Under a canopy sky
a man settles down
a plastic apron on.
As the train slips away
evenly, a ghost is left back on the tracks,
I open the window,
glance into the courtyard,
at the statue of Kirov.
The Marshall as usual is raising his hand:
Greetings, People
Hello-Hello, fellow Communist Party members.
The pigeons shitting on it
belong to this land,
not to the hand that is hiding
the clouds with its greeting,
while flies attack a fruit stand... Читать дальше...
Tell them to keep their eyes, their brawn,
the tentacles of their need sticking to my skin.
On Thursday evening, United States District Judge Lucy Koh issued a preliminary injunction requiring the Census Bureau to continue its fieldwork through October 31. It was a dramatic turn in what has been a dramatic census season: The ruling came in response to a federal lawsuit filed against the Trump administration for shortening the time frame to perform the national headcount, and bought census workers—who were supposed to cease operations on September 30—an additional 31 days. The administration is expected to appeal the ruling... Читать дальше...
At first glance, there was something slightly counterintuitive in the Federal Reserve Board’s most recent report on the economic well-being of American households. In July—at the height of the pandemic and in the midst of statewide lockdowns and mass layoffs—households in the United States appeared to be doing better financially than they had the previous year, before the coronavirus even appeared in Wuhan. According to the Fed report, 70 percent of adults surveyed in July said they could cover an unexpected $400 emergency expense... Читать дальше...
If you’re like most people, you probably missed the news Thursday evening that the House had passed H.R. 4447, the Clean Energy Jobs and Innovation Act. The nearly 900-page piece of legislation itself isn’t much to write home about—several different energy-related bills hastily smashed together into a $135 billion package, with some halfway decent provisions packed in alongside plenty of handouts to the fossil fuel industry. But the voting pattern could say a lot about the future of climate legislation... Читать дальше...
Thursday was the kind of day that many Beltway reporters have spent four years dreaming about: Democrats and Republicans came together to tell Donald Trump that he had gone too far.
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On Labor Day, Uber released its first “climate assessment” report, admitting that the average trip taken on its service is 41 percent more carbon-intensive than a typical car ride. Two days later, Lyft and Uber drivers gathered in Oakland, California, under a darkened sky. As wildfire smoke filtered the sun into an apocalyptic sepia, drivers and organizers from Gig Workers Rising blasted the ride-hailing companies’ campaign for Proposition 22, which would undo a 2018 California law that makes... Читать дальше...
In his book The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution, legal scholar and public policy analyst Ganesh Sitaraman writes the following: “When it is used today, ‘progressive’ is not usually thought of as describing someone with a coherent worldview or philosophy. Instead, it is generally thought of as a term to describe those who prefer not to be called ‘liberal,’ those who are on the far left side of the political spectrum, or those who are part of a conglomeration of center-left groups in American... Читать дальше...
Many of us like our fiction to be realistic, with plausible scenarios and nuanced, recognizably human protagonists—and meanwhile we like our nonfiction to be outlandish, full of absurd plot twists and larger than life characters. It’s not so much that we want fiction and nonfiction to converge in one place as that we want them to trade places, like ships passing in the night, each bound for the other’s point of origin.
