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President-elect Donald Trump’s feud with the intelligence community is already costing him valuable allies. Ex-CIA Director James Woolsey, dismayed by Trump’s refusal to accept the intelligence community’s assessment that the Russian government meddled in the election, has resigned as senior advisor to the Trump administration. Retired General James Mattis, Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, reportedly has chafed at the fact that General Mike Flynn, the national security adviser-designate, has Trump’s ears on intelligence matters. Читать дальше...

Considering the staggering success of Steven Spielberg—the youngest director to sign a long-term studio contract, mastermind of the summer blockbuster, co-founder of his own studio, and a filmmaker with enough Oscars to fill a knapsack—it’s hard to imagine that this Hollywood wunderkind nonpareil has spent much of his life suffering from acute fears. “Yes, I’ve always had shpilkes,” he told an interviewer from Entertainment Weekly in 2011, using the Yiddish term for pins and needles. “I have it now. Читать дальше...

To an impressive extent, the story of Barack Obama’s presidency was written by Republican congressional leaders, who recognized that Robert’s Rules of parliamentary order weren’t binding on anyone—but that Democrats would proceed as if old comities would ultimately prevail.

On Tuesday night, at the McCormick Place convention center in his adopted hometown of Chicago, Barack Obama will take the stage one last time as president to do what he does best. Before a crowd of thousands of supporters—some of whom braved the bitter, predawn cold for a ticket release over the weekend—the man whose soaring speeches helped him win the presidency will deliver his farewell address to the nation, reflecting on eight years in office and, as he wrote to the White House email list last week... Читать дальше...

One day, while driving home to Berkeley after a poorly attended reading in Marin County, Ayelet Waldman found herself weighing the option of pulling the steering wheel hard to the right and plunging off the Richmond Bridge. “The thought was more than idle, less than concrete,” she recalls, “and though I managed to make it across safely, I was so shaken by the experience that I called a psychiatrist.” The doctor diagnosed her with a form of bipolar disorder, and Waldman began a fraught, seven-year... Читать дальше...