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After almost two years and four extensions of the federal payment pause, President Joe Biden finally announced his plan for student debt relief. As expected, it came with constraints, but there was certainly a lot to celebrate. Biden didn’t shrink from his campaign promise to forgive only $10,000 per borrower, and he limited the cancellation to those making under $125,000. But there were still some surprises. Borrowers who received a Pell Grant, the federal aid for those with exceptional financial need, will have a total of $20,000 forgiven.

“If, approaching the end of the world, we’re forced to choose a single surviving monument to human art,” the author and critic Joanna Walsh writes in the opening lines of My Life as a Godard Movie, “it won’t be how any particular work of art looks, but the act of looking.” In this single-essay publication, and in a new volume of critical theory titled Girl Online: A User Manual, Walsh concerns herself with the reality of occupying a female body in a screen-dominated age when even civilians are... Читать дальше...

Last week, Democrat Pat Ryan unexpectedly won the special House election for New York’s 19th congressional district, a contest that had been ominously defined by analysts and pundits as a “bellwether race” ahead of the midterm elections. Preelection polling showed Ryan trailing Republican Marc Molinaro, but after the dust had settled it was Ryan who prevailed, by a 2 percent margin.

President Joe Biden has caused a minor stir over the past few days after he described former President Donald Trump’s political movement as “semi-fascism.” Though plenty of people have described Trump and Trumpism in similar terms over the past six years, whether pejoratively or analytically, it was the first time that Biden or someone of his stature has done so.