Новости за 16.06.2022

Senator Patty Murray has centered her political identity with advocacy on policies that have traditionally, and dismissively, been treated as lesser matters: that is to say, “women’s issues”—less weighty concerns, relegated to a lower sphere. Murray refuses to go along. Her experience as a “mom in tennis shoes,” a blithe descriptor foisted upon her by a male legislator that Murray turned into her calling card, informed her priorities long before she arrived in the city of Washington as a senator from the state of Washington in 1993. Читать дальше...

One of the many depressing lessons of the last seven years is that flagrant lying matters much less—significantly less, in fact—in American politics than one might hope. Both on the campaign trail and as president, Donald Trump has been a fountain of deception, lying about matters large and small. He lied about hurricane trajectories, about his government’s response to the coronavirus, about the results of the 2020 election, even that he was supposed to throw out the first pitch at a New York Yankees game. Читать дальше...