Новости за 17.11.2015

Five years ago, I went to study abroad in Paris. Unlike most students who flock to France each semester, I spent my first few weeks living with a Pakistani uncle in Villepinte, a rugged suburb located 22 miles from the heart of the city. This commune was filled, as many of the suburbs are, with immigrants and Muslims—a collage of faces representing the diaspora of the post-colonial world. 

Until their fourth debate last week, Republican presidential primary candidates had been notable for their apparent indifference to the Affordable Care Act. This was less a function of resignation than of repetition and fatigue. Nearly everyone in the Republican Party had demonstrated obeisance to the gods of Obamacare hatred, and every candidate had pledged to repeal the law; in light of this unanimity, it had become redundant to waste precious airtime kicking it around. Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush... Читать дальше...

For nearly ten years, photographer Andrew Moore has traveled to homestead sites along the 100th meridian line of longitude that runs through Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, to witness how pioneers attracted by the Homestead Act have fared generations later. Moore used a crop duster to to access and photograph inaccessible rural sites using both medium format digital and large format film cameras to document the landscape and its inhabitants, featured in his new book, Dirt Meridian. Читать дальше...

In 1981, two tap dancers, Brenda Bufalino and Honi Coles, sat down for an interview for an oral history project. Bufalino, who was white, had helped lead the tap revival of the 1970s. Coles, who was black, was her teacher, friend, and collaborator. In the forties, he and Cholly Atkins had been the most celebrated class act in the business, two elegant men on the move and, decades later, he and Bufalino reprised some of their old routines. 

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Tamir Rice was a 12-year-old boy from Cleveland, Ohio. He liked basketball, and going out to restaurants. He was a bit tall for his age. He had a best friend, and an older sister. 

Tamir was a normal kid with a regular life. His death, tragically, was neither. 

On November 22, 2014, Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann shot Tamir as he was playing with an unloaded BB gun outside a rec center, with his sister nearby. He died the next day. Читать дальше...

A growing number of governors have opposed the Obama administration’s plan to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S., with many vowing to stop Syrian refugees from resettling in their states. Nearly all are Republicans, who seem to be in a competition to see who can be the most hardline on the refugee issue; Chris Christie even reportedly claimed that he didn’t want “three-year-old orphans” coming into his state.

It was the strange, offbeat answer heard ‘round the world. When confronted about her relationship with Wall Street donors during Saturday night’s Democratic debate, Clinton launched into one of the more bizarre responses of the night:

Prior to Friday’s deadly terrorist attacks, Paris had been set to host a global party—the UN climate change conference known as COP21—at the end of the month. In scope and tone, there were echoes of the Olympics, with representatives from 127 countries gathering in the spirit of peace and cooperation, and thousands of onlookers flocking to cheer them on to a successful climate agreement. Flashy spectacles were to be as much a part of the entertainment as the negotiations themselves. Climate activists... Читать дальше...