‘Males in caring jobs will make society extra equal’
Jessica Grose at The New York Occasions
Males is perhaps “much less involved with residing as much as antiquated stereotypes of manly jobs as soon as their frontal lobes are absolutely fashioned,” says Jessica Grose. If “extra males return to female-dominated professions, they could carry higher pay and extra status with them, and so they might also make the thought of males as caregivers extra palatable.” If we “begin seeing caring in society as a much less gendered exercise, not as a low-status job, extra males could also be wanting to do it.”
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‘America must radically rethink what it means to be previous’
Jonathan Rauch at The Atlantic
At present’s “conceptions of previous age and retirement are trendy innovations,” says Jonathan Rauch. Aged People have “embraced the concept they’re the identical as youthful individuals, besides older — a imaginative and prescient that blurs the distinctive wants of elders and undercuts their identity-based activism.” With “hundreds of thousands of individuals residing vigorously into their 80s and past, the very thought of ‘retirement’ — the expectation that individuals will depart the workforce at an arbitrary age — is unnecessary.”
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‘Trump’s nominees are testing the GOP’s guardrails’
Nia-Malika Henderson at Bloomberg
MAGA’s aim is to “usurp the highly effective and impartial ‘recommendation and consent’ position of the higher chamber by threatening retribution,” a “worrisome, if predictable, improvement,” says Nia-Malika Henderson. Donald Trump “anticipated that the Senate would fall in line and unilaterally assist him,” but it surely “solely takes 4 Republicans to function a examine on Trump. That they’ve proven some sliver of a backbone to date is an effective signal, but it surely’s not adequate.”
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‘How current laws threatens international leisure in Cuba’
Laura-Zoë Humphreys and Daymar Valdés Frigola at Time
A Cuban ban on audiovisual content material “would deal a big blow to the ‘paquete’ or ‘packet,’ Cuba’s sturdy offline system of media distribution,” which has “come to represent the principle supply of worldwide leisure on the island,” say Laura-Zoë Humphreys and Daymar Valdés Frigola. These issues “reveal the distinctive standing of media piracy in Cuba,” and these “suspicions level to ongoing uncertainty concerning the limits of state tolerance for citizen management over media piracy.”
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