Новости за 03.07.2020

As coronavirus cases soared this week in a number of states—not a few of them red—a handful of GOP leaders and right-wing pundits had a desperate message for conservatives: Wear a mask, please. Mike Pence now wears a mask; Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, who had previously blocked local governments from requiring masks, now calls them “your best defense against this virus”; Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy, whom Donald Trump once ranked a 12 out of 10 in terms of loyalty, said recently, “I think that if the president wore one... Читать дальше...

“Just spray the hell out of ’em,” one man shouted to the police officer standing in the middle of the road in Pembroke, North Carolina. “Goddamn pack of lazy sons of bitches,” mumbled another. The voices joined a chorus of insults and slurs being lobbed at a group of students at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and other community members who were peacefully marching in a protest against police brutality. Their hecklers cursed at them and peppered them with beer and soda cans; one man even reportedly threatened them with a knife.

Last week, Princeton University announced that it would remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the School of Public and International Affairs because his “racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college whose scholars, students, and alumni must stand firmly against racism in all its forms,” said the university’s president, Christopher L. Eisgruber. “Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time.”

Unemployment fell for the second straight month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, from 13.3 percent in May to 11.1 percent in June. This constitutes further evidence that the $600 addition to weekly unemployment benefits provided by the CARES Act is not, as feared, dissuading workers from returning to their jobs. Yet Senate Democrats are preparing to whittle that benefit down anyway.