Новости за 20.04.2022

Tucker Carlson wants you to tan your testicles. Or at least to seriously consider it. No, really, he does. Unless, of course, he doesn’t. In fact, he’s probably just using a juvenile joke to draw you into a new kind of conversation—a really far-right one, steeped in misogyny and racism.

The Biden administration has been somewhat disappointing on the issue of labor rights. Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Martin Walsh reportedly have a fabulous rapport and speak every week on the phone, but they don’t have a lot to show for it apart from a February task force report on “worker organizing and empowerment” that, as I noted at the time, proposed a variety of laudable but far from sweeping changes. As the report itself conceded, executive actions “do not and cannot... Читать дальше...

Last September, shortly after President Joe Biden announced a slate of new executive orders requiring, among other things, federal employees to be vaccinated, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy condemned the move on Twitter. “NO VACCINE MANDATES,” the California congressman wrote. Mississippi governor Tate Reeves acknowledged that the vaccine was “life-saving” but seethed about Biden’s decision, referring to it as “terrifying,” and adding this strange addendum: “This is still America and we... Читать дальше...

My columns argue in favor of civic republicanism, a political tradition that emphasizes the common good, while also maintaining that it is not incompatible with America’s other formative political philosophy, that of liberalism, which prizes individual freedom. But there exists a politico-economic creed called neoliberalism that, despite its name, is incompatible with both of these conceptualizations.

The steady ascension of Donald Trump’s political career over the past decade has had very little upside for the American people. Still, one silver lining that’s stood out as a consequence of his reign has been the ability of he and his family to thrust ongoing concerns about corruption and foreign influence into the center of national conversation. There was Trump’s reliance on anonymous wealth flooding his real estate empire, which helped propel long-overdue transparency reforms for things like shell companies. Читать дальше...

Last December, The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank wrote a chilling column. He asked a data analytics firm to do a “sentiment analysis” of the press coverage received by President Joe Biden in the first 11 months of 2021 as compared to that received by President Donald Trump in the previous year. The firm looked through some 200,000 articles across 65 media outlets. Its algorithm weighted certain adjectives based on where they were placed in a news story.