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� � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Are $18 Big Macs the price of falling inequality? - Vox (Full Access)    Even socialists are bristling at the rising cost of fast food.  Over the holidays, extremely online progressives debated the most important theoretical question facing the American left today: Is grousing about the price of a Big Mac counterrevolutionary? For months now, political observers have been squabbling over whether the Biden economy’s unpopularity reflects its genuine weaknesses or voters’ collective failure to recognize its virtues. On the one hand, the president did preside over a sustained period of exceptionally high inflation. On the other, Americans’ real wages and net worths are higher than they were before the pandemic, unemployment is near historic lows, paychecks are rising faster than prices, and economic growth exceeded 5 percent in the third quarter of 2023. Continued here � � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Want to understand American views on Israel? Take a look at this 1958 novel. - Vox (Full Access)    Leon Uris’s bestselling epic Exodus — and its hit movie adaptation starring Paul Newman — influenced generations of Americans, from the suburbs to the State Department. When I was 12 or 13, I found a copy of Leon Uris’s 1958 novel Exodus in my synagogue’s library. I stood amid the shelves, surreptitiously reading a sex scene (did the book just fall open right to it, the way every copy of Judy Blume’s Forever did at Chapter 12?) in which the passionate, long-legged, redheaded Jordana Ben Canaan makes love to her cerebral military strategist boyfriend, David Ben Ami, in the ruins of a Crusader castle on Mount Tabor in 1947 Palestine. As they canoodle, they recite King Solomon’s Song of Songs to each other. Uris uses ellipses ecstatically. (“And he kissed her breast … ‘Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies …’ And he kissed her lips … ‘And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly’ …”) I was scandalized. I took the book home and devoured it, much the way David devoured Jordana. Continued here � � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium The Stanley water bottle craze, explained - Vox (Full Access)    According to professional hockey players, the Stanley Cup is the be-all and end-all. Winning the cup is the highest possible accomplishment — proof of hard work and teamwork coupled with enormous fortune. It’s the achievement of a lifetime that only a select few get to experience. According to the internet, the Stanley™ Cup may be even better. All over the US, in suburban pockets and college towns especially, “a Stanley” has become the accessory of the season. After the 2023 holidays, when the cup was a wildly popular gift or stocking stuffer, it seems that it is nearly inescapable. People will wake up early and wait in line for the opportunity to purchase one. People will spend hundreds of dollars on resale platforms to obtain a special holiday edition like Target’s “Galentine’s Day” drop. People will show them off online for the admiration of others. Continued here � � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Why so many kids are still missing school - Vox (Full Access)    What it means to be “chronically absent” — and why it matters. When schools reopened their doors after the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, eager to “return to normal,” millions of students didn’t show up. Teachers prepared their classrooms to welcome children back to in-person learning, but millions of desks were unfilled. With an eye toward pandemic recovery, the government allocated billions of dollars to help students regain what they lost at the height of the pandemic, but many of them weren’t there to receive the aid. Some of the latest absenteeism data reveals the staggering impact the pandemic has had on student attendance. Continued here

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