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The Atlantic’s Staff Writer Caitlin Dickerson Wins 2023 Pulitzer Prize
Staff writers Elizabeth Bruenig and Xochitl Gonzalez are Pulitzer finalists
The under-the-radar issues that could shake up 2024
POLITICO asked a panel of strategists and elected officials what under-the-radar issue they think could play an outsize role in 2024.
US economy grew at weak 1.1% rate in Q1 in sign of slowdown
The slowdown reflects the impact of the Fed’s aggressive drive to tame inflation.
Elizabeth Warren: Fed chair has failed at both his jobs
Jerome Powell “stepped up and took a flamethrower to the regulations,” the senator said.
Rachel Maddow Names Pro-Hitler Speakers Appearing At Same Event As Eric Trump
“I can’t really believe they are going ahead with it,” the MSNBC anchor said of the upcoming “ReAwaken America” tour being hosted at a Donald Trump hotel.
Wall Street Journal Hits Republicans With The Harsh Truth About Donald Trump
The newspaper’s editorial board echoed stinging comments that former Attorney General William Barr made about the former president.
White House Issues Veto Threat For Border Bill As Pandemic Deportation Tool Expires
Biden’s use of Title 42 to immediately expel migrants without an asylum hearing, begun under the previous administration, ends Thursday under court order.
North Dakota Governor Outlaws Pronoun Policies In Schools
The new law signed by Doug Burgum requires teachers to tell a parent or legal guardian if the student identifies as transgender.
Texas GOP Lawmaker Resigns After Probe Found Inappropriate Relationship With Teen Staffer
Rep. Bryan Slaton, who’s made accusing drag artists of sexualizing and grooming children the crux of his political identity, resigned ahead of a vote over expelling him.
Sister Helen Prejean on Richard Glossip’s Stay of Execution: I Believe He Will Walk Out a Free Man
Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip’s execution was stayed by the Supreme Court on Friday, marking the ninth time he had an execution date put on hold. Glossip has maintained his innocence throughout his 25 years of incarceration; his accuser has previously attempted to recant his testimony.
Should Sen. Feinstein Resign? Why Aren’t Media, Colleagues Talking Openly About Mental Competence?
We look at the question of whether Senator Dianne Feinstein, who is on the Judiciary Committee, should resign due to mental deterioration, and how the media has failed to fully address the issue, with longtime Supreme Court reporter Dahlia Lithwick. As a result of Feinstein’s current condition, “we’re not getting judges confirmed at rates that we need to see,” Lithwick says.
Can Anyone Hold Justice Clarence Thomas to Account for Secret Dealings with Billionaire GOP Megadonor?
We speak with longtime Supreme Court reporter Dahlia Lithwick about the mounting evidence of apparent financial impropriety by the court’s conservatives. ProPublica recently reported that Republican billionaire Harlan Crow paid two years of private school tuition for Clarence Thomas’s grandnephew — payments that Thomas did not include on his annual financial disclosures.
The Coronation Not Seen on TV: Anti-Monarchists Arrested; Slavery & Colonization Reparations Demanded
Police in England arrested at least 52 people Saturday around the coronation of King Charles, including numerous anti-monarchy activists who say they were detained before they even started protesting. Charles and his wife Camilla were crowned king and queen in a lavish ceremony at Westminster Abbey that is expected to cost over £100 million, or about $125 million USD, taking place against the backdrop of a severe cost-of-living crisis in the U.K.
Amid Growing Anti-Immigrant Hate, 8 Killed as Driver Plows Into Group Near Migrant Shelter in Texas
We get an update from South Texas, where eight people were killed and at least 10 more injured Sunday in Brownsville after a driver rammed his SUV into a group of people near a shelter for migrants. The incident comes just days before the Trump-era Title 42 policy is set to expire and more migrants are expected to seek asylum at the southern U.S. border. “I can only describe it as a hate crime.
CDC head resigns, blindsiding many health officials
Rochelle Walensky acknowledged the agency did not meet expectations during the pandemic and launched a reorganization.
The job crunch hits the White House as Biden searches for a new pandemic czar
“They approached everyone.
DeSantis courts evangelicals with strict abortion law; opponents counterpunch in his backyard
A multi-million-dollar initiative would roll back one of DeSantis’ signature policies by allowing abortion until a fetus is viable at about 24 weeks of pregnancy.
The Sad, Sad Life of Tom Wambsgans
After living to serve, the most pathetic character on ‘Succession’ finally finds himself on the outs.
Don’t Try to Board a Plane With Peanut Butter
Sticky and solid as it may seem, the spread is technically a liquid.
The under-the-radar issues that could shake up 2024
POLITICO asked a panel of strategists and elected officials what under-the-radar issue they think could play an outsize role in 2024.
US economy grew at weak 1.1% rate in Q1 in sign of slowdown
The slowdown reflects the impact of the Fed’s aggressive drive to tame inflation.
Elizabeth Warren: Fed chair has failed at both his jobs
Jerome Powell “stepped up and took a flamethrower to the regulations,” the senator said.
Freedom to Learn: Nat’l Day of Action Targets Ron DeSantis, “Anti-Woke Cabal” over Book Bans & More
This week, protests were held across the United States against right-wing efforts to ban books and antiracism education in schools.
In E. Jean Carroll’s “Heroic” Rape Trial Against Trump, His Team Calls No Witnesses. Will He Testify?
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team rested its case Thursday in the rape, battery and defamation trial brought by writer E. Jean Carroll without calling a single witness. Carroll has accused Trump of raping her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990s. Carroll was able to file the case against Trump decades later because New York opened a one-year window on the statute of limitations for adult survivors of sexual assault.
Guilty: Four Proud Boys Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy for Role in Jan. 6 Insurrection
Four members of the far-right Proud Boys organization, including former leader Enrique Tarrio, were convicted Thursday of seditious conspiracy for trying to keep Donald Trump in office by force after his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden. The men could face decades in prison for their actions. A fifth defendant was found not guilty of seditious conspiracy but convicted on other charges. We look at the Proud Boys, their role in the January 6 attack on the U.S.




























