Democracy, Democrat Style

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. The clean-up operation is not working. That much is clear as Establishment Washington returns to the city after an Independence Day holiday when many Democrats were thinking about how to declare their freedom from the political drag that has become President Joe Biden.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The artificial intelligence boom has driven Big Tech share prices to fresh highs, but at the cost of the sector’s climate aspirations. Google admitted on Tuesday that the technology is threatening its environmental targets after revealing that data centers, a key piece of AI infrastructure, had helped increase its greenhouse gas emissions by 48 percent since 2019.

Remember the Democrats's 2012 video about throwing old grandma off the cliff?

Is history repeating itself? Donald Trump’s promise to end the Russo-Ukrainian war echoes Teddy Roosevelt’s foreign prowess.

Is this fair? She was scapegoated while the guilty — Biden and his handlers — go unpunished.

The “Trump as bully” meme is simply another sleazy media effort to slime an opposition leader, of the kind we have seen repeated endlessly.