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in The dying tradea man named Tom, an upcoming documentary about slaughterhouse workers, describes the moments that bother him years afterwards in his career. Tom worked in European slaughterhouses from the late 1990s to the mid-2010s, but one of his jobs on the production line was to hang up, unconsciously surprised, and remove skin from animals after his death. That's the way that should theoretically work. However, the slaughterhouse operates at a quick, busy pace, and animals sometimes run inappropriately while alive and conscious, and are slaughtered. If the cow stayed aware once he reached Tom – especially with this…
Public school advocates generally argue that there are two benefits: It is to help children succeed in school, and that it is a reliable and free child-rearing source for working parents.There is debate about what the data says about that first point, but few people will argue about the latter. Nevertheless, not all school districts offer pre-kindergarten. Also, some districts have seen a fierce battle to stop the expansion of the Pre-K program.However, one state avoids that fight and has Oklahoma, one of the most successful general, universal pre-K programs in the United States.My colleague Coleman Lownds recently traveled to…
Last week, the State Department announced an astonishingly radical screed in the official Saccak. The film, entitled “The Necessity of European Civilization Allies,” accused European governments of “active campaigning against Western civilization itself.”According to author Samuel Samson, these Western countries have their own heritage. They abandon democracy in favour of oppressive liberalism that threatens to erase the minds of their own civilization.”The Global Liberal Project does not enable democracy to flourish; rather, it tramples along with it on Western heritage in the name of a decadent governing class that fears its own country,” writes Samson.Samson argues that German and French…
Anna can’t exactly pinpoint when her relationship with her sister-in-law started to sour. Rather, it was a slow unraveling. When the two met over 20 years ago through their now-husbands, who are brothers, Anna actually preferred spending time with her future sister-in-law. “We would hang out all the time,” says Anna, who is being referred to by her middle name so she can speak freely about her family. “I would get through being with him just to hang out with her.”Anna and her sister-in-law also had a common enemy: their husbands’ parents. At family gatherings, they’d steal away with a…
The story was featured in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without taking over your life to political news. Subscribe here.Welcome to logoff: Has the Trump Mask partnership ended? That's complicated, but from today onwards it looks like yes.What happened? President Donald Trump has fixed his legislative hopes on a “big, beautiful bill” that passed the House last month. Today, Elon Musk targeted the bill as “large, outrageous, pork-filled… nasty and hateful.” Is it important to see what your mask thinks? It may not be as good as it once was. This…
For months after Kamala Harris' defeat, Democrats have been debating the party's political and policy mistakes. This discussion is concentrated in part on the bestselling books by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (co-founders of VOX). Abundance. These political columnists argue that Democrats have failed to provide enough material. The Blue State doesn't provide the right housing for its residents, and Federal Democrats are struggling to build time and budgets. Klein and Thompson believe that these failures are partly attributable to zoning restrictions and flaws in the environmental review laws.In making this claim, they repeated the analysis of many other commentators,…
In our politically challenging times, small but strange signs of deepening gender: the standards of beauty for men have become truly strange.In the latest Salvo, a young Tiktok boy shaves his eyelashes. On the surface, it's because the eyelashes are girly. This new phenomenon joins many other confusing masculine trends over the past few years. This includes achieving the jaw as high as possible to perform tongue exercises called “mee” and “going to the turkey” for hair transplantation. A little related, Republican lawmakers recently boasted that they have refused to drink from straws because it is “what women do” (not…
Traditionally, if perhaps erroneously, our idea of a midlife crisis has long involved an older man leaving behind his home and family life for a red sports car, a too-young girlfriend, and perhaps some kind of hair dye, if not a hairpiece. This midlife crisis means trading away the parts of one’s life for something newer and younger. The only thing this archetypal man can’t trade in, of course, are the years he’s already lived. In reality, that kind of implosion fantasy doesn’t resonate with many people. No one wants to be the guy who can’t see his own desperation,…
Atlantic hurricane season officially began. And while this year is probably less extreme than 2024, it's one of the most devastating seasons to date, with the earliest hurricanes in Category 5 recorded, it's still becoming dorsey. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predictors have predicted “above average” activity this season with 6-10 hurricanes. The season is from June 1st to November 30th. NOAA's 2025 hurricane forecast, by numbers60%: A chance for a normal hurricane season.6-10: The Hurricanes were hoping for this season. This means a tropical storm with wind speeds reaching at least 74 mph.3-5: A major hurricane or storm…
If you aren’t feeling the itch yet, you will soon. It could come by the end of this sentence or, on a good day, the fifth paragraph. But before long, a little voice in your head will whisper, “Click away for just a second” — just long enough to take a quick glance at your email or Instagram feed or group chat or 401(k) or chatbot’s answer to “how to tell if a mole is cancerous” or Amazon results for “joint-smoking garden gnomes.”At least, this will happen if you’re anything like myself. And I am not alone. Americans still consume…