Новости за 18.11.2021

Free childcare, in the form of publicly run, 24-hour day care centers, was a core demand of the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s. Yet here we are in the United States in 2021, with senators insisting we have to choose between universal pre-K, fair wages for childcare workers, and a few weeks’ paid leave for new parents. Any of these options would be a big step up from what we’ve got, but what we’ve got is not much.

Heather Heyer is dead. Ahmaud Arbery is dead. Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber are dead. For the past week, I have spent challenging hours trying to keep track of the historic civil trial against hate groups and their leaders and of the two criminal trials, all ongoing right now, and all of which seek to bring some measure of justice for these needless killings.

In a pair of courtrooms separated by 1,000 or so miles, an 18-year-old former lifeguard and a 35-year-old former member of the Coast Guard argued to predominantly white juries that when they killed people it was because they desperately feared for their own lives. Most every major news outlet is running a live feed dedicated to each minuscule development in Kyle Rittenhouse’s self-defense trial. Oddly, the coverage of the former Coast Guardsman, Travis McMichael; his ex-cop father, Gregory; and their neighbor... Читать дальше...

The summer of 1755 was a terrible time for George Washington. The 23-year-old Virginian slaveholder was serving as an aide to the British general of North America, Edward Braddock, in the Battle of the Monongahela. At the time, colonists like Washington still considered themselves proud subjects of the British Empire. But the routing that Washington was about to receive set in motion the steady unraveling of the imperial relationship. 

“I’d rather die on my feet,” said Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919), “than live on my knees.” Tell it to the QAnon Shaman.

Fossil fuels amount to 86 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions and a significant portion of methane, nitrous oxide, and black carbon emissions. But amazingly, the Paris Agreement, the world’s designated tool for dealing with climate change, doesn’t mention fossil fuels once, let alone provide a framework for scaling them down at the rapid pace required. It’s that ambiguity that allows for seemingly contradictory information to coexist: Over the last two weeks, the United States has cast... Читать дальше...

Senator Joe Manchin has been a stumbling block for nearly every aspect of the Biden administration’s agenda—whether it is climate policy, paid family leave, or a new Food and Drug Administration chief. As a result, he’s drawn lots of attention from activists who’ve held protests at his offices, blockaded his Maserati, and even showed up in kayaks at his houseboat.