The Borowitz Report: “The President may have attacked the wrong Theresa, but all Theresas represent a real threat,” the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.
by Linda Gordon
Liveright, 272 pp., $27.95
2017年11月30日 星期四
2017年11月26日 星期日
Adam Hochschild reviews two new books about the Ku Klux Klan’s second period, in the 1920s
Adam Hochschild reviews two new books about the Ku Klux Klan’s second period, in the 1920s, when it was heavily supported by evangelicals, deeply hostile to science, and “masterfully guided by a team of public relations advisers as skillful as any political consultants today.”
2017年11月25日 星期六
Sessions is methodically reshaping the Justice Department...
As former editor of the Washington Post, Marcus Brauchli tweeted in response to this article: "This is kind of story we need more of: not what people in politics say, but what they're doing." Matt Zapotosky and Sari Horwitz report that:
"Sessions is methodically reshaping the Justice Department to reflect his nationalist ideology and hard-line views — moves drawing comparatively less public scrutiny than the ongoing investigations into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with the Kremlin."
Read on to learn more about the changes he's making, "from his crackdown on illegal immigration to his reversal of Obama administration policies on criminal justice and policing..."
"Supporters and critics say the attorney general has been among the most effective of the Cabinet secretaries — implementing Trump’s conservative policy agenda even as the president publicly and privately toys with firing him over his decision to recuse himself from the Russia case."
Bill Moyers 和 Washington Post 都分享了 1 條連結。
2017年11月24日 星期五
2017年11月23日 星期四
Eric Hobsbawm · Goodbye Columbus
London Review of Books
‘If the settlers had not let themselves be taught by the natives, they would have found it difficult, perhaps impossible, to survive. To this day the great symbolic festival of the USA, Thanksgiving, records a debt of the first colonists to the Indians, which subsequent white civilisation repaid by driving them out. Thanksgiving is celebrated by a meal that consists essentially of the New World foods which the colonists learned to live on from the Indians: culminating, as we all know, in the turkey.’
Eric Hobsbawm wrote about 1492 and its cultural consequences in Europe, 500 years on in 1992.
2017年11月22日 星期三
2017年11月20日 星期一
Charlie Rose suspended by CBS... Robert Reich: Sex abuse victims are turning on America’s bullies
We're witnessing a huge backlash against powerful men who have thought they can do whatever they want to whomever they choose. Sexual abuse is one form of such bullying. Other forms are economic bullying, and using racism and misogyny to build political power. Trump epitomizes all these kinds of abuse. He's the nation's bully-in-chief.
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