Новости за 21.08.2023

There’s only one thing to blame for the tropical storm that battered California over the weekend, according to Fox News. No, not climate change. It’s Joe Biden.

Former Vice President Mike Pence and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Sunday that they had no knowledge of then-President Donald Trump declassifying a large number of documents, completely undermining the former president’s main defense in the Mar-a-Lago case.

Donald Trump has been whining about Fox News lately. The former president is upset because the network has been using what he deems to be unflattering photographs of him and has apparently refused to show the numerous polls in which he is beating Joe Biden “by a lot.” These “numerous polls” are, of course, basically nonexistent: Of the 30 most recent polls listed at RealClearPolitics, Biden is ahead in 18, and five are tied. The seven in which Trump leads are mostly either from Rasmussen—which... Читать дальше...

Earlier this spring, Jonathan Greenblatt, who took over as director of the Anti-Defamation League in 2015 after nearly 30 years of Abe Foxman’s leadership, used his keynote address at the ADL’s annual leadership summit to chart what sounded to many like a clear break from its past of denouncing hate speech from both sides of the political spectrum. Greenblatt had virtually nothing to say about the rise of white Christian nationalism, together with its undeniably antisemitic “replacement theory”... Читать дальше...

In 1917, the Metropolitan Museum of Art received a stunning gift: a portrait by the French Neoclassical master Jacques-Louis David. The 1801 painting, titled Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d’Ognes after its subject, depicts a woman hunched over a drawing portfolio in a darkened room, looking out at the viewer with a studious gaze. The work came from a collector who paid $200,000 for it, a huge sum at the time. The Met trumpeted the acquisition in a press release, announcing that it would “henceforth... Читать дальше...