Nintendo has delayed orders of the Switch 2 , its highly anticipated new gaming console, as a result of President Donald Trump 's tariffs.

Trump announced tariffs on dozens of countries, including 24 percent on Japan and 46 percent on Vietnam .

Nintendo planned in 2019 to shift console production to Vietnam "to avoid Trump 's trade war".

John Oliver is facing a defamation lawsuit from Dr. Brian Morley who claims the comedian slurred him “for ratings and profits” Comedians have considerable leeway when it comes to political satire as opposed to everyday citizens.

Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers often bend the truth so regularly it’s often unrecognizable.

Comedians use their considerable platforms to spread lies that could be seen as libelous.

Comedians have more leeway when it comes to politicians, but no one elected Rittenhouse to elected office.

A healthy, robust press would let viewers know that much of what’s said on late-night TV just isn’t true.

E.A. Hanks , 42 , has written a memoir about growing up the daughter of Samantha Lewes .

The author speculates her mother had multiple mental disorders.

She was born in Burbank , California , but has few memories of the early years in Los Angeles .

Lewes died from lung cancer in 2002 when she was 19 .

Russell Brand , 49 , has been charged by the principal public agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England with rape and sexual assault for alleged acts committed between 1999 and 2005 .

Brand will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on May 2 .

The accusations stem from four alleged incidents; one in 1999 in which a woman said she was raped in the Bournemouth area, one in 2001 in which woman claimed she was indecently assaulted in the Westminster area.

Volokh Conspiracy : If it's possible to say what the law is without taking a normative stance concerning whether it is good or bad, law itself is not normatively neutral.

Law isn't like this. It confers power upon people to do things that they would not otherwise be able to do, and those things affect other people.

Volokah : The Dred Scott challenge isn't a difficult but rewarding game that ingenious scholars should have an interest in overcoming.

Dred Scott v. Sandford was written by a slaveholder and joined by five other slaveholders.

It treated the denial of civil and (especially) political rights to Black people as dispositive of their exclusion from citizenship.

Sandford 's reasoning is continuous with the consent theory that surfaced in enslaving states.

The text of the Citizenship Clause does not only proclaim Black citizenship, but it proclaims Black citizenship.

John Sutter : It's possible to critique Dred Scott on consensualist grounds, but it's not possible to do so.

Sutter says consent theory can't be rescued by positing that all Black Americans consented to be citizens of the U.S. He says any account of Citizenship Clause which depended upon actual consent of either enslaved people or the polity to be bound by U.K. sovereign power would be ludicrous.

He says it's a much, much easier way to explain why any credible theory of citizenship must produce is correct.

Before it even started generating buzz, Disney ’s live-action Snow White was doomed to failure.

This was guaranteed by the casting director's decision to have Gal Gadot portray the Evil Queen while Rachel Zegler serves as the titular character.

We should all be thankful that this film was made, and even more thankful that it's bombing fantastically.

Only from the ashes of such failure can Hollywood return, once again remembering that its job is to entertain everyone.

This time, though, social distancing may work, for while the entertainment industry is in the gutter, it’s still looking at the stars.

From that position it might again rise, offering us truly enlightening films.

Captain America: Brave New World is the fourth movie in the Captain America subfranchise of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It's hard not to see it as a loose allegory for President Donald Trump .

The film was shot, scripted, and arduously reshot long before Trump linked arms with Elon Musk , but the parallels are hard to overlook.

Flow, a Latvian film that won this year 's Oscar for best animated feature, is a straightforward tale.

The simple story and lack of dialogue create space for the other thing that makes Flow so beautiful.

Director Gints Zilbalodis delivers a series of mesmerizing long takes that capture the wonder and terror of the animals' adventure through a strange world.

The Slate News Quiz tests your knowledge of the week's news events.

This week's contestant is staff writer Luke Winkie.

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Can you ace the quiz and beat Winkie?.

Two radical writers have trained their gaze on love in new books: Love in a F

cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together .

Dean Spade is a self-help book that would make the fascists’ skin crawl.

Shon Faye’s Love in Exile is a memoir of sorts, a meditation on love through personal and political experience.

The right is trying to stop the collapse of heterosexuality by brute force, writes Frida Ghitis .

Ghitis: Queer communities have built alternate structures of care that heterosexuals are just now beginning to learn from, valuing friendship and ongoing connection rather than serial monogamy common to straight daters.

She says that romantic advice ignores this history in order to personalize our problems and tell us that at some level they come from the kind of person we are.

Frida Ghitis : I'm leery of a self-help culture that flattens out complex ideas into personality types that you can discover by taking a quiz.

She says we navigate in our personal lives a kind of dialectic between the individual and the social.

Ghitis says there are no easy answers to relationship questions.