Новости за 22.02.2016

For those who’ve never paid much attention, Teach For America sounds like a benevolent and benign idea: recruit bright college grads, give them some teacher-training and place them in some of the nation’s neediest schools for a two-year commitment to teach kids.

The current GOP race for the presidential nomination poses this great puzzle. A party whose base consists of white evangelical Christians is enamored of Donald Trump, the Republican candidate most out of step with evangelicals on social issues and the most tin-eared regarding religion. Russell Moore, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, recently warned that a Trump presidency would jeopardize “the three primary goals of religious conservatives”—protecting religious liberty... Читать дальше...

Watching Martin Shkreli "respectfully decline" to testify before the House Oversight Committee, it is almost possible to feel grateful to the reviled 32-year-old hedge fund capitalist: he knows we love to hate him, and he generously offers up so much to hate.