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At Wednesday’s press conference at Trump Tower in New York, his first since winning the election, Donald Trump was grilled by reporters about allegations that Russia meddled in the election to help him defeat Hillary Clinton. The president-elect’s response?

By the time Kamala Harris spoke to her supporters on election night two months ago in Los Angeles, things already looked bleak. She’d won her bid for the U.S. Senate, capturing the California seat soon to be vacated by retiring Senator Barbara Boxer, but the early returns in the presidential race had Democrats despairing. Standing on stage with her family, the Golden State’s 52-year-old attorney general addressed anxiety in the crowd.

The nominal purpose of President-elect Donald Trump’s press conference on Wednesday, 168 days in the making, was to announce the disentanglement of his business interests from the public interest. By Tuesday evening—thanks to CNN’s careful but explosive reporting and BuzzFeed’s intemperate decision to publish an opposition research memo compiled by a former spy—it seemed Trump would also have to dispel questions about his vulnerability to foreign blackmail and illegal collaboration between his campaign and Moscow. Читать дальше...

In April of 2015, a life-size chocolate sculpture of Benedict Cumberbatch graced the halls of London’s Westfield Stratford City shopping center. The artwork took 250 hours to complete and weighed 88 pounds. In the U.K. we have a saying about futile projects: We say they are “about as useful as a chocolate teapot.” As Sherlock’s fourth season begins, this edible Cumberbatch invites us to consider how much use detective fiction can be in a world gone berserk.

In July of 2008, Access Hollywood’s Maria Menounos secured an interview with the Obama family during a campaign stop in Montana. It was a coup, this sit-down with the whole gang. Sasha (then seven) and Malia (whose tenth birthday was that day) had been present on the trail, two adorable reminders that the senator from Illinois was a young, vital man, but the campaign hadn’t truly capitalized on the younger Obamas’ nascent star power. Still, the week it aired, the man who would become president declared the interview had been a mistake. Читать дальше...