Supreme Court Allows Yeshiva University To Block LGBTQ Club, For Now
The Orthodox Jewish university in New York City argued that recognizing the club would “violate its sincere religious beliefs.
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Election Lie Supporters Ask Supreme Court To Bless Radical Election Changes
Lawyer John Eastman, Trump aides Stephen Miller and Mark Meadows and insurrection backer Mike Flynn want the court to OK partisan gerrymandering.
Republicans look to restrict ballot measures following a string of progressive wins
The state efforts are a direct threat to abortion-rights advocates and other liberal groups’ efforts to bypass governors and legislatures and take issues directly to voters.
I Wish My Friend Could Have Read Her Own Obituary
I wish my friend Anne Garrels could have lived just a few days longer. She died early last Wednesday, but if she’d held on a few more hours, I like to imagine that she would have been able to enjoy (even while pretending to dismiss) the torrent of admiration from colleagues and listeners for her work as a foreign correspondent with National Public Radio. I wish she’d been able to read the glowing obituary that The New York Times had prepared for her.
The Angels of Lviv
Photographs by Elena SubachAs soon as the first air-raid sirens sounded last winter, Elena Subach, a photographer and curator in Lviv, began to worry. “Lviv is itself an open-air museum,” she told me. “You cannot hide it in a bomb shelter.” All over Ukraine, curators mobilized to try to protect what they could and transfer movable items for safekeeping.
The Right’s Brittney Griner Obsession
Brittney Griner is still detained in Russia. The WNBA star has now been imprisoned for 205 long days.In August, Griner was found guilty of drug possession and smuggling for traveling with less than a gram of cannabis oil, and sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony. During her trial, lawyers argued that she had a medical note for the cannabis oil, but it did no good.
Michigan Supreme Court puts abortion on the November ballot
Chief Justice Bridget McCormack in her ruling blasted Republican officials who argued spacing and formatting errors on the text canvassers presented to voters rendered the entire effort invalid.
POLITICO-Harvard poll: Gun policies, along with abortion, inflation and economy, are top concern for voters
Abortion ranked fourth with 44 percent of registered voters saying it is “extremely important.” Guns ranked third with 46 percent.
4 things to know about the bivalent booster campaign rollout
The White House this week said that future national strategies to bolster Covid-19 immunity will fall in line with the annual flu campaign.
Doctors are taking it on themselves to figure out long Covid
Absent more guidance from the government, physicians are sharing ideas for treating the mysterious condition.
Democratic attorneys general candidates rake in donations post-Roe
Republicans are pledging to enforce state abortion bans if they win, but are also redirecting the conversation to areas of perceived Democratic weakness.
G-7 announces price cap deal on Russian oil in win for Yellen
The plan touted by the U.S. Treasury secretary aims to diminish the Kremlin’s revenue while preserving the global oil supply.
Powell’s ‘dangerous’ words risk resistance from lawmakers
“Jerome Powell’s rhetoric is dangerous, and a Fed-manufactured recession is not inevitable — it’s a policy choice,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren said.
‘We’re in a housing recession’
The housing market has cooled so much as the Fed withdraws its support for the economy that some analysts say it may be in a slump.
Powell blows away doubts about his war on high inflation
In a closely watched speech, the Fed chair foreshadowed further interest rate increases and warned that rates might need to stay high for some time to kill price spikes.
Powell’s inflation miscalculation raises stakes on rate shift
The Federal Reserve chair needs to convince markets he means business when he addresses the landmark conference of economists on Friday.
“Attack Philanthropy”: Right-Wing Billionaire Fueled Climate Denial & Conservative Judges, Schools
New revelations about the secretive right-wing billionaire Barre Seid, who donated $1.6 billion to a conservative nonprofit run by Leonard Leo, known as Donald Trump’s “Supreme Court whisperer,” show he has also used his massive fortune to undermine climate science, fight Medicaid expansion and remake the higher education system in a conservative mold.
Famine by October? Somalia & East Africa Face Humanitarian Crisis Amid Climate Change, Ukraine War
We look at the devastating effects of climate change and global inequity in East Africa, and how many countries face drought and a looming famine, with guests in Mogadishu, Somalia, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. “The current unprecedented drought, that is a result of four consecutive failed rainy seasons, with the fifth and the sixth projected to also be below average, is causing a huge food insecurity,” says Adam Abdelmoula, the U.N.’s humanitarian coordinator for Somalia.
Ukraine Update: Ukraine learned combined-arms maneuvers, but at great sacrifice
Mark Sumner’s two stories today (morning, afternoon) have a great deal of information on Ukraine’s operational gains today. As I write this, it’s night in Ukraine and while undoubtedly stuff is happening, we won’t hear about any of it until morning.
Michigan Republican has an eye-popping response to abortion rights ballot measure
Abortion rights will be on the Michigan ballot in November thanks to hundreds of thousands of voter signatures and a decision from the state Supreme Court … and Republican gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon is desperately trying to turn that into a positive for herself.
Colorado Republican wants to ‘bring balance to women’s rights.’ Gee, thanks
Colorado Republican Senate nominee Joe O’Dea hasn’t drawn the attention of some of his counterparts in other states, but he’s still a Republican in the year 2022, and that means he has to answer questions about abortion rights—and Donald Trump. He’s not doing a great job with either, and local TV news reporter Kyle Clark pinned him to the wall on it, despite his best efforts to wriggle away.
Hillary Clinton decisively defeats Donald Trump as judge slaps down Trump’s ludicrous lawsuit
While Donald Trump managed to find a highly unqualified judge who was willing to work hand in hand with his attorneys to grant his “special master” request, his court shopping isn’t always so effective.
Video surfaces of Doug Mastriano leading prayer for Congress to disregard 2020 election results
Doug Mastriano’s extreme views and apparent proclivity for Christian nationalism are growing harder for him to deny by the minute.
On Friday Rolling Stone published an exclusive report and shared for the first time a video of Mastriano—now the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania—from December 2020 where he kicked off a prayer meeting organized by the extreme right-wing, pro-Trump New Apostolic Restoration movement.
US, Trump Team Propose Names For Arbiter In Mar-A-Lago Probe
The Justice Department proposed two retired judges for the role. Trump’s team proposed a retired judge and a lawyer.
DNC Panel Passes Resolution Urging Joe Biden To Release Leonard Peltier
“We thank the Democratic Party for standing with justice,” state Rep. Ruth Anna Buffalo (D-N.D.) said of the support for freeing the Native American rights activist.
Progressive Revolt Against Manchin’s Energy Side Deal Could Snarl Government Funding
More than 70 House Democrats warned leadership against a special deal with West Virginia’s Democratic senator to win his Inflation Reduction Act support.
Why the Russian Military Brutalizes Ukraine
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.War is always a brutal business, but why is the Russian military so determined to inflict civilian casualties on neighboring Ukraine? I talked with a fellow Russia expert.But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
Ex-Trump Attorney Ty Cobb Calls Him ‘Deeply Wounded Narcissist’ Incapable Of Change
Cobb, who represented Trump during his first impeachment, said he’s “incapable of acting other than in his perceived self-interest, or for revenge.
Democrats Determined Not To Let Republicans Downplay Their MAGA Extremism
A new ad from Sen. Patty Murray calls out Republicans, including her opponent Tiffany Smiley, for being a “direct threat” to democracy.
No One Performed Britishness Better Than Her Majesty
There’s an episode of—please bear with me here—the children’s animated television series Peppa Pig in which Peppa, the fearless porcine queen of toddler hearts everywhere, meets another queen, one who lives in a palace and wears a crown, and might be, one of Peppa’s friends suggests, “the boss of all the world.” At first encounter, this queen sits on a throne, knitting; she speaks in clipped, commanding tones.