STARYCHI, Ukraine — They hoisted the coffins into a pair of beat-up Humvees, then began the slow trek from the church to the village cemetery, past a muddy stream, railroad tracks and a stretch of woods.A couple of soldiers at the head of the procession held up a wooden cross and a Ukrainian flag. A man in…Continue Reading
1. What Is Counter-Exceptionalism?Bill O’Reilly leans in. “He’s a killer, though. Putin’s a killer,” he says. Donald Trump, then the president for less than a month and giving one of his first interviews in office, barely pauses. “A lotta killers, we got a lotta killers—what, you think our country’s so innocent?”It was a moment for…Continue Reading
I’ve never received an eviction notice. These days, I shake uncontrollably every time I think of the tactile universe. It’s been eons since my hands were peripatetic. Back then my body was a remote spaceship fueled by lust and network technology. In bed in first light, I turned towards my own visage in the reverse…Continue Reading
And then it keeps happening. Like a hole in the middle of the memory of a field. The interruption of it spreading, wideningout toward the edges. Or is it that the field, receptive, pours itself into it? Like a consummation. The way a firecan realize by feeding. What knows a thing better than …Continue Reading
Attempting to defend Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, House Bill 1557, Christina Pushaw, the press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, accused the bill’s opponents of preying on children. “The bill that liberals inaccurately call ‘Don’t Say Gay’ would be more accurately described as an Anti-Grooming Bill,” Pushaw wrote on Twitter, ahead of a vote…Continue Reading
First the National Review was against Trump. Then it was against anti-Trumpism. Then it was kind of for Trump and kind of against him: It published pieces making the case for voting for him in 2020, against voting for him in 2020, and for maybe voting against him in 2020. Now, as he prepares to…Continue Reading
Welcome to At the Races! Each week we’ll bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here.Top o’ the afternoon to you.COVID-19 deprived the annual Friends of Ireland Luncheon at the Capitol its guest of honor after Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister)…Continue Reading
ANALYSIS — Americans are in no mood for a direct military conflict with Russia, but the same pressures that created the country’s tribal politics could threaten its anti-war mood.Multiple polls show a majority of Americans support what President Joe Biden and NATO have done so far to help Ukraine in its scrappy effort to slow…Continue Reading
Posted March 17, 2022 at 11:00amWhile health insurance coverage has broadly expanded across the country since implementation of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, many impoverished communities continue to lag behind, according to census data released Thursday.Overall, the nation’s uninsured population fell to 8.7 percent in 2020, from 15 percent in 2013.In Texas, however, American…Continue Reading
Posted March 17, 2022 at 9:00amAfter giving the IRS its biggest budget boost in years, some lawmakers are turning to new efforts to deliver resources to the beleaguered agency in the middle of a tax filing season plagued by lengthy delays and a hefty backlog of unprocessed returns.Sens. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., and Rob Portman,…Continue Reading
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