Новости за 13.08.2021

Friday was supposed to be a big day. “The morning of August 13 it’ll be the talk of the world,” Mike Lindell, the MyPillow impresario and purveyor of discredited conspiracy theories about a stolen presidential election, warned during a recent appearance on a conservative podcast. Lindell, who is being sued for billions in damages by Dominion, a maker of voting machines that the right-wing bedding entrepreneur has called fraudulent, promised a day of reckoning, when the “Communists” would be kicked... Читать дальше...

Accountability is a rare thing in modern American politics, and it’s been dismally lacking in the wake of January 6. Though hundreds of Capitol rioters have been charged over the last eight months, the Senate declined to convict former President Donald Trump earlier this year for inciting them to attack Congress in the first place. Republican lawmakers who tried to toss out the election results retain their seats and committee memberships. And thanks to the filibuster, those same lawmakers blocked... Читать дальше...

Throughout history it’s been periodically suggested that America should amend the Constitution to make the president serve a single six-year term. This quaintly goo-goo reform enjoyed its most recent vogue in the 1980s, when no president had served out a full two terms in more than 20 years. Especially after Watergate, running for reelection seemed fraught with corruption. Why not give the chief executive six years, free him to govern according to his conscience, and put a choke chain on the imperial presidency? Читать дальше...

My baby is 4 months old today, as I write these words. He’s been smiling for weeks already, but it has just started feeling like his smiles really mean something. When you enter his field of vision, it’s like his face splits in half—he crinkles up his eyes in a way that makes them sparkle and throws his mouth open in a grin so forceful it pulls his tongue up. It’s hard to describe how it feels when he smiles, without falling back on clichés (it lights up your heart) or pedantry (it triggers an evolutionary dopamine hit). Читать дальше...

John and Revé Walsh’s lives changed on July 27, 1981, when Revé took her six-year-old son, Adam, to the Sears department store in a mall in Hollywood, Florida. Adam had asked to visit the toy department while his mother browsed the lighting and home furnishings section just a few aisles away. As Revé told ABC’s Nightline in 2011, “I said, ‘I’m going right over here to the lamp department,’ and he said, ‘OK, Mommy, I know where that is.’” After Revé bought her lamp, she went to collect her son, but he was nowhere to be found. Читать дальше...

In the fall of 2018, a Snapchat video began circulating in the wealthy Dallas suburb of Southlake, Texas. It showed a group of white high school students at a party, laughing as they chanted a racial slur in unison. After the video went viral, the school district held a series of listening sessions and committee meetings around diversity and racism that resulted in a list of recommendations, which were then compiled into a “Cultural Competence Action Plan.” The plan, released last summer in the wake of the George Floyd protests... Читать дальше...