‘Do You Have No Shame?’ George Santos Gets Epic Takedown On Fox News
“A lie is not an embellishment on a resume,” guest host Tulsi Gabbard told the GOP congressman-elect.
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The Most Memorable Advice of 2022
In a year during which people tried to adopt a new normal, Atlantic writers and other experts explored the challenges and rewards of trying new things, the meaning of true optimism, and how to find joy even in difficult times.The stories in our pages—print and digital—explored what it means to be human and provided advice for navigating parenthood and relationships, friendships and the workforce, and more.
A look at Trump’s cratering favorability rating shows men, in particular, really don’t like a loser
Let’s check in on Donald Trump’s favorability rating in Civiqs tracking as the fallout over his midterm Midas touch (ahem!) continues.
Oh, looky, Trump’s favorables have fallen 4 points since Election Day, from 38% to 34%, while his unfavorability has ticked up to 57%. And (almost comically) those who say they are “unsure” about Trump have risen since Jan. 6, 2021, from 3% to 9% now.
Ukraine update: If NATO wants to send Ukraine a modern tank, this is a good choice
When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in front of Congress, his speech included a not-so-subtle hint at what Ukraine needs to prosecute their counteroffensive to a successful conclusion.
Ukraine never asked the American soldiers to fight on our land instead of us. I assure you that Ukrainian soldiers can perfectly operate American tanks and planes themselves.
George Santos admits to some major lies, but a $700,000 mystery remains
Republican Rep.-elect George Santos admitted on Monday to many of the lies he got caught in only after being elected to Congress, but denied the broader implications of his pattern of lying and dodged some of the bigger issues raised by reports. In a series of interviews, Santos admitted to “résumé embellishment” but shrugged it off, saying that “a lot of people overstate in their résumés.
Coup-promoting defeated loser flees to Mar-a-Lago rather than attending rival’s inauguration
After losing his reelection bid last October, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been treading a familiar path of late. Very familiar, in fact. It’s so familiar that rather than repeating his name over and over, we’re just going to give him a completely generic name for the purposes of retelling his very familiar tale. Let’s call him Biff for now.
Southwest Airlines is melting down, cancelling thousands of flights days after the storm ended
A Christmas travel weekend that kicked off with a major winter storm bringing understandable but no less disappointing flight cancellations around the country has spiraled into a total disaster for would-be passengers on one airline in particular.
On the Wednesday through Friday before Christmas, airlines cancelled more than 7,000 flights, with another 20,000 delayed due to Winter Storm Elliott.
Dima and Elon’s Excellent Twitter Adventure
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.Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wrote some Twitter fan fiction over the weekend in which he hallucinated the fall of the West and the rise of the Fourth Reich. Elon Musk thought the thread was “epic.” But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
Senators Slam Southwest, Demand Compensation For ‘Ruined’ Holidays
“Southwest Airlines is failing consumers during the most important travel week of the year,” Sens. Markey and Blumenthal said in a joint statement.
Supreme Court Keeps Immigration Limits In Place Indefinitely
Pandemic-era limits on people seeking asylum will stay in place, dashing hopes of immigration advocates who had been anticipating their end this week.
Kari Lake Will Have To Pay More Than $30K Because Of Her Election Lawsuit
Courts “should not be used to harass political opponents and sow completely unfounded doubts about the integrity of elections,” the complaint read.
Republican Jewish Group: George Santos ‘Deceived Us’
Santos argued he claimed to be “Jew-ish,” not Jewish, while campaigning for a seat in Congress.
Eight Books to Comfort You When You’re Lonely
The holidays are a notoriously fraught time for big feelings, loneliness chief among them. In 2017, the surgeon general declared loneliness an American “epidemic,” with “over 40% of adults” in the U.S. suffering from it. Globally, the rates rose even further when the coronavirus pandemic made gathering dangerous.What makes things tricky is that solitude is not the same as loneliness.
Pandemic Poverty: Ray Suarez on How COVID-19 Set Back Low-Income Workers in the U.S., Especially Women
A new series of video reports by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Intercept called “Insecurity” looks at women leaving the workforce, the impact of the expanded child tax credit, and the wave of union organizing during the pandemic. The series spotlights people navigating food, housing and healthcare insecurity — who are falling through the cracks of the social safety net in the process.
“A Criminal Act”: Taliban Government Bars Women from University, Working for NGOs in Afghanistan
International aid groups are suspending their relief programs in Afghanistan after the Taliban government announced on Saturday that humanitarian organizations are barred from employing women. The edict is the latest blow to women’s rights in the country as the Taliban reimpose draconian rules they employed in the 1990s, when they were previously in power. Last week, the government also barred women from attending universities.
‘The Universe Doesn’t Care That We Have Holidays’
If an asteroid were to gain sentience and set a course for Earth, might it pick a time like the holidays in order to catch the humans off guard? Well, that’s not going to work: Someone is monitoring space for incoming objects, holidays or not.Kelly Fast manages the Near-Earth Object Observations Program at NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, which funds observatory teams at U.S. institutions using telescopes located around the world.
The Married-Mom Advantage
Judging by its press since COVID began, you might think that married motherhood is a pathway to misery and immiseration. “Married heterosexual motherhood in America, especially in the past two years, is a game no one wins,” in the middle of the pandemic. “The whole support system I had put in place to keep me going has now completely fallen apart.” Another single mother in the city said: “Some days, I feel like I’m melting.
White House sees light at the end of the monkeypox tunnel
The administration’s mpox response advisers asked for trust, patience and a chance. Even their critics say the work ‘paid off.
These states tried an Obamacare public option. It hasn’t worked as planned.
An early look at Washington, Colorado and Nevada show their plans to provide more affordable coverage to hundreds of thousands of people aren’t working out as hoped.
In one state Senate race, signs of a national struggle over abortion
Gov. Glenn Youngkin has proposed prohibiting the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy in his recently released budget, but doesn’t yet have the votes to enact that ban.
Covid-19 and overdose deaths drive U.S. life expectancy to a 25-year low
A baby born in 2021 can expect to live 76.4 years, down from 78.8 in 2019.
First post-Roe spending bill includes no funding boost for family planning, angering groups
With Republicans taking the House majority next year, progressives had framed the bill as a critical opportunity.
Why Democrats warmed to severing Medicaid eligibility from the Covid public health emergency
The Congressional Budget Office assumes the public health emergency for Covid will expire in July — barring another extension by the Biden administration.
U.S. inflation slowed sharply to 7.1 percent over past 12 months
Even with last month’s further easing of inflation, the Federal Reserve plans to keep raising interest rates.
Fed jacks up rates again but Powell hints it might slow down
Inflation has cooled only slightly and job growth remains strong.
Voters remain gloomy despite recent economic gains
A new POLITICO-Morning Consult poll suggests voters’ views of the economy are baked in.
“The Quest to Defuse Guyana’s Carbon Bomb”: Meet the Environmental Lawyer Taking On ExxonMobil
We speak with Guyanese environmental lawyer Melinda Janki about how she’s taking on the oil giant ExxonMobil to stop the company from developing an offshore oil field that would turn Guyana into a “carbon bomb.” Guyana is currently a carbon sink, but Exxon plans to produce more than 1 million barrels of oil a day, which could transform the South American country into one of the world’s top oil producers by 2030.
“This Is a Racial Backlash”: Stanford Prof. Hakeem Jefferson on Role of White Supremacy in Capitol Attack
The House select committee on the January 6 attack released its final 845-page report Thursday, and the word “racism” appears only once throughout the entire document — despite the central role white supremacist groups played in the insurrection. “Those who stormed the Capitol … didn’t merely come in defense of Donald Trump,” says Stanford professor Hakeem Jefferson, an expert on issues of race and identity in American politics.
“The Central Cause of January 6th Was One Man”: House Panel Urges Trump Be Banned from Public Office
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol released its final 845-page report on the insurrection at the Capitol and Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. The report names former President Trump as the central cause of the insurrection and calls for expanded efforts by the government to combat far-right and white supremacist groups.
‘Toxic masculinity’ may be caused by an actual, infectious, brain-altering parasite
When you look around America these days, it’s hard to feel like there hasn’t been some kind of Invasion of the Body Snatchers event. So many people seem not just anxious, but genuinely militant in their desire to bend back the arc of history. So many seem to be willing to work against their own best interests only because it brings other people pain.