Новости за 27.07.2017

It’s hard to think of a city more preoccupied with itself than New York. For the individual resident, there are all sorts of little personality quizzes a person can administer to qualify her place as a “real New Yorker”: The 10-years-of-residence rule is common, for instance (except to natives, to many of whom it’s trash). The writer E.B. White provided his own taxonomy in the 1949 essay “Here Is New York.” You’re born here, a commuter, or—“the greatest” of his three types—a transplant, “the person... Читать дальше...

One month before President Donald Trump was sworn into office, the climate scientist Michael Mann wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post about the time someone sent a letter filled with fake anthrax to his office. The August 2010 scare, he recalled, was “just one in a long series of threats I’ve received since the late 1990s, when my research illustrated the unprecedented nature of global warming.” Things had gotten better in recent years, he wrote—no more anonymous mail with potential bio-weaponry... Читать дальше...

Tomi Lahren and Chelsea Handler. Cenk Uygur vs. Ben Shapiro. Ana Kasparian vs. Ann Coulter. Oh, and also Clay Aiken, Mike Allen, America Ferrera, Anthony “Mooch” Scaramucci, and Senator Amy Klobuchar. This is the unlikely mix of people who will descend on Pasadena, California, this weekend to headline Politicon, the political extravaganza that HuffPost has called the “Coachella of politics.”

There’s an old line by Raymond Chandler: “It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.” Only here, the blonde is doing the kicking. Lorraine Broughton is punching a man and not gently. Back and forth her arm winds, bouncing the poor chap against the shiny municipal paint on the wall. They’re in a stairwell. She pummels Soviet after Soviet (for that’s what she calls them). They’re luckier than the chap who gets the corkscrew to the eye later, though a little... Читать дальше...

The climax of the Senate Republican health care fight bill is coming into focus and points for consistency: It’s just as stupid and nihilistic as the process leading up to it has been, and will give way to yet more stupidity if it works as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hopes.