The news industry craves narrative, and when none is available it constructs one with the incomplete ingredients at hand, like a chef who makes a soufflé without eggs. It can be done, and done in such a way as to leave the facts unviolated. But don’t ask me to stomach it.
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The great guessing game in Washington about Merrick Garland has been whether he’ll prosecute Donald Trump. That’s an excellent question, but its resolution is likely a bit down the road—certainly after the House select committee finishes its hearings on the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Preparing for a future in which Democrats lose the midterms without having passed climate legislation, green groups have begun to emphasize a line popularized during the Trump era: that cities and states will take the lead on cutting emissions. New York—which has had a Democratic supermajority for the last few years—is one of the states where that leadership should be easiest. Yet since passing a 2019 bill that set out the goal of generating 100 percent of the state’s power from zero-emission sources by 2040... Читать дальше...
The jungle is Werner Herzog’s preferred habitat. It is the setting for two of his most famous movies, Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, the Wrath of God. It is the implacable foe that is miraculously defeated by the subjects of two of his best-known documentaries, Little Dieter Needs to Fly and Wings of Hope. It is where man meets nature at its most extravagantly cruel, where he can test his mettle and thereby understand himself. The jungle is “full of obscenity,” Herzog says in Burden of Dreams, a documentary... Читать дальше...
