Новости за 21.06.2021

I must give congratulations where congratulations are due, and today, my praise must go to Liz Cheney’s dedicated public relations team, which has done what I felt was impossible—and that is to style the Cheney daughter as a brave defender of democracy. I mean, just check out this New York Times profile!

There are myriad reasons it is completely ridiculous to say that a person has reported being sexually assaulted “for attention,” and chief among them is the fact that, in work-related harassment incidents, higher-ups will generally go to astonishing lengths to make sure absolutely no one finds out that they employ at…

The Republican Party has long been the safe space for aggrieved white men, the only thing that has changed is our collective name for them.

Meghan McCain, who has no theological credentials whatsoever but loves to talk about Catholicism, took some time to preach to Joe Biden after saying, “I don’t try and proselytize.” On Monday’s episode of The View the topic of President Biden’s faith came up as Catholic bishops squabble over whether Biden should be…

About halfway through Starstruck, BBC and HBO Max’s comedy from rising comic Rose Matafeo, I decided it was the best thing I’d ever watched, and immediately craved more of it. What was this new sensation I felt—pleasure, excitement even? I can’t pinpoint the last time television had spurred such raucous feelings…

The trial events for the cursed Tokyo Olympics are going forward as planned and Team USA is shaping up to be an exciting group of future medalists particularly in the area of track and field. Christina Clemons, a hurdler out of Ohio State, stamped her ticket to Tokyo on Sunday and with that gave an interview which…

During a holiday vacation in 2005, right after New Year’s day, Jennifer Aniston clutched Brad Pitt’s waist on a beach in Anguilla. She looked forlornly, jaw set, into the waves just out of the frame, while he clutched her shoulder and stared straight into the camera lens. It was a look of knowing. A week later, ABC …

Over and over Joni Mitchell has told the story: When she played her fourth album Blue, for Kris Kristofferson, he reacted in horror. “Joni, keep something for yourself!” she recalled him saying. Had she followed that guidance, she wouldn’t have unknowingly set the template for “confessional” songwriting as we know it…

The year 2017 was a simpler time in American existence, when the only things one had to contend with were the disastrous fallout of the presidential race, an industry-spanning reckoning on sexual assault and interpersonal violence, and a viral short story about a cat person. No, not a person who transformed into a…

Internet fandoms are a grouping of some of the worst people who choose to be extremely vocal about a thing that most likely doesn’t matter. Like a school of piranha, that fandom moves as one and when they turn on a subject, it’s blood in that water until some new meat comes along. In an interview with Vulture, former …

The St. Louis husband and wife who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters last summer have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges and agreed to hand over the guns they wielded during the incident. But just a few days later, the husband, Mark McCloskey, proudly announced that the household had already acquired a…

The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced plans to cover transgender veterans’ gender-affirming surgery under the department’s health insurance.

Kat O’Brien, a former sports reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, has come forward with allegations that a Major League Baseball player raped her when she interviewed him in 2002.

How much would you pay Chris Harrison to never have to see Chris Harrison again?