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.
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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.
Biden, GOP Reach Tentative Deal To Raise Debt Ceiling, Avoid Calamitous US Default
The Democratic president and Republican speaker reached the agreement after the two spoke earlier Saturday evening.
Texas Bill To Bar Trans Athletes From College Sports Headed To Governor’s Desk
Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign the bill blocking trans college athletes from playing on teams that align with their gender identity.
Texas House Votes To Impeach GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton
Paxton has accused his Republican colleagues of being liberals and one of them of being drunk.
SNAP Work Requirements Among Final Sticking Points In Debt Ceiling Drama
The White House is resisting new limits on food benefits for unemployed adults.
Ron DeSantis Wants To Take His ‘War On Woke’ National. There’s One Big Problem: The Constitution.
Courts have repeatedly rejected the Florida governor’s narrow-minded agenda as a “positively dystopian” assault on free speech and due process.
The Art of Paying Attention
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.“Attention is the beginning of devotion,” the poet Mary Oliver wrote in her final collection of essays. In 2021, the poet Leila Chatti took up Oliver’s words, reflecting on the challenge of them: “All day, the world makes its demands.
Even 90-Degree Heat Could Be Devastating
This story was originally published in High Country News.As 90-degree temperatures bore down on the Pacific Northwest in May, real-time reporting to the CDC showed that heat-related emergency-room-visit rates were more than 30 times higher than they had been the previous weekend. Though state officials caution that the data are preliminary, Oregon and Washington confirmed 160 heat-related ER visits from May 12 to 15.
Political Campaigns May Never Be the Same
Depending on whom you ask in politics, the sudden advances in artificial intelligence will either transform American democracy for the better or bring about its ruin. At the moment, the doomsayers are louder. Voice-impersonation technology and deep-fake videos are scaring campaign strategists, who fear that their deployment in the days before the 2024 election could decide the winner.
The Naturalistic Horror of The Little Mermaid
Fairy tales do not typically stand up to a lot of scrutiny. One does not hear the story of Sleeping Beauty and think, Well, that all seems logical. These gauzy fables function because they only vaguely resemble reality, a condition that makes them perfect as subjects of Disney cartoons.
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.
Dems split on whether parents must know their child is having an abortion
As legislative sessions come to a close, state lawmakers are divided over whether children and teenagers should be able to have an abortion without telling their parents.
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.
Biden Assures Crying Toddler That He’s ‘Bored With’ Himself, Too
Twitter users compared Biden’s exchange with a fussy child to former President Donald Trump’s “get that baby outta here” remark.
Wife Of Former U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Complicit In Epstein Crimes, Court Filing Says
JPMorgan Chase made the allegation in response to a lawsuit from the U.S. territory where the accused sex trafficker had lived.
DeSantis And Trump Fight Over Who Handled The COVID-19 Pandemic Worse
Donald Trump “turned the country over to Fauci,” claimed the Florida governor, who’s now the ex-president’s rival for the Republican presidential nomination.
What Happens if Russia Stashes Nukes in Belarus
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 dictator of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has signed an agreement with Russia to base Russian nuclear weapons in his country. The strategic impact of such a move is negligible, but a lot can go wrong with this foolish plan.
White House Tells Rep. Lauren Boebert: ‘Antisemitism Isn’t Conservative, It’s Evil’
White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates told HuffPost that the congresswoman needs “to look inward” if she “finds opposition to hate threatening.
Trump Rolled Back Decades Of Clean Water Protections. The Supreme Court Just Went Even Further.
The ruling will have “significant repercussions for water quality and flood control” across the U.S., conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh warned in his dissent.
AI Is Unlocking the Human Brain’s Secrets
If you are willing to lie very still in a giant metal tube for 16 hours and let magnets blast your brain as you listen, rapt, to hit podcasts, a computer just might be able to read your mind. Or at least its crude contours.
The Far Right Is Splintering
As Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Stewart Rhodes yesterday to 18 years in prison—the longest yet for a defendant involved in the January 6 insurrection—he explained why the leader of the far-right group the Oath Keepers needed to be behind bars for a long time. “You pose an ongoing threat and peril to our democracy and the fabric of this country,” Mehta told Rhodes.Mehta was right about that. At his sentencing, Rhodes was unrepentant.