In his first year in office, Donald Trump has achieved the seemingly impossible: By variously criticizing Barack Obama’s surveillance practices and promising to ramp up his own, he has managed to galvanize a bipartisan movement in Congress to curb the warrantless surveillance of Americans. If the effort succeeds, it could represent the most significant reform of U.S. surveillance practices in decades.
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The word most frequently attached to Ta-Nehisi Coates is probably pessimistic. His critics charge him with focusing on American racism’s intransigence, and overstating the power that white supremacy exerts on black life. In the New York Times, Michelle Alexander raised concern that Coates too quickly dismissed the individual citizens’ power to alter race relations via political change. Thomas Chatterton Williams characterized Coates’ approach to race as dangerously essentialist, saying that his writing... Читать дальше...
The snowman is not tall nor majestic. He is a squat little chap made of a round head sat on a round tummy. His mouth is at a lamentable angle, drawn down on one side in an expression of sinister glee. But the most expressive of his parts are the stick arms. They thrust upward from his sides and then branch out into “hands.” Though this snowman is a serial killer’s calling card—wherever he is, a dead woman is nearby—the effect is of a cheeky gangster throwing out his forearms and saying, “Eyyy... Читать дальше...
Heather Lind, a 34-year-old actress, alleged on Tuesday that during a photo shoot four years ago, former President George H. W. Bush “touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side” and told her a “dirty joke.” Bush didn’t deny the allegation, instead apologizing to Lind in a statement through his spokesman: “President Bush would never—under any circumstance—intentionally cause anyone distress, and he most sincerely apologizes if his attempt at humor offended Ms. Читать дальше...
At his rallies, presidential candidate Donald Trump excited his most avid supporters through displays of toughness: his calls when a demonstrator acted up to “get him out of here”; his incantations of his reality show signature “You’re fired”; his promises of robust actions on “Day One.” He promised his ecstatic followers that he’d tear up trade treaties and the Iran nuclear deal. He’d force other countries to renegotiate and he’d be tough in his dealings with them, just as he’d been in business. Читать дальше...
