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Новости за 20.12.2024

One State’s War on Forever Chemicals in Milk

The New Republic 

In late December 2022, a rancher in Johnson County, Texas, called the constable’s office to complain about his neighbor. The neighbor had recently spread a kind of waste-derived fertilizer, known as biosolids, over his land, the caller said, and the piles were smoking. The caller and his wife were struggling to breathe, the fish in his pond had died, and he thought the biosolids were making him, his wife, and their animals sick.

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The Democrats Have a Crime Problem. Blame the Media.

The New Republic 

In Democrats’ seemingly endless election postmortems—and in the postmortems on the postmortems—a persistent theme has been to blame the reddening of blue states like New York and New Jersey on crime in their big cities. On Pod Save America, the political commentator Ezra Klein emphasized the importance of taking crime seriously as a factor in voters’ decisions. To explain why he wasn’t surprised by blue states’ “sharp red shift,” he said: “Because if you just talk to anybody who lives in them, they are furious. Читать дальше...

The Brutalist Pairs Modern Architecture and Postwar Trauma

The New Republic 

Lady Liberty turned on her head is the sort of image one might expect a surly teenager with artistic aspirations to produce after reading The Great Gatsby or Howard Zinn, and it is the first image that the viewer of Brady Corbet’s third feature, The Brutalist, sees once the VistaVision logotype, announcement of an overture, and a countdown have flitted across the screen. Such elaborate window dressing is clearly intended to convey the magnificence of classic cinema, but also America, which Hungarian... Читать дальше...

The Best Theatre of 2024

The New Yorker 

This year’s standout productions ran the gamut from outrageously fabulous to quasi-religious in feeling.

How the Far Right Reports on the Border

The New Yorker 

Wid Lyman, who tries to document crossings on the southern border, is one of a growing number of citizen journalists who portray immigrants with a sense of menace.

Vance flexes his influence during spending fight

TheHill.com 

Vice President-elect JD Vance is flexing his influence on Capitol Hill, underscoring his role as a critical and often behind the scenes player in President-elect Trump’s orbit while other prominent figures steal the headlines. With talks over government spending faltering this week, it was Vance who was at the Capitol meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson...

YouTube Gold: Dave McClure’s Immortal Moment At Duke

Duke Basketball Report 

ATLANTA - MARCH 14: David McClure #14 of the Duke Blue Devils drives against Dave Neal #35 of the Maryland Terrapins during the semifinals of the 2009 ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament on March 14, 2009 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. | Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images

One of the great clutch plays in Duke history

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