In 2014, one moderate Republican senator made a strong stand against the Tea Party, which he believed was pushing the GOP off a cliff. “Somebody, somewhere, had better up their game, because our country is going in the wrong direction. And if it’s not me, who’s it going to be?” That senator was Lindsey Graham, who went on to comfortably win re-election in the midterms that year.
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In the wake of the Battle of Little Big Horn, U.S. soldiers confiscated a number of strange rocks from their captives’ medicine pouches. Etched with lines that resembled outlines of buffalos, the rocks were sacred to the Blackfoot and other plains Indians, who used them to draw buffalo herds over cliffs. But, it turned out, they were not actually stones at all. They were the fossilized shells of ammonoids, a great race of cephalopods (distantly related to the nautilus) that once roamed the seas. Читать дальше...
In June, at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, President Trump brought 6,000 supporters to their feet, roaring their approval. “I believe the time has come for new immigration rules,” Trump bellowed. “Those seeking admission into our country must be able to support themselves financially and should not use welfare for a period of at least five years.” A bill to shred the safety net for legal immigrants would be moving through Congress “very shortly,” Trump promised.
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If the right believes that cultural appropriation is not offensive, why are they making paper dolls that ridicule other cultures? Lionel Shriver was the keynote speaker at a private party for the libertarian magazine Reason held in New York City this week. At the party, Reason circulated a paper doll of Shriver, along with several options for “dressing” her. The paper outfits included Native American women’s clothing, a cowgirl’s, a South Asian woman’s sari, and of course a sombrero. The images... Читать дальше...
