Новости за 01.09.2022

After the FBI executed a search warrant against Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, the case against Trump would seem like a slam dunk. The FBI found 11 sets of highly classified documents among the 20 boxes they removed, reportedly including highly classified material on U.S. nuclear technology and payrolls for American spies overseas. Despite ludicrous claims that he had declassified these documents with his mind prior to leaving the White House, the consensus of national security experts is that he... Читать дальше...

Last week, a certain segment of academic economists lost their mind as the White House announced it would knock $10,000 off individual student loan debts, or $20,000 if borrowers are Pell Grant recipients. But another type of recently passed debt relief has attracted comparatively less attention and ire. Rural electric co-operatives—a living legacy of the New Deal’s efforts to bring power to the 90 percent of rural communities that still lacked it in the 1930s—will soon be able to take advantage... Читать дальше...

Although he lived more than a century ago, Sigmund Freud abides. Despite the magazine features and nonfiction bestsellers that regularly proclaim him a charlatan, a reactionary, an intellectual dead end, or simply “dead,” we live in a world fundamentally shaped by his legacy. We accuse one another of “projecting”; we laugh—uncomfortably or with knowing glee—when someone else’s speech slips; we read novels and speculate about the author’s childhood, love life, and traumas; and we struggle not to... Читать дальше...