Новости за 15.11.2017

No one was more elated about the Democrats’ stunning victories in Virginia last week than Carolyn Fiddler. The political editor at Daily Kos, a progressive blog community, she grew up in the tiny town of Warsaw in Richmond County and got her first taste of politics as a college intern for the state House Democratic Caucus. Fiddler has served as the state party’s deputy finance director and communications chief, though never under ideal circumstances. For all the talk of Virginia’s increasingly blue hue... Читать дальше...

Late last August, The New York Times gave its readers a welcome break from a brutal presidential election, rolling out a heartwarming story of all-American evil and redemption. Jesse Morton, a white man born in rural Pennsylvania, had raised himself from living in the streets of New York City to the Ivy League—while simultaneously becoming one of the “most prolific” Al Qaeda recruiters in the United States. Then, while serving prison time on terror-related charges, Morton had become “100 percent... Читать дальше...

If you know one thing about Carolee Schneemann, chances are it’s that, during a performance in the 1970s, she pulled a scroll out of her vagina and read the text on it aloud. She actually did this twice—once in 1975 and again two years later, with a different scroll each time. Those performances, both titled Interior Scroll, have come to define her career.