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On Thursday, the GOP’s Energy, Climate and Conservation Task Force announced a six-pillar plan for how the Republican Party will address climate change should it win back the House in November. That, at least, is how the party has sought to present the plan, and largely how it’s being reported. But it’s worth being clear: This six-part strategy is not a climate plan, and nobody should confuse it for one.

Throughout his political career, President Joe Biden has used his ability to empathize with the grief-stricken a means of connecting with people. In recent years, he has paired his knack for consolation with moral indignation; he predicated his presidential race on the racist violence at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.

Wearing a funereal dark suit, white shirt, and muted tie, Joe Biden delivered Thursday night one of the most somber White House speeches in recent history. Biden even dispensed with the customary “Good evening” or “My fellow Americans” in introducing his 17-minute address appealing— almost begging—for anti-gun legislation.

For years—decades, really—Netflix hasn’t particularly needed to know what it was doing. Awash with venture capital money, the DVD mailer turned streaming service–film and television studio simply obliterated the competition, leaving a trail of destruction (abandoned Blockbuster video stores, empty movie theaters) in its wake. In the early months of the pandemic, bleak blog posts declared Netflix one of the “winners” of the pandemic: With everyone stuck at home, with nothing else going on, there... Читать дальше...

From the moment he came down that gaudy golden elevator at Trump Tower, Donald Trump has been the most dominant factor in GOP politics. Understanding the Trump phenomenon is less about the man himself and more about understanding what he did for the GOP base in 2016.