Today’s Top News: McCarthy Is Ousted, and More
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McCarthy Ouster, Senate Republican Opposition Bode Ill for 2023 Ukraine Funding | naked capitalism
The House of Representatives is playing out a Ukraine dynamic that UK voters might recognize from Brexit. After Theresa May’s gambit of snap elections backfired, she was left with a…
House Is Paralyzed, With No Speaker After McCarthy Ouster
The House of Representatives was in a state of paralysis on Wednesday, ground to a halt by the ouster of Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy and with no clear sense of…
Opinion | How Gerontocracy Explains the Matt Gaetz Clown Show
You can analyze the circus in the House of Representatives in terms of personalities (the bland ambition of Kevin McCarthy colliding with the antic, made-for-television career of Matt Gaetz) or…
The Mystery of My Burning Esophagus
It wasn’t until I called Brendan Canning, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, that I found someone willing to speculate how an allergy in the esophagus might lead to…
Giuliani’s Drinking, Long a Fraught Subject, Has Trump Prosecutors’ Attention
Rudolph W. Giuliani had always been hard to miss at the Grand Havana Room, a magnet for well-wishers and hangers-on at the Midtown cigar club that still treated him like…
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sarah Vaughan
Listen on YouTube ◆ ◆ ◆ Samara Joy, vocalist “Time After Time” I admire how much care she puts into every word, making sure that the story of the song…
China’s Top Art Investor Amassed a Big Collection. Now He’s Selling.
Few Chinese art collectors have made a bigger splash at global auctions in the past decade than Liu Yiqian, a former Shanghai taxi driver who amassed a fortune through big…
The 8-Year-Old Boy at the Heart of a Fight Over Tibetan Buddhism
The boy had seemed destined for a life of affluence and earthly pursuits. Born into the family behind a major mining conglomerate in Mongolia, he might have been picked to…
Here’s What to Know About Tensions Over Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism has long been led by the Dalai Lama, the 88-year-old spiritual leader who fled Tibet in 1959 and has been living in exile in India ever since. Beijing…