Новости за 04.05.2021

The books of Republican politicians might be described as political romances. Harboring fantasies of an electorate falling in love with them, they come bearing a dowry of policy prescriptions donated by right-wing think tanks. These books occupy a world of willful delusion, where, in 200 or so generously spaced pages, the enemies of liberty can be quickly identified and dispatched by the author, an errant knight guiding the reader through the hopelessly debauched milieu of American governance. Читать дальше...

The tell-tale signs of spring are upon us. I’m not talking about the explosion of tulips, or the clouds of pollen, or even that odd feeling the sun causes when it hits your skin—warmth, is it? No, the true signal of spring’s arrival is a feeling deeper than any of those obvious reminders. It’s standing up too fast and hearing the pop in your knee, or lifting a package and triggering a twinge in your lower back, and remembering that a far greater ordeal is ahead of you: The time has come to lug... Читать дальше...

Rain dots the sidewalk outside Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, as Pastor Moses Makor of Christ Vision Ministries ascends a plywood podium. Makor, dressed to preach, in black with a mustard-yellow collar, works at the hospital as a nurse. He and hundreds of co-workers have been out on strike since March 8 over nurse-to-patient ratios they say have led to unsafe conditions and an increase in patient bedsores and falls. It’s a Wednesday in late April, and the nurses surround the podium at the interfaith vigil... Читать дальше...

There are those who believe the Republican Party lacks a cohesive vision for this country, that it has been drained of any ideas for governance, and that it lacks a policy agenda to contrast with the Democrats’ social and economic plans. That is simply not true. The GOP’s vision for American life is that Democrats stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump. The party’s central idea for national governance is that Donald Trump should be in charge of it. And its policy agenda is, well, doing things... Читать дальше...

For a generation, when Lawrence Summers talked, politicians listened. As a powerful and trusted adviser to the last two Democratic presidents, the Harvard professor held sway throughout the Treasury Department and White House. But this March, he started singing a very different tune. In an interview with Bloomberg, he sputtered that President Joe Biden had crafted “the least responsible macroeconomic policies we’ve had in the last 40 years.”

Back in the summer of 2019, when a collection of Fox News personalities and unfamous anti-LGBTQ activists seized on their newest moral panic, it may have seemed like a miscalculation or a joke. What vexed and quite publicly obsessed them: a handful of events in public libraries at which parents brought kids to hear drag queens read aloud from children’s books. Two years later, the right is seeing the results of what some had hand-waved as a culture war: at least 35 state-level bills meant to block... Читать дальше...

You could hardly blame NBC Sports for cutting away from Sunday’s fixture between Newcastle and Arsenal to a nearly empty stadium. Dozens of Manchester United fans had broken into Old Trafford, their team’s hallowed ground, in advance of a clash with Liverpool. The fans, many of whom were visibly drunk, were mostly gawking and milling about, though a few did run around on the pitch. Some lit flares. A corner flag was stolen. A camera tripod was smashed. One guy, who kept falling down, lost his shoe. Читать дальше...