans Launch Investigation Into DC Jail’s Treatment Of Capitol Riot Defendants
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) pushed for the probe into alleged “human rights abuses” at the jail.
Manhattan DA Gives Strong Indication Of Trump Charges: Report
The former president is under investigation for hush money payments sent to Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an affair with him.
House Republicans Are Taking Their Assault On Trans Rights To The Federal Level
The GOP is engaging in an all-out attack on transgender Americans through legislation in the statehouses, and they’re moving their fight to Congress.
The Ugly Elitism of the American Right
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.Fox News will likely never face any real consequences for the biggest scandal in the history of American media. But will Republican voters finally understand who really looks down on them?First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
Elon Musk is spiraling.
America’s in the Midst of a Socioeconomic Shift
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.