Новости за 22.07.2020

Around this time last year, Jeff Hoops—CEO of Blackjewel LLC—was having a busy week. On July 1, 2019, he filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, abruptly closing the company’s Bell Ayr and Eagle Butte mines in Wyoming and laying off 700 workers. Construction had by that point begun on a $30 million “first phase” of the new Grand Patrician Resort he was building in his hometown of Milton, West Virginia, set to include a 3,500-seat replica of the Roman Colosseum. Within days, hundreds of Blackjewel miners... Читать дальше...

Axios ominously reported over the weekend that President Donald Trump and his aides “are privately considering a controversial strategy to act without legal authority to enact new federal policies.” In a way, this isn’t really news. Trump once said that Article II of the Constitution gives him “the right to do whatever I want as president.” His administration often gives short shrift to legal mechanisms and statutory requirements in its haste to enact policy. This habit likely explains its impressive... Читать дальше...

The New York Times noted Monday that the former vice president has held a lead of about nine points in national polls for over a month—the largest sustained lead for a presidential candidate in almost 25 years. One of the more remarkable entries into that data set was an ABC News/Washington Post survey released Sunday, which showed Biden with a 15-point lead among registered voters. It would be difficult for any rational and honest student of presidential politics to brush these numbers aside.

In March, an Andy Warhol exhibition opened at the Tate Modern in London. It was a European sequel to the touring retrospective that bewitched the United States last year, but the Tate was forced to close less than a week into its run because of Covid-19. When I imagine the museum’s empty white rooms hung with all those Elvises and Maos, soup cans and car crashes, flowers and skulls, I can’t help but think some perverse part of Warhol would delight in a pandemic derailing his big show. His art... Читать дальше...

In 1868, four years after the Navajo Nation was forcibly removed from its homelands in what is known as the Long Walk, the nation signed a treaty with the United States. In exchange for Diné citizens agreeing to “make the reservation herein described their permanent home” and allow their children to be assimilated through an “English education,” Congress and President Andrew Johnson agreed to make annual payments to the tribe and, through the federal government’s trust responsibilities, provide... Читать дальше...

It’s not nearly the same thing as getting used to it, but there is by now an identifiable rhythm to the Trump presidency. That rhythm is jittery, chaotic, and atonal, just one squashed-flat brown note after another. But as the Trump presidency bumbles from one skronking improvisational tantrum to the next, there is also a discernible pattern. Trump only knows how to play a few notes, but he absolutely fucking lives to make noise. And for better or worse, the sounds the man makes are distinctive... Читать дальше...