Новости за 01.12.2022

The House Judiciary Committee Republicans finally deleted a controversial tweet Thursday expressing support for Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Kanye West—after the rapper praised Hitler and the Nazis.

On Thursday, Kanye West, known now as “Ye,” appeared on InfoWars alongside antisemite and white supremacist Nick Fuentes. There, Ye formally came out as a Nazi sympathizer.

Several prominent—and predominantly liberal—Twitter accounts have had major issues this week, but no one really seems to know why.

Shortly after the election, I met Representative Ro Khanna of California and his press aide for a coffee on Capitol Hill. It was the very day, November 14, that he had the second of two op-eds in The Boston Globe laying out his economic vision for his party. It was interesting enough that I wanted to have this conversation about it.

Sam Bankman-Fried “didn’t try to commit fraud” and is “shocked” at how his gargantuan crypto empire collapsed and left customers down $8 billion.

Georgia’s Republican lieutenant governor said he ultimately couldn’t bring himself to vote for Herschel Walker.

From time to time the Democrats are given an opportunity to demonstrate that they’re still the party of the working class. They have one now, but it looks like they’re going to flub it.

I’ve had more soothing callers at my window:
the muse brushes by like a dangling scarf;
the helium balloon for my neighbor’s nuptials,

tied to her guardrail, wafts over my way.
Not him. The window demon comes at night
and jabs at a guitar: the jangling discords

and moonless tones call up the ferocious joy
you know only after the burn of sorrow.
He strums the undersides of leaves, roses

the color of blood, silence in the sea’s roar.
Hearing those wails... Читать дальше...

There are no lightsabers in the first episode of Andor—no Jedi, no Sith, and no references to the Force. There are no Imperial officers or stormtroopers, nor anyone explicitly identified as part of the Rebel Alliance; there are no TIE Fighters or X-Wings. There are almost no aliens; there is one droid, but it’s the worst-functioning, least gracefully designed droid imaginable, and the first thing we see it do is get used as a hydrant by a stray four-legged beast. There are no space battles, and... Читать дальше...

My second meeting with Niccolò Machiavelli took place in L’Albergaccio, the tavern where he spent much of his time after being exiled from Florence by the Medici. It was a heated midafternoon, and so we were alone together.

In 2017, when New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey broke the story of sexual assault allegations against famed Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, it would have been hard to predict the global #MeToo movement and the cultural conversation the news would ignite, particularly the film industry’s forced reckoning with institutionalized sexism. Some measure of how things have changed over the last five years, largely for the better, can be found in the number of films this season that traffic in these themes... Читать дальше...

When I close my eyes and try to project myself and this country forward three decades in time, my mind darkens. The future, even the not-so-distant future, feels dim and unknowable. I’m worried enough about what the next couple of months and years might bring; I have no idea what life may be like in 2050, beyond a distressing conviction that the climate will become even less stable, global inequality will grow starker, and the United States will continue its descent from the once-elevated position of global hegemon. Читать дальше...

Speaking to NBC’s Chuck Todd days before the 2022 midterms, Florida Senator—and chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee—Rick Scott insisted that his party had no interest in cutting Social Security or Medicare. “I have no interest in changing the Medicare program. I want to make sure we preserve the benefits of Medicare and Social Security. I don’t know one Republican who wants to change that,” Scott said, though he also noted that both programs were “going bankrupt.” 

It’s not unreasonable to think that we can make out the shape of things to come 28 years in the future. It was right around 28 years ago that the foundations of now emerged: about-to-be ubiquitous personal computers and the internet, cell phones, Fox News, conservative hegemony on economic and social policy, exploding inequality, ultra-assholes’ takeover of the GOP, “political correctness,” and more. On the other hand, grand extrapolations can be folly: The 1990s were also when Francis Fukuyama’s... Читать дальше...

What is the future of our divided land? It’s a question at which some people scoff, and one that others just want to avoid. At The New Republic, we think, sadly, that it’s a question we have to confront. So we asked 12 people we admire—writers, academics, politicians, activists—to imagine that it’s 2050. Does the United States of America still exist in its current form?

The jelly-spattered hand of a toddler
flicks the switch up and down,
turning on and cutting off the lights,
covering the faceplate in a seemingly
innocuous filth. That it “cuts” the lights off

President Joe Biden, also known as “Union Joe” and “Amtrak Joe,” is failing rail workers.

The House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday finally obtained six years’ worth of Donald Trump’s tax returns, despite repeated efforts by the former president to prevent it.