Новости за 23.01.2017

Matthew Heimbach, who at various points in his career has been called “the little Führer” and “the affable, youthful face of hate in America,” was wearing a pair of blue pajama pants decorated with Angry Birds as he nursed a cup of tepid coffee. His thick, bristly hair stuck out at odd angles and his eyes were bleary and tired after driving for most of the previous day. Sitting next to him at this restaurant in a Best Western in Manassas, Virginia, were Miles Blythe and Scott Hess. Blythe is tall... Читать дальше...

Matthew Heimbach, who at various points in his career has been called “the little Führer” and “the affable, youthful face of hate in America,” was wearing a pair of blue pajama pants decorated with Angry Birds as he nursed a cup of tepid coffee. His thick, bristly hair stuck out at odd angles and his eyes were bleary and tired after driving for most of the previous day. Sitting next to him at this restaurant in a Best Western in Manassas, Virginia, were Miles Blythe and Scott Hess. Blythe is tall... Читать дальше...

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is expert at estimating crowd sizes. When trying to figure out whether a protest in some foreign hotspot could turn into a revolution, the CIA uses satellite imagery to get a sense of how many people are protesting. So it was particularly brazen of Donald Trump, while addressing the agency for the first time as president, to lie about the size of Friday’s inauguration crowd.

Donald Trump was the first Republican to win Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin since 1988. Combined with Republican victories in Congress and a large majority of statehouses, it is tempting to see his victory as a transformation of the political order. Some political scientists, however, are skeptical. Julia Azaria of Marquette University makes a compelling case in Vox that Trump is more likely to represent the last gasp of a dying regime, much as Jimmy Carter did before him. In Azaria’s interpretation... Читать дальше...

Late last year Josh Earnest, President Barack Obama’s press secretary, was asked by CNN to offer his successor, Sean Spicer, some advice about how to handle his new job. “Make sure you know where the president’s head’s at,” Earnest said. “Because your ability to faithfully represent his point of view is critically important.” He added, “Honesty and credibility and trustworthiness is the most important part of this job.”

In August 2014, Pope Francis warned a group of journalists that 
“we are in a world at war everywhere.” He recalled: “A man said to me, ‘Father, we are in World War III, but spread out in small pockets everywhere.’ He was right.” The pope’s conclusion was partly a reflection of the time. Because August 2014 marked one hundred years since the outbreak of World War I, many historians were contemplating the possibility of another global conflagration, with the United States and China in the roles... Читать дальше...