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.
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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.
GOP divided on how to respond to ‘lab leak’ report
The spectrum of responses played out on Tuesday across nearly a dozen hearings and legislation markups.
Dodgy science, poor access and high prices: The parallel medical world of medicinal marijuana in America
It’s been nearly three decades since California pioneered the therapeutic use of cannabis, but patients still face a confusing patchwork of rules.
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.
Longest Alabama Strike Ends as Warrior Met Coal Miners Return. Record Coal Prices Help Break Strike
In Alabama, hundreds of striking miners are set to return to work Thursday after nearly two years spent on picket lines in the so-called right-to-work state. This was the longest strike in Alabama history. Its end comes after the Warrior Met Coal company successfully used replacement workers to keep its mines running, reporting large profits to shareholders due to the skyrocketing price of coal.
Student Debt Relief in Jeopardy as Conservative Supreme Court Justices Question Biden’s Plan
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two challenges to the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan, which could give tens of millions of federal borrowers up to $20,000 of relief. During arguments, several conservative justices expressed skepticism over the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan, while liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the Republican states who brought one of the lawsuits.
Tucker Carlson Ridiculed For ‘Weak Men’ Rant: ‘Feels Like Projection’
Without any hint of irony, the Fox News personality said the “most dangerous” men will “do anything to save themselves.
Donald Trump Jr. Mocked For Most Head-Spinningly False Claim About His Dad Yet
This claim falls apart pretty quickly.
Exposed: Dallas Humber, Narrator Of Neo-Nazi ‘Terrorgram,’ Promoter Of Mass Shootings
Her propaganda canonized white supremacist murderers as “saints.” She may have helped inspire a shooting at a gay bar. Now she’s been unmasked.
Walgreens won’t distribute abortion pills in some states where they remain legal
The decision is the latest to demonstrate how widely abortion access can vary state to state in a post-Roe America.
Supreme Court Signals It May Avoid Ruling In Blockbuster Independent State Legislature Case
The court is asking for new briefs after the North Carolina Supreme Court granted a rehearing in the underlying case.
Big Cities Are Ungovernable
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.Pity the poor mayors. Or don’t—most voters clearly don’t. On Tuesday, Chicagoans unceremoniously kicked Lori Lightfoot to the curb, depriving her of the chance to win a second term in an April 4 runoff election.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein Hospitalized With Shingles
“I hope to return to the Senate later this month,” the California Democrat said.
The States That Reopened First
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Conspiracy Theories Have a New Best Friend
History has long been a theater of war, the past serving as a proxy in conflicts over the present. Ron DeSantis is warping history by banning books on racism from Florida’s schools; people remain divided about the right approach to repatriating Indigenous objects and remains; the Pentagon Papers were an attempt to twist narratives about the Vietnam War.
The Atlantic Announces “The Future of Democracy” Event at SXSW on March 12
As part of SXSW 2023, The Atlantic is announcing a full day of interviews on Sunday, March 12, that will bring elected officials and other national leaders to the festival for conversations about the future of democracy.
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.
“Unwinnable War”? Calls Grow for Negotiated End to Ukraine War
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was at the top of the agenda of a critical meeting of G20 foreign ministers this week in New Delhi. The issue has caused deep divisions within the G20, which includes 19 major economies and the European Union. U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, spoke briefly on the sidelines of the summit on Thursday, though there was no diplomatic breakthrough between the two countries.
GOP divided on how to respond to ‘lab leak’ report
The spectrum of responses played out on Tuesday across nearly a dozen hearings and legislation markups.
Why one state’s plan to unwind a Covid-era Medicaid rule is raising red flags
The Biden administration is giving states a year to check whether millions of Americans are still eligible for Medicaid. Arkansas is planning to do it in half that time.
Dodgy science, poor access and high prices: The parallel medical world of medicinal marijuana in America
It’s been nearly three decades since California pioneered the therapeutic use of cannabis, but patients still face a confusing patchwork of rules.
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.
Merrick Garland, Sen. Ted Cruz Spar In Testy Exchange On Protests At Justices’ Homes
The Texas Republican pressed the attorney general on the DOJ’s response to demonstrations in the wake of the leaked draft opinion on axing Roe v. Wade.