Liz Cheney vs. MAGA
Liz Cheney vs. MAGA
The Wyoming congresswoman challenged Republicans to turn away from Trump after Jan. 6. Instead, they turned on her.
Credit.Illustrations by Clay Rodery
April 22, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
The regular conference meetings of the Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives, held most weeks behind closed doors in the Capitol Visitor Center, tend to be predictable and thus irregularly attended affairs. The party leaders the House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, the minority whip Steve Scalise and the conference chairwoman Liz Cheney, whose job it is to run these meetings typically begin with a few housekeeping matters and then proceed with a discussion of the party’s message or issue du jour. The conference’s more voluble members line up at the microphone to opine for one to two minutes at a time; the rare newsworthy comment is often leaked and memorialized on Twitter seconds after it is uttered. An hour or so later, the members file
She Turned Her Audacious Lens on Herself, and Shaped the Future
A powerful voice for marginalized groups, Laura Aguilar frankly and poetically portrayed Latino and lesbian communities.
Laura Aguilar in one of her candid self-portraits, “Grounded #111” (2006) at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. She was alone, her face often hidden, her prone body aligned with and echoing landscape contours and rock formations.Credit.Laura Aguilar/Laura Aguilar Trust; Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
April 22, 2021, 12:23 p.m. ET
It feels good a relief to know that the photographer Laura Aguilar, who died in 2018, lived long enough to see her fine career survey, which opened a year earlier in her hometown Los Angeles, and has now, at last, landed in New York.
Seth Rogen and the Secret to Happiness
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Seth Rogen and the Secret to Happiness
How the comedian (and director, writer, ceramist and weed entrepreneur) has made a career out of mining the pitfalls and possibilities of adolescence.
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Seth Rogen’s home sits on several wooded acres in the hills above Los Angeles, under a canopy of live oak and eucalyptus trees strung with outdoor pendants that light up around dusk, when the frogs on the grounds start croaking. I pulled up at the front gate on a recent afternoon, and Rogen’s voice rumbled through the intercom. “Hellooo!” He met me at the bottom of his driveway, which is long and steep enough that he keeps a golf cart up top “for schlepping big things up the driv
Biden Choice for Justice Dept.âs No. 2 Is Seen as a Consensus Builder
Lisa Monaco, a veteran of national security posts, is expected to be a key player in the administrationâs push to combat domestic extremism, embodied most publicly in the departmentâs inquiry into the Capitol attack.
Lisa Monaco is poised to become the deputy attorney general, where her ability to broker consensus on politically charged issues will quickly be tested.Credit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
April 17, 2021, 11:47 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON â Lisa Monaco was President Barack Obamaâs top counterterrorism adviser when she was handed an intractable problem: Fix the administrationâs ineffective response to the kidnappings of Americans by Islamic State fighters, which had prompted outcries from victimsâ families, without changing the governmentâs refusal to make concessions to terrorists.