Новости за 25.02.2020

The whole point of an election is to know who got the most votes. This matter wasn’t quickly resolved in this month’s Iowa caucuses. A cascade of failures and errors by the Iowa Democratic Party delayed the release of official results, upending the nomination fight and sapping confidence in the process itself. To make matters worse, President Donald Trump and his allies quickly seized the opportunity to discredit their opposition and stoke further divisions among his challengers.

While more than 90 women have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, the Manhattan trial that concluded on Monday concerned his conduct with three women: Miriam Haley, Jessica Mann, and Annabella Sciorra. Even as media narratives of the trial painted it as answering a simple, stark question about the producer’s guilt or innocence, the actual task handed to the jury resembled an algebra problem more than a call for judgment.

Robert O’Brien, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday to make the case that Russia had a new best friend in American politics. While he had not “seen any intelligence that Russia is doing anything” to help Trump win reelection, he told host George Stephanopoulos, “there are these reports that they want Bernie Sanders to get elected president.” 

JP Morgan Chase is the world’s leading financer of fossil fuel projects. And according to a report from within the company, recently leaked to the press, the world is seriously underestimating the adverse effects of climate change.

Years ago, my husband and I were seated at a restaurant beside two other men. They didn’t seem to be a couple (gays can usually tell), or brothers, or colleagues; they ate in companionable enough near-silence, then departed. My husband leaned across the table and said, “I just don’t know why one man would be friends with another man.”

“The higher educational system of the industrial society,” University of California president Clark Kerr wrote in 1960,