Новости за 15.01.2020

A partially nude young woman, covering herself with a bright red pillow, is cowering in the corner of a bedroom. Two officers in uniforms reading “Police” and “HSI” approach her, and one reaches out a hand. This is the photo promoting “victim assistance” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement—they, along with Homeland Security Investigations, are part of the Department of Homeland Security—and it illustrates a social media campaign coinciding with this year’s human trafficking awareness month.

Julián Castro roamed the Spin Room after Thursday night’s debate like Banquo’s ghost.

Emmett Till’s mother thought that if we saw pictures of her son’s corpse we’d be galvanized into action. She could not have foreseen the surveillance hall of mirrors in which we now find ourselves: Seemingly every week there’s some new document (shaky cellphone play-by-play, suspiciously edited body-cam footage) of this society’s violence upon the black body, so commonplace now it often doesn’t even achieve virality. Are we numb or tired of being told what we already know?

The 2014 movie Pride tells the story of the 1984 coal miners’ strike in England and the unlikely partnership that grows between a group of radical gay and lesbian activists from London who organized in solidarity with the mining village of Onllwyn in Wales. After raising buckets of cash standing in the street in front of a gay bookstore, calling on people walking by to “support the miners,” the activists are invited to the village union hall to meet the people they’ve been trying to help. At first... Читать дальше...

Bernie Sanders is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. It is true that the primary has entered a stage where the standings could become very fluid, very quickly. It is also the case that Sanders continues to lag behind Joe Biden nationally. But recent polls have shown Sanders either ahead or a close second in Iowa and the other early states, and his campaign has raised an extraordinary amount of money. With a victory in Iowa, Sanders could well have the momentum and funds to tear through the rest of the primary calendar. Читать дальше...

The questions that have been featured in this season of Democratic debates have alternated between infuriating and disappointing. Millions have watched as the media asks, on behalf of the American people, things that only people in the media think are important. No matter how the audience dwindles, or how loudly the Twitter touts denounce the proceedings, those in charge appear to be incapable of taking advice. There’s no incentive, it seems, to improve. The meritocracy has failed.