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As the last rush of over 8,000 Southern Baptist Convention messengers poured into the Anaheim Convention Center this week, David Pittman, the director of sex abuse advocacy nonprofit Together We Heal, stood outside in a sensible button-up handing out teal ribbons. He asked those walking by to support sex abuse survivors on a day in which SBC messengers—everyday church representatives—would vote on potential reforms in response to the massive sex abuse scandal that has been the all-consuming focus... Читать дальше...

Ingmar Bergman’s Shame had part of its origin I thought, in Bergman’s impulse to use some qualities of his “company” of actors in a certain situation, and his new film heightens this sense of collaboration and continuity. He is the only director now working whose new films grow organically out of his preceding ones: in continuity of locale, of associates, of almost diaristic closeness to the director’s inner experience. It becomes increasingly plain that Bergman wants this continuity to be seen as part of his esthetics. Читать дальше...

Remember when Donald Trump called climate change a hoax, suggesting it was invented by the Chinese to gain a trade advantage over the West? That was in 2016. By 2019, Trump claimed (equally falsely) that his administration was addressing climate change.

If you ever find yourself in the unusual circumstance of needing to start a fight among scholars of American politics, ask them when the New Deal era ended. In the ensuing chaos of competing dates, one thing will stand out: Nobody claims it is still ongoing. Despite a clear lack of consensus on when it ended, we all know it’s over. Only with the perspective afforded by time can we try to pinpoint when.

Since the 1990s, student loan debt in the United States has ballooned to the point that the numbers sound like a mean joke: As of May 2022, the outstanding balance of federal education loans topped $1.6 trillion. But as huge as that figure is, we’re not powerless in the face of it. In his campaign for president, Joe Biden supported the immediate cancellation of a minimum of $10,000 of student debt per person. On episode 50 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene talk... Читать дальше...

The story that the January 6 Committee is telling the country is not a surprising one. The essential facts are hardly a mystery. The broad contours of the events being probed played out in real time across our screens: It began slowly, over a period of weeks and months during which Donald Trump and his allies spread lies about the legitimacy of the 2020 election and pushed bogus cases in courts across the country. Then, it quickened, as that campaign of lies culminated in a violent assault on the United States Capitol. Читать дальше...

Mallory McMorrow only entered politics in 2018 at age 31, when she ran for the Michigan Senate and defeated a Republican incumbent in a swing district. Before that, her job was designing Hot Wheels model cars. But when she witnessed a racist incident at a middle school in her hometown of Royal Oak, Michigan, in which a group of white students shouted “Build the wall” at a Latino student, she was moved to action. She grew more and more outraged at the hatred she heard coming out of the mouths of so many Michigan Republicans... Читать дальше...

The House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to extend security protections to the immediate family members of Supreme Court justices, sending the measure to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature. House Democrats passed the measure after stripping out a provision that would have also protected the justices’ clerks after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said a version with language to this effect would stand no chance in the Senate. The White House’s press office has indicated that... Читать дальше...