‘When do you stop?’: Fed inflation fight could trigger slump
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.
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U.S. inflation hit a new 40-year high last month of 8.6 percent
America’s rampant inflation is imposing severe pressures on families, forcing them to pay much more for food, gas and rent.
After Jan. 6, Meadows & Giuliani Sought Pardons; Cheney Says Trump Allies Tampering with Witnesses
Former aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Cassidy Hutchinson, revealed Tuesday to the House January 6 committee that Meadows and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani both sought pardons after the insurrection. Meanwhile, in a video deposition with Trump’s former national security adviser Mike Flynn, who supported Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, Flynn repeatedly refused to answer questions from committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney.
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger: When You Try A Coup In The U.S., You Have To Pay For That
The Illinois Republican also found it telling that a number of Trump’s close allies had requested presidential pardons after the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
California First To Cover Health Care For All Undocumented Immigrants
The budget will make all low-income adults eligible for the state’s Medicaid program by 2024 regardless of their immigration status.
News roundup: Supreme Court shreds administrative governance, sets sights on democracy itself
The Supreme Court continued to dismantle the very foundations of civil rights and government with a new ruling today claiming that government agencies cannot pass regulations touching on “major questions” if Congress has not written a law authorizing those specific regulations. What counts as a “major question?” Whatever six archconservative Supreme Court justices handpicked for their hostility toward regulations declare to be one, that’s what.
Conservative Washington Examiner on Hutchinson testimony: ‘Trump is a disgrace’
Donald Trump is like an old Chucky doll you threw in a dumpster years ago while packing for a move across the country—and then one day, out of nowhere, he shows up in the seat behind you during your morning bus commute.
Bush Attorney General Lists Crimes Trump Could Be Prosecuted For Over Jan. 6
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he thinks Trump and his allies are “very concerned and very nervous right now.
Alabama Cites Supreme Court Abortion Ruling To Argue For Transgender Medication Ban
The state attorney general’s office stated that gender confirmation treatments are not “deeply rooted in our history or traditions,” and therefore should be banned.
Caribbean Matters: Immigration has an impact on those left behind. Meet the ‘barrel children’
People of the Caribbean diaspora, whether in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, or even further afield, have a long history of outmigration—when people leave one place, permanently, to live in another—for primarily economic reasons.
While decrying the Supreme Six’s EPA ruling, give Kagan, Breyer and Sotomayor hugs for their dissent
Plenty of people have already expressed their sad and righteous fury at the totally expected Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. EPA, the latest in its long roster of reactionary and lethal decisions this session. I’ve had a few things to say too.
The Supreme Court just decided to pour gasoline on a planet afire and to slash the tires of the fire trucks.
San Antonio semi-truck victims sought to help sick loved ones, reunite with family
While officials have said it could possibly take weeks to identify all 53 victims from this past week’s horrific tragedy in San Antonio, some are now publicly known. Two of the youngest were just 13, The Washington Post reports.
Pascual Melvin Guachiac Sipac and Juan Wilmer Tulul Tepaz, Indigenous cousins from Guatemala, started their journey just over two weeks ago. Pascual was seeking to reunite with his dad in the U.S., the report said.
Justice Department To Investigate NYPD’s Sex Crimes Unit
The sweeping inquiry of the police unit that inspired TV’s “Law & Order: SVU” comes following years of complaints about the way they treat crime victims.
The Summer of Our Discontent
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.I remember fondly the way Washington would shut down in the summer so that the city could give itself a breather, but that was before our politics went haywire.First, here’s more from The Atlantic.
The Supreme Court’s EPA ruling is going to be very, very expensive.
Is Biden a Man Out of Time?
The White House’s response to last week’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which in 1973 established a constitutional right to abortion, once again has exposed the tension between the conciliatory instincts President Joe Biden developed during his long career in Washington, D.C., and the ferocity of the modern combat between the two major political parties.
Marcel the Shell Is the Hero the World Needs
This world was not built for the likes of Marcel, the stop-motion-animated minuscule shell who sports pink shoes. Riding in a car makes him vomit repeatedly, unreachable itches make him scream, and typing a single word using a laptop keyboard becomes a full-body workout. Marcel, voiced by the actor and comedian Jenny Slate, can be terribly naive and, given his predilection for corny one-liners, unnervingly candid. (“Guess why I smile a lot?” he observes.
The Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling Is Going to Be Very, Very Expensive
Today’s major environmental ruling from the Supreme Court, West Virginia v. EPA, is probably most notable for what it did not do.It did not say that the Environmental Protection Agency is prohibited from regulating heat-trapping carbon pollution from America’s existing power plants.It also did not strip the EPA of its ability to regulate climate pollution at all.
Flint Residents Outraged as Charges Dropped in Deadly Water Scandal That Poisoned Majority-Black City
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.
ACLU’s David Cole: Supreme Court Conservatives Imposing “Truly Radical Ideology” on U.S. Population
As the Supreme Court ends its term, Justice Stephen Breyer is officially retiring, and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson takes his place as the country’s first Black woman justice, joining a court dominated by conservatives. We speak to ACLU national legal director David Cole about what can be done in the face of lifetime judicial appointments to the nation’s highest court who often rule counter to majority opinion in the country.
Anatol Lieven on NATO Expansion & What a Ukraine Peace Settlement Could Look Like
The United States announced at a NATO summit in Madrid plans to build a permanent military base in Poland, as it formally invited Sweden and Finland to join the military alliance after they applied for membership in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We look at the impact of prolonged U.S. military presence in Europe and the overemphasis on Russia or China as enemies to the West at a time when threats to Western liberal democracy seem to be primarily internal.
Biden administration ramps up monkeypox vaccination amid rising cases
Cities say demand for vaccines is still outstripping supply.
FDA advisers recommend strain update to Covid-19 boosters ahead of expected fall surge
The advisory committee signaled a preference for the strain composition to target the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants.
Failure ‘not an option’: Fed vows all-out fight on inflation
Fears have mounted that the central bank might trigger a recession sometime in the next year with its aggressive rate action.
‘When do you stop?’: Fed inflation fight could trigger slump
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.
U.S. inflation hit a new 40-year high last month of 8.6 percent
America’s rampant inflation is imposing severe pressures on families, forcing them to pay much more for food, gas and rent.
Breyer Officially Retires From Supreme Court Thursday, Clearing Way For Jackson
“It has been my great honor to participate as a judge in the effort to maintain our Constitution and the Rule of Law,” the justice wrote to President Joe Biden.
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger Suggests Lauren Boebert’s Views Akin To ‘Christian Taliban’
The Colorado Republican recently suggested she believes “the church is supposed to direct the government.
News Roundup: Republicans dodge news Trump coordinated violence; Ginni Thomas has second thoughts
Testimony that marked both Donald Trump and Mark Meadows as being aware that the crowd Trump had assembled to march on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 made for the dominant headlines today, and Trump allies were quick to insist that the allegations of Trump throwing food or lunging at his own driver were false.
Jan. 6 Hearings Fuel The Question: Did Trump Commit A Crime?
The House committee investigating the attack has presented damning evidence that Trump and his allies knowingly lied to try and overturn the 2020 election.
Ouch. Even Fox’s talking knuckleheads looked stunned by Cassidy Hutchinson’s Jan. 6 testimony
Well, that was some testimony, huh? Where does Trump go from here, other than further down the road to ignominy? Or maybe he can hop a ride to Antarctica on Hitler’s submarine. I really don’t care, so long as there’s enough Enviromental Protection Agency superfund money left to hoover his Arby’s meat sweats and loser stink lines out of our nation’s delicate moral fabric.
But never mind me.