newrepublic.com —  38+ min ago

...Tuesday morning"s surprise merger between the PGA Tour and the insurgent, Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf is both completely insane and completely unsurprising... ...The new combined entity essentially puts Saudi Arabia in charge of golf. Not the PGA--golf.... ...Those atrocities included the brutal murder and dismemberment of The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia"s pivotal role in... ...Saudi Arabia was splashing huge sums of money around, wooing players like Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson, and trying to build a glitzy competitor...

newrepublic.com —  8+ hour, 57+ min ago

...On Friday Richard Francis, Fitch"s senior director of sovereign ratings, told CNN that “governance is generally weaker” in the United States than... ...The Biden economy keeps bumping along, impervious to the Federal Reserve raising interest rates 10 times and Fitch threatening a downgrade of United... ...Some blamed President Joe Biden"s $1.9 trillion stimulus bill; one such person was Olivier Blanchard of the Peterson Institute for International ... ...teamed with former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to concede that he'd been wrong....

newrepublic.com —  8+ hour, 57+ min ago

...In May, Daniel Penny, a white ex-Marine, put Jordan Neely, a Michael Jackson impersonator and mentally ill Black man, in a 15-minute-long headlock... ...on a subway in New York City, killing him.... ...Daniel Penny is a total hero.”... ...to a handful of rote explanations: There are too many guns; Fox News profits off paranoia; structural racism and impoverishment breeds “random violence...

newrepublic.com —  3+ hour, 58+ min ago

...Only four city councilmembers, Liliana Bakhtiari, Jason Dozier, Keisha Waites, and Antonio Lewis, had the stones to heed the will of thousands of... ...And still, at 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning, the Atlanta City Council voted 11–4 to approve $67 million in taxpayer money to raze down forest land... ...The latter chant was in reference to Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, known as Tortuguita, who was shot and killed by Atlanta police in January.... ...Chants of “Stop Cop City!” and “Vive vive Tortuguita!” rang off the walls of Atlanta City Hall....

newrepublic.com —  5+ hour, 9+ min ago

...Seven years ago, Florida Senator Marco Rubio alleged that then-candidate Donald Trump had “small hands” and strongly implied the same was true about... ...Now that historic moment is going before the Supreme Court of the United States.... ...primary debate, while also expressing Elster"s view about "the smallness of Donald Trump"s overall approach to governing as president of the United... ...Elster then appealed the board"s decision to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, a special federal appellate court that hears, among other things...

newrepublic.com —  8+ hour, 57+ min ago

...The latest case in point is the political press corps" reaction to the news that Mike Pence, Chris Christie, and Rod Burgum (North Dakota"s billionaire... ...More than seven months before the Iowa caucuses, the pundit parade has all but anointed Donald Trump as the GOP nominee for the third time.... ...a pro–Jeb Bush super PAC squandered most of its $118 million on attacking Marco Rubio).... ...Political scientist Seth Masket smartly points out that by the time you get to Iowa, “you tend to see three or four candidates with the bulk of the...

newrepublic.com —  21+ hour, 11+ min ago

...There's been a flood of evidence coming out about Donald Trump"s alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate--and now there... ...One person who spans both categories is Trump"s valet, Walt Nauta.... ...Notes from Trump"s lawyer Evan Corcoran reveal that both Trump and Nauta knew exactly where and when Corcoran was planning to search for documents...

newrepublic.com —  23+ hour, 4+ min ago

...Kennedy, Jr. spent almost an hour heaping praise on Elon Musk Monday during a Twitter Space meant to discuss his campaign.... ...Kennedy announced in April that he would join Marianne Williamson in running against Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination.... ...Musk doesn't love free speech--he actually blocked certain content on Twitter during Turkey"s recent election--so much as the unfettered ability... ...But the first 50 minutes of the conversation consisted almost entirely of Kennedy praising Musk for how he has run Twitter and fought back against...

newrepublic.com —  1+ day ago

...But an effort in New York state seeks to change that.... ...Pabitra Dash worked in New York nail salons for years.... ...The Nail Salon Minimum Standards Council Act, introduced by state Senator Jessica Ramos and state Assemblymember Harry Bronson, would establish actual... ...“Coming out of the pandemic, we need to use every tool at our disposal to combat the feminization of poverty,” state Senator Jessica Ramos told TNR...

newrepublic.com —  1+ day ago

...Specifically, she chose The Intercept, the left-leaning news site launched by Glenn Greenwald--after he won a Pulitzer for publishing Edward Snowden"s... ...report from the National Security Agency and mail a copy to journalists.... ...obsession in 2017, but interest in it has mostly dried up since Robert Mueller"s much-anticipated report failed to end Donald Trump"s presidency... ...in Augusta, Georgia....