This week, our critics can neither agree nor disagree: Tim is blissfully ignorant of The Fast and the Furious franchise—he’s only see the Tokyo Drift one—and Will hasn’t seen James Gray’s The Lost City of Z yet. So they ask each other about each film, spoiler-free, so you can make your own decision. (But they’re positive on both.)
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This week, our critics can neither agree nor disagree: Tim is blissfully ignorant of The Fast and the Furious franchise—he’s only see the Tokyo Drift one—and Will hasn’t seen James Gray’s The Lost City of Z yet. So they ask each other about each film, spoiler-free, so you can make your own decision. (But they’re positive on both.)
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Hancock County, Tennessee, lies on the Virginia border, not far from where Daniel Boone crossed into the American West. For decades it was home to small farmers who carved out a living growing burley tobacco. Greg Marion, the former county mayor, remembers locals buying cars from his father’s dealership on credit. They’d pay in full when their tobacco check came in each season. Those farms started disappearing after the surgeon general released his warning against tobacco products in 1964.
Early one Friday morning, more than 250 police officers file into a high school auditorium in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. Dressed in the uniform of the off-duty cop—polo shirts and khakis accessorized with pistols and handcuffs—the officers are here to attend a seminar called “The Bulletproof Mind: Prevailing in Violent Encounters … and After.” As the cops settle into their seats, a burly National Guard sergeant in camouflage fatigues takes the floor to introduce the man who will lead the seminar: Lt. Читать дальше...
Donald Trump’s recent policy reversals, and reports that he’s exasperated with right-wing advisers like chief strategist Steve Bannon in favor of moderates like son-in-law Jared Kushner, have given rise to a media depiction of the president as a burgeoning centrist. By declining to label China a “currency manipulator,” to shutter the Export-Import Bank, or to replace Janet Yellen when her Federal Reserve chairmanship expires, Trump has moved “toward the economic policies of more centrist Republicans,” according to The Washington Post. Читать дальше...
President Donald Trump may finally be ready to cut some deals. After an embarrassing month that saw him unable to rally his own party around a health care bill, he appears to realize he can’t govern with Republicans alone. He has begun sidelining right-wingers like chief strategist Steve Bannon and elevating those who can bridge partisan divides and get things done. Nowhere is this more evident than the rise of Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs president and director of Trump’s National Economic Council. Читать дальше...
In 1926, a cattle rustler and
bootlegger named John Ramsey was convicted for his role in the execution-style murder
of Henry Roan, a member of the Osage Nation from Oklahoma. Ramsey admitted to his part in the killing, and named his accomplices, under interrogation by FBI
agents, saying, “white people in Oklahoma thought no more of killing an Indian
[now] than they did in 1724.”
