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For a long time in American politics, you could pretty well guess how someone would vote by their income. Poor people generally supported Democrats; rich people voted Republican. This was true even among whites: In every presidential election since at least 1948, wealthy whites have been notably more Republican than the rest of the white electorate. And throughout the twentieth century, poor whites identified much more strongly with the Democrats than other whites. For decades, a good rule of thumb was... Читать дальше...

The devil went down to Vegas and shot 500 people last week. Such, at any rate, was the moral of Stephen Paddock’s rampage for Senator John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, in a recent interview with CBS News: “I do not think that the United States Congress can legislate away evil.” Rodrigo Meirelles, the president of Hampel’s Gun Company, agreed. “You cannot legislate evil, you cannot legislate stupid,” he pontificated to Fox 32. The Las Vegas massacre “was the pure act of evil,” GOP Congressman David Young of Iowa said on Wednesday. Читать дальше...

On a cold and sunny Friday in March, 2011, a powerful series of earthquakes shook Japan. The epicenter of the quake was northeast of the main island of Honshu, in the northeast region of Japan known as Tohoku. Richard Lloyd Parry, the correspondent for the Times of London in Japan, was in his Tokyo office when the quake occurred. Japanese buildings are generally well fortified to withstand quakes, and the building where Parry’s office was located suffered no damage. Tokyo generally was unaffected... Читать дальше...