Новости за 10.10.2016

At the second presidential debate Sunday night, Donald Trump stalked the stage and waved the rhetorical equivalent of the “Stars and Bars” in everyone’s face. It was less a debate performance than a piece of theater. “You’d be in jail,” he snarled at one point, after Hillary Clinton said that it’s a good thing people like Trump aren’t in charge of making law. The nice thing about Abraham Lincoln, he said later, was that he didn’t lie, unlike her. And in a flip-the-script move that was a little too forced... Читать дальше...

Midway through Shin Godzilla, American B2 stealth bombers drop their payload on the monster as it tramples through Tokyo. The creature launches a massive counterattack, tantamount to a nuclear explosion, and through the CGI fire and smoke the implication becomes clear: Japan can no longer rely on the United States to keep it safe.

In the weeks leading up to Sunday night’s debate, millennials have been some of the most talked about voters but among the groups least talked to. A recent study found that some 39 percent of millennials were planning to vote for either the Green Party’s Jill Stein or Libertarian Gary Johnson in November. The demographic group that came out most strongly for Bernie Sanders, it seems, isn’t as enthusiastic about supporting Hillary Clinton.

Dear Madame Secretary,

I am writing to you today from Chicago on behalf of all the children, families and staff in the middle of a massive manufactured crisis brewing in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). A crisis in major part worsened by your friend, Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

I am a special education teacher at an elementary school on the far South Side of the city in a high-poverty African-American community. Thanks to Rahm Emanuel's increased attacks on neighborhood public schools like ours... Читать дальше...