Новости за 27.10.2017

The photographer Ivan Sigal documented post-Soviet life in Moscow during the 1990s.

In 1997, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, the Clinton administration’s lead official on all matters Russia, gave a speech at Stanford University on American policy toward Moscow. He admitted, in not so many words, that persuading the erratic President Boris Yeltsin to keep on course with economic reform and progress toward democracy was a daunting task. But Talbott declared himself optimistic nonetheless. Читать дальше...

“With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of the Americas,” intones the unnamed narrator at the start of Casablanca, which celebrates its 75th birthday this year. As the prologue continues, a swift montage shows a spinning globe intercut with documentary footage of throngs of refugees fleeing Nazis advances, while the voiceover goes on to describe a roundabout trail leading from Paris to Marseilles, across the Mediterranean to Oran... Читать дальше...

Much has been written about Donald Trump’s campaign against a grieving black Gold Star family and the ways in which it shows the administration’s disdain for black women. The sense that the president is particularly irritated by black women who dare to question or criticize him has long been evident, in Trump’s attitude toward former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, the journalist April Ryan, and ESPN correspondent Jemele Hill. But what isn’t as clear-cut is the way that this disdain reverberates... Читать дальше...

Midway through Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, Griffin Dunne, the documentary’s director and Didion’s nephew, asks what interested her in the “Central Park Five,” the falsely accused and wrongly convicted young men alleged to have beaten and raped a white woman in Central Park in the late 1980s. “Oh,” she replies, “it was just a natural story for me. Everything about that story was a lie.” In a queasy projection of past onto present, Dunne then cuts to Robert Silvers, the late editor of The New York Review of Books... Читать дальше...

On Tuesday, the National Park Service announced a proposal to sharply increase entry fees to 17 of America’s busiest and most iconic national parks. Starting next year, it would cost cars $70—instead of $25 or $30—to enter public treasures like Yellowstone, Yosemite, Shenandoah, and the Grand Canyon during peak season. President Donald Trump’s secretary of the interior, Ryan Zinke, said the money is needed to repair the parks’ roads, campgrounds, and bathrooms. “The infrastructure of our national... Читать дальше...