There is a reason, former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor explains, why Trump did nothing on Jan. 6 to stop the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The reason is simple: Trump gleefully watched the sordid events unfold on television while his aides panicked and pleaded with him fruitlessly to do something because he wanted people to die.
A “sizable percentage of the employee population felt sympathetic to the group that stormed the Capitol,” a person wrote in an email to Paul Abbate.
The GOP is massively outspending the party’s two major super PACs, though Senate Democrats could hold up better than their House counterparts.
This article was originally published in Hakai Magazine.On a snowy January morning in 2022, I walked into Duo, an exclusive little restaurant in the heart of the southern Italian town of Lecce, carrying a polystyrene box filled with two frozen, plate-size jellyfish. With me was Antonella Leone, a senior researcher at the Italian National Research Council’s Institute of Sciences of Food Production, who held an authorization letter for Chef Fabiano Viva to legally handle the sea creatures.
Foreign rivals are developing vaccines that could stop transmission before the U.S., and that’s a potential biosecurity threat.
This story contains some spoilers for all three seasons of Derry Girls.After three uproarious seasons, Derry Girls, a television show about four teenage girls and one teenage boy living in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, has ended.
Editor’s Note: Read Oliver Munday’s new short story “Getting Up.” “Getting Up” is a new story by Oliver Munday, an associate creative director for The Atlantic. To mark the story’s publication, Munday and Katherine Hu, an assistant editor for the magazine, discussed the story over email. Their conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.
“Steve.”There is a pause.“Steve.”The tiny voice is adamant, frustrated.“Steeeeeeeeve.”The man does not look up.“Steve. Steve. Steve,” she chants.It is early—always early.Carter, his daughter, laughs. “You’re Steve.”That his name is Haiden has ceased to matter. He would love, simply, to go by Dad, or Daddy, but since her third birthday weeks ago, Carter has been stubborn—or dedicated, depending on his vantage.
The first Harry Potter film initially depicts the night Harry learns he’s a wizard like a scene from a horror movie. Harry and the disagreeable Dursleys—his uncle, aunt, and cousin—have escaped to a cottage on a remote island, attempting to outrun the letters alerting Harry to his magic. But the messenger arrives anyway, in the form of a half-giant named Hagrid.
While it declined to lift the injunction, the Indiana Supreme Court did agree to Attorney General Todd Rokita’s request to take the case and scheduled oral arguments for January.
Amid confusion and fatigue, only a fraction of eligible Americans have gotten the new Covid-19 booster.
The state’s medical sector is campaigning in unprecedented ways, motivated by abortion and concerns about their profession.
The ruling means that abortions can again take place in Arizona, at least for now, unless the state Supreme Court steps in.
It’s a rare moment for a Fed chair to toss aside all political considerations and ignore frantic investors.
The Fed’s interest rate hikes have fueled market turmoil by boosting the value of the dollar and feeding higher borrowing costs.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb inflation.
Despite the signs of moderating price increases, inflation remains far higher than many Americans have ever experienced and is keeping pressure on the Federal Reserve.
The plan touted by the U.S. Treasury secretary aims to diminish the Kremlin’s revenue while preserving the global oil supply.
Russia launched a fourth day of missile strikes against multiple Ukrainian cities and towns Thursday, targeting Ukraine’s electricity systems and leaving many areas without power. The escalated attacks come after President Vladimir Putin had accused Ukraine of blowing up a key bridge connecting Russia to Crimea last week. Meanwhile, the United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn Russia’s annexation of four territories seized from Ukraine.
The Donald Trump loyalist and rival Mandela Barnes were asked to say something nice about each other. Barnes obliged but Johnson went on the attack.
Politicians scrambling to come up with name and motive behind leaked recording of shocking racism during meeting a year ago that led to resignation of City Council president.
Trump continued to fan the flames Jan. 6 even though the “Justice Department and Mr. Trump’s own campaign repeatedly told him that his fraud claims were without basis,” the newspaper noted.
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Friday brought us a debate between Sen. Raphael Warnock and Trump-supported domestic abuser, conservative Christian family values hypocrite Herschel Walker. It has been a roller coaster ride. There will likely be volumes written about every bizarre half-coherent statement made by Walker but we are going to focus on just one.
And this one fun moment was when Sen.
Independent candidate Mike Itkis, who’s running against Rep. Jerry Nadler, said he’s “kind of a nerd who doesn’t like to be the center of attention if I can avoid it.
“Unless you’re eating right, insulin is doing you no good,” Walker, the GOP Senate candidate in Georgia, said in Friday’s debate against Raphael Warnock.
For the Oath Keepers now on trial for charges of seditious conspiracy, some of the largest hurdles defendants Stewart Rhodes, Kelly Meggs, Thomas Caldwell, Kenneth Harrelson, and Jessica Watkins must clear are those the Justice Department has erected through a staggering number of evidentiary text messages, emails, social media posts, group chats, handwritten notes, speeches, or podcast appearances that flowed throughout the extremist network for weeks ahead of, on, and after Jan.
Republicans and the right-wing media are in full swing with a tactic to powerfully bind their followers to them and to each other through a sense that only they are reasonable and the rest of the world is spinning out of control.
It’s damn difficult just five weeks from Election Day to make a national policy move that is not only wildly popular but that also breaks through to the masses.
But that’s exactly what President Joe Biden appears to have done with his early steps to decriminalize marijuana announced early last week.
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.The final hearing of the House January 6 Committee made clear that a duly elected and sworn president of the United States tried to overthrow the constitutional order. When are we going to act on that knowledge?But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.