Scandal removed Flynn from his job almost overnight, but Pottinger stayed, serving five subsequent national-security chiefs. When Trump named Flynn his national-security adviser, Flynn chose Pottinger as the Asia director. In Afghanistan, he co-wrote an influential paper with Lieutenant General Michael Flynn on improving military intelligence. He left journalism at the age of thirty-two and joined the Marines, a decision that confounded everyone who knew him. Fluent in Mandarin, he spent seven years in China, reporting for Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. He is one of the few survivors of Donald Trump’s White House, perhaps because he is hard to categorize. We didn’t appreciate that until late February.” The first mistake had been made, and the second was soon to happen. “You’re going to be missing fifty per cent of the cases. “That whole idea that you were going to diagnose cases based on symptoms, isolate them, and contact-trace around them was not going to work,” Redfield told me recently. The virus in Wuhan turned out to be far more infectious, and it spread largely by asymptomatic transmission.
The new pathogen was a coronavirus, and as such it was thought to be only modestly contagious, like its cousin the SARS virus. specialists visited China in early January, they would have learned exactly what the world was facing. Certainly, Redfield didn’t know that the virus was already present in California, Oregon, and Washington, and would be spreading in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Iowa, Connecticut, Michigan, and Rhode Island within the next two weeks-well before America’s first official case was detected. Perhaps Gao had just been made aware that the virus had been circulating in China at least since November. When post-election analysis revealed that educated white women had voted for Trump-even after the infamous Access Hollywood tape-she decided to look into conservative women, to “unravel what looked to me like a giant paradox.Lawrence Wright on how the pandemic response went wrong.
Why train the spotlight on such figures? Vaughn tells Artnet News that the project actually began back in 2016, when history-making candidate Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but lost the election. Others, like Betsey DeVos, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, or Kellyanne Conway, are familiar from recent headlines.
Some are luminaries of a previous generation of anti-feminist women, like singer and anti-gay activist Anita Bryant, author and “objectivist” philosopher Ayn Rand, and anti-Equal Rights Amendment campaigner Phyllis Schlafly (recently also examined in the Hulu series Mrs. “A Movement of Women” features pastel portraits of some 40 women culled from the pantheon of conservative activism. But instead of celebrating those who led the fight for equality, she’s taking a hard look at some of the women who have held it back. On Augthe United States celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which ended the decades-long fight by suffragists for women to be allowed to vote. In her latest exhibition, opening at Brooklyn-based Theodore: Art to coincide with the occasion, the artist Michelle Vaughan is looking at feminist history.