In Part 2 of this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke speaks with Kaleigh Rogers about the ongoing hearings of the House Special Committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol and how the message of those hearings is being conveyed both emotionally and throughly raw statements developed footage from … Read more
Eine mit den Beratungen des Gerichts vertraute Person sagte, dass vier der anderen von den Republikanern ernannten Richter – Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh und Amy Coney Barrett – mit Alito auf der Konferenz abgestimmt hätten, die unter den Richtern stattfand, nachdem sie im Dezember mündliche Argumente gehört hatten Diese Aufstellung bleibt ab dieser … Read more
Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Helmut Newton, Marlene Dietrich, Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff escaped. They survived. But geniuses like Wilder and Newton never came back. German culture afterwards was, apart from painting and sculpture, mostly boring moralistic bullshit. And the best writers like Günter … Read more
Nixon, who until then had been leading in the polls against Humphrey, thought about it for a very few moments, then told me, “Get President Johnson on the phone.” He and Johnson had known each other for a long time, and this was a phone call he felt he needed to make. It was a … Read more
It’s time for a similar shift on Covid-19. With Omicron’s astonishing surge and so many still dying tragically each day, Americans may feel like such a transition is a long way off. But with a less lethal and now receding variant and a better vaccinated and protected population, it’s clear the pandemic’s emergency stage is … Read more
Suppose you elected as president a person who habitually readcheats at golfcheats on his spousesappears to cheat on his taxesattempted to steal to election, reneges on debts, promised sorry to government officials he had instructed to break the law, told his followers to punch protestersand who, as a young man, is alleged to have hired … Read more
The authoritarian challenge to democracy and human rights is arguably the defining geopolitical story of our time. Instead of bucking this trend, the IOC appears to be partaking in it. stream says His group’s primary responsibility is to host the Games in accordance with the Olympic Charter. But this charter speaks of “promoting a peaceful … Read more
It’s hard to get away with so much poignancy in a sitcom because that’s not what sitcoms are designed for. In fact, the sitcom might be the last place on television where constructive political dialogue takes place at all. *** The classic sitcom has evolved over the years as multi-camera shows with laugh tracks gave … Read more
In some ways the Just is reassembling the traditional bundle of newspapers, dating back to the 1890s when the New York dailies of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer expanded the scope of their newspapers beyond hard news into soft material. In quick succession, newspapers added comics, advice, puzzles, recipes, games, and finally columns on … Read more
These claims are all either true, have some truth to them, or are, at least, reasonable and worth debating. Yet, Ukraine should matter to us — not enough to fight a war over, no, but enough for us to attempt to deter Putin and make him pay a steep price if he invades. Maintaining NATO … Read more
