Новости за 16.09.2021

The foolishness of California’s recall system—which failed this week to replace California Governor Gavin Newsom with a right-wing talk radio blowhard—is not a new story. It ought to have been made evident by the California election in 1910 that led to its creation. 

The climate crisis is also a mental health crisis. Psychologists have known this for some time. But this week, preliminary findings from a massive new study have revealed that global warming’s impact on young people’s well-being is far more intense than anyone predicted. The worst part is that the kids’ distress isn’t irrational: The problem lies with their governments. 

On Monday evening, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio glad-handed with some of the city’s wealthiest at the Met Gala, ignoring the activists gathered outside the museum calling for him to defund the New York Police Department. Shortly thereafter, the protesters were arrested by NYPD officers. Just a few miles away was the site of another related crisis the mayor had been largely ignoring—the increasingly brutal conditions at Rikers Island, the city’s notoriously hellish jail complex that has, during the pandemic, become even more hellish. Читать дальше...

There was a point during the campaign to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom when the governor’s advisers fretted about an enthusiasm gap between Republican voters and Democratic voters—something 2021 campaigns and early 2022 campaigns are seeing across the country. On top of that, the coronavirus pandemic persisted, not just in California but across the country. The delta variant of the pandemic was reversing the progress the state had made during the pandemic. 

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In February 2009, when he took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Tucker Carlson was in the midst of an identity crisis. Five years earlier, he had been a victim of what was arguably the first viral takedown of the internet era. Jon Stewart, then at the height of his Daily Show fame, appeared on CNN’s Crossfire, told the hosts they were ruining the country, and singled out Carlson in particular as a “dick.” Crossfire limped along for three more months before being canceled. Читать дальше...

How does a vaccine get developed, studied, approved, distributed, and administered, and then just … disappear? On Episode 34 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene explore what happened to LYMErix, a vaccine for Lyme disease that has been called the only safe and effective vaccine ever to have been voluntarily withdrawn from the market in the United States. What does the story of LYMErix tell us about vaccine hesitancy, liability, and how pharmaceutical companies decide what to sell? Читать дальше...

Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times columnist who may run for governor of his home state of Oregon next year, was born in 1959 and raised on a farm in Yamhill, a small town halfway between Portland and the Oregon coast. His parents were on the faculty at Portland State University, where his father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, taught political science, and his mother art history. He attended Yamhill Carlton High School, where he was chosen by his classmates as editor of the school newspaper and performed his first communitarian act... Читать дальше...