Nicolle Wallace Literally Laughs Out Loud At Ron DeSantis’ Bizarre Promise
The MSNBC host has a blunt fact-check for the Florida governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate.
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Trump Slams Longtime Loyalist Kayleigh McEnany With A Weird New Nickname
The former president turned on his onetime press secretary.
House Republicans Project Confidence Ahead of Vote On Debt Limit Deal
After huddling with members, party leaders downplayed divisions.
Tara Reade, Former Aide Who Accused Biden Of Assault, Moves To Russia
The president has repeatedly rejected the allegations.
Billionaire Sackler Family To Get Immunity In $6 Billion Opioid Settlement
The family will receive full protection from civil legal claims under the deal, which was approved by a federal appeals court.
The Culture War Within the Debt Debate
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.Over the weekend, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed on a bill to raise the debt ceiling. If the bill passes the House Rules Committee vote today, then House Republicans will vote on it later this week.
The Most Compelling Female Character on Television
The last time we saw Happy Valley’s Catherine Cawood, she was trying—and quite magnificently failing—to capture one of her police-force colleagues, the nebbishy John Wadsworth, who’d finally been implicated in the murder of his lover. The pursuit is a bleak comedy of errors: Directed by her superiors not to pursue John down train tracks, Catherine mutters “bollocks” and follows him anyway. The pair end up on a bridge in relentless rain.
The Trees Don’t Care About Us
Silent observers of our lives, trees are on most peoples’ radar only at moments of transition or death: We mark springtime’s budding and autumn’s flamboyance; note somberly the tree felled by a storm or by the tiny, ravenous ash borer. Although emblematic of nature, they nonetheless are seen with the goggles of our human-centered vision, and thus barely seen at all.
What the Pandemic Simulations Missed
In October 2019, just a few months before a novel coronavirus sparked a deadly pandemic, a group of government officials, business leaders, and academics convened in New York City to role-play a scenario in which a novel coronavirus sparked a deadly pandemic. Their imagined virus leaped from livestock to farmers in Brazil, then spread to Portugal, the United States, and China. Soon, it was everywhere. Eighteen months later, 65 million people were dead.
“King: A Life”: New Bio Details Extensive FBI Spying & How MLK’s Criticism of Malcolm X Was Fabricated
We speak in depth with journalist Jonathan Eig about his new book, King: A Life, the first major biography of the civil rights leader in more than 35 years, which draws on unredacted FBI files, as well as the files of the personal aide to President Lyndon Baines Johnson, to show how Johnson and others partnered in the FBI’s surveillance of King and efforts to destroy him, led by director J. Edgar Hoover.
Debt Deal Raises Military Spending & OKs WV Pipeline While Introducing New Work Rules for Food Stamps
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are urging lawmakers to support a deal to suspend the debt ceiling until January 1, 2025, in order to prevent the United States from defaulting on its debt for the first time in history. The two leaders reached a tentative agreement over the Memorial Day long weekend, but it must still be approved by Congress before a June 5 deadline, when the government is expected to run out of money to pay its bills.
Minnesota wanted to curb health spending. Mayo Clinic had other ideas.
The battle showed how hard it can be to tackle rising health care costs.
POLITICO Q&A: American Medical Association President Jack Resneck
Resneck talks to POLITICO about the group’s challenges — from legal threats to AI — as he prepares to step down.
HIV infections drop, but racial gaps remain
Debt ceiling talks and court battles risk also cutting off public health funding and PrEP drug access.
The debt ceiling deal could make America’s STD problem much worse
Negotiations between Biden and GOP leaders are targeting public health dollars slated for combating record infection rates.
Federal judges grill Biden administration on abortion pill
During a two-hour oral argument, the judges appeared sympathetic to an anti-abortion medical group seeking to revoke the FDA’s approval of mifepristone.
What’s in Sanders’ ‘bold’ plan for health care
His effort is the latest sign the progressive stalwart is toggling between his activist persona while pressing for a deal on what he thinks can pass a narrowly divided Senate.
U.S. prices pick up, showing inflation pressures persist
The Fed is paying particular attention to so-called core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs and are regarded as a better gauge of longer-term inflation trends.
The under-the-radar issues that could shake up 2024
POLITICO asked a panel of strategists and elected officials what under-the-radar issue they think could play an outsize role in 2024.
US economy grew at weak 1.1% rate in Q1 in sign of slowdown
The slowdown reflects the impact of the Fed’s aggressive drive to tame inflation.
Memorial Day Massacre: Chicago Cops Killed 10 During 1937 Steel Strike, Then the Media Covered It Up
We look at the largely forgotten 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, when police in Chicago shot at and gassed a peaceful gathering of striking steelworkers and their supporters, killing 10 people, most of them shot in the back. It was a time like today, when unions were growing stronger. The workers were on strike against Republic Steel, and the police attacked them with weapons supplied by the company. The tragic story is told in a new PBS documentary.
Spike Lee on “Malcolm X” & How Hollywood Almost Prevented Landmark Film from Being Made
May 19 marked what would have been the 98th birthday of Malcolm X. The director Spike Lee gave the keynote address at an event marking the day at the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, which is housed in the former Audubon Ballroom in New York where Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965.
“Education Leads to Liberation”: Nikole Hannah-Jones on The 1619 Project & Teaching Black History
As attacks on the teaching of Black history escalate in Florida and other states, we hear from The New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her work on “The 1619 Project.” She spoke on May 19 at the Malcolm X and Dr.
Seditious Conspiracy: Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes Gets 18 Years in Prison for Jan. 6
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right Oath Keepers group, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol. It is the longest sentence handed down so far to any participant in the January 6 insurrection, when thousands of Trump supporters stormed the halls of Congress to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential victory.
Ron DeSantis Kicks Off Campaign In Iowa As He Steps Up Criticism Of Donald Trump
The Florida governor’s two-day trip to the leadoff caucus state comes after a stumbling online announcement that formalized his entry into the GOP field.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Memorial Day Message Has A Massive Mistake
The conspiracy theorist lawmaker’s holiday Twitter post had a key problem.
Texas Lawmakers Set Timeline For Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Impeachment Trial
“We will manage this process with the weight and reverence it deserves and requires,” a Republican lawmaker said Monday.
Biden Has Priceless Response To Fox News Question On Possible Trump Pardon
The president said plenty — without saying much at all.
Sen. Chris Murphy Says Republican Party Is ‘Addicted To Chaos’
The Connecticut Democrat said that the GOP’s handling of the federal debt negotiations is “terrible for the country and for our reputation abroad.
Free Julian Assange: Noam Chomsky, Dan Ellsberg & Jeremy Corbyn Lead Call at Belmarsh Tribunal
Former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and famed linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky joined others earlier this year calling on President Biden to drop charges against Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks founder has been languishing for over four years in the harsh Belmarsh prison in London while appealing extradition to the United States. If he is extradited, tried and convicted, Assange faces up to 175 years in jail for violating the U.S.