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There is a leadership void on the left. And David Brock has wasted no time since the election trying to fill it.

There is nothing I’m more curious about than money. Whenever I visit a friend’s apartment, I wonder how much they pay in rent. Whenever I’m at a museum, I wish the title placards included a price. I hate being kept from any type of information, but financial withholding is especially intolerable. “How much did you pay for that?” would be the question I most frequently wish I could ask if it weren’t edged out by the even more compelling, “how much did you get paid for that?”

President-elect Donald Trump has shocked America’s European allies yet again. In a joint interview with the Times of London and German publication Bild, he denigrated NATO as “obsolete” and added, “A lot of these countries aren’t paying what they’re supposed to be paying, which I think is very unfair to the United States.” His proviso that “NATO is very important to me” was not enough to calm nerves in Europe. “Trump’s attitudes have raised alarm bells across Europe,” The Washington Post reported... Читать дальше...

When we first meet Lenny Belardo, he’s crawling out from under a heap of babies into a candlelit St. Peter’s Square. It is a dream, of course, and it is meant to be unsettling. But it is also a clue, albeit a heavy-handed one, that Lenny is not like other popes.

1944 Recruitment Poster by K. M. Munnich.Wikimedia Commons

In a classic 1940s poster, a mother pelican feeds her own blood to her four happy-looking offspring. They nest in a military helmet, against a backdrop of the Scottish flag. This poster aimed to recruit donors to the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Association. The pelican image is a little opaque to us now, but in that more religious decade, the symbolism would have been clear.

Supporters of the Affordable Care Act have been emboldened recently by several developments that suggest repealing the health care law could inspire a tremendous backlash and spook Republicans in Washington, who are badly at odds with one another, into full retreat.

Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, just failed her first test. At her Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday night, the billionaire conservative philanthropist and “school choice” advocate appeared unprepared to answer straightforward questions about school reform, and she aired extreme views that could cause headaches for the incoming administration.