“С президентом Путиным, мой совет должен заниматься, но будьте осторожны.” Тереза Мэй на Путина, с которым будет Трампа есть телефонный звонок в субботу. / CNN An analysis of data that have never been compiled together: mass incarceration costs governments and families at least $182 billion a year. / prisonpolicy.org “While more
Skiier makes the wrong left turn. "Turns out I am afraid of heights... Miraculously I didn't even have a bruise! I did break a lot of gear, including my helmet." How does he manage to say so quiet during his fall? We imagine we'd
"We totally understand it's going to be America First. But can we just say 'the Netherlands Second?'" In case you haven't seen it, Dutch TV show Zondag met Lubach put together a short video to introduce Trump to Holland.
Major TV networks spend about $100 million on pilot production a year, but few of the pilots they make ever get picked up into full series—for example, Jim Henson's NewsRadio-meets-Muppet Show oddity Puppetman.
Does the Washington Consensus die with the terminated TPP? For a quarter-century, the Washington Consensus provided the paradigm for the international orientation of the United States. Coined by an economist in 1989 to refer to 10 points of neoliberal-ish economic theory agreed upon in practice by the IMF,
It’s hard to know what to say when the biggest, most powerful speaker in the world prefers hyperbole to normal speech, and tends to lie. / factcheck.org A brief primer for the curious about the evolution of America’s dollar bill, from 1862 to the note that’s used
A brief primer for the curious about the evolution of America's dollar bill, from 1862 to the note that's used today. For example, did you know American banks printed paper money prior to the Civil War?
My lieutenant said the masks were on back order so use a T-shirt. After Congress ordered the military to save money by having soldiers clean up some Pacific islands used for nuclear testing, the military decided to go all-out and not provide equipment to protect the soldiers from
Borders begin as fictions. They are performed. They are lines drawn in the sand, spaces that bend and break and make exceptions for certain kinds of bodies. Mesmerizing video scrapes satellite imagery to follow all two thousand miles of the US-Mexico border, to "give texture" to Trump&
As soon as today, reams of climate data used around the world will be taken down from the EPA website. / Reuters “An amazed senior adviser recently pulled out his phone to show us a string of the emailed PDFs, all demanding response. It was like something from the early ’90s.
