Parenthood is an experience that
seems to resist language: There are few things you can say that are both
polite and true. As Olivia Colman says with a
straight face to a heavily pregnant stranger in The Lost Daughter, instead of the expected congratulation,
“Children are a crushing responsibility.”
There are few elected officials who provoke more fury among Democrats than Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. Privately, some Republicans—even in her home state of Georgia—feel the same way. But the prospect of ousting her from Congress may seem like nothing short of the longest longshot. Yet it’s still possible.
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This week, like 25,000 other members of the Chicago Teachers Union, Dennis Kosuth opened his computer and found that he had been locked out of the software he uses to work from home. For the last six years, Kosuth has been a certified nurse with the Chicago public school system, focused on working with students who require special education and have specific health concerns like diabetes. He’s qualified to teach and develop education programming, but due to staffing shortages, he has recently... Читать дальше...
On January 20, 2021, after President Joe Biden was sworn in on the West Front of the Capitol, and about the time Amanda Gorman finished reciting her inaugural poem, Peter Robb received an email from the new president telling him to clear out his desk by 5 p.m. This was unusual. Robb was general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, and while incoming presidents frequently dismiss their predecessors’ appointees, they don’t typically muck around with independent agencies like the NLRB. Robb... Читать дальше...
After President Joe Biden commemorated the first anniversary of January 6, Republicans answered: How dare you. Their objection was not to the idea that the insurrectionist riot was a terrible event, because obviously it was. Rather, they said it was politically inflammatory of Biden to say so out loud.
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