Marco Rubio Has An Odd Solution For Student Loan Debt, And Twitter Can’t Bear It
The senator said he wiped his debt clean thanks to one effort he made, but social media users didn’t think it would work the same for them.
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Museum
Better than the minivan you slept
a winter in, American Legionparking lot, siphoning gas for heat,
but not much better. Cinder-blockapartment building on Homestead,
a couple miles from mom’s. Got inthrough the window. Waded through
the cans and bedding. Left it openfor the smell. Tried not to look
at the stain. Tried to be respectfullike in a museum. Stood so long
in front of your dresser, my brothertouched my elbow. Everything
we touch, you touched. Your socks.Your coat.
The Ballad of Downward Mobility
In the summers of my youth, the rooms were always air-conditioned. This machine-cooled air came not from window units, which were a relic of the cities, but from central systems that chilled every inch of living space to an Alaskan 67 degrees. The air seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere. It had no warm spots, no eddies, no pockets of humidity.
Hackers have laid siege to U.S. health care and a tiny HHS office is buckling under the pressure
With a dearth of resources, the Office for Civil Rights is struggling with an overflowing caseload.
15 Under-the-Radar TV Shows That Deserve Your Attention
New TV shows have it rough these days—especially if they don’t take place in Westeros, Middle Earth, or other well-trodden storytelling locales. Since 2020, original programming has had to contend with pandemic-scrambled production schedules, competition from cinematic universes, the boom in streaming platforms, and, most recently, the threat of disappearing from libraries altogether.
Andrew Yang Doesn’t Have Any Litmus Tests
Andrew Yang—an entrepreneur, a policy celebrity, and a proud nerd—recently co-founded Forward, America’s newest political party. During Yang’s gadfly bids for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and last year’s Democratic mayoral nomination in New York City, his advocacy for a universal basic income gained him a cult following.
We Can Be Framers Too
The recent set of watershed Supreme Court opinions pulsates with the language of democratic accountability. Dobbs v. Jackson, overruling Roe v. Wade, makes its refrain the promise to “return” the abortion question “to the people and their elected representatives.” Concurring in West Virginia v.
Moderna sues Pfizer and BioNTech for patent infringement on Covid vaccine technology
Moderna said it’s not seeking to have the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine removed from the market, nor is it seeking an injunction preventing future sales.
Abortion access crumbles: 4 more states enact new restrictions this week
The newly effective laws make good on conservative promises to swiftly prohibit abortion in as many states as possible.
Judge sides with Biden admin, blocking part of Idaho’s abortion ban
The federal government’s challenge represents one of its most aggressive actions to preserve abortion rights.
Trump White House exerted pressure on FDA for Covid-19 emergency use authorizations, House report finds
The report by House Democrats examining the pandemic says Trump officials sought vaccine approvals to sway voters before the 2020 election.
White House strategy for monkeypox vaccines causing ‘chaos out in the field’
It’s the latest hiccup the administration is facing amid broad criticism over its monkeypox response, its messaging to LGBTQ communities about the virus’s risks and its failure to supply enough vaccines to immunize those most susceptible to contracting it.
The Trouble With Boutique Colleges
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.President Joe Biden’s loan-forgiveness program will help a select group of people once, but nothing about the college-debt problem will actually improve until voters, students, and parents change how they think about college.But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
Powell blows away doubts about his war on high inflation
In a closely watched speech, the Fed chair foreshadowed further interest rate increases and warned that rates might need to stay high for some time to kill price spikes.
Powell’s inflation miscalculation raises stakes on rate shift
The Federal Reserve chair needs to convince markets he means business when he addresses the landmark conference of economists on Friday.
Trigger Laws Make Abortion Off Limits for Millions; Patients Face “Intolerable” Risk & Uncertainty
Millions of pregnant people in the United States have now lost access to abortion in their state since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Anti-abortion “trigger laws” have gone into effect in numerous states across the country, including Texas, where it became a felony to perform an abortion starting Thursday, punishable by up to life in prison. We speak to Dr.
As Afghanistan Faces Economic Crisis, U.S. Could Help Prevent Mass Starvation by Unfreezing Funds
One year after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover of the government, the country is in a humanitarian crisis that includes widespread hunger and poverty. Meanwhile, the U.S. refuses to release $7 billion in foreign assets that belong to Afghanistan’s central bank.
Anatol Lieven: Ukraine Has Become a Bloody Stalemate. We Need a Settlement to End the Fighting.
Six months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the war has reached a stalemate. We speak with Anatol Lieven, senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, who says a possible path to a general ceasefire can begin with securing the safety of the region around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Who Is Barre Seid? Secretive Tycoon Gives Record $1.6 Billion to Fund GOP Takeover of the Courts
We speak with one of the reporters who this week exposed the secretive Chicago industrial mogul who has quietly given $1.6 billion to the architect of the right-wing takeover of the courts — the largest known political advocacy donation in U.S. history. The donor is Barre Seid, who donated all of his shares in his electronics company, Tripp Lite, to the nonprofit group run by Leonard Leo, who helped select former President Trump’s conservative Supreme Court nominees.
Trump’s hand-picked judge breaks all legal rules to give him the ‘ridiculous’ ruling he wanted
It should have been possible to see what was coming, when Donald Trump’s team of highly unqualified attorneys managed to submit Trump’s complaint incorrectly, and the judge gave them a do over. Then the complaint came in missing everything necessary, and the judge sent instructions on exactly what she wanted to see.
Kash Patel Says His Life’s In Danger Because He’s In FBI Affidavit
In a message posted on Truth Social, Patel called it a “vicious attack from DOJ/FBI.
Trump admits that he was only elected because of a ‘fake investigation’ by James Comey
Donald Trump is a prime example of someone who lies so often, that sometimes he ends up running into the truth, just by accident. On Saturday afternoon, Trump cranked up underpopulated and deeply in debt social media scam Truth Social to deliver a message that, breaking with precedent, I’m going to post in full.
Trump Search: What May Come Next In Inquiry With Legal Peril
A newly released FBI document helps flesh out the contours of an investigation into classified documents at President Donald Trump’s Florida estate.
Judge Leaning Toward Appointing Special Master In Trump Documents Probe
Federal judge said it’s her “preliminary intent” to name a special master, as Donald Trump has asked, but first needs more details about seized documents.
Dee Snider Blasts ‘MAGAT Fascists’ For Stealing ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’
“It was you and people like you that inspired every angry word of that song,” slams the self-described “cross-dressing, libtard, tree hugging half-Jew.
Ted Cruz Slammed For Calling Out ‘Slacker Baristas’ Over Student Loan Forgiveness
The conservative suggested on his podcast that young Americans got “20 grand” from the government just in time to vote in November.
A South Carolina legislator faces the barbaric reality of the anti-abortion law he passed
In just the two months since the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the number of people with the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy has been reduced by a third. That figure will only increase dramatically as so-called “trigger laws” (laws enacted by Republican legislators to go into effect after Roe was overturned) fall into place.
Ukraine Update: Reliving the 36-day Battle of Kyiv
The Washington Post has an in-depth, excellent story on the Battle of Kyiv, as told from the perspectives of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his top advisors, the military brass, down to men in the trenches. The detail is spectacular, giving us new insight into the battle we were tracking 2-3 times a day for 36 days.
Labor board charges Starbucks with another big labor law violation, this week in the war on workers
The National Labor Relations Board has issued yet another complaint against Starbucks for breaking labor laws as it attempts to break its workers’ will to organize and fight for better working conditions and more respect in the workplace.
This is far from the first NLRB charge against Starbucks, with many focusing on the company’s pattern of obvious retaliatory firings of union activists.
A Simple Rule for Planning Your Fall Booster Shot
In less than two weeks, you could walk out of a pharmacy with a next-generation COVID booster in your arm. Just a few days ago, the Biden administration indicated that the first updated COVID-19 vaccines would be available shortly after Labor Day to Americans 12 and older who have already had their primary series. Unlike the shots the U.S.