scorches

Asia’s heat wave scorches hundreds of millions.

On the right, we have troglodytes who have retreated to their caves of denial as climate change scorches the planet.

In its bloody tones and its message, it is a work that scorches — a masterful indictment of the ways Indigenous people have been reduced to mascot and brand name while day-to-day concerns remain out of view.

This toxic bill, introduced into Congress this month and debated on Capitol Hill this week, attacks an entire profession and scorches thousands of dedicated educators under the guise of empowering parents.

The night is short and full of terrors: “Elektra” is a 100-minute cyclone of an opera, driven by blasts of gnarly brass, strings that seem ever-teetering on the brink of catastrophe and a feral chromaticism that scorches the edges of the score.