‘Go after it’: GOP strategists say Republicans need to hit Biden on drug pricing
Republicans are working to persuade Americans that the Biden plan will stifle innovation and lead to price controls.
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Drugmakers, trade groups push back against Medicare drug price negotiations
Here are summaries of the cases and where they stand.
Biden is selling an economy on the rise. Voters aren’t buying it so far.
The president leaned into his achievements at a Labor Day event in Philadelphia, but a new poll reflects widespread disapproval.
Gina Raimondo says she complained to Chinese officials about being hacked
“It’s a complicated relationship,” she said of the U.S. and China.
U.S. employers added a solid 187,000 jobs in August in sign of a still-resilient labor market
The unemployment rate rose from 3.5 percent to 3.8 percent, the highest level since February 2022 though still low by historical standards.
A looming child care funding crisis threatens Biden’s economic recovery
About 3 million children could lose child care after funding expires at the end of next month.
‘Pathetic’: Voters of color slam Biden’s performance on the economy
“Our economy is the lowest it’s been.
Salvadoran Writer Javier Zamora on Coping with Trauma from Being Detained & Undocumented in U.S.
Salvadoran poet and writer Javier Zamora discusses the roots of his memoir Solito, which details his odyssey as an unaccompanied 9-year-old child through Guatemala and Mexico to reunite with family in Arizona. “After surviving that nine-week journey, surviving the United States as an undocumented person was perhaps the main reason why I became a writer,” Zamora says.
“The Great Escape”: Saket Soni on Forced Immigrant Labor Used to Clean Up Climate Disasters in U.S.
As extreme weather disasters intensify, the workers who are hired by corporations to clean up after hurricanes, floods, blizzards and wildfires are increasingly on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
For Labor Day 2023, we are rebroadcasting an interview with author and organizer Saket Soni.
Chris Christie Predicts ‘The Minute’ Trump’s 2024 Campaign Will Start To Crumble
The former New Jersey governor explains why he thinks the former president could lose the Republican primary.
Ex-Prosecutor Predicts What Proud Boy Prison Time May Mean For Donald Trump
“Because that’s what the rule of law would require,” said Andrew Weissmann, who spelled out some not-so-good news for the former president.
Russia’s Latest Disaster in Chornobyl
This article is based on interviews and research by the Reckoning Project, a multinational group of journalists and researchers collecting evidence of war crimes in Ukraine. On the afternoon of February 24, 2022, two Russian army commanders, wearing black uniforms with no insignia, entered the office of Valentyn Heyko, the shift supervisor at the Chornobyl State Enterprise.
Michael Cohen Has 2 Blunt Words Of Advice For Trump’s Co-Defendants
Trump’s former personal attorney warned that time is running out for this option.
Special Counsel Says Trump Is Making ‘Daily’ Comments That Risk Biasing Jury Pool
The judge in Trump’s federal election interference case has already warned the former president to “take special care in your public statements about this case.
Gabe Amo, Former White House Official, Wins Rhode Island Congressional Primary
Amo, a Democrat and the son of West African immigrants, is poised to become the first Black person ever to represent Rhode Island in Congress.
The Former Proud Boys Leader Finds Out
Say this for the Proud Boys: They abide by their own creed. “Fuck around, find out!” members of the group, with Joseph Biggs in front, chanted as they marched down the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021.Over the past week, they’ve found out. Enrique Tarrio, the group’s former chairman, was sentenced today to 22 years in prison on charges of seditious conspiracy.
How Jimmy Buffett Created an Empire
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.Jimmy Buffett, the chiller laureate of Key West, died on Friday at 76. His legacy goes well beyond music: He also parlayed the power of his loyal community into a business empire.
A DeSantis Speech Too Dangerous to Teach in Florida
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis does not often find himself attempting to deliver a unifying message, but in the aftermath of the killing of three Black Floridians by an alleged white supremacist in Jacksonville last week, he tried.“What he did is totally unacceptable in the state of Florida,” DeSantis said during a speech at a vigil for the three victims, A.J. Laguerre, Angela Michelle Carr, and Jerrald Gallion, last Sunday.
No deal in sight for global AIDS program as deadline looms
The law governing the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief will lapse on Oct. 1.
“Doing Harm”: Roy Eidelson on the American Psychological Association’s Embrace of U.S. Torture Program
A military judge at Guantánamo has thrown out the confessions of Saudi man Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri because he had been tortured and waterboarded at secret CIA black sites in Afghanistan, Thailand, Poland, Romania and Morocco before being sent to Guantánamo. Psychologists James Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen, who were paid at least $81 million by the CIA to develop and then implement the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program, had waterboarded al-Nashiri at a CIA black site.
Racist Shootings “Don’t Happen in a Vacuum”: Bishop Barber on DeSantis, Trump & Those Who Spread Hate
As federal law enforcement opens an investigation into the Jacksonville, Florida, shooting where a white gunman killed three Black people at a Dollar General as a possible hate crime and act of domestic violent extremism, we speak with civil rights leader Bishop William Barber about the increasing number of racist attacks in America fueled by racism.
Fentanyl is killing kids. State lawmakers are searching for answers.
Families grieving lost children want policymakers to take emergency action.
‘Go after it’: GOP strategists say Republicans need to hit Biden on drug pricing
Republicans are working to persuade Americans that the Biden plan will stifle innovation and lead to price controls.
Drugmakers, trade groups push back against Medicare drug price negotiations
Here are summaries of the cases and where they stand.
How the first 10 drugs set for Medicare negotiations were chosen
While the IRA requires CMS to select the drugs on which Medicare spends the most, experts said calculating annual expenditures is not a cut-and-dried process.
First 10 drugs for Medicare price negotiations chosen
Makers of the drugs have 30 days to agree to participate.
Leopards ate the face of this conservative Idaho community
West Bonner County, Idaho, like most of the state, is Trump country. The four-time indicted former president won 73% of the vote in the county in 2020. And, following their MAGA instincts, county voters swept in a radical right-wing school board in the November 2021 elections.
After seeing those two board members work diligently to destroy their schools, county voters overwhelmingly recalled them last Tuesday.
Gina Raimondo says she complained to Chinese officials about being hacked
“It’s a complicated relationship,” she said of the U.S. and China.
U.S. employers added a solid 187,000 jobs in August in sign of a still-resilient labor market
The unemployment rate rose from 3.5 percent to 3.8 percent, the highest level since February 2022 though still low by historical standards.
A looming child care funding crisis threatens Biden’s economic recovery
About 3 million children could lose child care after funding expires at the end of next month.