Two congressional Republicans objected to the hiring of a New York Times reporter to a university professorship because of her work on the Times’ “1619 Project,” newly public documents reveal.
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How did Tucker Carlson end up in Budapest?
Continue reading “How Tucker, And The American Right, Found Refuge In Budapest”
President Biden demanded that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) resign on Monday, after the state’s attorney general issued a scathing report alleging that Cuomo sexually harassed multiple aides.
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Emails show a top Trump DOJ official advocating for federal law enforcement to throw its weight behind a demand that Georgia reject Biden’s win in the state in last year’s election, ABC reports.
Continue reading “Report: Jeff Clark Urged DOJ Officials To Block Biden Georgia Win”
Now that the bipartisan infrastructure plan has been fully defined and delineated, the mad scramble for advocacy groups to get their priorities into the reconciliation vehicle begins in earnest.
One police officer is dead after a violent incident outside of the Pentagon Tuesday morning. An undetermined number of others are injured and the status of the alleged assailant is unknown.
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At least one Arizona state senator wants to jail the Republican-majority board of supervisors in Maricopa County after the county rejected new subpoenas from the Senate for election materials.
Over the course of July our long foretold ‘hot vax summer’ has either come to a screeching halt or at least hit a major speed bump. We’re in the midst of another wave of new cases if not, at least in most of the country, hospitalizations and deaths. The Delta variant has changed things. It’s significantly more infectious and to at least some extent it’s weakened the efficacy of the best vaccines. But just how much? And how much does that matter? There’s a fairly spirited debate about what we should even consider an infection (we’ll come back to this). On really every front we’re flooded with anecdotal information.
Hi my name is Jackie, and I think I am a (classics) book snob.
Continue reading “The Great (Anti) American Novel: TPM’s Summer Reading Recommendations”
