To be eligible for Medicaid, there would be new “community engagement requirements” of at least 80 hours per month of work, education or service for able-bodied adults without dependents. People would also have to verify their eligibility to be in the program twice a year, rather than just once.
This is the premise of “The Eternaut,” a chilling dystopian drama out ofthat premiered its first season on
on April 30. The six-episode, Spanish-language series with its mix of sci-fi elements and focus on human resilience has struck a universal nerve, rocketing to No. 1 among Netflix’s most streamed non-English-language TV shows within days.Netflix already renewed the show for a second season, with filming scheduled to start next year.But “The Eternaut” has touched on something deeper in Argentina, where legendary comic-strip writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld penned the original graphic novel in 1957 — two decades before he was “disappeared” by Argentina’s
, along with all four of his daughters.Abroad, publishers are scrambling to keep pace with renewed interest in the source material. The Seattle-based Fantagraphics Books said it would reissue an out-of-print English translation due to the surge in U.S. demand.
At home, the TV adaptation has
and found unexpected resonance at a moment of heightened anxiety about the state of Argentine society underPresident Donald Trump’s administration has already said it’s speeding up that process after the president in January declared a “national energy emergency” and vowed to boost U.S. oil and gas production.
referred to the decision as a “course correction” in an opinion fully joined by four conservative colleagues.“Congress did not design NEPA for judges to hamstring new infrastructure and construction projects,” he wrote. The three liberal justices agreed the Utah project should get its approval, but they would have taken a narrower path.
The justices reversed athat required a more thorough environmental assessment and restored an important approval from federal regulators on the Surface Transportation Board.