Speaking with CNN on Tuesday morning, Democratic Senator Chris Coons danced a tired routine. As the interview turned toward the refusal by Republican congressional leaders to refute the lame-duck president’s dangerous attempts to invalidate the victory of President-elect Joe Biden, CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota asked Coons why his Republican colleagues are feeding a paranoid, dangerous lie.
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If you want to understand the state of social media, take a look at a Twitter account called @FacebooksTop10. Maintained by New York Times journalist Kevin Roose, the account tweets a daily list of the top-performing posts on Facebook. Using data from Crowdtangle, a Facebook-owned analytics firm, each day’s list is almost invariably filled with the names of conservative personalities and media networks: Ben Shapiro, Kayleigh McEnany, Steven Crowder, Fox News, Franklin Graham, Breitbart, and so on. Читать дальше...
What now, for Ivanka Trump? Since publishing her unpleasant-to-pronounce self-help book Women Who Work in 2017 and closing her poorly-performing personal fashion line in 2018, the favorite first daughter has appeared to work solely as an adviser to her father, while her husband and siblings have also crowded around the throne. The role of United States president is extremely powerful, but temporary—Ivanka placed a high wager when she first leaned into her father’s campaign and later took on a job in the administration... Читать дальше...
For almost a decade, Josef Ben-David was stateless. The son of a Jewish elementary school teacher in Czarist Russia, he hated his native country, where prevalent antisemitism made his life impossible. After World War I, violent pogroms ransacked his town; he survived one of them by disguising himself as a Christian priest. The trauma led him to embrace Zionism, and in 1921 he embarked on a long and arduous trip to Palestine. To Josef’s misfortune, however, one of the towns where he stopped during... Читать дальше...
Pfizer and BioNTech, a German biotechnology company, announced Monday that their coronavirus vaccine may be 90 percent effective at preventing Covid-19, according to early results. Although experts cautioned that more detailed results need to be released, they see it as a very promising development both for this vaccine and for other vaccines under development. It’s the first step in the monumentally complicated process of getting the population vaccinated—but only the first step. Manufacturing... Читать дальше...
