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Narendra Modi Is Not Who America Thinks He Is
Narendra Modi Is Not Who America Thinks He Is, Maya Jasanoff, The New York Times
But here is what Americans need to know about Mr. Modi’s India. Armed with a sharp-edged doctrine of Hindu nationalism, Mr. Modi has presided over the nation’s broadest assault on democracy, civil society and minority rights in at least 40 years. He has delivered prosperity and national pride to some, and authoritarianism and repression of many others that should disturb us all.
Chris Christie Is Doing Something Very, Very Important
Chris Christie Is Doing Something Very, Very Important, Frank Bruni, The New York Times
Chris Christie made a complete fool of himself back in 2016, fan-dancing obsequiously around Donald Trump, angling for a crucial role in his administration, nattering on about their friendship, pretending or possibly even convincing himself that Trump could restrain his ego, check his nastiness, suspend his grift and, well, serve America. But then Christie, a former two-term governor of New Jersey, had plenty of company. And he never did style himself as some saint.

It’s all water under the George Washington Bridge now. The Chris Christie of the current moment is magnificent. I don’t mean magnificent as in, “He’s going to win the Republican presidential nomination.” I don’t mean I am rooting for a Christie presidency and regard him as the country’s possible salvation.

But what he’s doing in this Republican primary contest is very, very important. It also couldn’t be more emotionally gratifying to behold. He’s telling the unvarnished truth about Trump, and he’s the only candidate doing that. A former prosecutor, he’s artfully, aggressively and comprehensively making the case against Trump, knocking down all the rationalizations Trump has mustered and all the diversions he has contrived since his 37-count federal indictment.
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In rowdy scene, House censures Rep. Adam Schiff over Trump-Russia investigations
In rowdy scene, House censures Rep. Adam Schiff over Trump-Russia investigations, Mary Clare Jalonick, The Associated Press
The final vote on Wednesday was 213-209 along party lines, with a handful of members voting present.

The revised resolution says Schiff held positions of power during Trump’s presidency and “abused this trust by saying there was evidence of collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia.” Schiff was one of the most outspoken critics of the former president as both the Justice Department and the Republican-led House launched investigations into Trump’s ties to Russia in 2017. Both investigations concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 presidential election but neither found evidence of a criminal conspiracy.
Liz Truss says being compared to a lettuce was not funny
Liz Truss says being compared to a lettuce was not funny, Andrew McDonald, POLITICO
The former British PM thinks the obsession with a lettuce that outlasted her was ‘puerile.’

Asked Monday about the Daily Star’s live stream of a lettuce that eventually outlasted Truss’ chaotic, market-crashing period in Downing Street, the former British prime minister did not see the funny side.
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Support for legal abortion rises a year after Roe v. Wade overturned-Poll
Support for legal abortion rises a year after Roe v. Wade overturned-Poll, Susan Page, Rachel Looker, and Miles J. Herszenhorn, USA Today
By almost 4-1, 23%-6%, those whose views on abortion have changed in the past year said they have become more supportive of legal abortion, not less supportive. That includes more women than men, more Democrats than Republicans, and more younger voters than seniors. The shift was pronounced among Black respondents. Almost a third, 32%, said they had become more supportive of abortion access in the past year...

WHERE THE ABORTION ISSUE RANKS IN THE 2024 ELECTION

Americans ranked other issues as more important in determining their vote in next year's election. Inflation was first, followed by immigration, threats to democracy and gun control. Abortion tied with education as fifth.

That said, more than three in four said abortion would be an important issue for them; 20% said it would be the single most important issue.
Cop City in Atlanta is the future of America
Cop City in Atlanta is the future of America, Will Bunch, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Why ‘Cop City’ is a war for the future of urban America.

This Saturday, no one pulled us over or questioned me when I jumped out to take a picture. And there were few visible signs of this winter’s pitched battles in the woods — just a rail shed that’s spray-painted with anarchist symbols and the words, “Save ATL Forest.” There is little else to physically marks this place as the epicenter of an increasingly global controversy over a project known as “Cop City.” And yet fear and loathing, like those parked police cruisers, remain a palpable presence.

Its boosters don’t call it Cop City, of course. Officially, this $90 million project — funded with a blend of tax dollars and money from the corporate cabal that pulls the strings in Atlanta — is the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. Its soft-spoken yet high-octane advocates — when they talk about it at all — claim that the state-of-the-art training site with a gun range, a four-story burn tower for firefighter training, and a small “mock city” is desperately needed to replace outdated facilities and woo new recruits. And don’t police reformers want better trained cops?

Not the police reformers who took to the streets here after George Floyd’s murder. In successfully rebranding the project as Cop City — that’s what almost all of Atlanta calls it now — they are defining what they believe is really happening here in the woods. They say Cop City is the centerpiece of this city’s establishment’s plan for “doubling down” on militarized, warrior-cop policing that so many protested in 2020.

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