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President Donald Trump’s announcement Thursday that he’s withdrawing America from the Paris agreement was approximately 2,000 words long, but not once did he utter the phrase “climate change.” This was no accident, but a new, coordinated messaging tactic from the White House to avoid admitting that the president still believes that climate science is a hoax. On five occasions in the day leading up to Trump’s Rose Garden speech and in the hours afterward, senior White House officials and the president... Читать дальше...

Gasps of delight rose from the crowd at the Javits Center on Thursday night when it was announced that Cheryl Strayed, author of the best-selling memoir Wild, would be interviewing Hillary Clinton, the star guest at this year’s Book Expo America. Clinton was there to talk about two forthcoming books—a children’s adaptation of 1996’s It Takes a Village and what appears to be a campaign memoir—and she could not have asked for a friendlier audience or interlocutor. (Strayed appeared at a fundraiser... Читать дальше...

Big Bop Pop’s got his five-buck shop
Chock-a-block stocked with stuff that’s hocked,
Watches stopped at the two o’clock,
Hockey puck hermit crabs, legs pock-marked.

One of the biggest casualties of Donald Trump’s presidency is the reputation of H.R. McMaster, who continues to hold the rank of three-star general while serving as the national security adviser. The Daily Beast reported Thursday that a “growing cadre of former military officers” who served with McMaster want him to retire, fearing he’s “tarnishing the military’s reputation” by serving as Trump’s “political shield.” “H.R. is being used here,” a former McMaster colleague told the Beast. “If he didn’t have three stars on his shoulder... Читать дальше...

Ivanka Trump, the president’s eldest daughter and an adviser to him, has only made a few of her political views explicit. The policy objective most closely associated with her is subsidizing childcare costs for affluent-rather-than-poor families. She has also spearheaded a global fund to support female entrepreneurs that—goals aside—has all the trappings of a pay-to-play scam of the sort that her father pretended to be offended by on the campaign trail, and that would make the founders of the Clinton Foundation blush. Читать дальше...

Art loves a landscape. The past is full of landscape painting, and pastoral poetry, and stories about magical trees and enchanted roses, and the rolling hills of folklore. But to say that a work of art is about landscape does not mean that it merely depicts trees or grass. A landscape is a spectacle, perceived and interpreted by the human eye. A landscape is a space with a frame around it, planted like a garden full of meaning.

Amidst the tumult and drama of the first months of the Trump administration, it’s been difficult to follow changes in policy. Among the changes that are already underway, however, is a seismic shift on net neutrality. The principle that all internet traffic should be treated equally is about to be undergo a radical break, due to the Trump administration’s appointment of Ajit Pai as the new chair of the Federal Communications Commission. Pai, a former lawyer for Verizon, is decidedly pro-free market and opposed to regulation... Читать дальше...

You can still watch him die on YouTube. Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti—who rose from provincial obscurity to dominate his country and wage war across the Middle East, becoming the scourge of three American presidents, ally to another, and, finally, the most prominent casualty of the war on terror—ascends the gallows. He’s surrounded by men in masks, some of whom heckle him with Shiite slogans. Using a surprising degree of care, a man places a black scarf around his neck. A noose is thrown around the scarf and cinched tight. Читать дальше...

Can capitalism ever be feminist? For a long time, in mainstream American discourse, this wasn’t even a question. Capitalism was feminism, if a woman rose through its ranks. Capitalism was a means to power and feminism was about accruing power. It all made perfect sense. And in the era of American media that followed the radical upheaval of women’s liberation, and comforted American women—and men—with stories of empowerment through compromise, corporate ladder-climbing emerged as a kind of stand-in for social change. Читать дальше...