If it took President Richard Nixon to go to China, perhaps it will take President Joe Biden to begin to dismantle the legal protections that allow kleptocrats and other dubious financial actors to hide their money in the United States.
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Abstract expressionists have been immortalized as hard-partying renegades with an aesthetic to match their lifestyle: slashes of color and whirls of movement. Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and others voiced contempt for their artistic forebears, rebelling against social realism (their major stylistic predecessor). Painting was no longer about morals or social messaging: It was performative and emotional.
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What we’re learning about the events of January 6, 2021, keeps getting worse. On the eve of the attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows reportedly emailed someone to indicate that the National Guard would be on standby “to protect pro-Trump people” during the fateful joint session of Congress. In another document, a PowerPoint briefing handed over to the House January 6 committee by Meadows, someone floated plans to declare a national emergency and “delay” certification of the electoral votes. Читать дальше...
For the last six weeks, graduate student workers at Columbia University have walked a picket line at the school’s Manhattan campus as they seek to negotiate a union contract that includes a living wage, better health care, and greater protections against harassment and discrimination. There has been music and dancing and marching and a giant inflatable fat cat perched atop a red car. Reports from the picket line take an overwhelming uplifting tone, and morale appears high, but this is a testament... Читать дальше...
Six months after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, delivered a report to Congress that failed to explain more than 140 reports of unidentified flying objects—mostly because no one in government tried all that hard to explain them—Congress is set to approve legislation to create a new office within the Pentagon tasked with investigating military UFO sightings. The new office will gather reports of sightings, analyze them, and deliver reports to Congress on the subject at intervals. Читать дальше...
On Sunday, with no warning, longtime Fox News anchor Chris Wallace announced he would be departing the network he’s long called his home, effective immediately. “After 18 years, I have decided to leave Fox,” he said during Fox News Sunday, the program he has hosted since he joined the network in 2003. “I want to try something new to go beyond politics, to all the things I’m interested in. I’m ready for a new adventure. And I hope you’ll check it out.” Soon after, it emerged that he would be hosting an interview program on CNN+... Читать дальше...
Political gales are again blowing across China, but their direction is unclear. Is a fresh cultural revolution in the offing, as several Western correspondents in Hong Kong are forecasting? Are the radical elements that convulsed China in the mid-1960s about to go on another rampage, and if so, who is inspiring them? How much control do Premier Chou En-lai and his moderate supporters exercise? What role is the army playing? To what degree is Mao Tse-tung still active and in which direction is he steering events? Читать дальше...
