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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A New Lawsuit Alleges That Leonard Leo Called for the Arrest of a Pro-Choice Protester</strong> - The court filing claims that the Federalist Society leader, a champion of free speech, urged police to violate the First Amendment rights of a demonstrator near his Maine home. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-new-lawsuit-alleges-that-leonard-leo-called-for-the-arrest-of-a-pro-choice-protester">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Puzzling, Increasingly Rightward Turn of Mario Vargas Llosa</strong> - The writer has shocked many by endorsing Latin America and Spain’s rising authoritarian movements. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-puzzling-increasingly-rightward-turn-of-mario-vargas-llosa">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Day in the Life of Congress’s “Traffic Cop”</strong> - The House Committee on Rules decides which bills go forward. Jim McGovern, the ranking Democrat, has watched a decades-long erosion of the process. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/a-day-in-the-life-of-jim-mcgovern-us-congress">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Is This the End of Bibi?</strong> - Netanyahu’s coalition of zealots, the resistance in the streets, and the Israeli Kulturkampf. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/is-this-the-end-of-benjamin-netanyahu">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Wrestling with the Ghost of Boris Johnson</strong> - An election for the seat in Parliament once held by the disgraced former Prime Minister goes down to the wire. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/wrestling-with-the-ghost-of-boris-johnson">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Why are fictional presidents so young?</strong> -
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<img alt="Actor Justin Kirk, as presidential candidate Jeryd Mencken, wears a black suit and attends a church service, with people seated in pews shown behind him." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/913w2duLdgV3LKcYlYXGLhrKo6w=/132x0:1839x1280/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72475920/justin_kirk.0.jpg"/>
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Justin Kirk as Jeryd Mencken on <em>Succession.</em> | Warner Bros.
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Onscreen presidents tend to be youthful and dashing. Real presidents, less so.
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<em>Welcome to </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/2/1/18205669/design-culture-fashion-home-shopping-trends-movies-tv"><em><strong>Noticed</strong></em></a><em>, Vox’s cultural trend column. You know that thing you’ve been seeing all over the place? Allow us to explain it.</em>
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<strong>What it is: </strong>They’re charming, fit, and usually good-looking, with Arlington-cemetery smiles and oilfield hair. There’s a decent chance they’ll have served in a familiar conflict like Iraq or Afghanistan. They can be found on either side of the political divide. A few of them are even women. They represent a new kind of politics, but you can’t vote for them because they only exist on our screens. They’re fictional presidents, and they’re young. So unbelievably young.
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<strong>Where it is: </strong>Across our screens, from <em>The Night Agent </em>to<em> Homeland</em>, but<em> </em>most recently, the final few episodes of <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/9/29/20828679/succession-hbo-guide-season-four-episode-recaps-news-finale-waystar-royco"><em>Succession</em></a>. The Roy siblings worked out their familial kinks against the backdrop of an election, contested by new-broom Democrat Daniel Jiménez and flashy Republican Jeryd Mencken. Jiménez and Mencken were played by actors Elliot Villar, 43, and Justin Kirk, 54. Looking further back, shows like <em>Scandal</em>, <em>House of Cards </em>and multiple seasons of <em>24 </em>have all cast actors younger than 50 to play presidents or candidates. Fifty might well seem on the older side to you — the minimum age for a presidential candidate is a mere 35 — but in reality, the last time an election was contested by two people younger than half a century was 1960. In 2020, the combined age of both candidates was 151.
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<strong>Why you’re seeing it everywhere: </strong>One of the best lines from Oliver Stone’s 1995 biopic <em>Nixon</em> speaks to this phenomenon. In the depths of affliction, Richard Nixon — played by Anthony Hopkins with a grin so tight-lipped his mouth could be a fistula — addresses a portrait of JFK hanging in the White House. “When they look at you, they see what they want to be,” he says, staring up at the odd, pensive painting. “When they look at me, they see what they are.”
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As a summary of the difference between political rivals it works pretty well. Kennedy, an avatar of glamour and optimism, a youthful leader for a country that still believed its best years lay ahead. Nixon, a creature of sweat and resentment, the right man to lead a country that lost its way somewhere between the Bay of Pigs and Hanoi.
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The line also works pretty well as a summary of media aesthetics. For the most part, the entertainment industry doesn’t permit physical manifestations of the spiritual ugliness embodied by characters like Nixon (unless a real person is being dramatized, in which case handsome people will go to great lengths to give themselves a rough edge and an Oscar). Taking the improbably spelled Jeryd Mencken as an example, Kirk is fine-boned with a seductively fiendish energy, kind of like watching Gary Sinise through a bedeviling TikTok filter. He’s an election-stealing swine, but he looks the part. You can see why people would vote for him in droves.
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<q>Only 10 percent of current senators are younger than 50</q>
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Of course, TV and film’s seldom-paid debt to reality is nothing new. Whether it’s what happens when a gas tank explodes or the attractiveness of patrons at a Philadelphia dive bar like Paddy’s Pub, the gap between world and screen is plenty wide. In recent years, the US has become a gerontocracy, with the last two presidential elections contested exclusively by candidates far older than normal retirement, and an upper house in which the <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/01/30/house-gets-younger-senate-gets-older-a-look-at-the-age-and-generation-of-lawmakers-in-the-118th-congress/">average age of members is 65</a>. Only 10 percent of current senators are younger than 50. With Biden versus Trump in 2024 already looking like a grimly predictable bit of plotting, the age of its presidents might just represent the medium’s most absurdly unrealistic casting.
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On screen we want our romantic leads flawless, our sitcom families lower middle-class but quirky, and our presidents capable of single-handedly killing terrorists and jumping out of crashing jumbo jets. Because running a country is hard and requires energy and patience — the kind that must be tough to come by when you’re painfully aware of the time you have left slipping away. More seriously, as Kennedy realized better than most, the president is an emblem as well as a politician. With the right leadership, maybe we could actually<em> </em>be what we want to be instead of settling for what we are.
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Cinema and TV have no shame about pandering to us. But could their political preferences be more than just an aesthetic fantasy? Sure, it might be a little extreme to imagine the entire presidential line of succession being wiped out in a bombing so that Kiefer Sutherland can be sworn in on <em>Designated Survivor</em>. But while all the torture and extrajudicial executions from his <em>24 </em>days would certainly represent a lot of baggage, at least he didn’t oversee <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/01/30-years-after-her-testimony-anita-hill-still-wants-something-from-joe-biden-514884">Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings</a>.
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One of storytelling’s most common functions is wish fulfillment, but sometimes it isn’t just the audience’s wishes that are being fulfilled. One of the frequent criticisms leveled at <em>The West Wing</em>, still perhaps the best-known and best-loved drama about a fictional presidency, was that it represented creator Aaron Sorkin’s personal fantasy of a principled, erudite politics, peopled by fast-talking characters who could say “I serve at the pleasure of the president” without exploding into balls of Miltonic rage. But while President Bartlet (played by Martin Sheen, 59 when the first season aired) is a Democrat’s dream, it is arguably the storyline about his successor that established the pattern.
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In the later seasons after Sorkin’s departure, Bartlet’s presumed heir, Matt Santos, is the archetypal fantasy candidate. A former Marine, a family man, a Democrat from Texas. As played by a 49-year-old Jimmy Smits, he was also 6-foot-3 with a face chiseled from Mount Rushmore granite. His opponent, Arnold Vinick, was also a fantasy, but of a different sort: an avuncular Goldwater Republican played by the ever-affable Alan Alda. But he was spindly and silver-haired; unmistakably a politician of the past. (The actor was 68 at the time.) The writers gave themselves two candidates to root for, but it was clear that they only ever loved one of them.
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Joel Kinnaman as Will Conway on <em>House of Cards.</em>
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And to prove the point that such make-believe can persist on either side of the aisle, <em>House of Cards </em>repeated the Santos playbook a decade later. Joel Kinnaman’s 37-year-old ubermensch Republican, Will Conway, took on the sleazy Underwoods just before Kevin Spacey’s disgraced exit from the show. Kinnaman spent two seasons projecting dignity while trying not to burst out of his tailoring. A presidential hopeful who could (and did) pass as a superhero. We should be so lucky.
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Cormac McCarthy, who died in June, took the title of his novel <em>No Country for Old Men</em> from the poem “Sailing to Byzantium” by W.B. Yeats. In the poem, the elderly narrator laments that his homeland is now full of young people embracing, watching birds, and listening to sensual music. He doesn’t fit in, and decides to sail off in search of higher things. His destination is the city of Byzantium, where he hopes to transcend bodily frailty (possibly by asking some holy sages to eat his heart) and devote himself to “monuments of unageing intellect.”
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This, of course, is the reason we’re often given for why we have to let a bunch of geriatrics make all the decisions. They have put behind them childish things, like the aforementioned music and embracing. They have the wisdom, the farsightedness, the unageing intellect needed to get the job done. Except that our lived experience shows that they don’t. What most of them really have are the barely submerged prejudices of their youth and an imperfect understanding of how <a href="https://www.vox.com/twitter">Twitter</a> works. We deserve better, and for once the unforgiving aesthetics of film and <a href="https://www.vox.com/tv">television</a> are pointing us to a truth we need to embrace.
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After all, as Yeats’s poem goes on to remind us:
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“An aged man is but a paltry thing / A tattered (sport) coat upon a stick …”
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<em>Philip Walford lives in California and writes about technology and culture. You can find him on </em><a href="https://twitter.com/philipwalford"><em>Twitter</em></a><em>.</em>
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<img alt="Several meat skewers on a grill being brushed with sauce." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/ASkisFoDPoAhWTNUXUKGNAg5IFA=/0x120:958x839/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72475875/GOOD_Meat_at_China_Chilcano__June_2023____Photos_by_Ana_Isabel_Martinez_Chamorro_62_CROPPED__1_.0.jpg"/>
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Chicken grown directly from animal cells, also known as “cell-cultivated” meat, is prepared at José Andrés’s China Chilcano restaurant. | Eat Just
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Star chef José Andrés is piloting a lab-grown chicken dinner. Here’s what it tastes like.
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I haven’t ordered meat at a restaurant in almost two decades, since I became a vegetarian in high school (and later, a vegan). But last week I found myself scarfing down two chicken skewers. My <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/9/12/23339898/global-meat-production-forecast-factory-farming-animal-welfare-human-progress">ethical</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23778399/media-ignores-climate-change-beef-meat-dairy">environmental</a> concerns around meat production hadn’t changed, but the chicken on my plate certainly had: It was grown directly from animal cells, with no live animal — and no animal slaughter — required.
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The chicken in question was made by GOOD Meat — a division of the San Francisco Bay Area alternative protein startup <a href="https://www.ju.st/">Eat Just</a> — and the dinner marked a major milestone for the company: It was one of the very first times that so-called cell-cultivated meat had been served at a restaurant in the US.
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Last month, after years of R&D and hundreds of millions of dollars in VC funding, GOOD Meat and competitor Upside Foods <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23768224/eat-just-good-meat-upside-cell-cultivated-chicken-lab-grown">received regulatory approval</a> to sell their slaughter-free chicken. (The meat is made by placing animal cells in large stainless steel tanks and feeding them sugars, amino acids, salts, vitamins, minerals, and other ingredients for several weeks until they develop into fat and muscle tissue.)
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Despite the historic nature of the dinner, which was provided by Eat Just, there was little pomp and circumstance — just myself, a few fellow food and farming journalists, and two PR reps at a table in the middle of China Chilcano, a Peruvian-Chinese-Japanese fusion restaurant in Washington, DC, owned by chef and humanitarian José Andrés.
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The chicken, which was made up of 60 to 70 percent animal cells (the rest of it is plant-based — <a href="https://www.goodmeat.co/eat/cultivated-chicken">primarily wheat, soy, and oil</a>), had been marinated in an anticucho sauce and was served with potatoes and chimichurri.
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Cell-cultivated chicken by Eat Just, served at chef José Andrés’s restaurant China Chilcano.
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To use the well-worn phrase, the slaughter-free chicken did taste like … chicken. It left behind a chickeny smell and a thin film of meaty oil in my mouth that I hadn’t experienced since I last ate meat, but was still familiar enough to be unmistakable. The anticucho sauce gave it a nice smoky flavor, and the exterior had a subtle crunch to it. I thought the texture could use some improvement — it seemed a little soft — but I haven’t had chicken in almost 20 years, so maybe I’m not the best judge.
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If you want to give it a try yourself, the restaurant is <a href="https://www.chinachilcano.com/event/good-meat/">opening up reservations</a> on July 25, with service beginning on July 31. But it’ll be tough to get a spot. For one, the restaurant said it’s already received a flood of inquiries. But more importantly, it only has enough supply to serve eight guests a 3.5-ounce serving of cell-cultivated chicken per week, as part of an <a href="https://www.chinachilcano.com/menus/#good-chicken-tasting-menu-experience">extensive tasting menu</a> at $70 per person.
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Bar Crenn, an upscale restaurant in San Francisco run by three-Michelin-star chef Dominique Crenn, opened up reservations on Thursday and will begin serving cell-cultivated chicken from Upside Foods on August 4. The six-course meal will cost $150 per person, with a 1-ounce serving of chicken made of 99 percent animal cells, and will only be <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/cultivated-meat-bar-crenn-18201704.php">available</a> on the first weekend of each month with a capacity of 16 guests per month.
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The stamp of approval from famed chefs like Crenn and Andrés should help startups get buy-in from the culinary world, and federal approval underscores that cell-cultivated meat is perfectly safe to eat. But the companies’ tiny supply and high prices — which still aren’t enough to prevent them from initially selling their chicken at a loss — highlight the immense challenges the whole sector faces in moving from a novelty food product to a commodity that can displace factory-farmed meat.
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When I first learned about cell-cultivated meat, George W. Bush was still in the White House, and there was no ecosystem of scientists, investors, and advocates cheerleading the technology as the future of food. There was just one tiny nonprofit dedicated to the issue, New Harvest, and there was the animal-rights group PETA, which offered a <a href="https://slate.com/technology/2008/04/why-peta-s-1-million-prize-for-artificial-meat-won-t-do-anything.html">$1 million prize</a> to anyone who could produce cell-cultivated meat at a price point comparable to conventional meat.
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PETA’s stunt was clever, as it generated discussion around the need to innovate our way out of our meat-heavy food system and all the environmental, <a href="https://www.vox.com/animal-welfare">animal welfare</a>, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/public-health">public health</a> problems that stem from it. But the organization’s cash prize, and the high bar to win it, is now laughable. From 2016 to 2022, investors put <a href="https://gfi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2022-Cultivated-Meat-State-of-the-Industry-Report-2-1.pdf">nearly $3 billion</a> into over 150 cell-cultivated meat startups around the world — yet none are anywhere close to making it affordable.
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The <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23378912/meat-animals-beef-cultivated-in-vitro-food-plant-based-animal-welfare-impossible-burger">challenges</a> are both scientific and economic. Startups will need to figure out how to grow their cells faster, at higher densities, and with more affordable ingredients; ensure their large batches of meat are protected from bacterial contamination; and quickly build out massive and expensive production facilities.
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To save on costs and scale up faster than their competitors, a handful of startups are making <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23378912/meat-animals-beef-cultivated-in-vitro-food-plant-based-animal-welfare-impossible-burger">“hybrid” meats,</a> an emerging trend I reported on in detail late last year. Hybrid products are made primarily from plant-based ingredients, like a Beyond or Impossible burger, but with a small amount of animal cells to make them taste meatier. It’s a promising, incremental approach, but some in the sector argue that for the industry to reach its goal of displacing factory-farmed meat, it’ll need to make meat that is primarily made from animal cells. And funding from <a href="https://www.vox.com/venture-capital">venture capital</a> <a href="https://gfi.org/blog/fall-2022-reflections-from-gfi-founder-and-president-bruce-friedrich/">won’t suffice</a>; it’s going to need significant government money to get there.
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The <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy">clean energy</a> analogy is often invoked in this space: Globally, direct investments, research grants, low-interest loans, and other spending from governments have been critical in scaling up renewable forms of energy and <a href="https://www.vox.com/electric-vehicles">electric vehicles</a>. Just since 2020, governments around the world have chipped in <a href="https://www.iea.org/news/global-government-spending-on-clean-energy-transitions-rises-to-usd-1-2-trillion-since-the-start-of-the-pandemic-spurred-by-energy-security-concerns">$1.2 trillion</a> through various means into clean energy development. By comparison, since 2020, governments have invested just <a href="https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/goodfood/viz/ExternalFundingDashboard1_0_16837527939270/ExternalFundingDashboard1_0">$1<em> </em>billion</a> into alternative protein sources (mostly <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-of-meat">plant-based meat</a>). Energy production deserves the larger support, given that it accounts for over <a href="https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data">one-third</a> of global greenhouse gas emissions, but conventional meat and dairy production is still responsible for around <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23738600/un-fao-meat-dairy-livestock-emissions-methane-climate-change">15 percent</a> of global emissions.
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The conversation around meat’s environmental footprint is far behind the conversation around <a href="https://www.vox.com/fossil-fuels">fossil fuels</a>, but that could change in the coming decades. The transition to clean energy is moving fast, but little is being done to curb agricultural emissions — so little that Boston Consulting Group <a href="https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2023/02/will-agriculture-be-americas-leading-source-greenhouse-gas-emissions">estimates</a> that by 2050, if current trends continue, what Americans eat will be the country’s leading source of greenhouse gas emissions. Maybe, by then — more than 40 years after PETA’s cash prize offering — cell-cultivated meat will be on every restaurant menu. But it could be too late.
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Hopes for a progressive, democratic Thailand may be dashed after<strong> </strong>Pita Limjaroenrat and his Move Forward party were dealt a major blow Wednesday when the country’s parliament barred Pita from <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/19/protests-in-thailand-as-rivals-derail-pitas-pm-bid">standing a second time in elections for Prime Minister</a>.
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The National Assembly also ousted Pita late Wednesday on recommendation of the Constitutional Court as it decides on the validity of his May candidacy in Thailand’s general elections. Pita had managed to build a multiparty parliamentary coalition, but failed to capture the necessary votes in an initial contest on July 13 though his party emerged as clear winners in Thailand’s general elections in May. Despite his coalition’s popularity — indicative particularly of young Thais’ frustration with a stalling <a href="https://www.vox.com/economy">economy</a> and massive inequality — their ideas for a more open society threaten Thailand’s entrenched monarchy and military leadership.
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Now, a rare opportunity for major reform is at risk; though Thai people have demonstrated their support for Move Forward and Pita after their recent setbacks, attending rallies and organizing protests, the deeply entrenched power of the monarchy and the military may prove too overwhelming for progressive civilian governance to break through.
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Thailand has a history of political turmoil, resulting in several military coups, including the most recent in 2014, which deposed democratically-elected Prime Minister <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yingluck-Shinawatra">Yingluck Shinawatra</a>. The present Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha took power in 2014 and is a former army general, as well as the nation’s defense minister. Though Thailand has vacillated between a parliamentary democracy and military autocracy throughout the decades, it is technically a constitutional monarchy.
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The monarchy is in one sense a treasured part of Thailand’s national character, part of a centuries-long tradition. But under the present king, <a href="https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/10/14/thailands-king-seeks-to-bring-back-absolute-monarchy">Maha Vajiralongkorn</a>, Thailand’s government has experienced further democratic backsliding even as Thai people demand the opposite. Under Vajiralongkorn, the military and the monarchy make a powerful and often threatening combination; according to <a href="https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2022/country-chapters/thailand">Human Rights Watch</a>, the government arrested activists, suppressed pro-democracy protests, and instituted a nationwide state of emergency after massive and wide-ranging pro-democracy protests in 2020 and 2021. That protest movement was largely borne out of increasing government restrictions and demands to reform the monarchy.
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For both Thais and outside observers, Pita’s campaign and his coalition’s win in May presented a real possibility for change and growth in southeast Asia’s second largest economy. Now, given the government’s multivalent efforts to suppress the Move Forward coalition, an opportunity for real change is starting to look like a repeat of history — a seemingly ineluctable cycle of hope, unrest, and crackdowns edging further toward autocracy.
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“There’s a pattern here of establishment pushback against any progressive movement in Thai politics,” Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political science professor at Chulalongkorn University told the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/world/asia/thailand-prime-minister-pita-limjaroenrat.htm">New York Times</a>. “And the pushback comes in different shapes and forms,”
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Thailand has been a constitutional monarchy <a href="https://www.britannica.com/summary/Thailand">since 1932</a>, when a military coup abolished the absolute monarchy under <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Prajadhipok">King Prajadhipok</a>. Despite that history, the Thai military establishment enjoys a close relationship with the monarchy — and they often work in concert to maintain a conservative and even autocratic government despite Thailand’s nominal embrace of democracy.
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Prayuth and Vajiralongkorn have proven a formidable pair; during the 2020 and 2021 pro-democracy protests and calls to reform the monarchy, Prayuth’s government re-instituted punishment for <em>lèse-majèste</em>, or criticizing the monarchy. That policy, coupled with Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, enabled the government to detain and harshly punish thousands of pro-democracy protesters, according to <a href="https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2022/country-chapters/thailand#b7ff7e">Human Rights Watch</a>.
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Under Prayuth, the military government has also consolidated power and made it even more difficult for ordinary Thai citizens to participate in government and actually have a choice regarding the future of their government, as <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/15/23724403/thailand-election-results-2023-pro-democracy-military-rule">Vox’s Li Zhou explained in May</a>:
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The military has long had a hold on Thai politics, a grip only strengthened by military coups in 2006 and 2014. That latter coup was led by current Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who ushered in a new constitution that gave the military unprecedented power over government. One of those post-coup reforms threatens Move Forward’s coalition: 376 members of parliament are needed to elect a new prime minister, and the 250-person Senate was appointed by the military.
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The military and monarchy hold significant sway over the political elite, including those who make up the Senate. That’s less pronounced in the democratically elected lower chamber, the House of Representatives, Brian Harding, senior expert on Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands at the US Institute for Peace told Vox in an interview. “If that were the only chamber, that in many ways reflects the will of the people,” he said.
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But the Senate has been “in lock step” with the government and the monarchy, Anthony Nelson, vice president in the East Asia and Pacific practice at Albright Stonebridge Group, told Vox.
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“The constitution is basically functioning as intended; it’s protecting the monarchy, it’s allowing the conservative, establishment Thai parties to have a major, major veto over what happens.”
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The democratic movement in Thailand is about much more than Pita, although he has emerged as its charismatic face. His leadership in Move Forward is actually somewhat of an outgrowth of the pro-democracy protests, youth movements, and efforts on the part of Thai civil society.
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What is perhaps most salient about Pita is that he reflects the types of people who are drawn to Move Forward — young, well-educated, and progressive, people who ordinarily might be drawn to the traditional political elite, Nelson told Vox. That’s important for two reasons: It’s a departure from the country’s well-worn populist elected-to-military coup pipeline; and it’s an indicator that the newer generation is less socially stratified and more interested in building a forward-looking Thailand.
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Economically speaking, Thailand’s government is highly conservative; the country is a regional powerhouse but has never really broken out of its middle income status, and there has been relatively little encouragement for domestic innovation.
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Thailand’s economy is highly globalized; it is a friendly place for foreign investment, has a robust <a href="https://www.vox.com/travel">tourism</a> industry, and is a part of the complex globalized supply chain. But there is a sense among Thai people, Nelson explained, that the fruits of the economy are largely concentrated at the very top.
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That’s not unfounded; in 2018 Thailand’s Crown Property Bureau <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/251d8aea-6939-4166-afe6-2df0176e0f8f">transferred about $40 billion</a> in assets including land titles and stakes in domestic corporations over to Vajiralongkorn to be “administered and managed at His Majesty’s discretion,” as the <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/251d8aea-6939-4166-afe6-2df0176e0f8f">Financial Times</a> reported in 2020. Thais protested the move, calling for more government transparency and reforming the monarchy, in some ways setting off the current pro-democracy movement.
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Thailand also lacks a robust social safety net, though the government did implement <a href="https://blogs.worldbank.org/eastasiapacific/thai-economy-covid-19-poverty-and-social-protection#:~:text=These%20packages%20include%20soft%20loans,by%20the%20Social%20Security%20Fund">some social protection policies during the Covid-19 pandemic</a>, including cash payouts for workers in the informal sector and relaxed loan repayments.
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In addition to major political reforms like amending the <em>lèse-majèste </em>law and demanding more scrutiny of the defense apparatus, Move Forward offered a striking economic shift. The party proposed policies to build Thailand’s social safety net and raise wages “by raising taxes on corporations and on the wealthy, many of whom currently pay almost nothing in personal income tax,” Scott Christensen, an independent analyst, wrote in May for <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/thailands-election-of-the-century/">the Brookings Institution</a>.
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Thailand has “found itself in a middle-income rut,” Nelson said, due to vested economic interests and monopolies in several industries including telecoms and alcohol sales. Move Forward had vowed to tackle those monopolies to foment innovation and competition — a position Thitinan told <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-01/monopolies-dominating-thai-stocks-at-risk-after-election-shock">Bloomberg</a> would amount to “a complete transformation of the Thai economy.”
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At this point there is almost no possibility that Pita will be Thailand’s next leader; the country’s Constitutional Court is hearing a case alleging that he was unqualified to run in May’s election <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/19/thai-court-suspends-pita-as-mp-as-parliament-votes-on-new-premier">because he owns shares in a media company</a>, and the National Assembly has voted to prevent him from standing in the PM contest a second time.
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However, Prayuth retired from politics July 11 following his party’s poor showing in the polls. Though he did not give a specific reason for his resignation, there is, potentially, at least some understanding that his government is deeply unpopular, as well as hope for a peaceful transition of power.
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“It was not all that long ago that there was a military coup to break Pheu Thai’s influence,” he said, referring to the 2007 coup that removed <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thailands-ex-pm-thaksin-shakes-up-election-with-talk-return-2023-05-10/">Thaksin Shinawatra</a>, the party’s founder, from power. “So if what ends up happening from this is that they come back into power anyway — who knows to what degree they’ll be able to exercise it — but they’ll certainly be able to do something.”
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Here’s the trailer for the live-action One Piece we’ve been waiting for</strong> - Netflix has a mixed track record when it comes to adapting beloved Japanese anime. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1955937">link</a></p></li>
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“Which Barbie? We have Barbie goes to the gym for $19.95, Barbie goes to the ball for $19.95, Barbie goes to the beach for $19.95, Barbie goes shopping for $19.95, Barbie goes nightclubbing for $19.95, and divorced Barbie for $395.00.”
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“It’s obvious! Divorced Barbie comes with Ken’s House, Ken’s car, Ken’s boat and Ken’s furniture”
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Fission chips!
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Hard mode: Yes, but it looks big in anything.
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Impossible mode: Yes, but on the bright side, it draws attention away from your face.
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