Новости за 18.09.2017

Just as many Never Trumpers warned would happen, Donald Trump is starting to sound like a Democrat. After spending the better part of a year governing as a far-right Republican, the president apparently decided that he wasn’t getting anywhere and might have more success working with the opposition. The newly minted dealmaker is now buddies with “Chuck and Nancy,” as he refers to the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. In chummy chats, Trump seems open to... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump’s proudest accomplishment—next to his high-rises, his golf courses, and his daughter Ivanka—is his book, Trump: The Art of the Deal. Published 30 years ago this fall, the book has long served as his calling card—evidence that he’s the greatest negotiator ever to live, and proof positive that he’s fit to be president. When critics tried to laugh him off during his campaign, Trump fired back with his bone fides. “I went to the Wharton School of Finance, I was a great student,” he boasted. Читать дальше...

Last week was a momentous one for left-wing politics in America. In a testament to his newfound influence on Capitol Hill, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced his “Medicare for All” single-payer health care bill with 16 co-sponsors. Even former Senator Max Baucus, a moderate Montana Democrat who helped kill a public option in the Affordable Care Act, is now on board. Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank may have been exaggerating when he claimed that “Democrats have become socialists,” but there’s a reason that David Duhalde... Читать дальше...

“It’s fuckin’ beautiful, dog,” said Ratchet, dressed in full-face clown makeup and ripped black jeans, while marching toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. “To see the Lincoln Memorial—on every penny we’ve ever held in all of our lives—and then to see one of the most unaccepted subcultures posted up in front of it chanting for love, that was incredible.”