Новости за 13.04.2021

On Tuesday, executives from more than 300 companies—including renewables firms and several gas and electric utilities—released a letter urging the Biden administration to pledge to cut emissions by 50 percent by 2030. “The private sector has purchased renewable energy at record rates and along with countless cities across the country, many have committed themselves to a net zero-emissions future,” the letter stated. “If you raise the bar on our national ambition, we will raise our own ambition... Читать дальше...

Abolish what? The deportation arm of the United States government appears to be secure under President Joe Biden. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a “noble mission,” according to Alejandro Mayorkas, the new secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Telling DHS employees that he was “100 percent opposed to the abolition of ICE,” Mayorkas recently criticized sanctuary cities and called for more prosecutions of illegal migrants. He also said that the Biden administration may resume construction of the much-despised border wall. Читать дальше...

According to the news, New Mexico supposedly abolished qualified immunity last week. Axios reported that Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill that “eliminates a legal defense known as qualified immunity, making it easier to sue government employees, including police officers, for civil rights violations.” Fox News claimed that she had “signed a law Wednesday eliminating qualified immunity for law enforcement.” More than a few local news outlets also described the law as ending or effectively ending qualified immunity in New Mexico. Читать дальше...

Exiles often have conflicting feelings about their adoptive society, and Edward Said was no exception. As a Palestinian in the United States, he recognized the country’s pervasive racism and violence, but he also knew its educational system made his career as a renowned and prosperous thinker possible. His life was indeed filled with paradoxes and contradictions. He was one of the twentieth century’s most influential anti-colonial writers, who mostly studied his colonizers’ literature; a proponent... Читать дальше...

The Wall Street Journal is, financially speaking, quietly one of the most successful newspapers in the country. But you don’t hear about the Journal’s success all that often. The media industry narrative has centered around the revitalization of The New York Times and The Washington Post, two papers that had previously struggled to adapt to the digital era, before roaring back. They are now the two most important newspapers in the country (at least until Substack cannibalizes them).

Last Friday, more than 400 people—lawyers, journalists, court staffers, gas and oil employees, and Indigenous citizens—joined a conference call that the fractious group believed might provide at least a temporary answer to a question that has now stumped two consecutive Democratic presidential administrations: What should be done about the Dakota Access Pipeline?

As dawn rose over the Capitol on a Wednesday in early March 1960, two men remained on the Senate floor—segregationist South Carolina Senator Olin Johnson was reading aloud from the collected works of J. Edgar Hoover while a lightly snoring Senator Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather of future presidents, supposedly stood guard for civil rights forces. As a Washington Post reporter noted archly, “Sleep hung in the air like nerve gas.”