Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, is due to address the European parliament on Thursday. Plus, how the attention economy overwhelmed children’s TVGood morning.Donald Trump has threatened the EU with “serious tariffs” after the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, invited Canada to become the EU’s first “associate member”.Why does the EU…
Washington and Florida insiders are exploring lucrative deals for a post-communist Cuba crushed by ever-increasing US sanctionsSpanish hotel chains. A Canadian mining firm. European shipping giants. Visa and Mastercard. Scores of foreign companies have been driven out of Cuba this summer over fear of being hit with potent, new secondary sanctions. Marco…
The Trump administration canceled a grant studying two low-income, majority Black neighborhoods in PittsburghScientific funding cuts imposed by the Trump administration may force researchers to close a study on Alzheimer’s disease risk among 600 aging people without sharing the results of cognitive tests with participants – even though researchers have all…
Make ICE Pay Act would block nearly $140bn in funding and redirect money to places reeling from Trump crackdownThe US congresswoman Ilhan Omar is set to introduce a bill that would make federal immigration agencies “pay the price” for terrorising vulnerable communities, blocking nearly $140bn in funding and redirecting it to local recovery efforts, the…
Penny Gautreaux has spent her career helping people in crisis. But facing her own took a village. A licensed social worker and therapist, Gautreaux struggled with an eating disorder for 24 years. As a transgender woman, dysphoria tied to her gender made it worse. She was hospitalized twice for being undernourished. She was, as she…
The people in charge are really hoping you’ll blame someone else.
Democrats may be within reach of their first statewide win in decades
ProPublica reveals that a Russian oligarch paid for Bahama nuptials. Right-wing media is silent
“We do not seek power to dominate others,” the Canadian prime minister said.
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 17 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.It’s a widespread assumption among political strategists that foreign policy rarely matters in U.S.…
America's global reputation is in tatters. That's not all Trump's fault, but he sure made it worse
Throughout the Trump era, Democrats have wrung their hands about how they can win over working-class voters. Why not ask the Democrats who’ve actually done it? That’s what Robin Johnson — a political consultant based in rural Illinois, and a part-time political science professor at Monmouth College — set out to do after Donald Trump…
Smoke from intense wildfires in Indonesia is worsening air quality across the region.
The US decision to remove limits on coal and gas plant emissions is rooted in a perception of manliness in these industriesYou can impress a certain kind of person at a party by reciting the fact that there are more yoga instructors in the US than there are coalminers. In fact, the disparity is greater than this catchy phrasing suggests: there are actually…
The case argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. constitutions
The Red Cross’s fall appeal highlights a fragile part of American health care: a lifesaving blood component that must be replenished every five to seven days, write Robert Glatter and Peter Papadakos.
“Threats against judges and their families remain at deeply troubling levels,” warn Paul R. Michel and Robert J. Cindrich.
