‘Why a ‘third life’ is the reply to America’s loneliness epidemic’
Adam Chandler at Time
The “position of espresso retailers and bars, libraries and neighborhood facilities, civic golf equipment and homes of worship, have pale because the creep of labor and home obligation in American life have turn out to be all however inescapable,” says Adam Chandler. If “third locations as soon as represented readymade shops for neighborhood,” then “we must always look to create what I might name ‘third lives'” by “making a framework that’s protected from the attain of obligation or the temptation of performative busyness.”
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‘Congress — sure, even the members you dislike — ought to get a pay elevate’
The Washington Submit editorial board
The “arguments in opposition to boosting Congress’ pay appear overwhelming,” however the “majority of members, particularly these with postgraduate levels in drugs or regulation, might make vastly extra within the non-public sector than they do now,” says The Washington Submit editorial board, and lots of “forgo public service for a similar purpose.” If People “desire a Congress that pulls on the perfect of America, by which anybody can afford to serve, they need to need their representatives to be extra competitively compensated.”
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‘Chilly consolation: The most recent assaults on America comply with a well-recognized playbook’
Brian Michael Jenkins and Bruce R. Butterworth at The Hill
The “pickup truck ramming in New Orleans and the following explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas remind us that terrorist threats stay a lethal actuality within the U.S.,” say Brian Michael Jenkins and Bruce R. Butterworth. Virtually “the entire parts of the New Orleans assault have been seen earlier than,” and “uncertainty prevails.” That “now we have been right here earlier than and persevered is a supply of chilly consolation to these fearful at the moment.”
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‘2025 is the 12 months to bust the billionaires’
John Nichols at The Nation
Republican clashes will “turn out to be a dominant political story of 2025,” says John Nichols. Donald Trump “has a protracted historical past of taking part in as much as billionaire-class oligarchs, and through his first time period he made some extent of giving them huge tax cuts.” There may be “little doubt that Trump will search to take action once more,” which is “additional affirmation of the late former president Jimmy Carter’s observations from virtually a decade in the past in regards to the harm carried out by billionaire-guided governance.”
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