Federal civil servants are supposed to enjoy robust protections against being fired or demoted for political reasons. But President Donald Trump has effectively stripped them of these protections by neutralizing the federal agencies that implement these safeguards. An agency known as the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) hears civil servants’ claims that a “government employer […] Read more ›
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Women weren’t allowed to officially serve in direct ground combat jobs when Emelie Vanasse started her ROTC program at George Washington University. Instead, she studied biology — but it still bothered Vanasse to be shut out of something just because she was a woman. “I always felt like, who really has the audacity to tell […] Read more ›
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It’s easy to look at Donald Trump’s second term and conclude that the less power and reach the federal government has, the better. After all, a smaller government might provide Trump or someone like him with fewer opportunities to disrupt people’s lives, leaving America less vulnerable to the whims of an aspiring autocrat. Weaker law-enforcement […] Read more ›
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A small but curious sign of the deepening gender divide in our politically fraught times: Male beauty standards are getting really weird. In the latest salvo, young boys on TikTok are shaving off their eyelashes, ostensibly because long eyelashes are girly. This new phenomenon joins a number of other perplexing masculine trends from the last […] Read more ›
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In The Dying Trade, a forthcoming documentary film about slaughterhouse workers, a man named Tom describes a moment during his career that still haunts him many years later: the time he skinned a cow alive while she was giving birth. Tom worked at slaughterhouses across Europe from the late 1990s to the mid-2010s, and one […] Read more ›
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Proponents of public school pre-kindergarten programs generally argue that it has two benefits: that it helps children succeed in school, and that it is a reliable, free source of child care for working parents. There’s some debate about what the data say about that first point, but few argue with the latter. Despite that, not […] Read more ›
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Last week, the State Department published a strikingly radical screed on its official Substack. Titled “The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe,” the piece accused Europe’s governments of waging “an aggressive campaign against Western civilization itself.” These Western nations, according to author Samuel Samson, have turned on their own heritage: abandoning democracy in favor of […] Read more ›
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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 […] Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Is the Trump-Musk partnership over? It’s complicated — but after today, it’s looking more like yes. What just happened? President Donald Trump has pinned his […] Read more ›
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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 […] Read more ›
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In the months since Kamala Harris’s defeat, Democrats have debated the party’s political and policy mistakes. This argument has centered in part on (Vox co-founder) Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s bestselling book, Abundance. Those political columnists argue that Democrats have failed to deliver material plenty: Blue states don’t provide their residents with adequate housing, and […] Read more ›
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A small but curious sign of the deepening gender divide in our politically fraught times: Male beauty standards are getting really weird. In the latest salvo, young boys on TikTok are shaving off their eyelashes, ostensibly because long eyelashes are girly. This new phenomenon joins a number of other perplexing masculine trends from the last […] Read more ›
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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 […] Read more ›
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Hurricane season in the Atlantic has officially begun. And while this year will likely be less extreme than in 2024 — one of the most destructive seasons ever, with the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record — it’s still shaping up to be a doozy. Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predict “above-average” […] Read more ›
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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 […] Read more ›
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Women weren’t allowed to officially serve in direct ground combat jobs when Emelie Vanasse started her ROTC program at George Washington University. Instead, she used her biology degree to serve as a medical officer — but it still bothered Vanasse to be shut out of something just because she was a woman.  “I always felt […] Read more ›
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Nearly two decades ago, scientists made an alarming discovery in upstate New York: Bats, the world’s only flying mammal, were becoming infected with a new, deadly fungal disease that, in some cases, could wipe out an entire colony in a matter of months. Since then, the disease — later called white-nose syndrome — has spread across much of […] Read more ›
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The world is hungry for more stuff: televisions, phones, motors, container ships, solar panels, satellites. That means the stuff required to make stuff is in high demand, and none more so than what are known as “critical minerals.” These are a handful of elements and minerals that are particularly important for making the modern devices […] Read more ›
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Air travel is such a common part of modern life that it’s easy to forget all the miraculous technology and communication infrastructure required to do it safely. But recent crashes, including near Washington, DC, and in San Diego — not to mention multiple near misses — have left many fliers wondering: Is it still safe […] Read more ›
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Everyone should have the right to decide if and when they have children. Yet over the past 50 years, the United States has built an economy that increasingly works against fertility — demanding more years in school and longer hours at work for people, especially women, in the years when it is biologically easiest for them […] Read more ›
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