Новости за 21.10.2024

How Republicans win presidential elections, according to Republicans: We are the party of middle-American morals and values, and the Democrats are the party of amoral weirdos and un-American radicals, so voters naturally prefer us.

One of Donald Trump’s flagship promises is that he’d wipe out the U.S. Department of Education. “We will move everything back to the states, where it belongs,” he’s told cheering audiences. The states “can individualize education and do it with the love for their children.”

I’m happy as the next guy to mock Donald Trump’s increasingly addled verbiage along the campaign trail, but it’s Trump’s momentary flashes of coherence that worry me most.

Last August, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced $76 million in federal funding to support Pennsylvania in properly decommissioning gas and oil drill sites the industry has abandoned. More than 30,000 of these so-called orphaned wells dot the landscape of Pennsylvania, where a legacy of oil and gas exploration goes back 150 years. Unless properly managed, they can continue emitting methane and poisoning groundwater.

Imagine a story—a novel; a movie; a show—set in Washington, D.C. Maybe you see marble hallways, swinging briefcases, men in suits. Maybe you see Julia Child’s house in Georgetown. Maybe you see a hotel bar, cars loitering outside embassies, the Capitol or one of the many brutalist agency headquarters along the Mall, or maybe you just see the Mall. All these settings belong to Washington: nation’s capital, hub of international politicking, hotbed of American symbolism. But not much fiction of any... Читать дальше...

When ChatGPT first landed on the scene, I was terrified. It was lightyears ahead of virtual assistants like Siri, Google, and Alexa, and it seemed like it was going to render my job obsolete — maybe even all jobs.

Today’s theme: World food bank.

Drawings from the October 28, 2024, magazine.

“It’s his fourth birthday again in the land of forgetting.”

Fountain drinks spiked with syrups, creamers, and fruit purées became a sensation among Mormon mothers in Utah. Now they’re finding fans across America.

The opera singer Davóne Tines visits a re-creation of his rural childhood home at the Cooper Hewitt, where he’ll perform with his grandparents.

“My childhood room, / hippie flowered spread folded down / at the single pillow.”

Sean Baker, who directed the action rom-com “Anora,” meets the actors Karren Karagulian and Vache Tovmasyan for a tour of Russophone Brooklyn, where the cast lived during filming.

The comedian, whose new show’s title, “WOOF!,” might refer to dogs or to a reaction to a Gadsby joke, ponders the very particular environments in which they flourish.

“Shakespeare’s Tragic Art,” “The Irish Republican Brotherhood 1914-1924,” “The Third Realm,” and “The Book of George.”

You used to be able to make a living playing in a band. A new book, “Band People,” charts how that changed.

It goes way beyond tax havens and offshore banking. Enterprising countries have figured out how to put their legal systems at the disposal of corporate interests.

In a run club organized by the dating app Lunge, participants—dressed to indicate their relationship status—meet up to find love over five kilometres.

Readers respond to Andrew Solomon’s piece about social media and teen suicide.

The market’s movers and shakers.

Elon Musk is known to cause alarm when taking his self-driving tank out for a spin.

We’re primed to read Justices’ accounts of their lives for clues to their jurisprudence. Should we?

There’s been a noticeable decline in Billy’s homework, which leads me to believe there’s some trouble at home.

If he takes office, a trade war, higher prices, labor shortages, a gaping deficit, and a showdown between the White House and the Fed all seem highly likely.

A.K.A., the oldest Black sorority, expects excellence and complete discretion. How are members responding to their most famous sister’s Presidential campaign?