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On Tuesday night at the DNC, Bill Clinton took the Philadelphia stage and gave a heartwarming and personal speech about his wife, who’s facing a real charge from Republican nominee Donald Trump. During his speech, Clinton mentioned a preschool educational program, created in Israel, called HIPPY, or Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, which Hillary championed while her husband was Governor of Arkansas, along with other difficult policy changes. (In May, Hillary published an ad relating... Читать дальше...

Even though the release of Wonder Woman is still *a year away*, healthy doses of marketing are already being sprinkled over us, the huddled masses. This shouldn’t surprise anybody by now—these vain yet necessary expressions of our entertainment industrial complex, which are subsequently exported around the world—just like months and months of he-said-she-said election coverage shouldn’t make anybody blink twice either: America is nothing if not a hype machine; it breathes on it.

Hillary Clinton owes her reputation for untrustworthiness to a single large and admirable decision that she made long ago; and to a series of baffled responses that her decision aroused and continues to arouse; and to the hatreds and paranoias that, like weeds or fungi, eventually sprang from the bafflement—a long history. And every new phase in the long history has done her credit, even if some of those phases require too much explanation.

On “Wristband,” the first single from Stranger to Stranger, Paul Simon’s 13th solo album, Simon sings about being lost. This is not a new theme for him. It goes back as far as “Hello, darkness, my old friend.” And this is not a serious allegory on the level of his canonical songs from decades ago, including “America,” which he recently donated to the presidential campaign of fellow New York Jew Bernie Sanders, also 74—in an ad that was reprised at the Democratic National Convention this week.... Читать дальше...

This week on Unorthodox: The hottest wedding venue in Vilnius is a former concentration camp.

At tonight’s meeting of the Democratic National Convention, attendees have been treated to fiery speeches by Vice President Joe Biden, Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine, and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. As of this writing, President Obama is currently addressing the crowd.