Context — October 30, 2015, 11:33 am
Bombast Bursting in Air
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich surveys his competition; Lewis H. Lapham analyzes the 2016 election so far.
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Context — October 30, 2015, 11:33 am
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich surveys his competition; Lewis H. Lapham analyzes the 2016 election so far.
Weekly Review — October 27, 2015, 11:29 am
A Swedish summer camp slated to be turned into an asylum center for migrants burned down, and it was reported that asylum seekers were entering Norway via its border with Russia by riding children’s bicycles. A 27-year-old survivor of a 2011 terrorist attack in Norway was elected the deputy mayor of Oslo, and the attacker, Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people, was granted the right to sue the government for human rights violations. A hunter in Norway killed two moose with one shot before realizing they were in a zoo. “I had my mouth open,” said the zoo’s owner. Read more…
Art, Monday Gallery — October 26, 2015, 2:01 pm
“Of how terrible orange is” and “White Sea,” photographs by Yola Monakhov Stockton, from her monograph, The Nature of Imitation, published this summer by Schilt Publishing. Monakhov Stockton’s portfolio Postmarked appeared in our June 2014 issue. Artwork courtesy the artist and Rick Wester Fine Art, New York City.
Conversation — October 23, 2015, 1:03 pm
“The amazing thing about these people is that they are living as they believe they ought to. Imagine being able to say that!”
Heart of Empire — October 23, 2015, 12:36 pm
The authors of the Drone Papers were delivering a simple message: send more money.
Percentage of US college students who have a better opinion of conservatives after their first year:
Plastic surgeons warned that people misled by wide-angle distortion in selfies were seeking nose jobs.
Trump fires missiles at Syria, a former FBI director likens Trump to a Mafia boss, and New Yorkers mistake a racoon for a tiger.
"Gun owners have long been the hypochondriacs of American politics. Over the past twenty years, the gun-rights movement has won just about every battle it has fought; states have passed at least a hundred laws loosening gun restrictions since President Obama took office. Yet the National Rifle Association has continued to insist that government confiscation of privately owned firearms is nigh. The NRA’s alarmism helped maintain an active membership, but the strategy was risky: sooner or later, gun guys might have realized that they’d been had. Then came the shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, followed swiftly by the nightmare the NRA had been promising for decades: a dedicated push at every level of government for new gun laws. The gun-rights movement was now that most insufferable of species: a hypochondriac taken suddenly, seriously ill."