Новости за 13.02.2023

During Super Bowl Sunday’s array of ads, one campaign sought not to promote cars or sports betting or a snack food, but Jesus himself.

The U.S. government has sadly ruled out aliens as a possible explanation for the multiple flying objects shot down in recent days.

Cooper Hill never fit within the confines of Sikeston, Missouri. He watched Jessie, the Disney show about a Texas girl who follows her dreams to New York City, and envisioned himself on Broadway. “When you come from a small town, you’re like, ‘Man, that’ll never happen for my kid,’” said his mother, Heather Hill. “But you hope it will.” Heather grew up in Sikeston, a rural town of 17,000 in the southeastern corner of the state known as the Bootheel. It’s a place where everyone knows one another’s last name... Читать дальше...

A weird paradox of modern life is that, although humans struggle to address big problems like climate change, we’re great at making our lives easier. While the planet has warmed steadily every year since 2000, it’s become exponentially simpler, in the twenty-first century, to get somewhere you’ve never been before, find information on any topic, or order lunch. Some malcontents may gripe that environmental breakdown is itself a huge hassle, but guess what? There’s an app for that too. Silicon Valley can’t fix the climate crisis... Читать дальше...

For the first time in years—perhaps for the first time since his political career began in the summer of 2015—Donald Trump can’t be said to have an iron-lock hold on the Republican Party. Technically in operation since mid-November, his presidential campaign is wheezing along, garnering little attention. Trump himself is, at best, slightly weird now; at his worst, he cuts a full-blown Kurtz-like figure, raving to anyone in his proximity. Self-obsessed even when his political campaign was oriented around the grievances of his voters... Читать дальше...