Новости за 10.08.2023

Another day, another classic food brand gone woke. This time, it’s Pop-Tarts.

The editor in chief of Christianity Today is warning that evangelical Christianity is moving too far to the right, to the point that even Jesus’s teachings are considered “weak” now.

Clarence Thomas has for years hosted charity fundraisers in the Supreme Court building for his Republican billionaire friends. In return, they have taken the justice on dozens of luxury vacations worth millions of dollars, according to a stunning new ProPublica report.

“Let China sleep,” Napoleon Bonaparte is supposed to have advised, “for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” The current president of China, Xi Jinping, has made no secret of his ambition for China to dominate the world. In the 1950s, America’s dominance of the automobile industry signified its manufacturing and economic preeminence. China has surpassed the United States in the manufacture of electric vehicles, whose mechanisms will eventually replace the internal combustion engine worldwide. Читать дальше...

The pewter moon’s eyebrowed guise

circles a picture of my son. A windex tear

falls to my son’s cheek, and I know
we will never fully know one another.

Message after message asking:
How is the breast feeding going?

Let me tell you: Not great. Not great at all.
Everywhere advice to make the milk come:

plums, fenugreek, blessed thistle.
This morning each stream of water falling

from my showerhead was a knife ready
to gut me. The pewter moon’s smile

wants to eat me whole. Читать дальше...

“I never want to leave this house,” says Rose Derdon—one of the unhappily married women who populate Maeve Brennan’s stories—shortly after moving in. The house is 48 Cherryfield Avenue, Ranelagh, in Dublin, one of several “four-room stone houses that jutted out at the back to give space for a kitchen, and above the kitchen a small extra room with a bathroom next to it,” with three steps down to the kitchen and a yellow laburnum tree in the yard. What Brennan knows, and Rose doesn’t, is that her wish will come to seem like a curse. Читать дальше...

Less than a year ago, Ron DeSantis was a winner and Donald Trump was a loser. This was one of two marquee takeaways from the midterm elections—the other was that the pundits were wrong, but that’s true in every election. The ensuing narrative ran hot and heavy: DeSantis was both Donald Trump’s anointed successor and the Republican Party’s savior-in-waiting. The evidence was so glaring as to be practically incontrovertible: DeSantis had romped to reelection in a purplish state, winning a second... Читать дальше...

The wreck in the valley
no longer has an emblem
but the script of the design
indicates an earlyish Ford.

To climate-conscious Americans, the British Tories of the last decade or so might seem oddly refreshing. It was Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May who led the charge to enshrine the country’s net-zero commitment into law. Boris Johnson—known to many in the United States as a bizarro-world version of Trump—touted his own version of a green industrial policy and was well known, as mayor of London, for expanding the city’s bike-share program. Even Margaret Thatcher, in a much earlier time, had... Читать дальше...

Joe Biden dragged Representative Lauren Boebert on Wednesday for celebrating the benefits of his clean energy initiatives after voting against them in Congress.