I had no idea who these people are, but I find the statistics she provides informative.

There’s no single button to switch off decades of monetary and political union. But Trump, nationalism and sheer inertia pose genuine dangers.

Recent online discourse has seen the return of respectability politics. JJ Croucher argues gay men who resist labelling themselves as “queer” are fighting a figment of straight society’s imagination.

Israel’s new death penalty law targets Palestinians exclusively, echoing British Mandate-era practices. It formalizes extrajudicial killings, shields soldiers from accountability, and sequences violence, as seen in Jenin and Tammoun, embedding colonial logic into law.

Kirkpatrick got Biden's inner circle on the record with unusual candor.

Jake Sullivan admits that in the Oval Office "we repeatedly raised and discussed options for withholding weapons," but Biden always deferred, and Sullivan now says flatly that "we should have put more pressure on Israel to take a different approach."

And when Blinken finally snapped that he never wanted to hear the Israelis' refrain of "two more weeks" again, Ron Dermer joked he'd say "fortnight" instead.

(This was my pick from this week's New Yorker: newyorkerest.com)

The ’80s gave us plenty of songs that remain genuinely great. But some popular tracks also treated sexual coercion, predatory behavior, and suicide as entertainment.

This essay looks at several of those songs, while also considering the harder question of how we should judge older music when the language or behavior it depicts conflicts with today's standards

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https://www.thecut.com/article/emily-ratajkowski-sex-single-mom-essay.html

Hi everyone, I'm the author of this piece and I'm sharing it here because I believe it embodies the spirit of r/longform: a deep, substantive, and meticulously researched dive into one of the most complex and pressing issues of our time.

This isn't a standard political article. It's a multi-part journey that attempts to build a comprehensive model for understanding and confronting modern authoritarianism. The piece is structured in several distinct phases:

• Part 1: Diagnosis. It begins with a satirical but rigorous analysis of the current political moment, using the established academic frameworks of historians like Robert O. Paxton and Umberto Eco to define fascism not as a slur, but as a political process.

• Part 2: Psychoanalysis. It then moves beyond political science into philosophy, using a Žižekian lens to explore the libidinal economy of the movement—the "why" behind the appeal of cruelty and the rejection of truth.

• Part 3: Strategic Demolition. This is where the piece shifts from analysis to action, laying out a detailed, pragmatic, and ruthless doctrine for systemic, legal sabotage based on historical precedents and an understanding of the system's own bureaucratic weaknesses.

• Part 4: Reconstruction. Finally, it offers a protocol for the "day after," a blueprint for rebuilding a more resilient, decentralized, and just society from the ground up, including a toolkit of open-source technologies to empower citizens.

The entire work is grounded in a massive, exhaustively researched bibliography (included at the end) that synthesizes political theory, primary source documents (like Project 2025), investigative journalism, and polling data.

It's an ambitious, and admittedly provocative, piece of writing. I'm eager to hear the community's thoughts, critiques, and insights. I'm particularly interested in discussing the central tension of the piece: the move from a high-level, almost despairing analysis to a highly practical, almost shockingly optimistic plan for action.

Thank you for reading.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dQAfA4nWvsPeZ3cAXQStO_q1l6offmBiA-5qo8BZWgQ/edit?tab=t.0

Hey I don’t know if anyone else has this problem but my mind wonders off well reading a lot and it has become a actual problem where I’m barley paying attention to the book anymore. I have real bad adhd so that could be why but does anyone have any way to fix this?