Top Gun came out in the spring of 1986, a movie so big, so wall-to-wall, so resistance-is-futile that you just had to coexist with the damn thing until it finally went away. Now—like one of those flowers that comes into bloom only once every 40 years—it’s back.Apparently Paramount had been after Tom Cruise to make a sequel before the original even opened, which is no surprise.
Summer is a season for vacations, relaxation, and restoration. As such, it can prove an ideal time to return to the classic texts we all know and love (and with some well-earned, unencumbered attention to boot). Close and serious reading can happen anywhere: no matter if you’re splayed on a towel atop a sandy swath, or lounging on a back porch with a boozy spritz by your side. While the body enjoys the day’s languor, the mind must not burn out.
Even as we watch the reservoirs and lakes of the West go dry, we keep watering our lawns, soaking our golf courses, and growing water-thirsty crops.As inflation mounts and the national debt balloons, progressive politicians vote for ever more spending.As the ice caps melt and record temperatures make the evening news, we figure that buying a Prius and recycling the boxes from our daily Amazon deliveries will suffice.
The Food and Drug Administration is convening an advisory panel later this year to investigate
The company is currently challenging a Mississippi law that effectively banned telehealth abortions by making patients see doctors in person.
I always pined for the wide open, though I grew up in suburban Maryland, hemmed in by private land and no trespass signs. Even as a boy, one with his nose in books, I knew that the East had not always been so parceled into private fiefdoms. In fact, it had once been a place where anyone could roam, more open than the West is today.
Fears have mounted that the central bank might trigger a recession sometime in the next year with its aggressive rate action.
Things are so dire that central bank policymakers might hike rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, a move not taken in almost 30 years.
America’s rampant inflation is imposing severe pressures on families, forcing them to pay much more for food, gas and rent.
As activists across the U.S. are mobilizing to defend reproductive rights, we speak to the Dutch physician Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, who has dedicated her life to circumventing anti-abortion laws, including providing abortions on ships in international waters and sending abortions pills around the world. She also discusses navigating censorship on social media platforms, telemedicine, the future of contraception and more.
We go to San Antonio, where 53 migrants seeking refuge in the U.S. died earlier this week after being confined to a sweltering tractor-trailer. Human rights advocates blamed the tragedy on restrictive immigration policies like the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as MPP or the “Remain in Mexico” program.
In a blow to climate activism, the Supreme Court on Thursday severely limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to place emission caps on power plants. In the case, West Virginia v. EPA, several states led by West Virginia and fossil fuel companies fought against the regulations imposed by the Obama administration under the Clean Air Act.
Eight years after the deadly Flint water crisis began, the state’s Supreme Court has thrown out charges against former Governor Rick Snyder and eight other former officials for their complicity in the public health emergency.
Kristina Karamo, the Republican nominee for secretary of state in Michigan, has also claimed sex can cause demonic possession.
Trump was trying to “overthrow the government so that he could stay in power,” said Sandra Garza, Brian Sicknick’s longtime partner.
After witness Cassidy Hutchinson described the state of the White House before and during the Jan. 6, 2021 coup attempt, Republicans rushed to discredit her testimony last week. It didn’t stick—and new information corroborates her account of a Trump who was furious he couldn’t personally lead the armed mob he had assembled.
Why is it that, with a few notable exceptions, prominent Republicans almost always wait until they’re on their way out the door to slag off Donald Trump? They’re like B-movie ninjas who attack an enemy one at a time.
At the beginning of May, Russian forces still occupied the ring of towns and villages just outside Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv. From that position, they rained down a constant barrage of artillery into the city, damaging over half the apartment buildings and homes, reducing some neighborhoods to smoldering wreckage, and making anything that looked like normal day-to-day life impossible.
“A man as dangerous as Donald Trump can absolutely never be anywhere near the Oval Office ever again,” the panel’s vice chair said.
How often have you heard Harry S. Truman’s phrase: “The most important job I ever held was that of precinct committeeman”? If you are involved in local and state politics, you may have heard this phrase quite often. Depending on who you ask within the Democratic establishment, precinct committee persons can be incredibly important or of very little consequence.
But the defender of the wealthy gets schooled by White House.
This article was originally published at Prism
On June 15, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program officially turned 10. The program has allowed over 600,000 “dreamers,” young, undocumented immigrants who were largely raised in the U.S., to apply to work and study in the country without fearing deportation since former President Barack Obama signed the executive order in 2012. But the program has faced continuous legal challenges.
Kinzinger says more evidence is emerging that supports testimony that President Trump wanted to join an angry riot that marched to the Capitol.
South Dakota Republican Kristi Noem didn’t endorse an abortion.
“This entire court battle was never about winning a court case,” Gov. Tate Reeves said.
“But unlike the previous administration, we do intend to respect the law,” the HHS secretary said.
I turn and don’t expect my mother’s face
I ask how did you enter this poem
she says it wasn’t easyshe is dressed in my favorite horse-print silk sheath
and dripping lake water
says she wore it to trick my loverI want to ask how could you but instead
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“I was humbled to be awarded an honorary degree by the London School of Economics earlier this week. Thank you so much for this prestigious honour!”— Tweet from Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central BankWhenever I feel particularly humble, I tweet about myself. I have never earned an honorary degree from the London School of Economics, but if I ever did, I’d certainly tweet the hell out of it.
The ad that signaled the coming catastrophe for democracy in North Carolina appeared just four days before the November 2012 election. As the ad opened, a woman’s voice wondered aloud whether voters “can trust Sam Ervin IV to be a fair judge.” Ervin, captured in black and white, looks shifty, moving his eyes back and forth before turning his head suddenly as if he is on the run.
The San Francisco School Board recently returned the admissions policy at Lowell, the city’s most prestigious public high school, to the merit-based system that it had used for more than a century. Thus ended a short-lived lottery introduced in the name of racial equity. The board also abandoned a campaign to erase “The Life of Washington,” a WPA-era mural at George Washington High School by the artist Victor Arnautoff.