Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:
Charting the Global Economy: Export Limits Worsen Food Security
Bitcoin price action decouples from stock markets, but not in a good way
’Privacy’ Search Engine DuckDuckGo Smoked Over Hidden Tracking Agreement With Microsoft
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Reinfection eight times higher with omicron than delta
Luxury stores still limiting crowds post-COVID — and won’t admit why
Politics:
Trump’s New Focus for Attacks Is Transgender People
Trump is like a standup comedian. He uses rallies, especially in the offseason, to work on material. He tests the reaction among his diehard fans and watches the mainstream media’s coverage. He then rewrites the lines, calibrating them for maximum effect inside the arena and minimal blowback outside of it. You can tell he believes he’s onto something with his mocking of trans people.
There is a cynical strategy at work here. Targeting marginalized groups for ridicule forces more responsible actors to stand up for them. As Democrats have learned, Trump’s goal is to get them to spend their time outraged and defending the targets of his attacks rather than talking about their own message.
This dynamic creates a built-in political advantage to any party that no longer sees it as taboo to scapegoat certain groups. Trump, of course, knows this and he has found a new target for 2022 — and perhaps beyond.
Stall on oil ban shows EU capitals trying to limit pain of helping Ukraine
Bizarre Excuses For Fraudulent Signatures “Made My Mouth Drop Open,” Candidate Says
Several candidates — including five Republican contenders for governor – have now been excluded from the ballot in Michigan after the state’s Bureau of Elections determined that circulators working for various campaigns collectively gathered 68,000 fraudulent signatures, which those campaigns then submitted to the state. The campaigns have promised to sue after the Michigan Board of State Canvassers split 2-2 along party lines on the matter, with Democrats voting to exclude candidates that did not submit enough valid signatures. Some freshly disqualified candidates have blamed the board for not warning them ahead of time that they shouldn’t submit fraudulent signatures.
How The NRA Evolved From Backing A Ban On Machine Guns To Blocking Almost All Gun Restrictions Today
The NRA’s more than 150-year history spans three distinct eras.
The War Won’t End Until Putin Loses
In its fundamentals, the show is unchanged: It still navigates a surprisingly engaging path through politics’ thicket, and it still focuses on the double bind that women in positions of power face in their public and private lives.
But now the stakes are higher: instead of episodic stories of interparty sparring, this Borgen follows a single plotline across the entire season: Large reserves of oil are discovered in Greenland, and geopolitical tensions erupt around issues of sovereignty, climate change and decolonization. And all this among characters who themselves have grown not merely older, but darker: less West Wing, more House of Cards.
