Новости за 15.07.2022

Jane Austen has the honor and misfortune of being one of the best-loved and most adapted novelists in cinematic history, so the tropes that one associates with films based on her books are well-enough worn that they feel like prime material for subversion: the long skirts dragging in the mud; the waiting for crucial letters; the dropped gloves and the erotic charge of fingers brushing against fingers; the terse, weaponized exchanges that reveal themselves to be either delicate, coded come-ons or sly declarations of domestic warfare. Читать дальше...

Surprise, surprise: Donald Trump is running for president—again. Yes, this has been more or less obvious from the moment he left office, but he’s barely starting to hide his intentions anymore. Speaking to rallygoers in Las Vegas last weekend, Trump hinted at a possible run. “We have a president who ran twice, won twice,” Trump said, lying once again about the result of the 2020 election, “and may have to do it a third time. Can you believe it?” Speaking to New York magazine, he briefly tried to keep up the facade. Читать дальше...

The whole point of passing laws is to change things. When a city council bans smoking in restaurants, its members likely thought they wouldn’t smell smoke the next time they dined out. When Congress bans Russian oil exports to the United States, lawmakers probably expected that Russian oil would not be exported to the U.S. Laws have unintended consequences, and sometimes enforcing them can be tricky. But the general principle is that when lawmakers sit down, write a bill, and pass it into law, they expect certain outcomes to happen. Читать дальше...

A congressional staff uprising began late last year when social media accounts—notably one called Dear White Staffers, which quickly developed a huge following—allowed fellow staffers to anonymously shitpost details about the toxic environment for workers in Congress.