Новости за 19.01.2017

When I recently suggested to Derek Riedle, the founder of a new digital publication focused on “highbrow cannabis culture,” that his website may be racist, he was mortified. I had expected that Riedle would be a cynical man looking to turn a trend—wealthy white people smoking weed—into a business. But people rarely are as cynical as we expect. So, what could he have been thinking?

Global conspiracies, secret dossiers, Russian hackers, terrorist plots; if the United States seems like it’s experiencing a nationwide panic attack right now, its most fervent hyperventilations might be best observed in Washington, D.C., where power and paranoia live in close proximity, reinforcing one another’s potency. 

With their party now decimated at the national and state level, Democrats cling to one refuge for promoting progressive policies in the Trump era: Cities. They still control two-thirds of America’s biggest ones, and mayors nationwide are vowing to defy the new president’s agenda by shielding undocumented immigrants from deportation, pushing their own efforts to fight climate change, and working to preserve their citizens’ healthcare even as the Affordable Care Act faces repeal. Cities are where Democrats can still prove their muster... Читать дальше...

As Donald Trump readies to take the oath of office this week, liberal opposition groups are expected to turn out in record numbers—camping out in churches, hosting concerts and art shows, filling the streets of Washington, D.C., with cries of “Not my President.” But underneath the veneer of unity lies of a host of simmering disputes about what the left should be fighting for—disputes that will be evident in the raucous character of the protests themselves.

Some of you, my beloved white friends, seem genuinely surprised that most black folk fear the police. You are shocked that we think of them as a brutalizing force. You cringe when we say they are out to do everything but serve and protect us. You think we are manufacturing stories about our bad encounters with police. You think that we must have done something wrong to provoke such remorseless cruelty.