Новости за 17.06.2020

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled by a 6–3 vote that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects gay and trans people from being fired on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity. The decision was historic but, as my colleague Melissa Gira Grant wrote on Tuesday, exists in that nebulous space of “progress,” its impact landing somewhere “between what the law can do and what justice looks like.” As Suzanne Goldberg, a co-director of Columbia Law School’s Center for Sexuality and Gender Law... Читать дальше...

To get a sense of Florida’s priorities amid a viral pandemic, economic ruin, and a campaign for black lives, just look to the letter I received from state Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis on Monday evening, asking me if I was a paid Chinese Communist agent.

By now, you may be familiar with The Fake Shake Shack Attack: Three NYPD officers fell sick after drinking milkshakes from Shake Shack, leading two different police unions to accuse the restaurant of purposefully poisoning the officers with bleach. In a since-deleted tweet, the NYC Police Benevolent Association claimed that bleach had been “placed in” the officers’ milky treats, and went on to decry how far society has fallen: “When NYC police officers cannot even take meal without coming under attack... Читать дальше...

As the Minneapolis City Council took its first steps toward dismantling its police department, and national commentators debated what it would mean to “defund the police,” I thought of two stories I read in the Minneapolis Star Tribune last week.

If you had any doubt that America is a gerontocracy, consider that we’ve been talking for three days now about the president’s uncertain gait as he descended a ramp at West Point on Saturday. On the following day, Donald Trump turned 74—making him one year older than Ronald Reagan when, in the recollection of his son Ron Jr., he appeared “lost and bewildered” during a 1984 reelection debate with Walter Mondale. (Reagan nonetheless went on to win a second term, during which he displayed more visible... Читать дальше...

Once one of the weakest Democratic presidential hopefuls on climate, presumptive nominee Joe Biden won activists’ praise when his campaign announced it was bringing Bernie Sanders–aligned progressive leaders, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement’s Varshini Prakash, to a joint climate task force in mid-May. It’s one of several recent overtures toward the party’s younger and more left-leaning wing. The question, particularly for climate voters hoping for more ambitious climate policy than Barack Obama’s... Читать дальше...

In my neighborhood of D.C., there is a Whole Foods on P Street NW, between 14th and 15th. Prior to its ultragentrification, the neighborhood was home to one of the city’s most well-known homeless shelters; years on, there are still often one or two homeless Washingtonians who spend the day on this particular block. I recall one occasion, a couple of years ago, when I passed one such person in front of the grocery, wandering the sidewalk and shouting—something like “Fuck Trump,” which is certainly... Читать дальше...

Until this week, I had never seen Gone With the Wind. That neglect was one of the very few things keeping me feeling young at age 43. But then HBO temporarily pulled the movie from its streaming service last week to add an introduction that would provide vital context to a movie that is widely beloved but is also super racist. Well, of course, our finest Applebee-American citizens weren’t pleased to see the film get temporarily shelved by literally one streaming service among many, many others that have left it untouched. Читать дальше...

This we know: On August 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, a prolific pedophile and the most high-profile prisoner in America, died early in the morning in his prison cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan. His death was described in official reports as a suicide, the first to occur in decades at the MCC, where conditions could best be described as squalid.

In addition to claiming the lives of over 110,000 people, throwing the economy into ruin, and putting more than 30 million people out of work, the pandemic has inconvenienced the rich. Forced to abandon their Manhattan penthouses or Brooklyn Heights brownstones to weather lockdown orders in the Hamptons, the economic elite has struggled mightily with being relegated to lavish outposts without domestic workers or Botox refreshes. “Being in quarantine is like being in jail,” Ellen DeGeneres joked... Читать дальше...

After three weeks of protests against police violence, the energy of the demonstrations remains undiminished. Episode 10 of The Politics of Everything explores what is motivating the actions, the political effects they’ve already had, and what’s to come.