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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</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 a Top U.N. Official Sees on His Weekly Trips to Gaza</strong> - James McGoldrick describes the challenges of delivering aid during Israel’s bombardment. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what-a-top-un-official-sees-on-his-weekly-trips-to-gaza">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Have the Liberal Arts Gone Conservative?</strong> - The classical-education movement seeks to fundamentally reorient schooling in America. Its emphasis on morality and civics has also primed it for partisan takeover. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/have-the-liberal-arts-gone-conservative">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Percival Everett Can’t Say What His Novels Mean</strong> - The author of “Erasure” is renowned for his satires of genre, identity, and America. But his great target may be language itself. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/percival-everett-profile">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Open-Air Prison for ISIS Supporters—and Victims</strong> - Since the Islamic State fell, tens of thousands of people—many of them children—have been herded into Al-Hol, a giant fenced-in camp in Syria, and effectively given life sentences. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/the-open-air-prison-for-isis-supporters-and-victims">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Among the A.I. Doomsayers</strong> - Some people think machine intelligence will transform humanity for the better. Others fear it may destroy us. Who will decide our fate? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/among-the-ai-doomsayers">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>How to talk to boys so they grow into better men</strong> -
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Counteracting the Andrew Tate effect isn’t just the purview of parents and teachers.
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Men are <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/23813985/christine-emba-masculinity-the-gray-area">not okay</a>.
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They’re less likely to <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/boys-left-behind-education-gender-gaps-across-the-us">graduate high school and go to college</a> than women, have <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23323556/men-friendship-loneliness-isolation-masculinity">dwindling circles of friends</a>, and are <a href="https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/publications/economic-letter/2023/10/mens-falling-labor-force-participation-across-generations/">sitting out of the labor market</a> at startling rates. Compared with women, they’re two to three times likelier to die of <a href="https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/men-died-overdose-2-3-times-greater-rate-women-us-2020-2021">drug overdoses</a> and nearly four times likelier to die by <a href="https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics/">suicide</a>. The disadvantages are particularly marked for working-class men and men of color.
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The problem begins in boyhood — and so should the solution, says award-winning health educator <a href="https://www.mrhealthteacher.com/about">Christopher Pepper</a>, writer of the <a href="https://www.teenhealthtoday.com/">Teen Health Today newsletter</a> and co-author of the forthcoming book <a href="https://www.talktoyourboys.com/"><em>Talk To Your Boys</em></a>. In his view, a future where men are healthier and happier starts with better conversations with boys.
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Technology has made those conversations harder to have. Back when family phones were in kitchens or living rooms — and casual communication usually involved talking to each other — more of the conversations kids were having with their friends and peers happened within earshot of parents and teachers. That gave adults more opportunities to coach kids on how to talk to each other, says Pepper. Now, kids learn to communicate on cell phones and social media largely out of view of adults during the key years they’re building social skills.
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Boys suffer the social consequences of that more because while adults typically emphasize social skills in teaching girls how to interact with each other, there’s less of an imperative to guide boys in that way, Pepper says. That might explain why <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10888691.2021.1890592?scroll=top&needAccess=true">researchers</a> have found that on average, girls demonstrate better <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/upshot/a-link-between-fidgety-boys-and-a-sputtering-economy.html">social skills</a> than boys as early as kindergarten — and that advantage widens over the course of elementary school as boys’ <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10888691.2021.1890592?scroll=top&needAccess=true">social abilities decline</a>.
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“Boys often don’t really learn the basics of social relationships and responsibility and communication,” says Pepper. Social skills adults may take for granted, like all the steps involved in making plans to meet a friend, are skills that aren’t necessarily taught. The consequences for boys aren’t good: As they grow up, they often <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jora.12047">lose close friendships with other boys</a>, even though they really want them.
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The absence of clear guidance for many boys on how to be and act creates massive opportunities for internet misogynists like <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/1/10/23547393/andrew-tate-toxic-masculinity-qa">Andrew Tate</a>, says Pepper. “Tate has figured out that boys are actually really interested in talking about gender, talking about masculinity, and thinking about what it means to be a successful man,” says Pepper. Many boys don’t get much other messaging on these issues from their families or schools, leaving a void easily filled by charismatic jerks.
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Bad behavior among students is <a href="https://www.edweek.org/leadership/student-behavior-isnt-getting-any-better-survey-shows/2023/04">worse</a> <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/confronting-the-student-behavior-crisis">now</a> than it was pre-pandemic, perhaps <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/02/andrew-tate-twisted-ideology-infiltrated-british-schools">especially among boys</a>. Although the causes are unclear, adults often blame increased social isolation and screen time, plus the popularity of figures like Tate and the viral spread of various dumb <a href="https://www.scarymommy.com/parenting/kids-mewing-in-class-tiktok-explained">TikTok</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1038378816/students-are-damaging-school-bathrooms-for-attention-on-tiktok">trends</a>.
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On a broader scale, though, Tate’s popularity shows what boys are missing, says Pepper: “There’s a real opening for adults to step up to more positive conversations about masculinity and what it means to be a man, and how they would like men to be in the world.”
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I asked Pepper what those conversations could and should look like. Below is what he told me, in his own words, edited for length and clarity.
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Make it clear you’re a trustworthy adult <em>before</em> you need to have difficult conversations
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Depression, suicide, substance abuse — these can be scary things to learn about or to talk about. Sometimes adults have the impulse to rush into a conversation about a difficult topic and be very prescriptive and authoritarian — to say, “These are all the things you should not do.”
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But shame and judgment tend to really shut off conversation. So instead, I would lean into curiosity in conversations before you get to the difficult stuff. When a boy invites you into his world, even in a little way, take that opening. Like if he’s talking about a song, or a funny meme, or a video game that he’s playing that he loves, be curious about it. And really listen, reflect back what he’s saying. Make sure you’re understanding where he’s coming from, and just do what you can to keep those conversations open so that when more challenging topics come up, you still have those lines of communication open — you’re still interested in hearing from each other.
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Model, celebrate, and reinforce taking care of other people and experiencing a full range of emotions —<em> </em>especially if you’re a father
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Another thing you can do — and this is especially for fathers, but really, for any parents — is <a href="https://www.vox.com/even-better/23421467/parenting-good-influence-role-model-kids-mistakes">be reflective on your own life</a>: Are you making time to actually see your friends and be a good support, and to let the boys in your life see you doing that? Do you talk about your friends and the people you care about?
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One of the things that happens as boys are growing up is they learn about a very restrictive version of masculinity, a list of things that you’re not allowed to do or say. Particularly around emotions: You’re allowed to be angry, and you might be able to cry if something’s really bad — like a sports team you’re on loses a really important game, or someone died. But part of being a full human is being able to access and express a fuller range of emotions. So for adults, it’s important to ensure it’s safe for boys to do that, that you’re not criticizing them or judging them for it. If you hear other kids making fun of them for showing their emotions, stick up for them and say, “Hey, it’s actually good and positive to be connected to your feelings and to be able to show them.”
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When boys are showing care and concern and support for other people, celebrate it in the same way that you might celebrate more traditional things that are celebrated for boys, like sports victories or catching a big fish. You want to celebrate when they care for friends or family, too — like, “I saw how responsible you were with your little sister today when she was upset and really helped our family get through dinner,” for example. Really recognize and celebrate those things. They might be coded as feminine, but they’re really life skills that will help them grow into men who are good fathers, good partners, and good friends.
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When boys blame girls or feminism for the problems in the world, that’s a big red flag — it often happens when they learn about issues from social media.
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If you hear a boy talking along these lines, it’s a good moment to engage him in some critical thinking. But rather than saying, “Oh, you’re totally wrong,” try something like, “I was surprised to hear you say that. Can you tell me more about what you’re thinking?” And if they mention learning something from a video, you can ask them to watch the video together and talk about it.
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Boys often dismiss especially questionable or offensive statements as jokes — Peggy Orenstein got into this in her recent book, <a href="https://www.peggyorenstein.com/boysandsex"><em>Boys & Sex</em></a>. For example, they’ll say something about rape or the Holocaust and follow it up with, “Can’t you take a joke?” That’s often a signal that they want to learn more about something, or that they don’t understand it.
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It can make an impact when an adult takes those jokes seriously — especially when men do. You could say: “Joking about <a href="https://www.vox.com/sexual-harassment">sexual harassment</a> or rape is a red line, is not okay with me, and I want to tell you why.” For some boys, hearing from an adult man that the subject is serious and that they want to be able to talk about it — that will feel different than hearing it from a woman. Saying these things is a skill that gets easier with practice, and I think is an important thing for adults to get better at.
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When adults are having these conversations, it’s good for them to get clear about their own values. Think through what you believe about <a href="https://www.vox.com/gender">gender equality</a>, yourself, and what you understand about racism or sexism or homophobia. Recognize they can be hard but important things to talk about.
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Being able to talk about these issues will be super useful to boys as they’re going through their lives. When they repeat things they hear online, they’ll be better able to decide if that’s something they actually believe.
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Remember that as a parent, you have lots of chances — so it’s OK if you get it wrong the first time! If you have a conversation that kind of goes sideways, you can come back to it and say, “Hey, we talked about this yesterday and I thought about it later and realized I kind of misspoke. I wonder if we can talk about that again.” You can apologize to young people for getting angry; you can ask for a do-over of tough conversations, for a do-over of trying to understand them. In fact, asking for a do-over helps model and develop self-reflection and taking responsibility for a mistake in a way that can help boys be successful in their own lives.
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It’s pretty easy for a boy to go through a whole school day and not talk to anyone, except maybe about the assignments that are due, or to maybe have some sort of surface-level conversation about a sports game or a video game. The surgeon general has said <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf">loneliness is a national crisis</a> — but on the whole, schools haven’t been putting a lot of effort into the social and emotional lives of boys. Schools often don’t have spaces where boys can talk reflectively to other boys and talk to a trusted adult about what’s going on in their lives.
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When they create these spaces — groups where boys can talk to other boys about what it is like to be a boy today and what’s going on in their lives, and get help with the day-to-day struggles in navigating the social and emotional side of the world — boys love them.
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There are great models of this all over the place. A Canadian nonprofit called <a href="https://www.nextgenmen.ca/">Next Gen Men</a> has a free curriculum — in addition to their in-person groups, they have one online on Discord. In Oakland, where I live, there’s a group called the <a href="https://everforwardclub.org/">Ever Forward Club</a>, and in New York, there’s <a href="https://www.acalltomen.org/">A Call to Men</a>, which has a free curriculum. Other programs engage coaches of boys’ sports teams in teaching healthy masculinity to their players. [See the sidebar for more resources.]
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I’d like to see these kinds of programs expanded into more schools, just to encourage boys to really think about the world they’re living in, how they treat people, how to <a href="https://www.vox.com/friendship">make friends</a>, and to get support when they need it.
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There are still lots of ways you can help boys develop into better men [if you’re not a parent or someone who works closely with them]. There are formal mentoring and tutoring programs, but on a more day-to-day basis, I think trying to recognize the humanity of boys is meaningful. Sometimes, the way adults talk about teenage boys, it’s like they’re really scary, or a different species. There are a lot of jokes about how terrible teenage boys are.
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It’s helpful if we recognize they’re human beings who will grow up to be men in our world. These are going to be our co-workers and neighbors. It’s often easier to build relationships with teenage boys individually, rather than trying to do so with a whole group of kids you don’t know.
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That could mean building a mentoring relationship, but it could also mean hiring somebody for a job, like to be the dog walker, or thinking about boys as possibly being babysitters or people who can take care of things. I would encourage people to kind of check their stereotypes about who can do that kind of care work — it’s not only teenage girls who could be good babysitters. Recognize everybody’s different.
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Migrants cross the US-Mexico border in Texas. | David Peinado/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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Texas Republicans are trying to rewrite the Constitution — and this Supreme Court could let them.
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For well more than a century, the federal government has enjoyed near exclusive authority over <a href="https://www.vox.com/immigration">immigration policy</a>, while states have largely been restricted to assisting in carrying out federal policies. The <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus">Supreme Court</a> has reinforced this rule many times over many decisions, such as <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/239/33/"><em>Truax v. Raich</em></a> (1915), which said that<strong> </strong>“the authority to control immigration — to admit or exclude aliens — is vested solely in the Federal Government.”
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Texas, however, now wants the Supreme Court to abandon this longstanding constitutional rule, and it thinks that the political tumblers have finally aligned in a way that would lead the Court to do just that.
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Texas seeks to upend the longstanding balance of power between the federal government and the states through a law, known as SB 4, which <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23A814/302198/20240304170342435_United%20States%20v.%20Texas%20Vacatur%20Application%20SB4%20--%20corrected.pdf">allows Texas state courts to issue deportation orders</a> that will be carried out by Texas state officials. The law is now before the Supreme Court in two “<a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/8/11/21356913/supreme-court-shadow-docket-jail-asylum-covid-immigrants-sonia-sotomayor-barnes-ahlman">shadow docket</a>” cases, known as <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/united-states-v-texas-6/"><em>United States v. Texas</em></a> and <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/las-americas-immigrant-advocacy-v-mccraw/"><em>Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy v. McCraw</em></a>.
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The Texas law <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/united-states-v-texas-6/">will go into effect on Wednesday at 5 pm</a>, unless the Supreme Court acts, so it is likely that the Court will hand down some sort of decision before then (although that decision could just be a brief order extending the deadline to some future date).
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The Supreme Court is as conservative as it’s been since the 1930s, with Republicans controlling six seats on the nine-justice Court. And Texas’s case attempting to seize control of the Texas/Mexico border arrives at the justices’ feet at the same time that an <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy/24066609/immigration-bill-border-migrants-crisis">unusually large wave of migrants are arriving at the border</a>.
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The reason why the federal government has historically had exclusive authority over nearly all questions of immigration policy is to prevent a single state’s mistreatment of a foreign national from damaging US relations with another nation. Indeed, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/312/52"><em>Hines v. Davidowitz</em></a> (1941) warned that “international controversies of the gravest moment, sometimes even leading to war, may arise from real or imagined wrongs” committed against foreign nationals.
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Which isn’t to say that the United States must always treat foreign citizens with caution or deference — just that a decision that could endanger the entire nation’s relationship with a foreign state should be made by a government that represents the entire nation.
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SB 4 is not allowed under <em>Truax</em>, <em>Hines</em>, and countless other decisions, including an Obama-era case involving a very similar Arizona law, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/11-182#writing-11-182_OPINION_3"><em>Arizona v. United States</em></a> (2012).
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But the current Supreme Court has only a weak attachment to following precedent, especially when a precedent is <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/7/8/23784320/supreme-court-2022-term-affirmative-action-religion-voting-rights-abortio">widely disliked by modern-day Republicans</a>. So there is at least some risk that the Court’s GOP-appointed majority will allow SB 4 to go into effect.
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To a certain extent, an immigration-related conflict between a red state and the federal government was inevitable the minute a Democrat entered the White House. Under President Obama, Arizona’s Republican government enacted a similarly unconstitutional law, known as SB 1070, which imposed registration requirements on immigrants and which gave state police enhanced authority over suspected undocumented immigrants.
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The Supreme Court struck down several key provisions of SB 1070 in <em>Arizona</em>, in an opinion which also reaffirmed that the national government, and not the states, must have primacy over immigration. “[I]t is fundamental that foreign countries concerned about the status, safety, and security of their nationals in the United States <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/11-182#writing-11-182_OPINION_3">must be able to confer and communicate on this subject with one national sovereign</a>,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the Court in <em>Arizona</em>, “not the 50 separate States.”
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But Kennedy is no longer on the Court, and he was replaced by the more hardline conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Also gone is <a href="https://www.vox.com/21446222/ruth-bader-ginsburg-death-dead-supreme-court">Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a>, who joined the majority opinion in <em>Arizona</em>, and who died in 2020 and was replaced by Trump appointee <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/9/26/21457704/trump-amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-nominee">Justice Amy Coney Barrett</a>.
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If Kavanaugh and Barrett unite with the three most conservative justices, that’s five votes to overrule <em>Arizona</em>, and to bless Texas’s SB 4.
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Yet, while Republican-led lawsuits pushing harsher US immigration policies <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/6/23/23771310/supreme-court-united-states-texas-ice-immigration-drew-tipton-brett-kavanaugh">are now</a> a <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/2/16/23592576/supreme-court-title-42-immigration-border-pandemic">fixture</a> of Democratic administrations,<strong> </strong>Texas might have a particularly strong political hand right now because of the unusually large number of migrants arriving at the southern US border. For most of the 2010s, US Customs and Border Protection reported about 400,000 to 500,000 “encounters” with migrants at this border every year. Now, that number <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy/24066609/immigration-bill-border-migrants-crisis">stands around 2 million a year</a>.
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One of the biggest factors is political instability in many parts of Central America and the Caribbean. For many years, the so-called “<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/3/22/22335816/border-crisis-migrant-hurricane-eta-iota">Northern Triangle</a>” countries — Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador — were a major source of migration, as citizens of those nations fled corruption, gang violence, and high levels of poverty. This migration remains ongoing, and is now augmented by migrants fleeing an <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48121148">economic and political crisis in Venezuela</a>, and <a href="https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/haitians-flee-collapse">violence and political instability in Haiti</a>, among other things.
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Additionally, the United States recently relaxed its border policy because it could no longer point to the <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19">Covid-19 pandemic</a> to justify extraordinary measures. In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, the <a href="https://www.vox.com/trump-administration">Trump administration</a> invoked a statute which allows the government to close the border in order to <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/2/16/23592576/supreme-court-title-42-immigration-border-pandemic">prevent the spread of a “communicable disease”</a> that is present in a foreign country. This tight border policy <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/23719941/title-42-ending-border-biden-trump">remained in effect well into the Biden administration</a>, until May of 2023.
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This policy (which was <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/23719941/title-42-ending-border-biden-trump">known as “Title 42”</a>) always stood on dubious legal grounds. It certainly wasn’t effective in keeping Covid from entering the United States. And the idea that we could prevent the spread of this “communicable disease” by locking down the border became less and less defensible as Covid both became ubiquitous in the United States, and ceased to be a global crisis.
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By spring of 2023, even Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Republican appointed by Trump, openly mocked the suggestion that Title 42 could remain in place. “<a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-592_5hd5.pdf">The current border crisis is not a COVID crisis</a>,” wrote Gorsuch.
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SB 4 is one of several illegal steps Texas has taken with respect to the border
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Texas has since tried to augment a federal border policy that is widely viewed as inadequate with a <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2024/1/27/24051657/supreme-court-texas-border-immigration-greg-abbott-biden-invasion">series of dubiously legal policies</a>. In addition to enacting SB 4, the state has constructed physical barriers — including razor wire fences and floating obstructions in the Rio Grande — intended to keep migrants out of the country (or, in at least one case, to <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23A607/294669/20240102145055112_23A%20DHS%20v.%20Texas%20app.pdf">cause them to drown</a> while trying to enter).
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In January, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Texas <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2024/1/27/24051657/supreme-court-texas-border-immigration-greg-abbott-biden-invasion">could not use razor wire to prevent US Border Patrol agents</a> from entering an area where migrants are present, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Barrett joining the Court’s three Democratic appointees.
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/joe-biden">President Biden</a>, for what it is worth, agrees with Republicans that legal changes are necessary to limit border crossings. Indeed, he pressed Senate Democrats to <a href="https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/analysis-senate-border-bill">negotiate a bipartisan bill</a> that would make it harder for migrants to claim asylum, increase funding for immigration officials and detention facilities, and allow the government to close down border crossings if they exceed a certain level.
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But, after Democratic and Republican negotiators agreed on a bill, much of the GOP abruptly pulled its support. According to Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), this happened because presumptive GOP presidential nominee <a href="https://www.vox.com/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> told Republicans “<a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2024/1/25/24050278/senate-immigration-border-ukraine-trump-mcconnell-romney">he doesn’t want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it</a>.”
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And so, here we are, with an unpopular spike in southern migration overwhelming the US immigration system, and a <a href="https://www.vox.com/congress">Congress</a> that is unable to address the problem because the leader of the GOP prefers chaos to a solution.
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Texas Republicans, meanwhile, have their own answer. It just requires the Supreme Court to toss out more than a century of established law, and strip away the United States’ ability to speak with one voice on matters of foreign policy.
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If Texas prevails in this lawsuit, the consequences will be unpredictable, and could be catastrophic. It would mean, as the Supreme Court warned in <em>Hines</em>, that states would gain broad leeway to act against foreign nationals — potentially endangering US relations with our allies, or worse.
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Security forces, including National Guard troops and police, take security measures at a subway station in New York City on March 7, 2024. | Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images
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Last week, New York<strong> </strong>Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a new policy that made headlines <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/07/new-york-subway-national-guard/">across the country</a>: Following a handful of high-profile violent crimes, she’s sending 750 members of the National Guard and hundreds of state troopers into the city’s subway system.
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“No one heading to their job or to visit family or go to a doctor appointment should worry that the person sitting next to them possesses a deadly weapon,” the governor said.
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Fair enough. Major crime in the transit system is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/nyregion/subway-national-guard-police.html">up 13 percent since the start of the year</a>, according to the police, and post-pandemic, <a href="https://www.curbed.com/article/brooklyn-subway-shooting-aftermath-nyc.html">some New Yorkers have felt</a> a fearful and “confused unease about the fact that the trains seemed different.”
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But overall the picture is more positive: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/nyregion/nyc-crime-2023.html#:~:text=Shootings%20were%20down%20in%20all,of%20people%20under%2018%20persisted.">Crime fell in New York last year</a>; and according to an analysis by<em> </em>the New York Times, the rate of violent crime on the city’s subway system was roughly <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/nyregion/new-york-subway-safety.html">one per 1 million rides</a> — meaning your chances of being a victim of violent crime on the subway are really low.
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There are other reasons a New York Democrat might take an approach to crime that seems aggressively out of proportion: The idea of the city as a crime-ridden hellhole is a perennial of right-wing politics.
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Last fall, former <a href="https://www.vox.com/donald-trump">President Donald Trump</a> tore into New York’s attorney general for pursuing a tax fraud case against him, <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111182093022875461">claiming falsely</a> that the case was happening “while MURDERS & VIOLENT CRIME HIT UNIMAGINABLE RECORDS!”
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In a big city, there’s almost always going to be a recent example critics can point to to say violence is out of control.
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One way is to judge overall violent crime and per capita crime rates to see how the city is performing compared to past years; that’s what Hochul and the city’s mayor are pointing to when saying their subway deployments are necessary.
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But another good way would be to look at how much <a href="https://www.vox.com/gun-violence-shootings">gun violence</a> there is in a given city compared to how well you’d expect it to do for a city of its size.
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And on the gun homicide front, a new study shows, New York City is majorly overperforming. In fact, it’s performing better than any other big city in the country.
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That’s one finding of an innovative new study by <a href="https://engineering.nyu.edu/student/rayan-succar">Rayan Succar</a> and <a href="https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/maurizio-porfiri">Maurizio Porfiri</a>, the director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering.
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You can <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-024-00034-8">read the full study in the journal <em>Nature Cities</em></a> to learn more about their methodology, but to sum up what makes their research unique: They used <a href="https://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/Modeling/The%20Origins%20of%20Scaling%20in%20Cities%20(Bettencourt).pdf">urban scaling</a> theory — a form of analysis that has only been around for about 10 years and that has primarily been used to research things like wealth distribution and population growth — and applied it to crime.
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They looked at nearly 1,000 US cities, studying a number of different relationships between gun access, crime, and population, and aggregated multiple data sets in the six years leading up to the pandemic. Their modeling allowed them to compare the actual prevalence of gun violence in a given city to how the model predicted a city of its size would behave.
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One of their major findings is that gun homicides scale superlinearly to the population in cities — in other words, the bigger the city, the larger the number of gun crimes per capita.
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In more rural areas, on the other hand, there are more guns but fewer gun homicides. So while cities have fewer guns per capita, Porfiri says, “they are responsible for more violence than what would happen in a rural area.”
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There are some theories as to why this is, and most have to do with increases in social interaction. As Succar puts it, “If you interact with 200 people per day, there’s way more possibility you’ll get shot than if you’re interacting with five people per day.”
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Maybe that’s good news for people who believe that they’re safest in a rural area far from big cities with a large stash of firearms (though the research on the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759797/">risks posed to people who keep firearms in their homes</a> might want to have a word).
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New York has fewer gun homicides per capita than expected
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The model also predicted that a city of New York’s population size should have way more gun homicides per capita than it does. In fact, of all the big cities they studied, New York had the largest gap between what the model predicted the gun homicide rate per capita would be and what it was.
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“New York should be applauded,” Porfiri says. Given how large the city is, it’s outperforming expectations on an important measure of gun violence. (The authors don’t delve into the reasons why, but it’s likely a complex mix of culture, law enforcement, and policy.)
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Is this (admittedly nuanced) finding going to convince Republicans who are certain the city is uniquely crime-plagued because of its purportedly soft-on-crime leaders? Probably not.
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But the findings matter. Across the country, year after year, <a href="https://www.vox.com/cities-and-urbanism/24055029/washington-dc-crime-rate-homicides-republican-democrats">cities struggle with crime</a>, and those problems often get spun into political narratives <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/09/democrats-local-dc-crime-00139933">that have little relationship to the facts</a>.
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Getting a better understanding of how gun crime concentrates in cities — and distinguishing how a city performs given that reality — is an important development.
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<em>This story appeared originally in </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast"><em><strong>Today, Explained</strong></em></a><em>, Vox’s flagship daily newsletter. </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/pages/today-explained-newsletter-signup"><em><strong>Sign up here for future editions</strong></em></a><em>.</em>
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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>Amazing Ruler, True Punch, Crime Of Passion excel</strong> -</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>All England Championship: Sindhu enters second round after Li retires</strong> - Sindhu will next face top seed Korean An Se Young, who has proved her nemesis, having defeated her all six times they have crossed paths in international badminton.</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>FIH World rankings | Indian men slip to fourth, women’s team ranked ninth</strong> - India had directly qualified for the Paris Olympics through an Asian Games gold last year and didn’t need to play in the recently-concluded Olympic Qualifiers.</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>Sanskrit University Budget 2024-25: Proposals to start Centre for Secular Studies, inter-university centres</strong> - Syndicate meeting of university held on main campus at Kalady approves Budget presented by Professor D. Salimkumar, convener of institution’s finance committee</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits</strong> - Discovery means that NerbianRAT is cross-platform used by for-profit threat group. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009493">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Study: Conflicting values for Hubble constant not due to measurement error</strong> - Something else is influencing the expansion rate of the Universe. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009332">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>50 injured on Boeing 787 as “strong shake” reportedly sent heads into ceiling</strong> - LATAM Airlines said “technical event” in mid-flight “caused a strong movement.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009438">link</a></p></li>
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