Biden’s 2022 State of the Union report card: Where he delivered — and fell flat
The president promised a lot last year. Here’s how we graded him on some of those pledges.
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Biden on robust jobs numbers: The ‘critics and cynics are wrong’
Noting the 3.4 percent jobless rate, the lowest since May 1969, the president said “the Biden economic play is working.
Wall Street’s biggest bear: Fed’s Jerome Powell
Fed officials are signaling that they’re determined to keep their vise-like grip on the economy through the end of 2023.
Meet Thelma Cabrera, the Indigenous Leader Barred from Running in Guatemala’s Presidential Election
Guatemala’s presidential election this year is taking place against a backdrop of worsening repression against journalists, human rights activists and Indigenous environmental defenders. The Guatemalan Constitutional Court on Thursday upheld a decision by the country’s electoral tribunal to bar Indigenous human rights defender Thelma Cabrera from running.
Opposition Disputes Nigeria’s Election Results After Ruling Party’s Bola Tinubu Declares Victory
Opposition parties are disputing the results of Saturday’s presidential election in Nigeria, where the country’s Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the winner to be Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress party. The former governor of Lagos played a key role in helping outgoing Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari win two terms in office and campaigned using the slogan “It’s my turn.
Meet the Bronx Activists Who Won a Historic Settlement for NYPD’s Violent Attack at 2020 BLM Protest
New York City has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with peaceful protesters who were violently “boxed in” or “kettled” by NYPD officers during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in response to the police murder of George Floyd in 2020.
Surviving a Pogrom: Palestinian in Huwara Decries Israeli Settler Attack as “Ethnic Cleansing”
On Sunday, Israeli settlers ransacked and torched Palestinian homes in Huwara, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, killing at least one Palestinian resident and injuring dozens of others. The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has accused Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of backing a pogrom in Huwara. Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich said Wednesday that Huwara needs to be “wiped out” and that the state of Israel should do it.
Trump Begins His ‘Final Battle’
Former President Donald Trump gripped the CPAC lectern as he workshopped a new sales pitch: “I stand here today, and I’m the only candidate who can make this promise: I will prevent—and very easily—World War III.” (Wild applause.) “And you’re gonna have World War III, by the way.” (Confused applause.
Trump Says Vote For Him In 2024 To Fund ‘Freedom Cities’ And Flying Cars
Baby booms! Single-family housing! Oh my!
Trump To His Followers: ‘I Am Your Retribution’
The coup-attempting former president brought his usual grievances back to a diminished CPAC
Marianne Williamson Is Officially Running For President Again
The self-help author is the first Democrat to formally challenge President Joe Biden for the 2024 nomination.
At CPAC, A Call For Trans People To Be ‘Eradicated’ Gets Big Cheers
The conservative movement’s annual confab was creepily obsessed with trans kids and showcased the GOP’s alarming and intensifying anti-trans rhetoric.
Astronomers Were Not Expecting This
Humans have long found meaning in the stars, but only recently have we begun to understand whole clusters of them—galaxies, way out in the depths of space. A few nearby galaxies, such as Andromeda, have always been visible to the naked eye as a dusky smear in the night sky.
A Do-Nothing Day Makes Life Better
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.“A few years ago, my wife, Angie, and I made a pact,” Jason Heller writes in The Atlantic. “Every Sunday, we swore to each other, we will abstain from work. And we kept our promise: On the second day of each weekend, we start our morning and end our night by bingeing TV in bed.
The Pulse of Pop Music Is Changing
One of the most popular songs in the world right now presents a musical riddle: Are you supposed to dance or nap? PinkPantheress’s “Boy’s a Liar Pt. 2,” featuring the rapper Ice Spice, sounds both fast and sluggish, new and old. It’s undeniably catchy and yet feels as fleeting as a mild dream. Another vexing fact: Liar is pronounced, in the chorus, “lee-yah.”Really, the No.
‘We Belong Here’
Photographs by Wesaam Al-BadryWesaam Al-Badry was born in Iraq, where he and his family might have stayed if not for the Gulf War, which began when he was 7. In 1991, the family landed at a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia. There, Al-Badry got his first camera, a Pentax K1000. “I didn’t understand the numbers on top, shutter speed, and aperture, but I understood, over time, composition,” Al-Badry told me.
Walgreens won’t distribute abortion pills in states where GOP AGs object
The decision is the latest to demonstrate how widely abortion access can vary state to state in a post-Roe America.
Trump ties GOP in knots over Medicare and Social Security
The former president is assailing his primary opponents for entertaining entitlement cuts in the past — and exacerbating divisions among Hill Republicans in the process.
DeSantis is championing medical freedom. GOP state lawmakers like what they see.
The Florida governor and likely presidential candidate has secured a place for the movement in the conservative mainstream.
Biden on economy: ‘It’s understandable why people are just down’
“I can’t think of a time when there’s been greater uncertainty,” the president said.
Biden’s 2022 State of the Union report card: Where he delivered — and fell flat
The president promised a lot last year. Here’s how we graded him on some of those pledges.
Biden on robust jobs numbers: The ‘critics and cynics are wrong’
Noting the 3.4 percent jobless rate, the lowest since May 1969, the president said “the Biden economic play is working.
Wall Street’s biggest bear: Fed’s Jerome Powell
Fed officials are signaling that they’re determined to keep their vise-like grip on the economy through the end of 2023.
Surviving a Pogrom: Palestinian in Huwara Decries Israeli Settler Attack as “Ethnic Cleansing”
On Sunday, Israeli settlers ransacked and torched Palestinian homes in Huwara, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, killing at least one Palestinian resident and injuring dozens of others. The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has accused Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of backing a pogrom in Huwara. Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich said Wednesday that Huwara needs to be “wiped out” and that the state of Israel should do it.
Nikki Haley Spins Heads With ‘Preposterous Bulls**t’ Claim About ‘Wokeness’
The 2024 GOP presidential candidate’s comments at the Conservative Political Action Conference were slammed as “unspeakable” and “absurd.
Kellyanne Conway, George Conway To Divorce After Decades-Long Marriage: Report
The former Trump White House adviser and frequent Trump critic have expressed contrasting political views in recent years.
Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley Take Veiled Jabs At Donald Trump In CPAC Remarks
But their refusal to call Trump out by name underscored the risks faced by potential and declared challengers worried about alienating the former president’s base.
GOP Strategist Tears Donald Trump Jr., CPAC To Shreds In Scathing Takedown
“This thing now is a scam, pure and simple, top to bottom,” said Mike Murphy, who has advised Republicans including the late John McCain.
Some Disabled People Are Paid Below Minimum Wage. This Bill Would End That.
A group of bipartisan senators and representatives introduced legislation last week that would end subminimum wages for disabled people.