Opinion | Why Aren’t More People Getting Married? Ask Women What Dating Is Like.
This may well be true. But harping on people to get married from high up in the ivory tower fails to engage with the reality on the ground that heterosexual…
Our Merch, Ourselves
If you want to recreate the 1960s winged eyeliner that Cailee Spaeny wears in “Priscilla,” you’ll have to do so without the aid of the limited-edition makeup kit produced by…
Who Will Care for Older Adults? We’ve Plenty of Know-How but Too Few Specialists | naked capitalism
Yves here. When I was involved in my mother’s care in the last few years of her life, it was depressing but also revealing to see how often the default…
Could It Be the Fed’s Mega-QE Created So Much Liquidity That Tightening Doesn’t Work until this Excess Gets Burned Up? | naked capitalism
Yves here. Wolf Richter provides some important sightings confirming that there’s plenty of liquidity in the financial system, which is at odds with what the Fed has been trying to…
They Ran Into a Bomb Shelter for Safety. Instead, They Were Slaughtered.
Yossi Landau, the southern region commander for ZAKA, a search-and-rescue organization, entered one bomb shelter on Route 232. Inside, he said, he found about 20 burned bodies fused together, adding,…
Ohio Voted to Protect Abortion Rights. Could Florida Be Next?
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, campaigns to protect abortion rights have galvanized voters in state after state. It has become Democrats’ most successful issue…
Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans
Former President Donald J. Trump is planning an extreme expansion of his first-term crackdown on immigration if he returns to power in 2025 — including preparing to round up undocumented…
How Millions of Borrowers Got $127 Billion in Student Loans Canceled
When the Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s $400 billion plan to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt for 43 million borrowers, the prospect of substantive debt…
They Wanted to Get Sober. They Got a Nightmare Instead.
The white vans were the first thing people noticed. They began popping up around tribal reservations in the Southwest a few years ago, trolling through alleys and parking lots on…
One Year in the Infuriating and Humiliating Search for a Job in South Africa
This is a part of a series on how Africa’s youth boom is changing the continent, and beyond. Portia Stafford, a petite and usually soft-spoken 22-year-old, shouted through the razor…