Новости за 16.02.2022

The current agitation for preparedness has set hosts of Americans to thinking out for the first time what a real national strength and readiness would mean. We suddenly realize that if we are to defeat that militaristic trend which we loathe we shall have to offer some kind of action more stirring and more creative. The call now upon every citizen is to be not nebulously patriotic, but clear and lucid as to America’s aims, so that our national energy shall not be squandered and misused. There... Читать дальше...

When Covid-19 hit the United States, the California Department of Public Health wasn’t ready. The reason had to do, at least in part, with a little-observed split between the state’s chronic disease experts and their infectious disease counterparts.

Ahead of an election cycle where Democrats are in danger of suffering across the board losses due to depressed turnout among key constituencies, a nonprofit group targeting African American voters is releasing a set of digital and radio ads aimed at touting President Biden’s accomplishments and increasing Black turnout.*

Regardless of where you land on the political spectrum, everyone can agree that parents have had a particularly difficult few years. Many parents of school-age children, and particularly mothers, had to leave their jobs to take care of children unable to attend school. Children have struggled with virtual learning, as well as the mental health and educational effects of not being able to sit in a classroom. Families have had to sort through an ever-shifting welter of pandemic guidance, adjusting on the fly to changing circumstances... Читать дальше...

Logging season in Romania runs seven months, from mid-September through April, a frenzy of chain saws chewing through millions of spruce, pine, oak, maple, beech, fir. Some of the wood is cut legally; most of it is not, and violence between the logging industry and its opponents breaks out often. Early this season, two Bucharest-based documentary filmmakers, working on a project about the illicit wood trade, set out to find a large, treacherous-looking clear-cut in Suceava, a northern county where... Читать дальше...

Sasha had only just begun planning for her future when the Russian separatists invaded Ukraine. A schoolgirl from an ethnic Russian enclave in the Donbass, an agriculture and coal-mining belt on the eastern border with Russia, she imagined living elsewhere in the region, or perhaps moving to Lviv, the country’s second-largest city, in the west. But then a national uprising, and the occupying pro-Russian forces it encouraged, drove a wedge between her and her hometown.