The Good News About the Insane Real Estate Market
Losing your umpteenth bidding war just might radicalize you.
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10 Ways to Tell Your Child’s Teacher Thank You After This Horrific Year
This is not the year to skimp on Teacher Appreciation Week.
2 Competing Impulses Will Drive Post-pandemic Social Life
A post-pandemic discussion question: You get home from work on a Friday night and change into sweatpants. It’s been an exhausting week. A text message comes in. Your good friend wants to know if you’d like to meet up last minute for a drink, which is something that’s safe to do again. You’d love to catch up, but you’re pretty tired.
The Books Briefing: The New Literature of Burnout
The author Brontez Purnell’s short story “Early Retirement” focuses on Antonio, a struggling actor who is unfulfilled by his job. One night, Antonio drinks too much and blacks out in the middle of a performance, experiencing a “cool and complete dissociation onstage.” He is booted from the cast the next day.Purnell’s story illustrates a common experience of disillusionment in modern-day work culture.
African Activists: The Earth Is in Peril If Wealthy Nations Don’t Slash Emissions & Pay Climate Debt
As President Biden convenes a major climate summit, we speak with two leading climate activists from Africa about the “climate debt” rich countries owe the Global South and the major emissions cuts still needed in order to avert the worst effects of the planetary emergency.
“Shelter from the Storm”: Climate Change Is a Driving Force in Central American Migration
We look at the link between migration and the climate emergency, which studies have estimated could displace over 200 million people by 2050, including many in Central American countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Last year, two hurricanes, Iota and Eta, devastated the region and forced thousands to flee north.
Biden Vows to Cut Emissions, But U.S. Continues to Subsidize Fossil Fuels Amid Climate Crisis
The White House convened a virtual summit on the climate crisis this week, with 40 leaders representing the world’s major economies pledging cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. President Joe Biden said the U.S. would cut its emissions by at least 50% below 2005 levels by the end of the decade — nearly double the target set by the Obama administration six years ago. Biden’s pledge fulfills “a basic requirement of the U.S.
“He’s Going to Be So Missed”: Funeral Held for Police Shooting Victim Daunte Wright in Minneapolis
Mourners gathered in Minnesota Thursday for the funeral of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was shot dead by a white police officer during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. Daunte’s mother, Katie Wright, fought back tears as she remembered her son. “When he walked in the room, he lit up the room. He was a brother, a jokester, and he was loved by so many. He’s going to be so missed.” We air excerpts of Wright’s funeral service.
What Substack Is Really Doing to the Media
The company is targeting one of news organizations’ weak points.
New York’s Ridiculous Elections Are Why We Could Have Mayor Andrew Yang
In a system designed to suppress turnout, he just might be the low-turnout candidate.
So Are We Going to Legalize Weed This Year or Not?
The marijuana movement has never been closer to its goal.
The Future of the Office Might Be Something Other Than an Office
The pandemic dream of transforming abandoned downtowns into flourishing residential neighborhoods.
Yeah, I Bought Some Dogecoin Today
If the financial and crypto markets are going to be so dumb, count me in.
Bidenworld fears many vaccine skeptics may be unreachable. They’re trying anyway.
A new effort to sell the jab is focusing on a few things: financial hurdles, conservative media and not speaking down to those who are hesitant.
FDA inspection report casts doubt on J&J vaccine contractor’s ability to restart production
The FDA said the size and design of Emergent’s manufacturing facilities could prevent its bid to deliver millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccines this year.
States have a new Covid problem: Too much vaccine
Millions of Americans are still getting shots each day — but, in a jarring twist after months of scarcity, too many slots remain open as skeptics hold out.
Trump’s former aides say he whiffed on vaccination legacy
Former advisers say he’s done a lot and gotten little credit. But others wonder what good could have come if he’d been more aggressive in pushing the jab.
The Great Demi Lovato Froyo Scandal of 2021 Has a Lesson for Celebrities
Some very misguided frozen treat drama.
My Wife Has Declared We Will Never Have Sex Again
She gave me permission to sleep with other women, but she wouldn’t approve of my approach.
Dear Care and Feeding: My Wife Refuses to Stop Posting About Our Kids on Social Media
Parenting advice on social media, adoption, and teaching consent.
How the Trudeau government plans to meet its climate goals
Chrystia Freeland uses Budget 2021 to reveal Canada’s new emissions target.
Biden’s spending plans collide with a resurgent U.S. economy
The numbers signal the U.S. is well on its way toward a revival, one that’s widely expected to reach record levels of growth later this year.
‘Crazy things happen’: Biden’s next spending spree fuels a fight over risks
The president’s team is preparing a $3 trillion spending proposal to power through Congress. They’re betting markets and the economy will cooperate long enough to pass it.
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad: Policing in U.S. Was Built on Racism & Should Be Put on Trial
A Minnesota jury’s conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin on three counts for murdering George Floyd does not go far enough in dismantling police brutality and state-sanctioned violence, says historian and author Khalil Gibran Muhammad. “We know that while the prosecution was performing in such a way to make the case that Derek Chauvin was a rogue actor, the truth is that policing should have been on trial in that case,” Muhammad says.
News Roundup: D.C. statehood; Biden rebuilds climate relationships; Facebook’s role in violence
In the news today: The House passes a bill to grant statehood to Washington, D.C.; Biden attempts to repair international relationships at climate summit; and an internal Facebook report again confirms the company’s central role in spreading election disinformation, far-right hoaxes, and violence long before the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Here’s some of what you may have missed:
• House passes bill on statehood for Washington, D.C.
Ted Cruz’s latest straight-faced dishonesty: ‘You didn’t see us try to pack the court’
Ted Cruz has been accused of a lot of things: being the Zodiac Killer; being from Canada; being a churlish Sea Monkey that grew out of control in a secret Area 51 lab before escaping into the forest with a family-size bag of Bugles and a sixer of Zima; being the son of a key JFK assassination conspiracist; spending the past four years hiding in Donald Trump’s Underoos like a colicky baby wallaby; having the personality of a clammy loaf of reduced-salt Wonder Bre
This Week in Statehouse Action: Sweet Leaf edition
Happy Earth Day to those who observe!
And who doesn’t observe? Extraterrestrials, maybe?
But don’t they want us to fix our own planet so we don’t go off and dirty up theirs?
Anyway, this missive missed 4/20 by just a couple of days, but that’s also a holiday worth celebrating.
Regardless of whether you do or plan to partake of marijuana, its increasing legality is a very good thing.
We’re rapidly approaching the time to stop catering to ‘vaccine holdouts’
The millions of Trump voters who have thus far refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 want us to know that we’re going about it all wrong if we want them to get the shot.
They’re tired of being “bullied,” they say. Besides, as one says, they haven’t gotten sick (yet) despite being “out and about” the entire pandemic. There’s just too much information out there to trust anyone, another says.
‘Black lives don’t f—ing matter’: Video captures ex-Army man in racist ‘all lives matter’ rant
A former drill sergeant leader in the U.S. Army was caught on camera in a racist rant proclaiming “Black lives don’t f—ing matter.” The slight that sent John Miles—initially identified by local newspaper Sumter Item—into the fit of rage was reportedly a grocery store clerk refusing to sell alcohol to him.
Josh Hawley Pummeled For Being Sole Vote Against Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Bill
Hawley was the only senator to vote against the legislation condemning hate crimes against Asian Americans.