Новости за 11.10.2022

This past week, as Florida’s recovery efforts from Hurricane Ian continued, Governor Ron DeSantis continued to do the one thing that nearly everyone in politics has to say he’s done well: dominate the news cycle. The governor has been many months in the spotlight, thanks to a media that’s more or less christened him the heir apparent to former President Donald Trump—an anointment that DeSantis has more or less taken in stride. Of course, long before he gets a shot at the White House, the governor... Читать дальше...

Two days before the 2020 election, Daily Beast columnist Matt Lewis predicted the “nightmare scenario” that would produce the January 6 insurrection and, nearly two years later, 250 GOP general election candidates whose unifying characteristic is the falsehood that Donald Trump is the legitimate president of the United States. “There’s a real possibility,” Lewis wrote about the partisanship tearing the United States to pieces, “that we will end up in a sort of campaign season purgatory where it’s... Читать дальше...

Just weeks after results of Los Angeles’s homeless count found that pandemic-related relief programs helped stem the growth of homelessness in the city, the Los Angeles City Council voted to allow evictions to restart in early 2023. Evictions had been taking place all this while despite the protections, but the city’s policy had made it easier for people to stay in their homes if they’d fallen behind on rent. Come February however, several vital programs beyond the city’s imperfect eviction moratorium—including... Читать дальше...

With techno music thumping faintly in the background, two infamously “canceled” American intellectuals drooled over Hungarian women, celebrated the way the country’s favorable exchange rates have kept the cheap booze flowing—one of the two men announced that he was on his ninth drink—and lampooned the mayor of Portland (“[He’s] a lunatic, he’s got pronouns in his bio”). They discussed the visiting man’s plans for his stay in Budapest, which naturally included a face-to-face with Hungarian Prime... Читать дальше...

If there’s any Senate race Democrats have consistently had reason to be optimistic about for most of the 2022 midterm cycle, it’s Pennsylvania. The reasons are numerous. The cycle started out with a divided primary on both the Republican and Democratic sides. The Democratic primary electorate largely rallied around Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman relatively early on and stayed there. The Republican primary electorate, meanwhile, remained mostly divided, resulting in a contested runoff with... Читать дальше...

A week ago, Kanye West appeared at a Paris Fashion Week show with the right-wing commentator Candace Owens; both were clad in shirts reading “White Lives Matter.” Here we go again, precisely what we’ve come to expect from West in recent years: little more than a troll; another a tiresome and mediocre provocation to stir up attention.