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Column: Joe Biden's Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson Wasn't Just About a Campaign Promise
March 21, 2022 11:35 - 8 minutes - 14.7 MBWell before he was the Democratic nominee for President, Joe Biden pledged that if given the chance, he’d nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. The announcement that he’d consider both race and sex in selecting a Supreme Court nominee—that his decision would be race- and sex-conscious, rather than “blind” to those characteristics—was perhaps more explicit than previous such pledges.
How China’s Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Could Upend the World Order
March 21, 2022 11:10 - 6 minutes - 12 MBJake Sullivan looks flushed and his jaw is clenched. Across from President Joe Biden’s National Security Adviser, over a row of ferns at a matching table draped in blue cloth, sits China’s senior foreign affairs official Yang Jiechi, his mouth frozen in a sanguine smile.
The Fed Must Do Much More to Fight Inflation—And Fast
March 21, 2022 10:43 - 6 minutes - 11.9 MBDuring the 1960s and 1970s it took a dozen years for a toxic cocktail of excessive fiscal stimulus, misguided monetary policy focused on symptoms rather than causes, and bad luck on the supply side to generate stagflation—a combination of high inflation and a stagnant economy. Stagflation and political dysfunction corroded public trust in government, undermined public confidence that the country was on the right track and brought down the Presidencies of both Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carte...
‘The Batman’ Remains Number One and Crosses $300 Million
March 21, 2022 10:29 - 2 minutes - 4.22 MB“The Batman” is still going strong three weeks into its theatrical run, with a tight grip on the top spot at the box office. Robert Pattinson’s debut as the Dark Knight earned an additional $36.8 million over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. It also slid past the $300 million mark ahead of projections. The Warner Bros.
As Life Returns to Normal, There’s One Major COVID-19 Risk We’re Ignoring
March 20, 2022 16:35 - 6 minutes - 12.7 MBThe U.S. has recently taken a sharp turn toward “living with,” rather than trying to avoid, COVID-19. Masks are no longer advised indoors for Americans in most parts of the country, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and many mask and vaccine requirements have been repealed even in the most COVID-cautious parts of the country. In a poll conducted in March by Axios-Ipsos, 66% of Americans said they thought COVID-19 poses little or no risk.
What Ketanji Brown Jackson Will Be Asked During Her Confirmation Hearings
March 20, 2022 16:04 - 9 minutes - 16.5 MBOn Monday, D.C. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will sit before a panel of 22 Senators for what may be the most important job interview of her life. When President Joe Biden nominated Jackson to the Supreme Court on Feb. 25, the response from GOP Senators was generally muted. Democrats narrowly control the Senate, and there’s little Republicans can do to block her confirmation.
The Environmental Health Risks of War in a Highly Industrialized Country Like Ukraine
March 20, 2022 15:35 - 9 minutes - 17.5 MBDuring a lull between air raid warnings earlier this month, Iryna Nikolaieva sat in a stairwell of a Kyiv bomb shelter where she had been living for three days and called engineers at two chemical plants near the front lines in the country’s east. Nikolaiva worked as an expert on hazardous waste, and she worried that fighting near the facilities could damage earthen dams holding back hundreds of thousands of tons of chemical sludge, setting off a catastrophic accident.
Heat Pumps Are a Weapon in the E.U.’s Energy Face-Off With Russia
March 20, 2022 15:05 - 7 minutes - 13.3 MBIn the world of climate action, heat pumps often get short shrift. Used to heat or cool homes and buildings, the appliances aren’t flashy like EVs, and have none of the imposing presence of a wind turbine. They won’t turn heads in the neighborhood like rooftop solar panels. Instead, the squat square boxes attached to an outside wall or roof are about as impressive-looking as an AC unit.
A Trucker’s Killing Highlights Problems in the Industry
March 19, 2022 13:07 - 8 minutes - 14.7 MBA truck driver whose body was found by cleaning crews along I-65 in Indiana, allegedly murdered by his co-driver, was working for CRST, an Iowa-based national trucking company with a history of labor complaints, the Indiana State Police have confirmed. Aristedes Garcia, 63, had been bound for Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the home base of CRST, alongside a co-driver, Miguel Ibarguren.
People Detained in ICE Facilities Haven’t Seen Their Loved Ones in Two Years
March 19, 2022 12:38 - 7 minutes - 13.5 MBImmigrants detained at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities around the country have been prohibited from seeing their friends and family in-person for more than two years, after health protocols were put in place at the start of the spread of COVID-19 in the United States.
The James Webb Space Telescope Took its Best Picture Yet
March 19, 2022 12:14 - 3 minutes - 6.69 MBThere is absolutely nothing special about the star known to astronomers as 2MASS J17554042+6551277. It's a nice bright star, yes—about 16 times brighter than the sun. And it's located relatively close to Earth, as these things go—about 2,000 light years away. But it's just one of up to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, and until recently, nobody gave it a lot of thought. But late last week, 2MASS J17554042+6551277 became the most famous star known to science outside of our own sun....
Women in Colonial America Were More Powerful Than We Give Them Credit For
March 19, 2022 12:09 - 11 minutes - 20.1 MBDuring the first act of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, Aaron Burr remembers his mother, the late Esther Edwards Burr, with intense, almost apotheotic fondness: “My mother was a genius My father commanded respect. When they died they left no instructions. Just a legacy to protect.
How Apple TV+ Made Pachinko, One of the Biggest Multilingual Shows Ever
March 19, 2022 11:39 - 9 minutes - 17.2 MBIn 2017, when film and TV agent Theresa Kang-Lowe read Min Jin Lee’s epic novel Pachinko, which tells the story of a poor Korean family through generations and across borders, she feared it didn’t stand a chance of receiving Hollywood’s attention. “I thought it was an impossibility,” she says. “This was pre–Crazy Rich Asians, pre-Parasite, pre–Squid Game. We had never seen something like this in series form.
The U.S. Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time Before. Here’s What Happened
March 18, 2022 12:59 - 5 minutes - 10.4 MBOn Tuesday afternoon, just two days after Americans set their clocks forward an hour for Daylight Saving Time, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent, so that Americans wouldn't have to turn their clocks back an hour. The overall effect of such a change would be that, in the winter when days are shorter, the extra darkness would shift toward the morning; rather than the sun setting in the middle of the afternoon in some places, it would rise later i...
Spotlight or Silence? A Former FBI Agent on the Best Approach to Help Brittney Griner
March 18, 2022 12:55 - 6 minutes - 11.5 MBThe arrest of WNBA player Brittney Griner in Russia took another turn on Thursday when Russian authorities announced that they have extended her detention until May 19 as they continue to investigate the incident. Griner, who had been playing professional basketball in Russia before the country's invasion of Ukraine, was taken into custody in February after authorities allegedly found hashish oil on her at an airport.
Bad Vegan Is a Wild True-Crime Tale for an Era of Misinformation
March 18, 2022 12:47 - 9 minutes - 17.8 MBFor more than a decade, Sarma Melngailis was known as the patron saint of vegan haute cuisine. Capitalizing on the rise of the wellness industry, the exclusivity of fine dining, business skills honed at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and Bear Stearns, and perhaps her good looks, the restaurateur built Manhattan’s Pure Food and Wine into both a trendy celebrity haunt and the standard bearer for a movement.
Brent Renaud’s Death Reminds Us of the High Costs of Pursuing the Truth
March 18, 2022 12:32 - 6 minutes - 12 MBAlmost exactly eleven years ago, the landline rang in my New York City apartment, and I answered it and found out that my dear friend and colleague, Tim Hetherington, had been killed in Libya. The Arab Spring was in full swing, and Tim had gone to the besieged city of Misrata, where he was hit by shrapnel from a mortar round fired by the Libyan Army. He bled to death in the back of a rebel pickup truck looking up at the blue Mediterranean sky.
After Zelensky’s Speech, Lawmakers Weigh What to Do Next to Help Ukraine
March 17, 2022 12:55 - 6 minutes - 11.1 MBUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made an emotional appeal to a joint session of Congress Wednesday morning, evoking the memories of the aerial attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the Twin Towers and Pentagon in 2001 as a means of imploring the U.S. to provide more military assistance to his embattled country. "Ladies and gentlemen. Friends. Americans.
‘It’s Our Home Turf.’ The Man On Ukraine’s Digital Frontline
March 17, 2022 12:15 - 8 minutes - 15.1 MBLess than 48 hours after appealing to Elon Musk on Twitter, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, posted a photo of a truckload of satellite dishes. The SpaceX founder had come through with help for Ukrainians trying to connect to the Internet amid Russia’s invasion, Fedorov said in the Feb. 28 tweet: “Starlink—here. Thanks, @elonmusk.
How the NRA Weakened the Violence Against Women Act Update
March 17, 2022 12:08 - 5 minutes - 10.1 MBThis article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. There are only a handful of challenges that can unify Washington. Hurricane-relief packages and tornado-rescue plans are up there. Wildfires and earthquakes, too. The opioid epidemic bled across Red States and Blue States alike. COVID-19 tested that unity thesis, as did the need to reassess criminal justice.
Column: To End COVID-19, We Have to Admit That We’ve Failed
March 17, 2022 11:55 - 8 minutes - 16.2 MBIn 1985, the first HIV vaccine trial was launched with great fanfare. The previous year, Margaret Heckler, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, confidently declared that an HIV vaccine would be created within two years. But almost four decades after the initial discovery of the HIV virus, there is still no viable HIV/AIDS vaccine. That doesn’t mean, though, that there is no cure.
What to Know About a Fourth COVID-19 Vaccine Dose
March 16, 2022 12:58 - 9 minutes - 16.7 MBMost people ages 12 and older are considered “up to date” with their COVID-19 vaccines if they received either three doses of the mRNA shots from Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, or two doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine. But some public health experts say another dose might be needed in the coming months. On March 15, Pfizer and BioNTech requested authorization from the U.S.
Column: Ukraine’s Growing Fuel Crisis Will Cause Global Hunger and Worsen Inflation
March 16, 2022 12:10 - 6 minutes - 12.6 MBFarmers in Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, have run out of fuel. Two weeks into Russia’s assault on Ukraine supply chains are disrupted and a critical shortage of fuel for tractors and trucks is pushing Ukraine’s agricultural sector toward collapse. If it does not secure diesel soon, Europe could face massive price spikes for agricultural commodities and challenging food shortages. As has been widely reported, Ukraine is a major agricultural powerhouse.
Joe Biden Will Travel to Europe for Ukraine Talks With European Leaders
March 16, 2022 11:51 - 3 minutes - 6.05 MB(Washington, D.C.) — President Joe Biden will travel to Europe next week for face-to-face talks with European leaders about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Tuesday. Biden will meet with European leaders at an extraordinary NATO summit in Brussels on March 24. He will also attend a scheduled European Council summit, where efforts to impose sanctions and further humanitarian efforts are underway.
How the Ukraine-Russia Conflict Will Raise the Price of Snack Foods
March 16, 2022 11:24 - 7 minutes - 13.9 MBTo keep Martin’s Snacks' 80,000-square-foot south-central Pennsylvania factory humming throughout COVID-19, CEO Butch Potter has had to shell out 20% more for potatoes than he did pre-pandemic. His packaging film expenses have increased 35%. Box prices are up 30%. He’s also had to raise wages to retain and recruit talent.
Ukraine Needs More Military Aid from NATO—And Fast
March 15, 2022 11:36 - 7 minutes - 14.2 MBAs the Russian ground advance in Ukraine begins to gain a bit more momentum and encircle Kyiv, the West must consider its options. Despite the heroic efforts of the Ukrainians, facilitated by a deluge of weapons from NATO countries, “quantity has a quality all its own,” and the Russians continue to throw massive levels of bombing, long range missiles, and troops at the Ukrainian military and civilian population.
‘They’re Lying to You.’ Russian State TV Employee Arrested After Interrupting Live Broadcast With Anti-War Sign
March 15, 2022 11:16 - 1 minute - 2.66 MBIt was a jaw-dropping moment when for a few seconds a young woman interrupted a live news broadcast on Russian state media to wave a sign that said: “Stop the war. Don’t believe propaganda. They’re lying to you.” What made the instance so noteworthy is the lengths to which Vladimir Putin has gone after his invasion of Ukraine to cut Russians off from sources of independent information and social media, including Facebook and Twitter.
Review: The Adam Project Should Be Fun, But It's Sabotaged By Unwieldy Ambitions
March 15, 2022 11:05 - 4 minutes - 7.89 MBSome movies don’t have enough plot or excitement; others try to pack in so much that it’s a scramble just trying to figure out what’s going on. It’s hard to know exactly where The Adam Project, a futuristic fantasy and coming-of-age adventure-comedy starring Ryan Reynolds, falls. Is it way too much or not nearly enough? And where should we lay the blame for its flaws? (Jonathan Tropper, T.S.
Dolly Parton to Rock Hall of Fame: Thanks But No Thanks
March 15, 2022 10:49 - 1 minute - 3.35 MBDolly Parton has announced she is pulling out of this year’s nominations for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, saying she hasn't “earned that right.” The music icon, who has been elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame, explained her decision in a statement posted on her official social media pages Monday, noting she did not want to take votes away from the remaining nominees.
Criminal-Justice Reform Was a Key Part of President Biden’s Campaign. Here’s How He’s Done So Far
March 14, 2022 12:22 - 7 minutes - 13.3 MBDuring his campaign for the Oval Office, President Joe Biden made criminal-justice reform a focal point, calling out many problems with the system: over-incarceration, a lack of focus on redemption and rehabilitation, racial and socioeconomic disparities, "urban gun violence," and more. When it comes to having turned those promises into reality, a little more than a year into his first term, criminal-justice experts give him a mixed report card.
Column: Will China Try to Stop Russia’s War in Ukraine?
March 14, 2022 12:05 - 7 minutes - 13 MBWho can stop Russia’s war in Ukraine? European and U.S. diplomats have worked hard to win help from China, a country powerful enough and close enough to Russia, they hope, to change Vladimir Putin’s plans. On March 8, China’s President Xi Jinping held a video call with France’s Emmanuel Macron and German’s Olaf Scholz to talk about the war, fueling hopes that Xi will become more actively involved in brokering a deal to end the fighting.
A New Report Shows the True COVID-19 Death Toll May Be Three Times Higher Than We Thought
March 14, 2022 11:30 - 6 minutes - 12.5 MBMore than 6 million people have died from COVID-19 worldwide, according to official counts. But the more comprehensive toll, tallying deaths directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19, may be three times higher, according to a new study published in the Lancet. “We can confidently say that the pandemic has killed an extra 18.2 million people,” says Dr. Chris Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics at the University of Washington and a co-author of the paper. ...
Review: Samuel L. Jackson Gives the Performance of a Lifetime in The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
March 14, 2022 10:56 - 4 minutes - 8.16 MBThe biggest problem with television as an art form right now is that it gives us too many new shows but too few new stories. Doctors. Lawyers. Cops. Wild teens. Families with Neanderthal husbands, harried wives, and a few cute kids. Series set in outer space or in a fantasy realm, where the political conflicts echo our own. There's comfort in familiarity, to be sure. But it's a rare pleasure, these days, to encounter a premise that feels genuinely original.
Review: There's More to Haunted House Horror-Comedy Shining Vale Than Meets the Eye
March 14, 2022 10:40 - 3 minutes - 6.4 MBShining Vale might, at first, make you question Tolstoy’s famous claim that "each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." In the new Starz horror comedy, which premieres on March 6, an emasculated dad moves his unfaithful wife and their two teen children out of Brooklyn and into a huge, old, dimly lit house in quaint Shining Vale, Conn. You have surely seen versions of these characters and this setup before.
Breonna Taylor’s Killing Sparked Restrictions on No-Knock Warrants. But Experts Say Those Rules Don’t Actually Change Much
March 13, 2022 16:12 - 7 minutes - 13 MBSunday marks two years since Breonna Taylor's killing at the hands of Louisville, Ky., police officers—a death that contributed, along with the murders of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, to a national outcry on racial injustice and police violence against Black citizens. And, because of the circumstances of her death, the situation also sparked a more specific reckoning, too: on the use of no-knock warrants, which allow police to enter residences unannounced.
Russians Around the World Are Facing Abuse and Harassment Amid the Ukraine Conflict
March 13, 2022 16:06 - 6 minutes - 11.7 MBIke Gazaryan’s wife, Yulia, typically answers the phone for their San Diego, Calif. restaurant, Pushkin Russian Restaurant, which serves food from former Soviet republics. But after Russia invaded Ukraine, Gazaryan decided to answer it himself. In the week after the war began, he says, the restaurant received about 15 to 20 abusive phone calls.
How the Letter ‘Z’ Fits Into the History of Russian Propaganda Efforts
March 13, 2022 15:42 - 6 minutes - 11.2 MBOn March 5, Ukrainian gymnast Illia Kovtun stepped up to the podium at a gymnastics World Cup event in Doha to receive his gold medal in the parallel bars. Next to him stood Russian gymnast Ivan Kuliak who had won bronze. But their athletic accomplishments are not what the world is talking about.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on the Chip Shortage, Supply Chain Issues, and Russian Sanctions
March 13, 2022 15:26 - 9 minutes - 16.8 MBEarlier this week, I wrote about how potato chips may be harder to come by as Russia's invasion of Ukraine hinders production of sunflower oil, a common snack food ingredient. Today, I spoke with United States Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo about an ongoing shortage of different sort of chip: the kind that power your laptops, cell phones, vehicles, video game consoles, electronic medical equipment, and more.
Moldovans Fear They’ll Be Putin’s Next Target. Their Prime Minister Is Preparing for the Worst
March 12, 2022 12:57 - 13 minutes - 24.9 MBNatalia Gavrilița knows she is in a tight spot. It is, after all, the job of Moldova’s Prime Minister to project control, an easy calm, the sense that everything will work out fine. But Gavrilița also knows that the humanitarian fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is fraying the seams of her nation, which by some metrics is Europe’s poorest.
How Russia Is Beating the West at Deterrence
March 12, 2022 12:36 - 8 minutes - 15.4 MBDeterrence is working in the Ukraine crisis, just not for the right side. In this tragedy’s most catastrophic blunder, the United States and its allies failed to deter Russia from invading. President Joe Biden’s plan to create deterrence relied almost exclusively on threats that would be executed only after Russian forces crossed Ukraine’s borders.
Polio Makes a Comeback in Ukraine as War Halts Vaccination Campaign
March 12, 2022 12:19 - 11 minutes - 21.4 MBIn the fog of the war in Ukraine, it’s easy to forget about a smaller, but still very poignant tragedy that occurred months before the fighting began, back on Oct. 6, 2021. That day, a 17-month-old girl in the Rivne region in the west portion of the country was stricken with paralytic polio—19 years after the European region as a whole was declared polio-free. A second case of the disease appeared in the Zakarpattya region to the south on Dec. 24.
NASA’s New Budget Means it Won’t Be Going Back to the Moon Any Time Soon
March 12, 2022 11:58 - 4 minutes - 7.99 MBOn its face, 1966 was a very good year to be a consumer. A gallon of milk would set you back just 42 cents. A pack of cigarettes went for 30 cents. And a gallon of gas—which today is topping $5 in some places as the war in Ukraine and the cutoff of Russian oil push prices higher—went for just 31 cents.
How to Get Healthier Dopamine Highs
March 12, 2022 11:41 - 11 minutes - 20.3 MBHumans aren’t big fans of the status quo. We yearn for new experiences and rewards, whether by seeking a new meal, job, or creative project. Such diverse behaviors are spurred by a chemical in the brain called dopamine. Call it the motivation molecule. In the modern world, though, dopamine has a dark side. Substances that give us great pleasure, from coffee to cocaine, can raise dopamine levels too high. And digital technologies, such as video games and social media, may affect us si...
Stop Putting Queer Characters In Everything and Just Tell Queer Stories
March 12, 2022 11:21 - 9 minutes - 17.2 MBIn 2022, I’ve developed a weekly ritual of absolutely screaming into my group chat about whatever queer show is currently airing. I grew up in the aughts and watched LGBTQ narratives slowly leak into the mainstream. Today, between Euphoria, Special, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Yellowjackets, And Just Like That..., Genera+ion, The Morning Show, The Other Two, Feel Good, The L Word: Generation Q, I can watch a new episode of television almost every week that has at least one queer cha...
The Real Reason Big Oil Won’t Save the U.S. from High Gas Prices
March 11, 2022 12:56 - 8 minutes - 15.4 MBAs gas prices spike for American drivers, fossil fuel boosters have slammed President Joe Biden for policies they say constrain U.S. energy production. "We have the reserves here and this is preventable," Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana, the ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Climate Crisis, told reporters in Washington Tuesday. “No leasing or energy production—that’s not an energy policy.
Column: The Ukraine War Is Going to Get Worse. It's Time to Start Talking About How It Could End
March 11, 2022 12:42 - 6 minutes - 12.1 MBAs tragic as things already are in Ukraine, they will likely get even worse in the days and weeks to come. Vladimir Putin deserves every bit of punishment this war may exact on him, on the battlefield and to Russia’s economy. But the people of Ukraine do not; nor do most of the Russia people. We should therefore not be content with a U.S.-Western policy that simply imposes pain on Putin for pain’s sake, since it may do little to mitigate the consequences of this conflict.
Some Argue the U.S. Should Offer Refuge to Russian Troops Who Defect. Could It Even Work?
March 11, 2022 12:23 - 4 minutes - 8.07 MBAs world leaders attempt to isolate and punish Russia with sanctions and trade bans for its invasion of Ukraine, a handful of American academics are pushing a more unconventional idea: the United States and Europe should offer refuge to Russian soldiers who defect and surrender.
Why Florida’s New COVID-19 Vaccination Guidance Could Hurt Kids
March 10, 2022 12:59 - 8 minutes - 14.8 MBFlorida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo sparked controversy this week by recommending against COVID-19 vaccination for healthy children—contrary to the advice of health organizations and plenty of data that suggest the shots are safe and effective. Florida "is going to be the first state to officially recommend against the COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children," Ladapo said at a roundtable on March 7.
Russian Airstrike Hits Ukrainian Maternity Hospital, Killing 3 People
March 10, 2022 12:42 - 9 minutes - 16.8 MB(MARIUPOL, Ukraine) — An airstrike on a hospital in the port city of Mariupol killed three people, including a child, the city council said Thursday, as Russian forces intensified their siege of Ukrainian cities, as the top Russian and Ukrainian diplomats met for the first time since the war began. The attack a day earlier in the besieged southern port city wounded 17 people, including women waiting to give birth, doctors and children buried in the rubble.
Man Who Got First Pig Heart Transplant Dies After Two Months
March 10, 2022 12:17 - 5 minutes - 10.9 MBThe first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday. David Bennett, 57, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Doctors didn’t give an exact cause of death, saying only that his condition had begun deteriorating several days earlier.