Новости за 15.10.2021

For most of the last month, the biggest story in the NBA has been a mystery: Why hasn’t Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving been vaccinated against Covid-19? Irving, who at this point reporters are practically required by law to describe as “mercurial,” has been outspoken about many issues, from racial justice to flat earth theories. But on the matter of the Covid-19 vaccine he has hitherto been oddly silent, despite the extraordinary implications of his decision: Not only could his absence cost his team a shot at the title... Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden’s commission on Supreme Court reform issued a preliminary report on Thursday calling for the high court’s replacement by a supreme revolutionary tribunal modeled after the Committee of Public Safety in revolutionary France. The tribunal, according to the commission, should be empowered to impose socialism upon the U.S. economy, mandate critical race theory in schools, and spread cancel culture to every corner of American society.

In a two-minute-and-13-second video released on Sunday, Ashli Babbitt’s birthday, Donald Trump said, “There was no reason Ashli should’ve lost her life that day. We must all demand justice for Ashli and her family, so on this solemn occasion as we celebrate her life, we renew our call for a fair and nonpartisan investigation into the death of Ashli Babbitt.” He later added that Babbitt was shot “for no reason.”

Back in 2016, prominent television journalist Katie Couric scored herself a lengthy and exclusive sit-down with then–Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The interview, conducted when the former news anchor was working for Yahoo News, yielded a 29-minute video and web feature, covering topics ranging from the justice’s refusal to retire to her fabled friendship with former Justice Antonin Scalia, to the state of national politics. But it was the segment on race that received the most attention. Читать дальше...

The final affront to Helen Yin was the signage. It’s not like customers read signs anyway, the former bartender said, but at least you could point to one as proof that the person pouring the beer wasn’t personally making the rules. Yin worked in bars and restaurants for 15 years, until last month. Management at the “lucrative bartending gig” she’d had for three years in New York wanted customers to feel normal during the pandemic, so Yin’s bosses wouldn’t hang signs reminding patrons to wear a mask. Читать дальше...

In the field of business management, there is an idea called “text and conversation theory.” It proposes that communication, far from being a subcategory of a business’s operations, is a business. The corporation’s soul lies in every conversation, not just the important ones, in other words; putting things into words or numbers comes before anything else and is the medium every commercial objective must be accomplished through, and can’t therefore be separated out from any other concern.

Every October, I buy a bunch of tiny pumpkins for the table. When I saw them in the store last week, I was startled. How could it be that time already? I was wearing sandals. But there was nothing freakish about the pumpkins’ arrival. They were right on schedule. The weird part is everything else. It is still over 70 degrees in New York City on most days. I haven’t worn a sweater yet. I made a caprese salad the other day because the tomatoes are still decent. The roses in my garden are still blooming, even climbing the trellis. Читать дальше...

Halfway through October, Democrats seem no closer to reaching an agreement on the massive social spending bill at the center of the Biden agenda than they did in September. Democratic leadership has insisted that a deal must be reached by the end of this month, but after last month’s abortive effort to hold a vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill without a deal on the other measure, the party remains locked in a debate over what the final top line should be, and what programs among the many... Читать дальше...