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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>What Putin’s Mobilization Means for the War in Ukraine</strong> - The Kremlin announced a draft to dramatically increase its fighting force. Will the Russian public fight back? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what-putins-mobilization-means-for-the-war-in-ukraine">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Breaking Down New York’s Long-Awaited Fraud Lawsuit Against Donald Trump</strong> - Letitia James, the New York attorney general, claims that the Trump Organization illegally obtained hundreds of millions of dollars by systematically exaggerating the value of its properties. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/breaking-down-new-yorks-long-awaited-fraud-lawsuit-against-donald-trump">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Why Ron DeSantis Thinks Weaponizing Asylum Seekers Is a Winning Strategy</strong> - The Florida Governor’s political stunt rests on the cynical assumption that no one actually wants to offer refuge to people fleeing adversity. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-ron-desantis-thinks-weaponizing-asylum-seekers-is-a-winning-strategy">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Iran’s Ferocious Return to the Belligerent Policies of the Revolution’s Early Days</strong> - The country’s new President, Ebrahim Raisi, is cracking down on women, arming Russia, and playing hardball with the U.S. on nuclear diplomacy. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/irans-ferocious-return-to-the-belligerent-policies-of-the-revolutions-early-days">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Exiled Dissident Fuelling the Hijab Protests in Iran</strong> - Since 2014, Masih Alinejad has published videos of Iranian women removing their head scarves. When a twenty-two-year-old died last week in the morality police’s custody, the country exploded. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-exiled-dissident-fuelling-the-hijab-protests-in-iran">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>The 10 races that could decide Senate control</strong> -
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Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin are some of the closest contests in the country.
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The fight for <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/9/12/23344632/midterms-2022-elections-key-house-senate-races-control-congress">control of the Senate</a> is still extremely close.
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Currently, <a href="https://www.economist.com/interactive/us-midterms-2022/forecast/senate">projections favor Democrats</a> keeping the Senate, but Republicans <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/9/14/23339467/midterm-elections-democrats-polls-dobbs">still have a viable path</a>. FiveThirtyEight’s <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/senate/">model gives</a> Democrats a roughly seven in 10 chance to hold on to the upper chamber.
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/22242810/50-50-senate-rules-chuck-schumer-mitch-mcconnell">To expand their current 50-50 majority,</a> Democrats would need to keep all of their existing seats and pick up at least one more, a challenge Republicans face if they want to retake the upper chamber as well. As of August, Democrats have just slightly surpassed Republicans <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/generic-ballot/">in generic ballot polling</a>.
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<a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/senate-race-ratings">According to the Cook Political Report,</a> there are 10 Senate seats likely to be in play, including four that favor Democrats, three that favor Republicans, and three that are true toss-ups. Democrats have a slight advantage based on the map: Republicans are defending two GOP seats where President Joe Biden previously won, while Democrats aren’t defending any states won by former President Donald Trump.
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All told, there are 21 Republican-held seats that are up this fall, and 14 Democrat-held ones. Here’s a look at the Senate races that could well decide congressional control in November.
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Democrats have an edge in four states
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<strong>Pennsylvania</strong>
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<strong>The Democrat: John Fetterman</strong>
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/23068819/democrats-pennsylvania-senate-primary-progressive-moderate">Pennsylvania Lieutenant Gov. John Fetterman</a> is seen as one of the strongest Democratic candidates this cycle, though he’s had to fend off <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-suggest-john-fetterman-sick-serve-neurologists-call/story?id=89590532">Republican critiques about his fitness</a> following a stroke earlier this year. This past May, Fetterman easily won his Democratic primary against a crowded field of candidates. He’s also sought to strike an interesting balance: While he backs progressive policies like Medicare-for-all and a $15 minimum wage, he’s distanced himself from the progressive label. Fetterman’s campaign has responded to questions about his health by releasing cognitive tests that show his <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/health/fetterman-health-stroke-pennsylvania-senate-oz-20220915.html">brain function is comparable to other individuals his age</a>.
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<strong>The Republican: Mehmet Oz</strong>
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Reality show doctor and Trump pick Mehmet Oz just barely eked out a victory in the Republican primary. Oz has adopted conservative policy positions including support for abortion restrictions and expansive gun rights, though past statements on issues like fracking have made members of the Republican base <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/30/dr-oz-won-trumps-endorsement-conservatives-are-still-suspicious-00029148">question his bona fides</a>. He’s also gotten flack from Fetterman’s campaign for living in New Jersey for years and for seemingly moving to Pennsylvania just ahead of his Senate run.
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<strong>Why this race is interesting: </strong>This seat is a critical one for Democrats to pick up as they try to keep control of the Senate and grow their majority. It’s also one that tests whether Fetterman’s economic populist message will resonate with Trump voters. Democrats are hoping to flip this seat given Fetterman’s momentum in the state and Biden’s success there in 2020. Oz has focused on attacking Fetterman’s health in recent weeks in an attempt to suggest he may not be up for the job. Fetterman’s campaign has countered that he has had a strong recovery, and recently accepted Oz’s request to debate in October.
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<strong>The state of the race: </strong>Cook rates the race as leaning Democrat;<strong> </strong><a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/2022/pennsylvania/">FiveThirtyEight’s polling aggregator</a> has Fetterman up by 8.9 percentage points.
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<strong>Colorado</strong>
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<strong>The Democrat: Sen. Michael Bennet </strong>
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Two-term Sen. Michael Bennet is defending his seat. Bennet has focused heavily on expanding the child tax credit during his time in the Senate, and touted the funding he’s brought back to the <a href="https://coloradosun.com/2022/08/31/michael-bennet-record-senate-2022-election/">state for infrastructure improvements.</a>
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<strong>The Republican: Joe O’Dea</strong>
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Joe O’Dea, a more moderate Republican who is the CEO of a construction company, is attempting to appeal to voters in the center by taking more measured positions like opposing the Supreme Court’s decision on <em>Roe v. Wade. </em>
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<strong>Why this race is interesting: </strong>O’Dea is more moderate compared to several other Republican Senate candidates — and his success in <a href="https://www.vox.com/midterm-elections-2022/2022/9/21/23363812/colorado-senate-race-bennet-odea">casting himself</a> as someone who’d be a middle-of-the-road senator could make this race more competitive. <a href="https://www.vox.com/midterm-elections-2022/2022/9/21/23363812/colorado-senate-race-bennet-odea">As Vox’s Nicole Narea explained</a>, however, O’Dea still holds many typical Republican stances. He’s said he would <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2022/08/23/joe-odea-abortion-20-weeks-michael-bennet-ad">have voted to confirm</a> the conservative Supreme Court justices who’ve played a central role in restricting abortion access, previously voted for Trump, and supports the construction of a border wall.
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The state has historically leaned Democratic. In 2016, Bennet won with 50 percent of the vote to the 44 percent that Republican Darryl Glenn received. It’s worth noting, however, that Bennet did not secure a majority of the vote in either of his Senate elections — an indication that those victories were less decisive, and that even a slight change in the dynamics of the race could boost O’Dea, whose candidacy could give Republicans a roadmap for winning back bluer states.
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<strong>The state of the race: </strong>Cook rates the race as leaning Democrat, while<strong> </strong>the <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/2022/colorado/">FiveThirtyEight polling aggregator</a> has Bennet up by 9.1 percentage points.
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<strong>New Hampshire</strong>
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<strong>The Democrat: Sen. Maggie Hassan</strong>
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Incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan has made the defense of abortion rights a centerpiece of her campaign, while her opponent has praised the Supreme Court decision to overturn <em>Roe. </em>Hassan is vying for her second term in the upper chamber after previously serving as New Hampshire governor.
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<strong>The Republican: Don Bolduc</strong>
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Retired Brigadier General Don Bolduc, a far-right candidate, previously leaned into claims that Trump won the 2020 election and told Hassan to <a href="https://www.wmur.com/article/maggie-hassan-don-bolduc-abortion-us-senate-919/41279660">“get over it”</a> regarding the rollback of <em>Roe. </em>He has tried to backtrack on his election denialism, more recently noting that Biden’s win was <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/reversal-republican-senate-candidate-bolduc-calls-biden-legitimate-president-2022-09-15/">“legitimate.”</a> He’s also said that he wouldn’t support a bill from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) that bans abortion after 15 weeks, noting that the decision should be left up to the states.
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<strong>Why this race is interesting: </strong>The race will be an indicator of to what degree far-right candidates are able to gain traction in a general election in a swing state. Because Bolduc is more extreme than other possible options, Democrats view him as an easier opponent to beat in a state that’s gone blue in recent presidential elections. New Hampshire remains a battleground, however, given the tight margins that <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/23/nation/maggie-hassan-barely-won-her-senate-seat-2016-could-few-lucky-breaks-help-her-keep-it/">Hassan won by in 2016</a> and the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/9/23/23353634/polls-bias-democrats-midterms">national trends that could favor Republicans this year</a>.
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<strong>The state of the race: </strong>Cook rates the race as leaning Democrat.<strong> </strong>The <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/2022/new-hampshire/">FiveThirtyEight polling aggregator</a> has Hassan up by 7.3 percentage points.
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<strong>Arizona</strong>
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<strong>The Democrat: Sen. Mark Kelly </strong>
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Sen. Mark Kelly, a former astronaut, is vying for a full term after winning a special election for his seat in 2020. Kelly has emphasized his independence on issues like immigration and leaned into his willingness to buck his own party when necessary. He’s also known for being a gun control advocate alongside his wife, former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was previously shot in the head during a constituent event.
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<strong>The Republican: Blake Masters</strong>
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Venture capitalist Blake Masters, who has the backing of tech billionaire Peter Thiel, is among the election deniers running this year. Masters has also supported the 15 week abortion ban that Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced, but attempted to soften his hardline stance on the issue as it’s become clear the politics have been less favorable to Republicans. He’s been criticized for making controversial statements in the past including <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-backed-senate-candidate-blake-masters-blames-gun-violence-black-rcna32290">blaming Black people for gun violence</a> as well.
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<strong>Why this race is interesting: </strong>This race is another that could reveal if a far-right GOP candidate can succeed in a battleground state.<strong> </strong>Kelly has been able to establish a strong base of support by reaching independents and moderate Republicans. Masters is still trying to recapture the seat by tying Kelly to the president and his low approval ratings, however; it’s a strategy Republicans are trying elsewhere, but that may have more salience in a state <a href="https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/arizona/">Biden won by roughly 0.3 percentage points</a>.
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<strong>The state of the race: </strong>Cook rates the race as leaning Democrat, while the <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/2022/arizona/">FiveThirtyEight polling aggregator</a> has Kelly up by 7.5 percentage points.
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<strong>Georgia</strong>
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<strong>The Democrat: Sen. Raphael Warnock </strong>
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Sen. Raphael Warnock won a closely contested runoff in January 2021 and is now running for a full term. Warnock, a pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. was once a pastor, has emphasized his work on reducing insulin costs and support for Medicaid expansion.
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<strong>The Republican: Herschel Walker</strong>
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Herschel Walker, a former football star, has become known for a number of gaffes, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3622413-democrats-highlight-herschel-walker-abuse-allegations-in-new-ad/">allegations of domestic violence</a>, and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/us/politics/herschel-walker-abortion-ban.html">a hardline position on abortion</a>. Walker’s celebrity status and support from Trump have given him a boost among some voters, however.
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<strong>Why this race is interesting: </strong>Georgia is one of the tightest races this cycle, and could well go to another runoff if no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote this fall. It’s also among the states where Republican candidate quality could play a major role. The state’s <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/governor/2022/georgia/">GOP governor is trending up</a> in his reelection battle, and Republicans are thought to have a slight advantage in the state overall, but Walker could be weighed down by the controversial statements he has made. Warnock is considered the stronger candidate of the two due to his incumbency and favorability, though other headwinds that Democrats are facing, including inflation, could still help Republicans.
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<strong>The state of the race: </strong>Cook rates the race as a toss-up, and <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/2022/georgia/">FiveThirtyEight’s polling aggregator</a> has Warnock up by 2 percentage points.
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<strong>Nevada</strong>
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<strong>The Democrat: Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto</strong>
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Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is running for reelection and making her support for abortion access a key focal point. Prior to winning a Senate seat in 2016, Cortez Masto served as the state’s attorney general.
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<strong>The Republican: Adam Laxalt</strong>
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Adam Laxalt, also a former Nevada attorney general, has centered the economy and law-and-order rhetoric as he tries to flip the state. He’s also an election denialist and has tried to curb abortion rights in the past as AG. Laxalt is the grandson of Paul Laxalt, a former governor and senator in the state.
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<strong>Why this race is interesting: </strong>Republicans are eyeing Nevada as a potential pick-up because of how competitive the polls have been up to this point. The race is a face-off between the first Latina senator ever elected who’s emphasized her defense of abortion rights, and a hardline election denier and law-and-order candidate. Republicans hope to continue <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23327900/latino-hispanic-voters-republican-2020">building on gains</a> with Latino voters in the state by highlighting changes they’d make to economic policy. Specifically, Laxalt’s emphasis on inflation is aimed at winning over working-class voters in the state, where the tourism industry was decimated by the pandemic.
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<strong>The state of the race: </strong>Cook rates the race as a toss-up; <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/2022/nevada/">FiveThirtyEight’s polling aggregator</a> has Cortez Masto up by 0.7 percentage points.
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<strong>The Democrat: Lieutenant Gov. Mandela Barnes</strong>
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Wisconsin Lieutenant Gov. Mandela Barnes is a former community organizer who has stressed his support for investments in the region’s manufacturing industry. He previously served in the Wisconsin state assembly and backed progressive ideas like Medicare-for-all, though he’s since moderated his messaging for the general election.
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<strong>The Republican: Sen. Ron Johnson </strong>
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Incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson is defending his seat in a state that Biden won in 2020 by less than 1 percentage point. Johnson is a longtime fiscal conservative and Trump ally who recently faced scrutiny for his unwillingness to express support for a same-sex marriage protections bill. (He has said he won’t oppose the bill, but declined to say he’ll back it.)
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<strong>Why this race is interesting: </strong>Given <a href="https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/wisconsin/">Biden’s success in the state</a>, Johnson is viewed among the most endangered Republicans this cycle. The contest gives voters a stark choice between a young, progressive Democrat, and a prominent conservative Republican incumbent. As part of his campaign, Johnson has sought to cast Barnes as extreme, though Johnson’s previous support for Trump’s attempt to overturn the election and opposition to the Covid-19 vaccine are positions that could hurt him with swing voters.
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Barnes has seen strong momentum in polls, but Johnson has also managed to pull out a win in the purple state twice before. Were Barnes to win, he’d likely bolster Democratic support for <a href="https://www.wpr.org/democratic-us-senate-candidates-call-ending-filibuster-restore-federal-abortion-protections">changing filibuster rules</a> and would take out a Republican who’s frequently blocked spending on social programs.
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<strong>The state of the race: </strong>Cook rates the race as a toss-up. The <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/2022/wisconsin/">FiveThirtyEight polling aggregator</a> has Johnson up by 0.1 percentage points.
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<strong>Florida</strong>
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<strong>The Democrat: Rep. Val Demings </strong>
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Congresswoman and former Orlando police chief Val Demings is attempting to retake this Senate seat in a state that’s grown increasingly red in recent years. She drew national attention as a manager in Trump’s first impeachment trial and was among the candidates Biden reportedly considered for the vice presidency.
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<strong>The Republican: Sen. Marco Rubio </strong>
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Sen. Marco Rubio is vying for a third term in the Senate and emphasizing his efficacy on issues including health care for veterans and aid to small businesses. Rubio is also a top Republican on the Intelligence Committee, and is known for his run for the presidency in 2016.
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<strong>Why this race is interesting: </strong>As a moderate with a longtime background in law enforcement, Demings is viewed as a strong Democratic candidate who’s been able to <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/9/22/23367572/democrats-policing-midterms">rebuff some of the Republican attacks on crime</a>. If successful, she could offer Democrats a model for winning in redder battlegrounds. Still, the state skews more Republican and Rubio has had solid support in the past, including from many of Florida’s Latino and Hispanic voters. The contest remains an uphill battle for Demings, but strong fundraising numbers and voter energy on abortion could help her close the gap.
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<strong>The state of the race: </strong>Cook rates the race as lean Republican, and the <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/2022/florida/">FiveThirtyEight polling aggregator</a> has Rubio up by 3.8 percentage points.
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<strong>North Carolina</strong>
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<strong>The Democrat: Cheri Beasley</strong>
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Former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court Cheri Beasley is a moderate who has focused on reaching swing voters. She’s spoken in defense of abortion rights, while emphasizing her independence from her party.
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<strong>The Republican: Rep. Ted Budd </strong>
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Rep. Ted Budd, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/competitive-senate-race-north-carolina-has-republicans-worried-2022-09-09/">a self-described “conservative warrior,”</a> has run a more under-the-radar campaign and put the emphasis on issues like inflation. A gun store owner, Budd was among the Republicans who challenged the certification of 2020 election results.
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<strong>Why this race is interesting: </strong>This seat has been vacated by retiring Sen. Richard Burr, meaning there is no incumbency advantage for Republicans. It’s a race that will depend heavily on whether a middle-of-the-road Democrat is able to reach independents in a state that’s skewed toward the GOP. North Carolina has also grown <a href="https://abc11.com/nc-census-2020-results-data/10948281/">more diverse in the last two decades</a>, a trend that Democrats could capitalize on if they engage in effective voter outreach.
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<strong>The state of the race: </strong>Cook rates the race as lean Republican. The <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/2022/north-carolina/">FiveThirtyEight polling aggregator</a> has Budd up by 0.3 percentage points.
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<strong>Ohio</strong>
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<strong>The Democrat: Rep. Tim Ryan</strong>
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Congressman and former presidential candidate Tim Ryan is a moderate who has made his campaign about bringing manufacturing jobs back to the state. He’s stressed that he’ll work across the aisle and advance tax cuts for the middle class.
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<strong>The Republican: J.D. Vance </strong>
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J.D. Vance, a venture capitalist and author of the bestselling memoir <em>Hillbilly Elegy</em>, tacked hard to the right in order to win the Republican nomination. He’s also made controversial statements about abortion and whether parents should stay in violent marriages for the sake of their children, comments he later said were misconstrued.
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<strong>Why this race is interesting:</strong> The race is a microcosm of Democratic efforts to win back white working-class voters they lost to Trump — and a test of how valuable close alignment with the former president can continue to be for GOP candidates. Vance’s controversial statements and policy positions have potentially made this race more competitive than it otherwise would be in this Republican-leaning state. Ryan has also carved out a fundraising advantage, and the race remains extremely tight.
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<strong>The state of the race: </strong>Cook rates the race as lean Republican, while the <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/2022/ohio/">FiveThirtyEight polling aggregator</a> has Ryan up by 0.2 percentage points.
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<li><strong>The sleep advice no one tells you</strong> -
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<img alt="A woman lies in bed looking at a smartphone while tucked under a blue blanket with flowers on it." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/r3T_eCHorvFImMuE-86JqxfTpxI=/0x0:3333x2500/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71412503/GettyImages_1345705416.0.jpg"/>
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Sleep better without sacrificing your tech.
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If you’ve ever had a terrible, or even middling, night’s slumber — which <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2016/p0215-enough-sleep.html">studies</a> and <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/390734/sleep-struggles-common-among-younger-adults-women.aspx">surveys</a> suggest is a fair number of people — you’re well aware of the effects of poor sleep. Aside from the sluggishness and lethargy, lack of sufficient shut-eye can blunt thinking and reaction time and negatively <a href="https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-deprivation/lack-of-sleep-and-cognitive-impairment">impacts judgment</a>. Long-term sleep deprivation has been linked with higher likelihoods of <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK19961/">depressive moods, anxiety, diabetes, and obesity</a>.
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Difficulty sleeping can be attributed to a variety of factors and isn’t a reflection on how optimized or streamlined your life is. <a href="https://www.sleepfoundation.org/shift-work-disorder">Shift work</a>, <a href="https://swnsdigital.com/us/2021/06/up-all-night-nearly-half-of-american-parents-say-their-kids-are-the-reason-they-cant-fall-asleep/">children’s inconsistent sleep schedules</a>, <a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322994#sleep-deprivation-effects">stress</a>, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/emres/longhourstraining/light.html">bright light in the evening</a> (from both home lighting fixtures and tech), the <a href="https://www.vox.com/22671566/sleep-deprived-insomnia-covid-pandemic-stress-anxiety">pandemic</a>, and sleep conditions like <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/insomnia/symptoms-causes/syc-20355167">insomnia</a> and <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sleep-apnea/symptoms-causes/syc-20377631">sleep apnea</a> can all plague a person’s ability to get adequate rest. Sleep deprivation is, ultimately, a systemic issue, and people shouldn’t feel broken for the societal issues impacting sleep.
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Despite all of the modern obstacles to sleep, improvement in your quality and quantity of sleep is possible — and you don’t have to lock your phone in another room to achieve it.
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When it comes to sleep, most quantifiers are highly subjective. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/about_sleep/how_much_sleep.html">adults get between seven and nine hours of sleep a night</a>, “but the magic number is really dependent on the person,” says sleep psychologist <a href="https://drjadewu.com/">Jade Wu</a>, author of the forthcoming book <a href="https://read.macmillan.com/lp/hello-sleep/"><em>Hello Sleep: The Science and Art of Overcoming Insomnia Without Medications</em></a>.
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Instead, people should pay attention to how they feel when they wake up and throughout the day, says <a href="https://www.nessyhill.com/">Vanessa Hill</a>, behavioral scientist, creator of the YouTube series <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt_t6FwNsqr3WWoL6dFqG9w">BrainCraft</a>, and researcher at Central Queensland University. Fatigue during the day is a sign your body isn’t getting enough sleep. Survey yourself as to why: Going to bed too late? Trouble falling asleep? Difficulty staying asleep?
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To help evaluate how rested you feel during the day, Wu stresses the importance of knowing the difference between “sleepy” and “tired.” Sleepiness manifests in the body: droopy eyelids, an overall heaviness, the entire machine wants to shut down. Tiredness can also present physically, but it often stems from a lack of mental energy, a dip in motivation or inspiration. “If you’re sleepy during the day, that means you did not sleep last night or didn’t get good quality sleep,” Wu says. “If you’re tired during the day, that may not be because of poor sleep. It may be because you’re depressed or bored or dehydrated.”
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The cure for sleepiness, Wu says, is, simply but perhaps not obviously, to sleep. Tiredness can be overcome by taking a break during the work day, drinking some water, spending time with friends, or going dancing — not sleeping. “Going to bed might not be the answer and in fact, that might backfire,” Wu says, “because if you’re tired but not sleepy yet and you go to bed, you’re going to have insomnia.”
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Rather than forcing yourself into bed at a set time every night and struggling to slip into slumber, take a cue from your body and hit the sheets only when you’re sleepy, Wu says. “Then, we give our bodies a chance to tell us, ‘Here’s what I need,’” she says, “instead of us imposing our idea of how much sleep we need.”
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When it comes to the ideal conditions for sleep, try to keep your room as dark, cool, and quiet as possible, Hill says. Again, let your body dictate the most comfortable temperature, which can be different for everyone depending on the weight of their sheets and blankets, what they wear to bed, if they sleep alone or with a partner and pets, and if they run hot or cold. Hill is a proponent of blackout curtains and a white noise machine or smart speaker for keeping light and extraneous sound out of your sleep sanctuary. If you aren’t up for purchasing a new device, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/23131327/how-to-iphone-white-noise-background-sounds-ios-15">iPhones also have a white noise function</a>, and lots of <a href="https://www.sleepfoundation.org/best-sleep-apps/best-white-noise-apps">white noise apps</a> are available to download.
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Once you’ve figured out the nature of your sleep issues, you’ve got to determine what’s causing them in the first place. This can be difficult, Hill says, because so many factors influence your ability to get shut-eye: screen habits, exposure to light, diet, stress, anxiety, inconsistent work hours. “People need to remember, you can’t change everything,” Hill says.
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Out of all the potential deterrents to sleep, figure out which is having the greatest impact. Does work stress keep you up at night? Do you get caught in a TikTok wormhole until the wee hours of the morning? Do your neighbor’s bright backyard lights shine into your window? Does your partner snore? Focus on changing one thing at a time and you’ll be much more likely to maintain that change, Hill says. Potential fixes include listening to a guided meditation before bed to relieve stress, swapping out TikTok for a book, or helping your partner <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15580-snoring">treat their snoring</a> (which may involve a doctor’s visit). Wu also says not to discount <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22405469/sleep-relationships-wendy-troxel-sharing-the-covers">sleeping separately from your partner</a> should you have the space if your sleep is affected by sharing a bed. Again, if these solutions are not feasible for you because of space, finances, or work, it is not your fault. Our <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6269089/">built environment’s negative impact on sleep</a> is not on you to fix.
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It’s also not on you to spend a lot of money, especially at first. Tons of products, devices, and apps are marketed as must-haves for improving sleep, but Hill says to simply do less: cut back on screen time, caffeine (particularly in the afternoon and evening), and alcohol before bed.
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A good night’s sleep starts when you’re awake. Sunlight, especially in the morning, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-sleep-daylight/morning-daylight-exposure-tied-to-a-good-nights-sleep-idUSKCN18E23E">helps regulate the circadian rhythm</a> and allows people to fall asleep more quickly and experience less disturbed sleep. Wu suggests getting anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes of sunlight a day to counteract the effects of looking at screens during the evening. “If you go outside during the day and get sunlight, then your screen in the evening will not impact your sleep,” she says, “because the point is that you need to have a big contrast between day versus night in terms of how much sun exposure or how much light exposure you get.”
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According to Hill’s research, people often delay their bedtime because they don’t have enough “me time” or time spent socializing during the day, and, as a result, they stay up late catching up on news, scrolling social media, or texting friends. To combat this, Hill suggests interspersing a few short moments of solitude or social interactions during the day — think five minutes of meditation or social media here, a quick 30-minute phone call with a friend there — so you don’t feel the need to binge at night.
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In an effort to help combat perhaps one of the most frustrating aspects of sleep — waking up in the middle of the night unable to fall asleep again — <a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/sara-benjamin">Sara E. Benjamin</a>, an instructor of neurology at Johns Hopkins Center for Sleep, says to have a plan for what you’ll do in such situations. You might want to be prepared to put on headphones and listen to a podcast, watch some TV, or have a routine of breathing exercises you turn to in times of stress. Using your phone is fine, but be intentional with its use in your plan and set a time limit for how long you’ll use it. The danger, Benjamin explains, is when people don’t have a plan, reach for their phone, and end up scrolling for hours.
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More important than maintaining a consistent bedtime is waking at the same time every day, Wu says, even on the weekends. With an alarm, you have more control over when you rise; at night, you can’t control the hour at which you get sleepy. Waking happens more suddenly than falling asleep and is an effective start to the 24-hour circadian cycle. “When we wake up,” Wu says, “we get up, we become vertical, we open up the blinds, and we get sunlight in our eyes, we start moving, we have breakfast. All of these things tell our metabolism, tell the light-sensing parts of the brain, tell our blood pressure, everything in our bodies that this is the morning.” Your morning routine should include plenty of bright light, Benjamin says, either from <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6751071/">natural light or sunrise lamps or SAD lights</a>.
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While bedtime should be dictated by when your body naturally gets sleepy, there are things you can do to encourage this process. Successful nighttime routines should help you relax and be easy enough to maintain every day, Hill says, which can include dimming your lights two hours before bedtime, listening to music, meditating, doing light stretches, breath work, having a hot cup of tea, or taking a shower. Just don’t make your nighttime routine another to-do list item. “I don’t think it’s fun to be ‘<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/5db8ek/tiktok-youtube-viral-trend-that-girl-internet-genz-challenge">that girl</a>,’ the internet trend where people have their lives broken up into a spreadsheet, every 15 minutes is accounted for,” Hill says. “I don’t think that’s realistic for everybody to actually maintain.”
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It’s important to give your brain time to power down, so don’t try to squeeze in last-minute work or consume stressful or action-packed media. Those things will just wake you up.
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Even your naps should have some routine. Crucial for new parents or shift workers, siestas can <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6335868/">help improve memory</a> and <a href="https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-hygiene/napping">workplace and physical performance</a>. But too long of a nap too close to when you typically get sleepy can delay your bedtime. Hill says a 30-minute snooze around lunch is beneficial. Fight through the urge to collapse on the couch after work since napping in the early evening would bring you too close to bedtime. If you’re going to become a napper, make sure your rest periods occur around the same time every time you nap so it becomes a part of your schedule.
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In today’s always-connected world, sleep advice banishing all devices and smartphones to another room is unrealistic. “I need to have my phone next to me because I’m on call for the sleep lab,” Benjamin says. “I can’t leave my phone in another room.”
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This isn’t permission to doomscroll through the night. Think about the type of media you’re consuming and what device you’re using. TikTok and other forms of social media, bright lights, and anxiety-inducing shows, movies, or video games are going to arouse your brain and keep you awake. On the contrary, passive media, like podcasts, music, a slow-paced TV show, and books will help you wind down, Hill says. Make sure any screens have the brightness turned down or are in night mode. “Personally, I keep an iPad that is not connected to the internet next to my bed,” Hill says. “It has meditations on there, it has some podcasts on it, and I have a Kindle as well. So as a sleep scientist, I’m breaking all the traditional rules because I have two devices next to my bed, but things that have a heavy night shift on the screen, a very, very dim light.”
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Devices are often painted as the villains of sleep hygiene, but it’s possible to make them work for you rather than against you. “Sometimes we think we need to be a monk in the hour before bedtime,” Wu says, “but it doesn’t have to be like that.”
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Parents check on their kids after dropping them off at Kimberly Pearson’s class on the first day of school at Sunkist Elementary School in Anaheim, California, on August 11, 2022. | Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images
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Setting children up for success in today’s world is incredibly hard. In our culture, it’s especially difficult because the job of giving kids everything they need largely falls to parents. And even if you’re the most attentive and loving parent in the world, it’s not enough.
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If they’re going to succeed in this society, they need to learn certain kinds of skills. And they need certain kinds of people to teach them those skills. Schools are supposed to do this, but kids spend the vast majority of their time outside school — and the most crucial period of development for kids occurs before they even get to public school. The gaps that emerge during this time are one of the great drivers of inequality in our country.
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Economist Nate Hilger thinks of children as the largest disenfranchised group in America, and that parents are being failed along with their children. His new book, called <em>The Parent Trap</em>, argues that it doesn’t have to be this way — and that we can change it. I invited Hilger to join me for an episode of <a href="https://tools.applemediaservices.com/podcast/1081584611?country=us"><em>Vox Conversations</em></a>.
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The parent trap is, at its most basic level, the egregiously unrealistic expectation that we place on parents to build a huge range of important skills in children, early in their life.
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The other aspect of the parent trap beyond these unrealistic expectations is the difficulty we have talking about that basic trap, because once we start saying that some parents are struggling in certain ways, and it’s correlated with race and class, it sounds so threatening and it just shuts down the conversation.
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Well, to begin life, children have to pick up not just academic skills like literacy and numeracy, but they have to get this wide range of other skills — social, emotional, behavioral skills, things like self-discipline, tenacity, financial skills, how to take care of yourself mentally and physically.
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There is a wide range of these skills that really are the foundation of children’s independence and success in adulthood. And building those skills turns out to be a lot more complicated and difficult than we have assumed for hundreds of years. And that makes it really hard for individual parents to do it successfully on a level playing field in their spare time.
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You identify two different kinds of parental responsibilities in the book. One of them is caring, and the other one is skill building. These are different things, but we’ve combined them under this common umbrella of parenting.
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The main difference between these two jobs that all parents have, caring and skill building, is that most of us can do a pretty good job at caring. Caring has this egalitarian feature. Caring I think about as loving kids and feeling personally invested in their success, and being there for them when they’re sick or when they’re unhappy. Helping them laugh and grow and navigate life as best you can.
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There’s this other job of parents: skill development. Skill development I think of as the set of things that is quite hard for a large share of parents to do successfully on their own. This involves reading and math. But it also involves a lot of these other skills, the emotional, social, and behavioral skills that will set kids up to thrive independently in adulthood. This stuff is complicated and we only get a small part of this from our existing K-12 school system.
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What kinds of parents are more equipped to build these sorts of skills in their kids? I mean, is it about money? Is it about knowledge or education? Is it about having more time? Is it all of the above?
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The first thing I would say is that it’s pretty idiosyncratic, meaning that it’s not like monolithically, this group can do it, and this group can’t do it. In every group, there are some parents who are gonna excel at this, and some parents who are gonna struggle with it.
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Income is one. If you have income, you’re more likely to be able to take care of this on your own. And your own skills, your own professional skills as a parent, often are correlated with educational attainment and professional experience. So if you’re a high-income manager, you’re more likely to have the tools involved that help you do a more successful job at child skill development.
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If we think of child skill development like a complicated professional activity, something like being a lawyer or practicing medicine, or managing a team at a company, some of those general skills will carry over into the other complicated professional domain of child skill development.
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You talk in the book about how the trap you’re talking about really does reinforce a lot of the inequalities in our society. And you also point out that a child raised by the top 25 percent richest parents will end up earning about $50,000 more per year than a child raised by the bottom 25 percent poorest parents.
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That’s pretty startling. Is the idea that we live in anything like a meritocracy bullshit?
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Yeah, I do think it’s bullshit. It’s not that there’s no return to effort and self initiative and risk in our society. I really do think there is, so it’s not <em>total</em> bullshit. I think sometimes progressives go way too far out on that ledge.
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People look around them and they know people who work hard and people who don’t work hard and often the people who work hard get better lives for themselves. And it just falsifies that idea that the structural obstacles to making your life better are so overwhelmingly suffocating that there’s no such thing as effort or initiative. I don’t think that’s bullshit.
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But when we talk about the average differences by class and race, then I think we do get into this idea that our meritocratic ideals are not really where we would hope they would be. This gap you mentioned is due to the different opportunities that these kids get in childhood. And so that is just directly in contradiction with our American ideals of meritocracy.
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Yeah, I really do agree with you there, right? There’s an overly deterministic way of talking about it that strips people of their agency, when in reality you actually can do quite a bit to overcome that through hard work and effort and all that — these things do matter.
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But where you start goes a long way in determining where you end up. And that matters too. These things are both true at the same time, and they interact in very complicated ways. And they have to be addressed in a way that doesn’t blot out these distinctions or minimize any of them.
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Yeah, one way I try to talk about this is in terms of the class difference. I talk about the skills that you wind up with through the opportunities that your parents largely make available to you in childhood. I talk about that skill portfolio as a trust fund.
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I like that.
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I think we all recognize that when a really high income kid reaches adulthood with a bank account with $5 million in it that their parents gave them, that’s a really unfair advantage. We don’t necessarily resent it. We think parents might have a right to do that. We have ongoing debates about the fairness of that. But most of us don’t have a $5 million bank account trust fund to help us take risks.
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The same thing is happening [with skills]. It’s just invisible for regular upper middle class kids. It’s just that bank account is in the form of our skill portfolio, which comes from the same kinds of parental advantages that drive the trust fund.
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Okay. So if parents can’t reliably handle teaching the necessary skills to their children, who should do that and who’s gonna pay for it?
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And I ask because when you describe skill building, most people immediately think of school. Schools have teachers and coaches and counselors. School seems like precisely the kind of skill building institution you’re advocating.
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So what’s wrong about this assumption that this is what schools are for?
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That’s a great instinct and you’re right. School does have a lot of the elements that are necessary to help building skills.
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The problem is that our K-12 education system is kind of a fig leaf on the real scope of the problem here.
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We talked earlier about how the way kids build skills is, they spend time, they learn, they practice, they imitate. They don’t just buy them. So if skills happen in the medium of time, it really matters who is controlling children’s time.
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Our K-12 education system only controls about 10 percent of children’s time.
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Is it really that low? That seems really low.
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Let’s go through where that comes from.
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The K-12 school system only starts at age five. So the first five years of childhood, [there’s] no public support, except in some limited ways. Once school starts, it’s only operating about half of all days each year. There are weekends, spring break, winter break, summer break, all those professional training days. When you’re a parent, you’re often thinking like, geez, another day off. And yeah, it adds up — only 50 percent of calendar days are in school, typically.
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And then even on those days, when school is operating, it’s only covering about a third of the day.
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If you’re a parent, you feel this very viscerally when you learn you have to pick up your kid at 2:30 and you’re like, wait, what? I have to figure out the rest of this afternoon myself while I have a full-time job?
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So when you add up all those numbers, our K-12 education system is providing the right kinds of services, but only for a small fraction of childhood.
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That is an important point, right? I mean, kids do spend the majority of their time outside school. And that time is structured and governed by parents. And if parents don’t have the time to maximize those windows, or if they don’t have the skills, that’s a problem.
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That is a big part of the unrealistic expectation that we place on parents. And that leads to these huge gaps between rich kids and poor kids, when they transition to adulthood.
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Something you wrote in the book that surprised me and maybe it shouldn’t have: You write that the skill gaps, children’s skill gaps by class and race, don’t really grow that much during the time they spend in K through 12 schools. That the large skill gap really emerges almost entirely before they enter the K through 12 system.
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That’s right. I think we’ve had this assumption for a long time, that early childhood doesn’t have a lot going on, and parents can kind of figure it out and the stakes are low. And for decades now, we’ve known that’s just not the case. And the fact that our public education system starts at kindergarten when these massive gaps by class and race have already emerged in both academic and non-academic skills, as far as we can measure them, that just seems like we’re sabotaging ourselves as a country. It seems like we’re wasting a lot of talent by delaying that level of public support for so long.
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What you’re saying is no matter how you look at it, the real divide, the divides that really matter long-term, happen outside of school within families. And it remains untouched by all this funding and all these efforts to bolster public schools.
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And that’s something we haven’t reckoned with.
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That’s right. Why would we let kids show up to kindergarten with huge gaps and deficits and disadvantages, and then start trying to address that? Why wouldn’t we level the playing field from age zero to five by providing universal access to high quality learning environments, so that these gaps aren’t something that we have to address and remediate with progressive funding formulas, after that age, much less successfully?
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Why would we focus entirely on within-school problems when kids have long summer breaks, where radical inequality reemerges, where kids have afternoons where radical inequality reemerges? We really need to be filling in those gaps where inequality is enormous rather than fixating on what is currently our quite narrow tool of the K-12 system.
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Well, one thing you do say is that schools, K through 12 schools, could be much more effective in building skills. You know, teachers and coaches and counselors could do a whole lot more. But they need more access to children’s time.
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What would that look like, longer school days? Fewer breaks? Smaller class sizes?
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There is a long tradition in America of calling for schools to manage a larger share of children’s time. It’s called the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/opinion/community-school-new-york.html">community school movement</a>. And it’s arguing that kids should go to school and have a happy, enriching place to be for basically the full work day, nine to five.
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This doesn’t mean that kids will just be doing extra homework or cramming more, or getting exhausted when they’re at school all day. We have to really take that concern into account. That is a real problem.
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It might be that kids need to be able to rest quietly and do their own thing in a safe environment for a period of time, and then recharge and do something more structured. It might be that some kids get tutoring in that extra time. It might be that some kids do something that they love, like they learn how to do audio engineering, or they do band, or they practice design or something that just interests them and doesn’t tire them out.
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The key thing is that parents shouldn’t have to do a lot of research and show a lot of proactive initiative and weed out the bad providers from the good providers with a lot of insight. It should just be, parents kind of automatically sign their kids up for educational institutions, and schools can manage a much larger share of children’s time in productive, healthy, happy ways.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Italy votes as far-right Meloni looks for victory</strong> - Italians are deciding whether to choose their most right-wing government since World War Two.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Ukraine will treat Russian deserters fairly, Zelensky vows</strong> - Ukraine says it will not force deserters to return to Russia where they would face prison.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Italy elections: Who’s who and how the vote works</strong> - Italy’s next leader could come from the far right, so here is what you need to know about Sunday’s vote.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Roger Waters gigs in Poland cancelled amid Ukraine backlash</strong> - The musician was due to play gigs in Poland but faces outrage over his comments on the Ukraine war.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Dmitry Bulgakov: Putin fires deputy defence chief amid supply failures</strong> - Analysts have cited supply chains as a reason why Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has faltered.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Were your teen years exhausting? School schedules may be why</strong> - A new book traces how historical accidents left us pitting education against biology. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1884031">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>iOS 16 review: Customization unlocked</strong> - The lock screen gets a major overhaul. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1884255">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>GeForce GPUs are slowing down after installing the Windows 11 2022 Update</strong> - A new version of the GeForce Experience software will fix the issue. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1884284">link</a></p></li>
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“That’s terrible!” says the priest. “But, I have a solution to your problem. Bring your two parrots over to my house tomorrow. I will put them with my two male talking parrots… to whom I’ve taught to pray and read the bible. My parrots will then teach your parrots to stop saying that terrible filth, and your female parrots will learn to pray and worship the good Lord.” So the next day, the lady brings her two female parrots to the priest’s house. The priest’s two male parrots are holding rosary beads and praying in their cage. The lady puts her female talking parrots in with the male talking Parrots, and the female parrots say, “Hi, we’re hot. Do you want to fuck us?” One male parrot looks over at the other male parrot and screams, “put the bible away you idiot, our prayers have been answered!”
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In heaven they faced God,who wanted to know what they believed in. The German shepherd said “i believe in discipline, loyalty and training to my master”. “Good” said God. “You may sit on my right side”. The Doberman said “I believe in love,care and protection of my master”. “Aha,you may sit on my left” said God. Then God looked at the cat and said" and what do you believe in“? The cat replied” I believe you are sitting in my seat".
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