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There’s no Main Street dotted with local businesses in Grant Township, a sparsely populated, densely wooded area comprising several communities in Western Pennsylvania. There’s no “Welcome” sign with an inspiring motto. There’s not even a yellow stripe on any of the roads. It’s “a very poor slice of the county,” in the words of Board of Supervisors co-chair Stacy Long, with a tax base that is “dwindling due to old age and drug abuse.” Like most of exurban Pennsylvania, it’s also Trump country... Читать дальше...

When Nancy Pelosi told reporters back in May that “this country needs a strong Republican Party, not a cult,” she was expressing the desire among those on the center-left and moderates for the United States to return to a bygone age of political normalcy. They remember when the GOP still had a moderate wing and kept the “wacko birds” (as Senator John McCain called them) at arm’s length; when President Reagan cut deals with House Speaker Tip O’Neill, and when Republicans believed that it was more... Читать дальше...

Advancements in smartphones and cameras run parallel to landmark moments in Black citizen journalism. 

The eight hearings held by the January 6 committee this summer have been many things—often enlightening, sometimes terrifying, they have provided the clearest portrait yet of what led to rioters storming the U.S. Capitol last year. They have, however, seldom been funny. But last Thursday, there was a rare moment of comedy. As the committee dissected the three-hour period when insurrectionists breached the Capitol—and Donald Trump was refusing to do anything to stop them—they played a slowed-down... Читать дальше...

In 1997, James Atlas, a biographer and regular contributor to the New Yorker, wrote in that magazine about his growing dread of what to do about his aging parents. When they greet him at the door after a long flight from California well-dressed and bearing gifts—still in decent shape—he has “a fugitive premonition.” “This can’t last forever. It can’t even last very long,” he thinks. Sooner or later, his father will have another stroke or his mother’s fibrillations will escape control; someone will have to step in to care for them. Читать дальше...