Новости за 23.05.2023

Representative Matt Gaetz is being transparent: these debt limit talks are really just about holding the government (and America) “hostage.”

A Florida school has banned the poem read at Joe Biden’s inauguration after a parent complained it contained “indirect hate messages,” part of a disturbing state-wide trend of blocking discussions about race and gender.

I only saw Martin Amis in person once, at the opening of Brooklyn Bridge Park in August 2012. He was there to read from his new book, Lionel Asbo: State of England, a send-up of British tabloid culture, which came out that month. The details are blurry: a white collared shirt, the river behind him. He called Brooklyn “an Arcadia of strollers,” which the crowd loved. A lot of people asked him about his friend Christopher Hitchens, who had died of esophageal cancer in December of the previous year. Читать дальше...

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene won big on Tuesday—and no, it wasn’t for new concessions on the debt ceiling.

On Tuesday, Rick Scott warned socialists and communists not to come to Florida, saying that the state is “openly hostile” towards them.

Ron DeSantis, whose attempts to ride his cultural civil war to the White House I wrote about Monday, raised the cultural stakes yet again in anticipation of the official announcement of his presidential candidacy. During an address on Monday to a group of religious broadcasters, DeSantis said he’d “fortify” the Supreme Court during a potential two terms in office by creating a 7–2 conservative majority that would last for generations.

It’s amazing that the most powerful people in the United States get to also be remarkably lazy and incredibly dull. And Ted Cruz is the cream of the crooked crop.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and her boyfriend are back at it again with the bald-faced hypocrisy, this time attacking strippers.

In the fall of 2001, nearly 22 years ago, the nation was on edge. Nearly 3,000 Americans had been murdered simply because they had made the decisions to go to work and to board routine domestic airline flights on September 11. With deadly anthrax powder being mailed to prominent figures, such as NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw, the future seemed deadly. “No one can absolutely promise that people will be protected from terrorism when they go to a football game, ride in the subway or take their children... Читать дальше...

Libby Gonzales had been waiting so long for prom—all she was waiting for now was her shoes. After looking at “literally thousands of dresses,” she’d chosen a long, black gown with “big floofy black sleeves,” and a tiered skirt, with a black headpiece. (I asked her if I was off-base imagining it as like the Wednesday dress, from the new Addams Family show on Netflix; her mom, Rachel, said I was not.) She would add a bag that looked like a clock, she told me over the phone a few days ago, “to represent... Читать дальше...

The first televised presidential debate, in 1960, began with both candidates sitting before approaching their respective podiums. Nixon was memorably not telegenic: sweaty and uncomfortable. On the chair next to him, Kennedy, with his legs crossed, appears relaxed, youthful, and handsome. In the intervening 60 years, we have come to think of JFK winning the debate by knowing how to play to the camera. But maybe the chairs also helped: They were Danish.

Donald Trump allegedly knew he was supposed to return every single classified document after he was subpoenaed for them, but he kept hundreds of papers anyway.

Six months ago, Democrats were riding high. They had just improbably overperformed in the midterm elections; if it wasn’t for the meltdown of New York’s Democratic Party, they likely would have held onto slim majorities in both chambers of Congress. Their victory in those elections was as much a repudiation of the Republican Party as it was an endorsement of Joe Biden’s first two years—if not more so, given the president’s anemic popularity. Voters were clearly opposed to the GOP’s growing extremism. Читать дальше...