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Biden and Trump in a dead heat in hypothetical 2024 rematch, poll finds
Trump saw slightly more support from his base than Biden, with 88 percent of registered Republicans selecting Trump versus 83 percent of Democrats choosing Biden.
Biden resorts to a classic D.C. punt on the debt ceiling. Progressives aren’t pleased.
The president pledged to weigh eliminating the debt limit — for good. Instead, he’s got a group weighing options.
Ex-Trump Attorney Ty Cobb Blows A Hole In Latest Trump Legal Spin
The former White House lawyer used a bank robber analogy to explain why the defense doesn’t fly.
Chris Christie Names The Trump Insider He Thinks Secretly Flipped
The former New Jersey governor said this figure could provide damaging testimony against the former president.
Fox News’ Brit Hume Gives Trump-Loving Commentator A Brutal Fact-Check
The longtime Fox News host offers a reminder on a “failed presidency.
Trump Lawyers Fight Order That Would Limit What He Can Say About Jan. 6 Evidence
“In a trial about First Amendment rights, the government seeks to restrict First Amendment rights,” the ex-president’s attorneys argued.
Former Vice President Mike Pence Meets GOP Primary Debate Qualifications
The Aug. 23 Republican presidential candidate debate will be hosted by Fox News, which first reported that Pence reached the donor threshold.
Mike Pence’s 11th Commandment
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.Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment was: “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.” This weekend, Mike Pence—like most of the GOP field—struggled mightily to criticize Donald Trump while barely mentioning Trump’s name.
The AI Crackdown Is Coming
In April, lawyers for the airline Avianca noticed something strange. A passenger, Robert Mata, had sued the airline, alleging that a serving cart on a flight had struck and severely injured his left knee, but several cases cited in Mata’s lawsuit didn’t appear to exist. The judge couldn’t verify them, either. It turned out that ChatGPT had made them all up, fabricating names and decisions. One of Mata’s lawyers, Steven A.
Trump Is Acting Like He’s Cornered
In some ways, Donald Trump’s mental state is more transparent than nearly any public figure’s: He has no shame, little discretion, and ample channels to broadcast his feelings in real time. Yet his constant stream of consciousness and always elevated dudgeon make it hard to parse the finer fluctuations in his mood.Even so, the former president’s public behavior since Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted him last week suggests a man feeling cornered.
Working Class Does Not Equal White
That the words working class are synonymous in the minds of many Americans with white working class is the result of a political myth. As the award-winning historian Blair LM Kelley explains in her new book, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class, Black people are more likely to be working-class than white people are.Kelley’s Black Folk opens our minds up to Black workers, narrating their complex lives over 200 years of American history.
Seven Books That Will Make You Put Down Your Phone
When I teach a literature class to undergraduates, one of my most important tasks is to help my students relearn how to read in the age of distraction. I assign them an exercise: Set a timer for 20 minutes and dive into a book, no phone in sight, and don’t stop before the alarm goes off. They frequently tell me that time moves differently when they do this.
#SayHerName: Kimberlé Crenshaw on Black Women Killed by Police & DeSantis’s New Pro-Slavery Curriculum
We speak with acclaimed scholar and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw about her new book #SayHerName, which honors the stories of 177 Black women and girls killed by police between 1975 and 2022 whose deaths received little media coverage or other attention.
Pregnant Woman’s False Arrest in Detroit Shows “Racism Gets Embedded” in Facial Recognition Technology
A shocking story of wrongful arrest in Detroit has renewed scrutiny of how facial recognition software is being deployed by police departments, despite major flaws in the technology. Porcha Woodruff was arrested in February when police showed up at her house accusing her of robbery and carjacking. Woodruff, who was eight months pregnant at the time, insisted she had nothing to do with the crime, but police detained her for 11 hours, during which time she had contractions.
“It’s a Way of Reparations”: Why Henrietta Lacks Settlement Matters for Bioethics & Racial Justice
The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black cancer patient whose cells were taken by Johns Hopkins University Hospital without her consent in 1951, has reached a deal over the unethical use of her cells with pharmaceutical company Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Freedom vs. Compelled Birth: Dorothy Roberts on Abortion Fights in Texas, Ohio & Across the U.S.
We look at the fight for reproductive rights in the United States with Dorothy Roberts, director of the University of Pennsylvania Program on Race, Science and Society, who has long warned against the criminalization of pregnancy and has been hailed as a pioneer in the reproductive justice movement.
The White House plays it cool as ‘Bidenomics’ struggles to catch on
The president made a big bet on owning the economy. His team says give it time.
Judge rules Texas’ abortion ban is too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications
The ruling is the first to undercut Texas’ law since it took effect in 2022.
Idaho health care providers can refer patients for abortions out of state, judge rules
District Judge B. Lynn Winmill called it a First Amendment issue.
‘It’s a crisis’: Maternal health care disappears for millions
New data from the nonpartisan health advocacy group March of Dimes shows that the U.S. saw a 4 percent decline in hospitals with labor and delivery services between 2019 and 2020.
What the new Covid-19 surge really means
The number of hospitalizations is still near an all-time low.
Biden and Trump in a dead heat in hypothetical 2024 rematch, poll finds
Trump saw slightly more support from his base than Biden, with 88 percent of registered Republicans selecting Trump versus 83 percent of Democrats choosing Biden.
Biden resorts to a classic D.C. punt on the debt ceiling. Progressives aren’t pleased.
The president pledged to weigh eliminating the debt limit — for good. Instead, he’s got a group weighing options.
Conservatives Are Having an Epic Argument About Capitalism. Too Bad the Campaigns Are Ignoring It.
On the wonky right, it’s a battle over manifestos — and the GOP’s future.
Blowback in Africa: U.S.-Trained Officer Overthrows Pro-U.S. Leader in Niger, Site of U.S. Drone Base
Last Wednesday, Nigerien military officers announced they had overthrown President Mohamed Bazoum, a close ally of the United States and France. ECOWAS, an economic bloc of West African countries, has threatened to take military action unless the coup is reversed by Sunday.
Trump & the KKK Act: Carol Anderson on Reconstruction-Era Voting Rights Law Cited in Trump Indictment
On Thursday, former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to trying to overturn the results of his 2020 election loss. Trump appeared before a magistrate judge in Washington’s federal courthouse two days after he was indicted. A key part of the election interference charges Trump faces relates to a Civil War-era rights law that protects the right of citizens to have their vote counted.
FBI & Colorado Springs Police Sued for Targeting & Spying on Racial Justice Protesters
The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado has sued the FBI, the Colorado Springs Police Department and local officers for illegally spying on local activist Jacqueline “Jax” Armendariz Unzueta and the Chinook Center, a community organizing hub in Colorado Springs. “This was one of the worst moments of my life,” says Unzueta, who describes the investigation by law enforcement as “incredibly invasive.
Center for Countering Digital Hate Vows to Keep Monitoring Hate Speech on X Despite Elon Musk Lawsuit
After the Center for Countering Digital Hate reported that hate speech has soared on the website formerly known as Twitter, now rebranded as “X,” Elon Musk responded by filing a lawsuit against the center over the research, calling the group “evil” and its CEO Imran Ahmed a “rat.” X accuses the watchdog group of unlawfully accessing data to “falsely claim it had statistical support showing the platform is overwhelmed with harmful content.