Новости за 10.04.2017

Two new releases take center stage this week, proof that, last week’s show notwithstanding, this podcast will not in fact turn into a weekly discussion of The Room. First, Will and Tim dig into the Romanian moral drama Graduation, which feels like Crimes and Misdemeanors-era Woody Allen, but even more despairing. Then they discuss Nacho Vigalondo’s Colossal, which features Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis as two Americans who have the strange, unwitting ability to control monsters attacking downtown Seoul. Читать дальше...

Donald Trump’s decision to bomb a Syrian airfield last week, days after a chemical weapons attack by its government, earned him the first broad bipartisan applause of his divisive presidency. Many Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, praised the missile strikes. “Donald Trump has done the right thing on Syria. Finally!!” exulted former Obama official Anne-Marie Slaughter, “After years of useless handwringing in the face of hideous atrocities.”... Читать дальше...

On the last day in January, an angry horde, reportedly numbering in the thousands, amassed outside the Brooklyn home of Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader. Liberal and left-wing activists had come to scold their senator—the de facto leader of congressional resistance to Donald Trump—for voting to confirm three of the president’s cabinet nominees, and for offering to work with him on an infrastructure package. Schumer was being put on notice, declared Jonathan Westin, executive director of New York Communities for Change... Читать дальше...

It only took a week after Donald Trump’s inauguration before Democrats and the media began to warn that our democracy faces a grave and potentially fatal threat. On the second weekend of Trump’s presidency, when customs officials began enforcing his hastily imposed ban on travel from Muslim nations, Senator Cory Booker dashed out to Dulles Airport and told a crowd of protesters that the American rule of law was under assault. “I believe it’s a constitutional crisis,” Booker declared. Two days later... Читать дальше...

I’m canceling my Netflix subscription. Although its collection of new wave noir is good, it is not infinite. It has taken a long time, but after many evenings of numbed clicking I must accept that I have run through all of Netflix’s programming that is up my alley. And that’s okay—I don’t have a regular television because most programming is not up my alley.

The White House infighting between President Donald Trump’s neophyte son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and chief political adviser Steve Bannon has left the latter diminished. After being booted from the National Security Council last week, Bannon now faces an apparent choice between accepting subservience to influence peddlers he derides as “globalists,” or getting himself fired.