Trump Aide Kash Patel Set To Testify About Classified Mar-A-Lago Docs: Report
The loyal Trump ally has insisted that Donald Trump declassified the documents the FBI gathered from his Florida resort.
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Joe Biden Calls GOP Embrace Of Trump’s MAGA Values A ‘Path To Chaos’
The president urged Americans to vote to defend democracy in next week’s midterm elections, decrying the recent attack on Paul Pelosi.
Letter Allegedly From Oath Keeper Founder To Donald Trump Read In Sedition Trial
Stewart Rhodes allegedly tried to covertly pass along the message several days after the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Tony Hawk Using Skateboarding To Teach Community Organizing
The Skatepark Project’s fellowship program trains people in community organizing and project management so they can build skateparks in their neighborhoods.
The Little-Known Roots of ‘Black Power’
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 new documentary, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, looks at a pivotal chapter of the civil-rights movement that shaped how we think and talk about race in America to this day. The film, inspired by the work of the Atlantic senior editor Vann R.
Federal Reserve Squeezes Economy Amid Increasing Criticism
With inflation an increasing challenge, it’s more likely that the central bank will have to cause a recession to stop it, said Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
How America Has Changed Since the First Affirmative-Action Case
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.
Taylor Swift’s Best New Songs Aren’t Technically on Midnights
In the final track of Midnights, Taylor Swift confesses to being a “mastermind” who plans so carefully that she can’t possibly lose. The song is addressed to her lover, but she might as well be singing about the meticulous rollout of her new album. Over the course of nearly two months, she posted cryptic videos teasing the music without allowing anyone to hear a single note. She put together a “manifest” that looked like something out of the metaverse.
Fed jacks up rates again but Powell hints it might slow down
Inflation has cooled only slightly and job growth remains strong.
Now Do Amazon
One of the great literary hoaxes of our time is the book spine. A staggering number of logos stare out from dust jackets, celebrating names including Crown, Vintage, Ballantine, Knopf, and Dial. But the pluralism implied by this diversity of monikers is a sham. In the U.S., nearly 100 of them belong to a single company: Penguin Random House. The rest are owned by a small handful of competitors, one of which is Simon & Schuster.
“Working People Everywhere Have Had It”: SEIU Pres. Mary Kay Henry on Unions Mobilizing for Midterms
We look at the high stakes of the midterm elections for workers, including in key battleground states. Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, says they are campaigning to empower working people, especially infrequent voters of color and new immigrants, to vote in their best interests. “We have got to make our votes a demand, and not a show of support for candidates that are with us one day and against us the next,” says Henry.
How to End the War in Ukraine: Matt Duss and Ray McGovern Debate U.S. Policy on Russia, NATO & More
As the U.S. pours billions in military aid into Ukraine, we host a debate on the Biden administration’s response to the war and U.S. policy toward Russia amid increasing calls among progressives for a diplomatic end to the conflict. We speak to former Bernie Sanders foreign policy adviser Matt Duss, now a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst who specialized in the Soviet Union.
Voters remain gloomy despite recent economic gains
A new POLITICO-Morning Consult poll suggests voters’ views of the economy are baked in.
Michigan abortion-rights battle rakes in cash ahead of referendum
If the measure passes, language will be added to the state’s constitution guaranteeing the right to abortion as well as contraception and other reproductive health services.
FDA says providers offering medication abortion before pregnancy have gone rogue
The agency says it’s concerned the practice could endanger patients’ health.
Michigan Democrats’ pitch to voters: Abortion bans are bad for business
Polls show voters care more about the economy than abortion. Democrats in the Rust Belt state argue the two can’t be separated.
‘No-win situation’: Pharma trade CEO steps down after clashing with board
The departure of Michelle McMurry-Heath comes just as the Biden administration is poised to begin implementing key drug pricing provisions and the balance of power could shift in Congress.
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.
Soaring tax revenue, spending plunge spark record drop in budget deficit
The budget gap shrank by half in fiscal 2022 as spending on pandemic programs expired and tax revenues surged.
Yes, the Liz Truss debacle matters for Americans
The U.K. political drama will have ripple effects in the U.S.
Rep. Ro Khanna: U.S. Should Halt Arms to Saudis over Yemen War & Oil Production Cuts
Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna says Saudi Arabia should face consequences for its decision to cut oil output by 2 million barrels a day as part of the OPEC+ cartel, raising gas prices in the United States just before the midterm elections where cost-of-living issues are expected to be a major factor. He also discusses the Saudi-led war in Yemen, describing it as “one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world” that must be brought to an end.
Kari Lake Calls For Repealing Obamacare
The Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate criticized the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for blocking Republican efforts to undo the health care law.
Hillary Clinton: Republicans Worried About Crime Not ‘Too Bothered’ By Paul Pelosi Attack
“That person is married to the speaker of the House, who’s of a different political party.
Attack At Pelosi Home Reportedly Caught By Unattended Capitol Police Cameras
The detail renews concerns about the difficulty of protecting lawmakers amid surging threats and limited policing resources.
Lindsey Graham slammed after Supreme Court denies his request to avoid testifying in Georgia
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Sen. Lindsey Graham will have to give testimony to a Georgia grand jury investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his cronies to tamper with the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Ukraine update: The tank isn’t dead, but the helicopter…
On Halloween, Russia lost three helicopters. Minimum. That included an Mi-8 transport helicopter shot down near Berestove, close to the Bakhmut front lines and a pair of Ka-52 attack helicopters that came too near Ukrainian positions in Kherson oblast. In addition, a widely-circulated video reportedly shows a Russian dissident sabotaging Russian helicopters at Veretye Air Base inside Russia on October 30. At that air base, three helicopters were reportedly lost on Monday.
‘No great risk of dying from pregnancy,’ says Ohio Republican who’s never heard of maternal death
People really need to stick to speaking about their expertise, and in some cases, not speak at all. Republicans across the country are speaking loudly and wrongly about reproductive health and, in at least one case, even body-shaming everyone who opposes the right wing’s ideas about bodily autonomy while doing so.
Ohio state Rep. Bill Dean doubled down on recent comments, calling rising U.S.
Eastman complies with order to hand over documents, then asks House committee not to read them
Spoiler alert: The committee went right ahead and read them.
Last week, a federal judge ordered former Trump attorney John Eastman to turn over a series of documents in response to a subpoena from the House select committee investigating Jan. 6. Eastman did so, coming in just under the wire on Sunday afternoon.
Emily Oster wants a ‘pandemic amnesty’? Sorry, not until she stops pushing a dangerous agenda
Emily Oster wants a pandemic amnesty. We should all forgive each other for the mistaken positions we’ve taken about how to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, writes the Brown University economist who used her considerable platform to churn out teacher-blaming hot takes funded by the likes of Peter Thiel and the Walton Family Foundation.