Новости за 03.12.2021

In a feat worthy of a Hanukkah miracle, Congress actually accomplished something more than 24 hours ahead of its deadline. On Thursday, both chambers approved a measure to keep the government funded at current levels through February 18, in addition to allocating $7 billion for Afghan refugee care and resettlement.

From anti-Black racism to antisemitism to Islamophobia, hate has always had a home in the United States. But in the Trump years, it became more public, to the point that now Representative Lauren Boebert openly slings Islamophobia and refuses even to apologize for it, beyond a tepid tweet. Her Republican colleagues are divided about whether to distance themselves from it.

Republicans are stacking state legislatures and secretary of state offices with people who are obsessed with investigating the 2020 presidential election. They are actively fighting the select committee charged with finding out how the January 6 mob attack on the Capitol came about. They are continuing to push increasingly restrictive voting rights laws. And Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert say and do things that would have been unthinkable for a member of the House of Representatives to say or do a generation ago. Читать дальше...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, Licorice Pizza, is a loose-jointed movie about two misfit kids in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, bouncing around a big jumble of Los Angeles sets—a movie agent’s office, a fancy restaurant, a movie star’s house, a gas station. It’s too meandering to really have a climactic scene, but the biggest and best moment, to my mind, is the one when Alana Kane (played by Alana Haim) freewheel-drives a large orange truck in reverse down a twisty, steep road, navigating using her side mirror. Читать дальше...

The signature experience of Larry Gossett’s life came in 1966. Seeking draft deferment, he joined Volunteers in Service to America, a sort of domestic Peace Corps. He traveled to New York to mentor Harlem youth. “I began my work just three weeks after Stokely Carmichael articulated a new concept for Black people in this country. It was called Black Power.” Gossett devoured the obvious literature, but staff at the Michaux bookstore on 125th Street told him to expand his perspective. He’d understood... Читать дальше...

Last month, Chileans headed to the polls for the first round of presidential elections. The candidate who got the most votes is a far-right leader named José Antonio Kast, who has taken inspiration on how to stoke a culture war from experts like Spain’s reactionary Vox Party, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and the Trump-pilled Republican Party. On December 19, Kast will face 35-year-old left-wing former student union leader Gabriel Boric, who has been leading in the polls. That election could... Читать дальше...

Wednesday’s oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center produced a flurry of commentary on what looks like the imminent demise of Roe v. Wade. Almost every mainstream court-watcher saw no path to five votes that would strike down Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban; others, myself included, saw at least five votes to overturn Roe outright. But a notable minority of observers on the right apparently saw something else.