James Risen

1 week ago | theguardian.com | James Risen

Under normal circumstances, Senator Susan Collins would now be one of the most powerful figures in official Washington. In January, the Maine Republican became the chair of the Senate appropriations committee, long considered one of the most consequential panels in the upper chamber. Nicknamed the “college of cardinals” for its outsized power over federal spending, it can approve funds for favored programs and slash it for others while blocking attempts by the White House to get in the way.

3 weeks ago | theintercept.com | James Risen

GETTYSBURG — This is the most American of towns. It is where Robert E. Lee tried to destroy the nation, where Abraham Lincoln tried to heal it, and where William Faulkner revealed a century later that the country was still irretrievably racist and broken. Even though much of its bloody Civil War past is hidden behind McDonald’s and Burger King and Dairy Queen and Walmart, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, today is still the symbolic capital of the endless American fight over the nation’s history.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | James Risen

Stephen A Smith finds himself apologizing again after latest ESPN controversyStephen A. Smith has issued yet another public apology just weeks after making two in two days following his recent comments about Phoenix Suns …

1 month ago | theguardian.com | James Risen

Just days before Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Blue Origin, the space company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its New Glenn rocket, named for John Glenn, the Mercury astronaut who was the first American to orbit the Earth. Around 2am on 16 January, the 30-story rocket powered by seven engines blasted off into the Florida night from Cape Canaveral’s historic launch complex 36, which first served as a Nasa launch site in 1962.

Nov 5, 2024 | intercept.com.br | James Risen

Por muitas décadas, jornalistas aprenderam a não fazer analogias com Hitler nas matérias sobre política dos EUA. A maldade de Adolf Hitler era tão peculiar, que qualquer comparação entre um político estadunidense e o líder nazista era considerada injusta e fora dos limites. Até que veio Donald Trump. Trump é a primeira figura política moderna nos Estados Unidos a obrigar os jornalistas a reavaliarem se as referências a Hitler se enquadram em seus padrões editoriais.