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The GOP’s Dispiriting Display
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 first GOP primary debate confirmed the end of the old Republican Party and squelched any hope for a normal presidential election in 2024.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
The mercenary always loses.
Good News for Your Sad, Beaten-Up iPhone
On Saturday, my wife delicately removed the phone from my hands. It was making me seem a little crazed, she said. I had been on it all day. Closing on a story, refreshing Slack, scrolling through social media, checking my email. I had just texted a friend to recommend an accessory for a vacuum cleaner; it felt like it demanded my urgent attention, the way everything else on the screen did. “i got a horse hair attachment for thr vacuum it js so amazjng,” I had typed, just like that.
The Mercenary Always Loses
In 2019, a Russian foreign-policy hand told me that his country had intervened in Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad for reasons that were, he said, “pedagogical.” Putin had watched the Bush and Obama administrations insert themselves into Iraq, Libya, and Syria, leaving messes in each. Now he would teach America how to intervene right: swiftly, decisively, and without sermonizing about “democracy,” “human rights,” and suchlike twaddle.
Should the U.S. Keep Funding War in Ukraine? Debate Reveals Deep Divisions Within Republican Party
The first Republican presidential primary debate highlighted “deep divisions within the Republican Party about foreign policy,” says The Nation’s national affairs correspondent John Nichols. He says the nationalist “America First” ideology championed by former President Donald Trump is now being pushed even further by Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis, who are critical of U.S.
GOP Candidates Refuse to Say Climate Change Is Caused by Humans; Vivek Ramaswamy Calls It a “Hoax”
On the same day a heat wave forced Milwaukee, Wisconsin, public schools to close for the day, moderators at the first Republican presidential debate in the city asked candidates if they believed climate change was caused by human activity. Their answers ranged from avoidance to outright denial. “I think this sums up the Republican Party at this point,” says John Nichols, national affairs correspondent at The Nation.
6 of 8 GOP Candidates Vow to Back Trump as Party’s Nominee Even If He Is Convicted
We feature highlights on climate change, foreign policy and Trump from the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 race and speak with John Nichols, The Nation’s national affairs correspondent.
Two Months After Mutiny in Russia, Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin Dies in Plane Crash
Yevgeny Prigozhin, longtime leader of the private Russian mercenary Wagner Group, has reportedly died in a plane crash two months after his group launched a short-lived armed mutiny against Vladimir Putin. Several other key figures with the Wagner Group were also reportedly killed in the crash. The crash was “not unexpected,” says Kimberly Marten, Barnard College professor of political science, who has been researching and writing about the Wagner Group for years.
CDC, pharmacies try to speed up Covid vaccine program for the uninsured
The timing gap prompted concerns from public health experts, who fear that it would further complicate the fall vaccination campaign.
Generic drug giants settle federal price-fixing charges
The settlements resolve a long-running criminal probe of the generic pharmaceutical industry dating to 2014.
GOP push to get more Americans into high-deductible health is dividing Democrats
Bipartisan legislation aims to get more Americans into high-deductible insurance, but perils would remain.
Biden’s fall Covid vaccine rollout for the uninsured won’t include pharmacies at first
The administration doesn’t expect to finalize contracts with pharmacies distributing the vaccine to the uninsured until mid-October, weeks after the shot is made widely available.
‘Pathetic’: Voters of color slam Biden’s performance on the economy
“Our economy is the lowest it’s been.
Biden’s approval rating for the economy remains at about a third, poll finds
The Biden administration has hit hard the president’s economic policy, known as “Bidenomics,” amid falling inflation, steady job growth and diminished talk of a forthcoming recession.
The White House plays it cool as ‘Bidenomics’ struggles to catch on
The president made a big bet on owning the economy. His team says give it time.
DeSantis’ conservative populism has left some donors chafing
The Florida governor has made a name for himself with the fights he’s picked.
In Major Win for Indigenous Rights, Ecuador Votes to Ban Oil Drilling in Protected Amazon Lands
Ecuadorian voters have overwhelmingly supported a ban on future oil extraction in a biodiverse section of the Amazon’s Yasuní National Park — a historic referendum result that will protect Indigenous Yasuní land from development.
Vijay Prashad on BRICS & Why Global South Cooperation Is Key to Dismantling Unjust World Order
As a two-day BRICS summit gets underway in South Africa, we speak with author and analyst Vijay Prashad about whether the bloc — which comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — can meaningfully challenge U.S. and Western domination in world affairs by building an alternative forum for countries of the Global South.
Lawrence O’Donnell Has Bold Prediction About Trump’s ‘Greatest Humiliation’
The MSNBC host said this moment will define Trump “for hundreds of years.
Ron DeSantis Wasted His Big Moment, And 4 Other GOP Debate Takeaways
The first Republican presidential debate was notable for what it didn’t do to help Florida’s governor as other candidates seized the spotlight in Milwaukee.
Joe Biden Drops 3 Sharp Words On GOP In A Swift Flip Of Nikki Haley’s Debate Jab
Biden cooked up a brief message alongside Haley’s remarks after she went after fellow candidates at the first GOP presidential debate.
Vivek Ramaswamy Got The Front-Runner Treatment In The First GOP Presidential Debate
Ron DeSantis who? The 2024 field aiming their guns on a political newcomer is another sign of the Florida governor’s weakened position in the race.
Despite Cracks In Support, Most GOP Presidential Candidates Want More Ukraine Aid
Mike Pence, Nikki Haley and Chris Christie say the issue is a moral as well as strategic one.
Ramaswamy and the Rest
The epigraph for the first 2024 Republican presidential debate came from Vivek Ramaswamy. “It is not morning in America. We’re living in a dark moment,” he said, midway through the melee in Milwaukee. He seemed to speak for every candidate on the stage during a dour and punchy evening on Fox News.Ramaswamy was a fitting messenger for the mantra, because the debate was his coming out party. He was, if not definitively the winner of the debate, clearly the main character.
The Book-Piracy Problem
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.Last week, The Atlantic published an investigation revealing that tens of thousands of pirated books are being used to train major generative-AI programs.
Prigozhin’s Death Heralds Even More Spectacular Violence
Updated at 8:20 p.m. ET on August 23, 2023Vladimir Putin’s Russia has long been a land of mysterious deaths. In 1998, soon after he had been appointed head of the security services, Galina Starovoitova, a parliamentarian who believed in bringing democracy to Russia, was gunned down in the stairwell of her apartment building in St. Petersburg.
Yevgeny Prigozhin May Have the Last Laugh
Initial reports suggest that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the ruthless mercenary leader of the Wagner Group, has been killed. Although confirmed details are scant, his private plane has allegedly crashed or been shot down, an event that many have interpreted as an assassination. Prigozhin probably knew to stay away from windows in high buildings, so it seems plausible that Vladimir Putin took him out at 28,000 feet instead.Coup plotters rarely die of old age.
A Very Public Execution in Russia
A plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary chief who led a short-lived mutiny two months ago, crashed today in a sparsely populated area northwest of Moscow. According to Russian media, Prigozhin and at least one of his top commanders are dead.
White House to name first 10 drugs for Medicare negotiations early
The administration is expected to unveil the first 10 drugs selected for price negotiations Tuesday, in a milestone for the president’s health agenda.