Новости за 22.03.2022

As the death toll mounts and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its fourth week, the two countries’ negotiating teams claim to be trying to hammer out a possible solution, even as Russian bombs hammer cities like Mariupol into rubble. Currently the front-running solution seems to be Ukrainian “neutrality.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has suggested that Russia might accept a “compromise” in which Ukraine does not become a NATO member. An increasing number of international commentators are... Читать дальше...

Democrats in Congress have introduced a proposal to give you another stimulus check of hundreds of dollars. And I’m guessing you probably don’t know about it.

This spring, Colombia could elect its first progressive president. In primary elections earlier this month—held for left-wing, centrist, and ruling right blocs—former Bogotá mayor and 2018 presidential candidate Gustavo Petro won an astounding nearly 4.5 million votes to emerge as nominee for the left-wing coalition known as the Historic Pact. Election officials bowed to pressure from the right Monday afternoon and announced they intended to seek a recount, but Petro remains the man to beat when the first round of elections start in May. Читать дальше...

Speaking to Steve Bannon as Russian troops massed along Ukraine’s border last month, former elite globalist and current Ohio gubernatorial candidate J.D. Vance made the case that what was about to happen—an illegal invasion of a democratic nation—was really none of our business. He “did not serve in the Marine Corps to go and fight Vladimir Putin because he didn’t believe in transgender rights, which is what the U.S. State Department is saying is a major problem with Russia,” Vance said.

When Sheila Heti’s novel How Should a Person Be? was published in 2010, it seemed for a moment that literary fiction might once again be the best place to take the pulse of the culture. Subtitled A Novel From Life, it is an apparently autobiographical story about a young writer in Toronto named Sheila and her friend Margaux, based on the painter Margaux Williamson. Heti suggested in interviews that this blurring of the line between fiction and reportage was partly inspired by the MTV quasi-reality show The Hills... Читать дальше...

The Congressional Progressive Caucus has submitted to the Biden White House a list of proposed recommendations for executive action. This has prompted a debate about whether it’s best, in the limited time between now and the midterms, to continue to press for legislation or to bypass Congress and enact desired policies administratively. The correct answer is: “Yes.”

The first day of a Supreme Court confirmation hearing is usually the weirdest one. The senators each get ten minutes to publicly confirm their views on judicial nominees, and the nominee gets to sit there, hearing it. These opening statements usually set the tone for the rest of the week. For Democrats, theirs were full of praise for Jackson’s record and joy at her nomination. For Republicans, who lack a clear path to potentially derail Jackson’s prospects, it was more of a grab bag of complaints with a hefty dollop of culture warmongering. Читать дальше...