Новости за 22.08.2016

Twenty years after the passage of welfare reform, its legacy is still controversial. Critics of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton have pointed to the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which she championed as first lady, as a stain on her progressive bona fides. In April, Clinton acknowledged that policy makers should “take a hard look” at whether changes imposed by the law—including tying work requirements to cash assistance and cutting off all... Читать дальше...

One of the first things you see in the Guatemalan film Ixcanul is recalcitrant pigs guzzling rum, fed straight out of the bottle by a Mayan Indian mother and daughter in the hopes that it'll make the animals horny. It's just a detail, but it speaks volumes about the tiny world we've dropped into—a thicket of improvised survival and oppressive traditions. Subsisting in the shadow of a black volcano (ixcanul, in the Mayan language of Kaqchikel, a term that literally translates “the internal force... Читать дальше...