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In the week since the twenty-eighth Conference of the Parties (COP28) climate talks wrapped up,  media coverage of the outcome has been largely positive. That coverage has focused on the statement produced at the end of the conference, which”calls on” participating nations to “contribute” to the “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems.” This marks the first time since the inaugural COP of 1995 that a final text actually mentions the words “fossil fuels.” Not even the 2015 Paris Agreement acknowledged that coal... Читать дальше...

In 2015, Donald Trump infamously launched his first presidential campaign by descending a faux-gilded escalator and saying of undocumented immigrants, “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” More than eight years later, not much has changed—except that Trump has gotten even worse. He now echoes Nazi phraseology in his rhetoric about migrants, and avoids any throwaway caveats about “good people.”

“OK, let’s begin.” American Fiction opens with Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) intoning that phrase to his students on a nameless California college campus, as he initiates a discussion of Faulkner—only to have his seminar derailed by an overly sensitive white undergraduate who complains about the presence of the “n-word” in the novels. After Monk brusquely instructs her to “get over it,” the college suspends him from teaching duties for the rest of the semester. This ridiculous and... Читать дальше...

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Get some food, close your eyes, and imagine you are at Chez Panisse, where the prices would be similar.

As Israel’s military campaign has expanded into southern Gaza, displaced families have been forced to move again and again.

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