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.
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Yellen to stay on as Biden’s Treasury chief as debt fight looms
People close to Yellen said she had considered leaving for family reasons and because the Treasury job is highly political — and would become more so with Republicans in control of the House.
Washington Post Columnists Point Out GOP’s Sarah Huckabee Sanders Problem
The Trump White House press secretary’s State of the Union rebuttal “vividly demonstrates a problem for the GOP,” said Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent.
Sen. John Fetterman Hospitalized Overnight
His staff says he has no signs of another stroke, but will have more tests.
Republicans Push Bill That Would Let Montana Students Misgender Classmates
GOP lawmakers in Montana are co-sponsoring a bill that would allow students to deadname their transgender peers without punishment.
Tucker Carlson Goes To A Dark Place In Weird New Attack On Democrats
“You are promoting an ancient religious rite called human sacrifice,” the Fox News host said during an anti-abortion rant.
Twitter Explodes Over Lauren Boebert’s Clueless State Of The Union Tweet
The Colorado Republican appeared to forget who was president in 2020.
The Legal Decision That Could Rewrite the Abortion Battle—Again
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.At last night’s State of the Union address, the first one since the fall of Roe v. Wade, President Joe Biden pledged to continue working to protect access to reproductive health care amid more than a dozen extreme state-level bans.
George Santos, the GOP’s Useful Liar
After President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union address last night, George Santos offered his appraisal of the proceedings. “SOTU category is: GASLIGHTING!” the representative pronounced in a tweet.The review was curious, coming as it did from a man who has fabricated much of his own biography.
Republicans Keep Underestimating Joe Biden
Joe Biden knows how to handle a tough crowd. This was evident last night at the State of the Union, and it was apparent to me seven years ago, on March 20, 2016. On that day, President Barack Obama sent Biden to sell the recently struck Iran nuclear deal to the national conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). This was the political equivalent of asking the vice president to push New York Times subscriptions at a Donald Trump rally.
The Challenges of Disaster Planning
Updated at 4:56 pm ET on February 8, 2023This is an edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf. On Wednesdays, he rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.
Long Live the Octogenarian Sex Record
After Smokey Robinson announced his upcoming album, many music listeners were aghast. The Motown legend, at the age of 82, unfurled the most blatantly sexual record title of his career: Gasms. It didn’t help that the album, which will be released in late April, includes songs such as “I Wanna Know Your Body” and, ahem, “I Fit in There.” Predictably, the subsequent volley of Viagra jokes alone could’ve crashed Twitter.
Have Movements Pushed Biden to the Left? Rep. Delia Ramirez & Economist Dean Baker Respond to SOTU
President Joe Biden delivered his second State of the Union address Tuesday, touting his administration’s achievements and laying out his plans for the next two years under a divided Congress, including on immigration, the economy, the climate crisis and more.
Rep. Delia Ramirez to Biden: Further Militarizing the Border Is Not the Answer to Immigration
Democratic Congressmember Delia Ramirez of Illinois praises President Biden for proposing a path to citizenship in his State of the Union address on Tuesday for the millions of undocumented immigrants in the country. “My problem is the militarizing of the border,” she adds. Ramirez, who delivered a response to the State of the Union speech on behalf of the Working Families Party, says compassion should be at the center of the debate on immigration.
Matt Duss on Biden’s State of the Union & the Risks of an Anti-China Consensus in Washington
President Biden delivered his second State of the Union speech Tuesday and discussed his administration’s support for Ukraine, growing tensions with China and other international challenges. Foreign policy scholar and former Bernie Sanders adviser Matt Duss says one major missing theme was the “global war on terror.” “We need to acknowledge that this war is still very much ongoing,” says Duss, noting that thousands of U.S. troops are deployed around the world.
Biden Condemns Police Murder of Tyre Nichols as Congressional Push for Police Reform Remains Stalled
President Joe Biden delivered his second State of the Union address Tuesday, his first before a divided Congress where Republicans now hold a slim majority in the House of Representatives. Biden, who is widely believed to be gearing up for reelection in 2024, repeatedly asked lawmakers to work with him to “finish the job.
Mpox is simmering south of the border, threatening a resurgence
Mexico and much of Latin America have refused the vaccines that worked here.
Pot is making people sick. Congress is playing catch-up.
Now that a growing body of evidence says marijuana is bad for you, more regulation is in the offing.
FTC cracking down on companies that share customers’ health data
The latest action, against telehealth firm GoodRx, could have far-reaching implications for online business models.
House votes to end Covid public health emergency
The symbolic vote comes a day after President Joe Biden said he’d end the emergency on May 11.
Covid emergency’s end will mean new costs, hassles
Some Americans will have to pay for Covid vaccines and treatments, but the changes don’t end there.
Pfizer reports record revenue, expects Covid-19 vaccines to be commercialized later this year
Company executives said they estimated 2023 would be a transition year as the company pivots to a commercial market instead of a government market.
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.
Yellen to stay on as Biden’s Treasury chief as debt fight looms
People close to Yellen said she had considered leaving for family reasons and because the Treasury job is highly political — and would become more so with Republicans in control of the House.
Kimberlé Crenshaw on Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality & the Right-Wing War on Public Education
We speak with renowned legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw about right-wing efforts to curtail the teaching of African American history, queer studies and other subjects that focus on marginalized communities. The College Board, the nonprofit group that designs AP courses for high school seniors, recently revised a curriculum for a course in African American studies after criticism from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and others who maligned it as “woke indoctrination.
War as Crime of Aggression: Reed Brody on Prosecuting Putin & Probing Western Leaders for Other Wars
As the war in Ukraine nears the one-year mark, we speak with veteran war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody about a growing movement to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin and his closest allies criminally responsible for the invasion. The Ukrainian government has called for a special tribunal to prosecute Russian leaders, modeled on the Nuremberg trials of Nazi officials after World War II.
George Santos Said Biden SOTU Was ‘Gaslighting’ And You Know What Happened Next
Critics took the serial fabulist Republican’s four-word review and threw it right back at him.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ ‘Normal Or Crazy’ Challenge Backfires Spectacularly
There’s one line her critics agreed with — but probably not in the way she was hoping.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Becomes Meme Of The Night For All The Wrong Reasons
White Witch? Cruella? Pennywise? The Republican congresswoman’s critics have some thoughts.