Biden’s first year: A tale of 2 presidencies
Inside the White House, there is still optimism: “President Biden was elected to a four-year term, not a one-year term.
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Tucker Carlson Openly Gaslights Viewers About Pro-Russia Stuff He Said Days Ago
“It’s such an awful thing to say,” the Fox News host complained after people accused him of rooting for Russia.
Chris Christie Says What We’re All Thinking Of Trump Calling Putin ‘Savvy’
“How can anyone with any understanding of the world call Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine ‘genius’ and ‘very savvy,’” the former Republican governor asked.
U.S. officials: Russian escalation in Ukraine could lead to humanitarian crisis
Over the last several days, as many as 520,000 people have fled Ukraine, according to the United Nations.
The Future of Ukraine
Listen and subscribe to Radio Atlantic: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher After years of threats, Russian forces invaded Ukraine—culminating in the largest attack against one European state by another since the Second World War. Global leaders, including U.S. President Joe Biden, widely condemned Russia’s actions and announced unprecedented sanctions aimed at a number of the country’s financial institutions and the Russian elite.
NBC Journalist Appears To Wonder Why U.S. Wouldn’t Just Attack Russian Convoy
Foreign correspondent Richard Engel came under fire after questioning if West would “watch in silence” rather than hit Russia — even with nuclear war as a risk.
Arizona Republicans File Lawsuit To Throw Out Absentee Voting
The Arizona Republican Party is asking the state Supreme Court to rule that vote by mail is unconstitutional.
Democrats’ signature abortion rights bill falls short as SCOTUS ruling looms
The 46-48 vote comes just a few months before the Supreme Court is to rule on half-century old protections for the procedure and before the midterm elections.
GOP Filibusters Bill That Would Protect Abortion Rights If Roe v. Wade Falls
The Women’s Health Protection Act would have outlawed hundreds of state-level anti-abortion laws.
The Ukraine War Is Testing the Myth of Elon Musk
On Saturday, Ukraine’s vice prime minister made a plea for help directly to Elon Musk. “While you try to colonize Mars—Russia try to occupy Ukraine! While your rockets successfully land from space—Russian rockets attack Ukrainian civil people!” Mykhailo Fedorov tweeted. “We ask you to provide Ukraine with Starlink stations.
Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy: Announcing Summit From the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and The Atlantic
With democracies across the globe under assault, and as the world turns its attention to Russia’s war on Ukraine, the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and The Atlantic announced today that they will jointly host Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy, a three-day conference exploring the organized spread of disinformation and strategies to respond to it.
Putin Accidentally Revitalized the West’s Liberal Order
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has unleashed a chorus of despair—beyond the cost in Ukrainian lives, the international order that the U.S. and its allies built after World War II is, we are told, crumbling. The writer Paul Kingsnorth has declared that the liberal order is already dead. The Indian journalist Rahul Shivshankar has argued that “in the ruins across Ukraine you will find the remains of Western arrogance.
Bill McKibben on Dire IPCC Climate Report & How Oil and Gas Are Fueling Putin’s Ukraine Invasion
We speak with climate author, journalist and movement leader Bill McKibben upon the release of the highly anticipated U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2022 report, which finds the impacts of the climate crisis are already worse than predicted, driving poverty, hunger, disease and species extinction. McKibben also speaks about how global dependency on oil and gas empowers autocrats like President Vladimir Putin and is helping fuel the Russian war in Ukraine.
In the Footsteps of Constance Motley Brown, Supreme Court Pick Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes History
President Biden on Friday nominated federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill Justice Stephen Breyer’s pending vacancy. If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice.
Putin Puts Russian Nuclear Forces on High Alert as Resistance to Ukraine Invasion Grows
Following a wave of peace rallies held across the globe this weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has agreed to diplomatic talks with Russia. This comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin placed Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert on Sunday, citing increasingly tightened international sanctions.
Report from Kyiv: LGBTQ Activist Says Ukrainians Are United in Resisting Russian Invasion
Ukraine is demanding an immediate ceasefire and for all Russian troops to leave the country as they report more than 350 Ukrainian civilians have so far been killed in President Putin’s invasion, which entered its fifth day Monday. The United Nations is also reporting more than 500,000 people have fled Ukraine and another 100,000 are internally displaced.
Health workers’ vaccine mandate undone by religious exemptions
Several hospital executives said they believe they have to approve the religious exemptions for their employees.
WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala calls for more ‘political will’ on Covid, future pandemics
For more than a year, WTO members have discussed a possible agreement on a Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights waiver.
CDC says most Americans can now take off masks as Covid cases plummet
The announcement comes after weeks of deliberation about what metrics officials should use in deciding when and how to ease public health restrictions.
FTC’s top economist resigned amid dispute over pharma study
Marta Wosinska, the FTC’s Bureau of Economics director, resigned on Feb. 16, a day before the FTC planned to vote on a study into pharmacy benefit managers.
Abortion pill use spikes in Texas as thousands of patients circumvent state’s ban
Orders for the drugs from an international nonprofit spiked 1,180 percent in the first week after the Texas law took effect in September.
CDC relaunching Covid tracker with an eye on eased mandates
The shift comes weeks after state and local officials began forging ahead with their own plans to drop mask measures and vaccination requirements.
Russia oil shock looms over Fed inflation fight
The Fed is already expected to begin a campaign of interest rate increases next month in a bid to remove its support for economic growth amid a blistering job market and rapidly rising prices.
Biden takes victory lap with January jobs report
“America’s job machine is going stronger than ever,” Biden said at the White House.
U.S. employers shrug off Omicron, add 467,000 jobs in January
The burst of jobs came despite a wave of Omicron inflections that sickened millions of workers, kept many consumers at home and left businesses from restaurants to manufacturers short-staffed.
Opinion | Why Are Minority-Owned Banks Disappearing? Washington Holds the Smoking Gun
Congress needs to create a new safety net for such lenders — not let regulators squeeze them out of business.
Biden’s first year: A tale of 2 presidencies
Inside the White House, there is still optimism: “President Biden was elected to a four-year term, not a one-year term.
As Russia Seizes Chernobyl Site, Ukraine’s 15 Nuclear Reactors Pose Unprecedented Risk in War Zone
Russian military activity near Ukraine’s nuclear sites have raised alarm, as triggering any of the volatile reactors around the country could cause nuclear catastrophe for the entire European continent. Russian troops have seized the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and have reportedly taken staff hostage, raising fear that any disturbance could rerelease deadly radiation that has been sealed off for years.
Katrina vanden Heuvel on Putin’s “Indefensible” Invasion & Why NATO Is at the Root of Ukraine Crisis
The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel, who has reported on Russia for decades, says many observers were “shocked” that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine, calling it an “indefensible” decision. President Biden ordered strong sanctions on Russia in response, but he has also heeded critics’ warnings not to send troops to Ukraine in order to avoid a world war.
Ukrainian Peace Activist: My Country Has Become a Battlefield for Major Powers. End the War Now
As officials in Moscow threaten to replace the democratically elected Ukrainian government and Russian forces appear set to overpower Ukrainian defenses, is this the end of an independent Ukraine? We speak with Ukrainian peace activist Nina Potarska, who fled the country after Russian troops entered Ukraine on Thursday, even as her 11-year-old daughter with COVID-19 had to stay behind.