Can We Put a Price on Climate Damages?
A new model finds a remarkable tally for the impact of even a bit of carbon over decades.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/opinion/can-we-put-a-price-on-climate-damages.html?smid=em-share
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Boomer Skills Millennials Just Won’t Use
********** NYTimes.com: ‘A Perfect Storm for the Ambitious, Extreme Ideologue’ rj
‘A Perfect Storm for the Ambitious, Extreme Ideologue’
Is there something unique to the United States that exacerbates partisan animosity, even in good times?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/opinion/populism-polarization-trump-europe.html?smid=em-share
While Norris focuses on “ideological polarization” — differences between the parties on issues — the cross-country trends paper concentrates on what has come to be called “affective polarization.”
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***** [The Washington Post] Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco
A new study suggests that tobacco companies, who were skilled at marketing cigarettes, used similar strategies to hook people on processed foods.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/09/19/addiction-foods-hyperpalatable-tobacco/
[The Washington Post] Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco
Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/09/19/addiction-foods-hyperpalatable-tobacco/
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*** NYTimes.com: The Republican Party Has Devolved Into a Racket
The Republican Party Has Devolved Into a Racket
The G.O.P. has lost a commitment to solving the nation’s problems and become purposeless.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opinion/politics/republican-party-trump-racket.html?smid=em-share
What Mitt Romney Saw in the Senate
In an exclusive excerpt from my forthcoming biography of the senator, Romney: A Reckoning, he reveals what drove him to retire.
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NYTimes.com: Mitt Romney Has Given Us a Gift
Mitt Romney Has Given Us a Gift
You can’t negotiate with narcissism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/opinion/mitt-romney-senate-trump-mcconnell.html?smid=em-share
We all struggle to be the best version of ourselves we can be, and Romney’s struggle is now taking him into retirement and out of the Senate. On the way he gave us a gift, in the form of a series of conversations with The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins, who has written a book on him, excerpted in the magazine.
***** NYTimes.com: Superstar Cities in the Age of Zoom rj
Superstar Cities in the Age of Zoom
Will big metros lose their edge? Or will remote work make them stronger?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/opinion/cities-zoom-return-to-office.html?smid=em-share