UPDATE: Saturday, Nov 12, 2022 · 8:43:21 PM +00:00 · Mark Sumner
A lot of that Russian equipment at Chornobaivka, apparently never left Chornobaivka.
Chornobaivka, Russian leftovers pic.twitter.com/FjnXOKCoMt— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) November 12, 2022
UPDATE: Saturday, Nov 12, 2022 · 7:32:27 PM +00:00 · Mark Sumner
Sad news on this otherwise joyous day.
On Nov. 8, six years ago, I went to bed heartsick and devastated, knowing not only that Hillary Clinton had lost the Electoral College vote but that Michigan’s 16 votes would be allotted to her opponent. Our margin of defeat, a mere 10,704 votes, could have been made up through better turnout in my own county, where I was active in Democratic leadership.
Thankfully, this Nov. 8, I went to sleep around midnight feeling more sanguine about our prospects.
They weren’t mostly the highest-profile things on the ballot on Tuesday, but this year’s elections did include a number of ballot measures relevant to workers. The outcomes were a mixed bag.
In Illinois, a workers’ rights amendment looks likely to pass. That measure would affirm the right to organize and ban any law that “interferes with, negates, or diminishes the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively.
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.
Judging by the titles of bills they propose, members of Congress occupy a space between used-car salesperson and poet.
Being really, honestly surprised, especially these days, can feel thrilling—which is what makes Mammals, the new Prime Video series from the Tony-winning playwright Jez Butterworth, so hard to write about. There’s a revelation at the very end that turns the entirety of what we’ve just seen on its head; rewatching the first few episodes after that, which I did, was a bracingly new experience.
Jokes are rich notions. The Black comedic and satirical traditions have for decades fascinated scholars and comedians, many of whom have converged on the idea that trauma is a defining feature of Black comedy. W. E. B Du Bois wrote in The Humor of Negroes that humor is partly “a defense mechanism; reaction from tragedy; oppositions set out in the face of hurt and insult.
A difficult labor—30 hours!—and someone has to make the terrible decision. Right there in a Buckingham Palace bedroom, with mother and child etherized upon the table, deft hands make the cut, the unwilling baby is tugged out—and it’s done.A boy! Clever girl.To sleep, to sleep, to sleep.Posted on the gates of the palace, a handwritten announcement:Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth Duchess of Edinburgh was safely delivered of a Prince at 9.
The inside story of how lobbying, threats and the desire to protect industry gutted a proposal that was meant to make vaccines widely available in poorer countries.
Members of the state House refused to budge on their proposal to ban abortion starting at conception with exceptions for rape, incest and if the life of the pregnant person is in danger.
A surge in turnout among people motivated by the erosion of abortion rights carried Democrats to victory in multiple races.
The Republican-controlled state, where lawmakers have long resisted Medicaid expansion, is the seventh in the last five years to do so at the ballot box — and likely the last to do so for some time.
Inflation has cooled only slightly and job growth remains strong.
A new POLITICO-Morning Consult poll suggests voters’ views of the economy are baked in.
Housing investment, though, plunged at a 26 percent annual pace, hammered by surging mortgage rates.
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.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Haaland v. Brackeen, a case challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act and ultimately threatening the legal foundations of federal Indian law. ICWA was created in 1978 to address the systemic crisis of family separation in Native communities waged by the U.S. and requires the government to ensure foster children are adopted by members of their Indigenous tribes, as well as blood relatives, before being adopted by non-Indigenous parents.
After Democrat Mark Kelly was named the winner in the Arizona Senate race, Trump cries “scam and voter fraud.
The far-right lawmaker’s race against Democrat Adam Frisch remains extremely tight and could be headed for a recount.
“She doesn’t like being in the news. She doesn’t like her name being attached to the rants and ravings of her husband,” said CNN correspondent Kate Bennett.
The envelope had reportedly been sent to the GOP gubernatorial candidate’s Arizona campaign headquarters.
Pay-as-you-hate service was temporarily suspended as Twitter was inundated with fake accounts. But extremists were still on Friday with “verification.
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly has defeated Republican Blake Masters in Arizona’s Senate race. Arizona has been one of the hardest-fought battlegrounds this year, after both Kelly and President Joe Biden won narrowly in 2020. That marked the first time the state had two Democratic senators since 1953 and just the second time a Democrat had won the state’s presidential election since 1948.
UPDATE: Friday, Nov 11, 2022 · 8:12:34 PM +00:00
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Mark Sumner
Here’s a highlight for the captured equipment reel.
“Some capture tanks – but we focus more on helicopters!” Hey, @MoD_Russia! You forgot something! #RussianArmy #RussiaIsLosing pic.twitter.
An alarming report released on Monday by the U.S. Global Change Research Program reveals that the country has been warming 68% faster than the entire planet. Frontline communities, many of whom the report notes are Indigenous, low-income, or marginalized, were found to be the most burdened by this escalation in global warming.
UPDATE: Saturday, Nov 12, 2022 · 2:18:08 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter
Democrats will hold both chambers of the legislature, so Lombardo will definitely be checked by the legislative branch.
Republican Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo has toppled incumbent Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, winning the Nevada governor’s office for Republicans.
When it comes to defining extremist views, somehow, the Republican Party can’t bring itself to consider that the demon is actually inside its own house.
In a recent appearance on Chris Wallace’s series Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace on HBO Max, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) took no time to push back when Wallace asked if she would concede that “people want both parties to move from the fringes, from the extremes back to the center.
When I spoke with Sam Bankman-Fried three weeks ago, he was crypto’s golden boy. Worth about $15 billion, this quirky 30-year-old led one of the industry’s largest empires. Over the past few years, he’s palled around with Bill Clinton, graced the cover of Fortune magazine, and turned himself into a three-letter initialism: SBF. Toward the end of our rambling, 90-minute interview, Bankman-Fried dropped a casual hint at the state of his finances.
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.This was probably the most chaotic week for the social-media business in years, maybe ever. I called my colleague Charlie Warzel, who has been tweeting (and writing) through it, for a recap and his prediction for what comes next.But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
Early on Wednesday morning, while I was scrolling through Twitter in order to learn the midterm-election results in the most piecemeal and confusing fashion possible, I noticed something a little off.