Новости за 12.05.2022

With the Supreme Court apparently set to overturn Roe v. Wade in the next several weeks, the right to an abortion will almost certainly be the biggest issue for Democratic voters in this fall’s midterm elections. Democrats will ask their voters to go out and vote harder than they ever have before. As Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Sean Patrick Maloney tweeted, “We’re angry and hurt, I know. But it’s not about filibuster, size of the court or what the Senate hasn’t passed. Читать дальше...

Simple Passion, Annie Ernaux’s very short, unaccountably gripping 1991 book about her total absorption in an affair with a married Russian diplomat, begins by analyzing the “shattering” experience of seeing a pornographic film on TV for the first time. Writing, she thinks, ought to aim for a similar effect on the reader: “a feeling of anxiety and stupefaction, a suspension of moral judgment.” Ernaux is capable of a precision that doesn’t create distance (clinical, judgmental, ironic): She pins... Читать дальше...

If there’s one term that sums up Republican policy thinking over the past year or so, it’s one-upmanship. At both the state and federal level, GOP elected officials have sought to outdo one another at pursuing their preferred goals on outlawing abortion, cracking down on what they see as “critical race thinking” in schools, and removing books on LGBTQ issues from libraries. Some are trying to be the true Scotsmen of American movement conservatism. Others seem to be burnishing their credentials in anticipation of running for higher office. Читать дальше...