Новости за 16.03.2017

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget would eliminate all federal funding for public broadcasting in America by the end of next year. That wouldn’t be catastrophic for NPR or PBS, which receive just a fraction of their funds from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But as The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, Trump’s plan would decimate local radio and television stations across America, which rely on the corporation’s grants to survive and serve their vital civic purpose. (The Post... Читать дальше...

Martin O’Malley is back already—and being overshadowed again. On Wednesday, Politico broke the news that his leadership PAC commissioned a poll in Iowa to gauge his chances in a run for the White House in 2020. The survey showed O’Malley, a very distant third in last year’s Democratic primary, leading a field of potential candidates at 18 percent. “Gov. O’Malley spent a lot of time in Iowa during the campaign and made a very favorable impression on Iowa Democrats,” Dave Hamrick, O’Malley’s 2016 campaign manager, told Politico. Читать дальше...

In his second week in office, Donald Trump huddled at the White House with a group of leading Wall Street executives. Their goal: to unravel Dodd-Frank, the law passed in the wake of the global financial crisis to curb some of Wall Street’s most predatory practices. In front of assembled press, Trump pointed to Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, which had been forced by the Justice Department to pay a record $13 billion in 2013 for misleading investors about toxic securities. “There’s nobody... Читать дальше...

Nearly two months since Inauguration Day, the Trump administration still can’t find its sea legs and is increasingly beset with internal strife and suspicion. “A culture of paranoia is consuming the Trump administration, with staffers increasingly preoccupied with perceived enemies—inside their own government,” Politico reported on Wednesday. An unending wave of leaks to the press, often in the service of factional feuds, has led to an increasingly dysfunctional White House. “Aides are going to great lengths to protect themselves. Читать дальше...

As we were walking through the fifth floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2017 Biennial, I yanked my companion into a side room full of chairs and tables so that we could be alone. Wrapped up in conversation—my friend needed to talk something through—I absent-mindedly toyed with some paper on the table in front of me, assuming it was a press release. I glanced down at the paper in my hand, then around. My stomach dropped. My gaze fixed on a piece of wall text on the other side of the room. Читать дальше...