‘Will People ever get sick of low-cost junk?’
Amanda Mull in The Atlantic
America’s closets and junk drawers “overfloweth,” says Amanda Mull. “Perhaps, at some point, shopping for low-cost stuff as a type of leisure will run afoul” of a shared consciousness that rampant consumerism is hurting our pressured planet. “Individuals would possibly start to really feel ashamed” about shopping for issues they do not “actually need as a salve for stress or boredom.” But when we’re ready for “wastefulness to turn into uncool” we seem to have a protracted strategy to go earlier than reaching “peak stuff.”
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Max Boot in The Washington Put up
Congress’ passage of $61 billion in long-delayed Ukraine assist eased a “collective freakout” by U.S. allies, says Max Boot. Former President Donald Trump had deepened their concern by threatening to “let Russia ‘do regardless of the hell they need’ to NATO members” spending too little on protection. However it might be a “main mistake” to assume the invoice’s approval means U.S. allies “needn’t pursue better strategic autonomy.” The U.S. nonetheless may flip “its again on the world.”
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The Wall Avenue Journal editorial board
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Alex Shephard in The New Republic
The actual cause for the school anti-war protests is getting “obscured” by the give attention to crackdowns and allegations of antisemitism, says Alex Shephard. Sure, younger folks need their faculties to “lower monetary and educational ties with Israel” and are “overwhelmingly sad with the White Home’s dealing with of Israel’s army marketing campaign in Gaza.” However pro-Palestinian college students are risking arrest and expulsion due to their “clear ethical outrage over the tens of hundreds of civilians killed in Gaza.”
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