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Anna North
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The world as we know it is ending. Why are we still at work?

From the pandemic to climate change, Americans are still expected to work no matter what happens.
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It’s not just Chicago. Omicron is closing schools all over America....

The problem started way before omicron.
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What is school for?

Kids need it for education. Families also need it for child care.
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What happens when the anti-abortion movement wins - Vox.com

Tracking down the sources of abortion pills, a brewing internal schism over arresting pregnant people — welcome to the post-Roe future.
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Baby boomers’ aging could be a caretaking crisis for millennials - ...

Amanda Singleton had just gotten married and bought her first home when her mom was diagnosed with brain cancer. Essentially overnight, she went from being a 30-year-old just starting a new phase of her life to being a 24-hour caregiver. “My mom couldn’t walk, she couldn’t talk, she couldn’t eat,” Singleton said. Singleton spent her days driving hours between her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, clinics for her mom’s chemo and radiation treatments, and her job as an attorney. The stress was cons…
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Caregiving: How to prepare to care for older loved ones - Vox.com

The women in Loretta Woodward Veney’s family are known for their longevity. Her grandmother died in her late 90s; her great-grandmother lived alone until she was 101, and only agreed to move into a nursing home “when we told her there were men,” Veney jokes. So when Veney’s mother was diagnosed with dementia at age 77, Veney, then 47, was shocked — and unprepared for the financial and logistical realities of caregiving. Many millennial and Gen Z Americans will be faced with difficult decisions a…
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Aging can be scary. Here’s how to prepare for getting older - Vox.com

None of us is getting any younger, yet many of us prefer to ignore that fact. “We tend to think of aging as something sad that old people do, when in fact we are aging from the minute we are born,” says Ashton Applewhite, author of the book This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism. As a result, many of us don’t prepare for the realities of getting old: Less than half of American adults have a will, and many underestimate both the cost of long-term care and the likelihood that they’ll need it…

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How to teach kids about money, shopping, and buying - Vox.com

Kids growing up in 2023 live in a world more dominated by consumer products than ever before. Whether it’s Barbies, Furbies, or iPhones, kids have more ways than ever of finding out about new stuff to want. In addition to TV commercials, they are also exposed to targeted ads on YouTube and influencer marketing on TikTok and elsewhere that they may not recognize as advertising at all. “It’s just constantly coming at us,” said Michelle Skidelsky, a content creator who has posted about deinfluencin…
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From Ballerina Farm to the Dougherty Dozen, why are big family ... ...

Hannah Neeleman, the Juilliard-trained dancer turned homesteading influencer better known as Ballerina Farm, announced in October that she was pregnant with her eighth child. Wearing a flowing prairie dress and a cozy-looking sweater, Neeleman appeared with her husband, Daniel, in an Instagram video shot in their rustic-chic Utah kitchen. She cradled her belly. He cradled a large bowl, which may or may not have been full of sourdough. Neeleman, who posts beautifully lit videos of farm and family…
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Why influencers with 7, 8, or 10 kids are having a moment - Vox.com

Hannah Neeleman, the Juilliard-trained dancer turned homesteading influencer better known as Ballerina Farm, announced in October that she was pregnant with her eighth child. Wearing a flowing prairie dress and a cozy-looking sweater, Neeleman appeared with her husband, Daniel, in an Instagram video shot in their rustic-chic Utah kitchen. She cradled her belly. He cradled a large bowl, which may or may not have been full of sourdough. Neeleman, who posts beautifully lit videos of farm and family…
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Why can’t countries reverse declining birth rates? - Vox.com

Taiwan has spent more than $3 billion trying to get its citizens to have more children. In 2009, after decades of falling birth rates, it began offering six months of paid parental leave, reimbursed at 60 percent of a new parent’s salary — then recently increased that share to 80 percent. The government has introduced a cash benefit and a tax break for parents of young children, and has invested in child care centers. Perhaps having exhausted more conventional approaches, current and would-be la…
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Texas abortion case: What are mifepristone and misoprostol? - Vox.com

A series of legal challenges working their way through the federal courts and now taken up by the Supreme Court has raised questions about the future of access to mifepristone, an abortion medication that is used in more than half of all US abortions with high effectiveness and few severe side effects. Mifepristone is the first of two drugs usually prescribed together to induce an abortion. The second, misoprostol, however, can be used to terminate a pregnancy on its own. The fate of mifepriston…
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Tampon testing: the troubled history of period products - Vox.com

If you’ve ever had a period — or if you just watched a lot of TV in the 1990s — you probably remember the blue-liquid ads. In one example from 1995, an actor extols the virtues of Always maxi pads as sapphire-colored fluid dribbles from a glass ampoule onto pristine white fabric. “It protects me better than any regular maxi I’ve tried,” she assures the viewer, though what exactly she needs protection from is left politely unsaid. The blue-liquid ads were easy to mock — Was that stuff water? Anti…
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From Cassie to Jane Doe, the rape allegations against Diddy ... - V...

Especially in the 1990s and 2000s, Diddy was a figure of enormous power, not just in hip-hop but in the business and entertainment worlds writ large. In the past two months, however, four women have sued him, saying he used that influence and wealth to sexually victimize them and avoid any consequences for decades. Their lawsuits, several of which include brutal and disturbing details, state that Diddy, whose birth name is Sean Combs and who has also publicly gone by Puff Daddy, Puffy, and Love,…
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What happened to winter? - Vox.com

A snowy winter in New York City brings with it a kind of magic. The air goes crisp, then bitter, and fragile snowflakes sift down in the early dark, silvering the trees and blanketing the sledding hills in the parks. After the first big snow, children and adults alike rush out to make snowmen, creations that delight passersby for the next two frigid months, until the snow finally thaws. When I took my older son, then a toddler, out for his first-ever sledding session, he squealed with awe at the…
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What Zyn nicotine pouches have to do with contemporary masculinity ...

Users of Zyn, a brand of nicotine pouch that’s become a touchstone among right-wing commentators, extol its ability to free the mind, increase productivity, and even enhance sexual performance. “I use it every second I’m awake,” said Tucker Carlson on an episode of the Full Send comedy podcast in 2023. “Seconds before I fall asleep, I take it out.” There’s no evidence to promote Zyn as a sexual aid; nicotine actually constricts blood vessels, which can increase the risk of erectile dysfunction.…
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What are fetal personhood laws? - Vox.com

The Alabama Supreme Court touched off a nationwide furor in February when it ruled that frozen, fertilized embryos legally count as “children.” The ruling upended the lives of patients undergoing IVF in Alabama and opened up a new front in the post-Dobbs battle over abortion rights. It also revived interest in — and concern over — so-called “fetal personhood” laws, which give fetuses, and in some cases embryos, the legal rights of a person. These laws, on the books in more than a third of states…
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America wasn’t designed for single people - Vox.com

Maria loves being a single mom. She doesn’t have to share decision-making with anyone, and she treasures her close bond with her teenage daughter, who will never have to worry about her parents getting divorced, because Maria has never married. But Maria, who is in her 50s, also pays a price for her single status. Somewhat ironically, she pays more in taxes than “if I had a stay-at-home spouse providing free child care and housekeeping,” she told social scientist Bella DePaulo in her recent book…
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Schools are using Yondr pouches to lock up kids’ cellphones - Vox.com

In Akron, Ohio, teens and tweens show up to school every day with their homework, their textbooks ... and a special magnetic pouch that renders their smartphones useless during the day. The Akron schools are part of a growing movement across the US and Europe to ban phones in schools or require them to be locked up in pouches made by a startup named Yondr. School districts in at least 41 states have bought the pouches in recent years, a response to behavior issues as well as concerns about stude…
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From Project 2025 to Christian nationalists, these groups could def...

As president, Trump delivered for anti-abortion voters in the biggest way possible by appointing the three Supreme Court justices who cast the deciding votes to overturn Roe v. Wade. This year, however, the man who once proudly proclaimed himself “the most pro-life president in American history” has been wishy-washy on the subject as he campaigns, no doubt aware that pro-abortion-rights candidates and measures have been consistently winning since Roe fell. In March, Trump voiced his potential su…
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What the science says about periods and mental health - Vox.com

PMS, food cravings, “period flu”: Anybody who menstruates knows from experience that the monthly cycle can have a profound impact on the body and mind. But researchers are still only beginning to explore exactly how menstruation can affect health — and, in some people, worsen symptoms of illness. In one recent study, psychologist Jaclyn Ross and a team at the University of Illinois Chicago asked 119 female patients who had experienced suicidal thoughts in the past to track their feelings over th…