Новости за 04.05.2021

Last week, Republican men were wringing their hands over the fact that their “girlfriend” Liz Cheney wasn’t cheering their decision to back Donald Trump and his enthusiasm for insurrection. This week, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is telling his buddies that a breakup is imminent.

It is obvious to anyone with eyeballs that the pandemic has wreaked havoc on everyone and everything in various ways, and that because of it, many sacred and long-held traditions and institutions are changing. New York City is leading the charge in what I hope is not standard for other snowy states: Snow days are…

Caitlyn Jenner is running for governor of California, but she really doesn’t want voters to consider the fact that she is a run-of-the-mill Republican who was a tepid supporter of Trump during the 2016 presidential election. Oh, and she’s against transgender kids in sports, too.

Couples in England and Wales can now officially add their mothers’ names, rather than just their fathers’, to marriage certificates.

AP reports that the five accused dognapping suspects in Lady Gaga’s high-profile case allegedly stalked Hollywood the night of the shooting in February. Prosecutors on the case, in a new felony complaint obtained by AP, claim the suspects had been on the hunt for French Bulldogs, and reiterate that Lady Gaga’s…

When I was a wee one, the arrival of the American Girl catalog was a big day in my house—a masterful piece of marketing that worked wonders on my tiny brain, setting afire a yearning for overpriced, historical doll accessories, books, and the dolls themselves. I was routinely denied the dolls because of their price…

High atop a hill in Yonkers, New York, across from a Costco and above a Home Depot rests the greatest grocery store that anyone has ever shopped at, Stew Leonard’s. Stew Leonard’s is more than a place to buy food; it is a top to bottom experience. Everything in the store is designed to elicit joy and encourage…

The hottest subject in semi-salacious documentary filmmaking is the life and times of Britney Spears—great for the filmmakers who want to feel as if they are breaking open something that needs to be cracked, but less so for its subject, who is very much alive and would rather you not, thanks!

Deep in the bowels of the American Dream, a 1.3 million square foot mega-mall in New Jersey’s marshy, low-lying Meadowlands, I laughed out loud in what I now recognize as the first real moment of delight I’ve felt in some time. I had been at the mall for about an hour or so, strolling its enormous corridors and…

Last week, Joe Biden and Jill Biden visited former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter in Georgia, where Biden marked his first 100 days in office. Naturally, there was a photo-op, but as perhaps you can see, there is nothing particularly natural about it.

After days of Twitter debates about whether or not Believer editor-in-chief Joshua Wolf Shenk should have had to resign from his job for accidentally exposing his genitals while in the bathtub on a work call, current and former employees have come forward with a shocking revelation: Shenk was also a shitty boss.

A Manhattan judge has ruled that one of Kevin Spacey’s accusers must reveal his identity if he wants to proceed with his sexual abuse suit against the actor.

When I came home the summer after my freshman year from college, fresh off a spring semester intro to women’s studies class, I was brimming with a completely new vocabulary. I apprised my friends of Kimberlé Crenshaw’s definition of intersectionality, pointed out when my coworkers made sexist jokes, lamented the…

Fresh off his attempt to deny everywhere that is not America access to the vaccine, Bill Gates has his next big venture all lined up: divorce, baby!

Here’s a new example that should be added to the official definition of “cutting off your nose to spite your face”: in their zeal to limit voting rights after the 2020 election and proclaim their fealty to Donald Trump, Republicans may have fucked themselves over a little bit.