Where the Fed’s inflation-crushing campaign may hurt the most
As the U.S. central banks raises interest rates, the rest of the world is feeling the squeeze.
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Google Workers Demand Privacy for Abortion Searches & Want to Stop Ads for Anti-Abortion “Clinics”
We speak with one of the more than 650 workers calling on Google’s parent company Alphabet to protect the location and browser history of people searching for information on abortion. A petition led by the Alphabet Workers Union also demands the company block advertisements that misleadingly direct users to so-called crisis pregnancy centers, a tactic employed by anti-abortion activists to lure patients to discourage them from seeking abortions.
IRS Launches Safety Review Amid Threats To Workers Linked To Conspiracy Theories
The Internal Revenue Service says it is conducting a comprehensive review of safety at its facilities.
Democrats hold key New York swing seat in massive upset with campaign focused on abortion rights
Democrat Pat Ryan scored a huge special election upset for his party by defeating Republican Marc Molinaro 51-49 in New York’s 19th District, a swing seat in the Hudson Valley that Molinaro appeared poised to flip until polls closed on Tuesday.
Dan Goldman, Lawyer In Trump Impeachment, Wins NY Democratic Congressional Primary
The win for Goldman, a moderate, disappoints progressives hoping to fill a rare open seat in New York City.
Carl Paladino, The Donald Trump Of Western New York, Loses GOP Primary For Congress
Paladino has praised Hitler and hoped for Obama to die of mad cow disease.
Democrats Hold Upstate New York Congressional Seat Targeted By Republicans
Pat Ryan’s special election victory helps Democrats argue that the abortion rights fight is improving the party’s political prospects.
Biden Administration Could Offer New COVID Booster Shots Early Next Month: Report
The retooled vaccines would target highly transmissible omicron subvariants and hopefully prevent a surge in cases in the winter.
Live coverage: Aug. 23 primaries, runoffs, and specials in Florida, New York, and Oklahoma
Three states are holding primaries tonight. Oklahoma voters already went to the polls on June 28, but the state is now hosting runoffs in primaries where no one took a majority of the vote. New York also held primaries that day for statewide races, the state Assembly, and local office, but because the courts redrew the maps for the U.S. House and state Senate, those nomination contests are only taking place now.
News Roundup: Hundreds of classified documents found in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago stash
Any notion that Donald Trump’s move of highly classified national security documents to his private golf club was “accidental,” after his failed coup attempt and subsequent relinquishing of the White House, has gone by the wayside with the news that over 300 such documents were recovered by the FBI team sent to Mar-a-Lago to recover them. There’s no way that’s an oversight.
Ukraine Update: Russia seeks to freeze the conflict (again) as its war effort stagnates
If a (Ukrainian counterattack) storm is in the cards sometime in the next month, this is the calm before it. If Ukraine still doesn’t have the ability to engage in a major combined arms operation, then it’s just … the calm. Here, thanks to Def Mon’s new interactive map, are Russia’s operations yesterday in the Donbas, the only place anyone tried to move at all.
Upon retrial, two Michigan militia ringleaders are convicted of plotting to kidnap Gov. Whitmer
When a Michigan jury last April acquitted two of the key players in the plot by a group of far-right militiamen to kidnap and execute Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, it appeared that federal prosecutors once again had bungled a clear case of far-right criminal behavior in the mode of previous failures like the Malheur standoff and Hutaree militia cases.
How Early-2000s Pop Culture Changed Sex
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.The feminist writer and activist Ellen Willis is best known for defining the idea of pro-sex feminism in the 1980s. But only a little while later, Willis noticed that women’s liberated sexuality had turned out to be, as she put it, “often depressingly shallow, exploitative, and joyless.
The Spookiest Sound in Astronomy
Ah, the sounds of late summer. Pass a pool, and hear the happy yelps of kids splashing around. Sit outside at night, and bask in the soothing buzz of cicadas hidden in the trees. Open the internet, and hear the terrifying howling of outer space.Thank NASA for that last one. The space agency recently shared a clip online of sound coming from a cluster of galaxies about 250 million light-years from Earth.
Rushdie’s Challenge to Islamic Orthodoxy
In the spring of 1989, a 21-year-old Iraqi university student named Ali came home and made a shocking discovery: On the living-room table of his family’s home was a copy of The Satanic Verses. A friend of Ali’s father had smuggled Salman Rushdie’s controversial book from London, removing its distinctive blue cover and hiding it in his luggage. This was like finding a bomb.
Cat Owners Can (Almost) All Agree on One Thing
On the list of perfect pet parents, Mikel Delgado, a professional feline-behavior consultant, probably ranks high. The Ph.D. expert in animal cognition spends half an hour each evening playing with her three torbie cats, Ruby, Coriander, and Professor Scribbles. She’s trained them to take pills in gelatin capsules, just in case they eventually need meds. She even commissioned a screened-in backyard catio so that the girls can safely venture outside.
Redrawn Districts in NY Primary Pit Progressives Against Self-Funded Millionaire & Nadler vs. Maloney
Primaries in New York’s redrawn congressional districts have led to heated battles within the Democratic Party that could have national implications. In the newly created 10th Congressional District, Dan Goldman, a conservative Democrat and heir to a multimillion-dollar Levi Strauss fortune, is running against a diverse field of candidates that includes Mondaire Jones, Yuh-Line Niou, Carlina Rivera and Elizabeth Holtzman.
Tariq Ali: Terrorism Charges Against Pakistan’s Former PM Imran Khan Are “Truly Grotesque”
We speak to the Pakistani British historian and writer Tariq Ali about new anti-terrorism charges brought against former Prime Minister Imran Khan after he spoke out against the country’s police and a judge who presided over the arrest of one of his aides. His rivals have pressed for severe charges against Khan to keep him out of the next elections as his popularity grows across the country, says Ali.
“A Crime of the State”: Mexico’s Attorney General Arrested in Case of 43 Missing Ayotzinapa Students
Mexican authorities arrested former Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam on Friday for his failure to conduct a thorough investigation into the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in 2014. This came a day after a truth commission formed by current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the students’ disappearance was a “crime of the state.
Meme Stock’s Big Bet on Bed Bath & Beyond
Bed Bath & Beyond is a struggling home-goods retailer whose underlying business is so bad that stories about the company carry headlines like “Bed Bath & Beyond’s Big Dilemma: Can It Survive?” But for most of August, Bed Bath & Beyond was also one of the hottest stocks on Wall Street, rising almost 500 percent in a matter of weeks. And that strange divergence happened for just one reason: Meme-stock mania made a sudden and unexpected return.
Congress ordered agencies to use tech that works for people with disabilities 24 years ago. Many still haven’t.
The Senate Aging Committee is conducting oversight to get agencies to comply with the rules.
Birth control coverage gaps scrutinized as reproductive health landscape shifts
The Biden administration is responding, working to shore up reproductive health policies it can control in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Before monkeypox outbreak, U.S. officials knew for years they didn’t have enough of key shot
Officials said the Strategic National Stockpile did not have enough Jynneos doses for a potential smallpox outbreak because of a lack of resources.
Where the Fed’s inflation-crushing campaign may hurt the most
As the U.S. central banks raises interest rates, the rest of the world is feeling the squeeze.
‘Jesus’: Rep. Eric Swalwell Learns On Air Just How Many Classified Docs Trump Took
The Democrat, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, reacted to news Trump had more than 300 classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
Rusty Bowers Rips ‘Fascism’ Of GOP And Trump’s Strong-Arm Tactics To Trash Vote
“I haven’t been hanged yet,” the Arizona GOP leader told The Guardian in a powerful interview. “But holy moly, this is just crazy. The place has lost its mind.
News roundup: Massive dark money donation could break our elections; Fauci to retire
Losing her Republican primary hasn’t softened Rep. Liz Cheney’s eagerness to hold Donald Trump—and her whole party—accountable for staging a violent coup inside the U.S. Capitol. She’s inviting key House Republican enemies to come testify about that day to her House committee, if they’ve got the guts for it. (They don’t.) U.S.
Trump Had 300 Classified Documents At Mar-A-Lago, Called Boxes ‘Mine’: Report
It’s unclear what type of classified information officials found, but the documents reportedly pertained to national security interests.
‘I don’t say his name, ever’: After the primaries, many GOP candidates run screaming away from Trump
Imagine waking up in bed next to Donald Trump. I don’t mean literally, of course. There’d be no recovering from that. Short of a brain transplant, anyway. And those don’t exist. Unless you’re Ron Johnson installing a fresh olive loaf once a fortnight, but that goes without saying.
New York Times guest essayist suggests appeasing Trump is better than prosecuting him
The New York Times has published a column from a “guest essayist” named Damon Linker, described by the Times as a “former columnist at The Week.” Linker now authors a column called Eyes on the Right. The landing page for that column’s website describes Linker as a “former conservative” who aims to “dissect” the “current right-wing toxicity.