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President Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Friday was virtually indistinguishable from the campaign rhetoric he adopted in the last few weeks of the election: A full-throttle, even apocalyptic, argument that America has gone down a disastrously wrong path in recent decades and that it needs a political revolution based on a new nationalism.

A traditional inaugural address is in many ways designed to disappoint a new president’s most ardent supporters. Those supporters want to relish a victory over opponents; presidents want to burnish political capital by broadening their appeal.

Donald J. Trump is now the President of the United States. And that has millions of Americans asking themselves...“ARE WE ALL GONNA DIE?!”

Hello, fellow humans! The Oscar nominations come out on Tuesday, January 24, so this week, we decided to make our predictions for the six major categories (sorry, screenwriters) and discuss films we wish would be nominated, even though they have no chance. Tuesday should be a good day for La La Land, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight, and maybe even Mel Gibson? We also have two Reboots this week, beginning with Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, and then digging into Gus Van Sant’s To Die For.

My first day working for Wayne Barrett in the fall of 2004, I was one of six terrified interns, all of us sitting in a windowless room at The Village Voice, listening to a man in Brooklyn barking orders over a speakerphone. I was somehow nominated the stenographer and tapped furious notes—pausing to stare at the others in bafflement—as this loud and blunt man, Wayne Barrett, rattled off assignments.

The films that debuted at Sundance last year were a particularly strong group, including Manchester by the Sea, Little Men, Christine, Certain Women and O.J.: Made in America, to say nothing of the festival’s hottest—and ultimately most divisive attraction— Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation. At first glance, the 2017 lineup doesn’t look quite as buzzy, but that may mean the real gems will be the movies we aren’t even anticipating yet. With that in mind, here are ten of the festival’s most intriguing films. Читать дальше...

President-elect Donald Trump, as is his wont, has been making contradictory statements all month about the fate of Obamacare, variously stating that he favors and opposes House Speaker Paul Ryan’s plan of “repeal and replace.” In an interview on Saturday with The Washington Post, Trump surprised many in his party by promising “insurance for everybody” and saying he was developing his own replacement plan. As Yuval Levin reported in National Review, “the conservative health-care universe, including some people on Trump’s own team... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump was the most unpopular major party candidate in modern history, lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly three millions votes, and enters office on Friday as, by far, the most unpopular incoming president since record-keeping began. Meanwhile, he is inheriting an economy near full employment; a relatively stable international order; increasing wages, modest deficits, and record-low levels of uninsurance. It’s a fair bet that some of these metrics would deteriorate even under a serious-minded president... Читать дальше...