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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>After Hurricane Ida, How Much Longer Can New Orleans’s New Levees Hold?</strong> - The city may be better protected today than it was before Katrina, but with every day that passes the protection is waning. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/after-hurricane-ida-how-much-longer-can-new-orleanss-new-levees-%20hold">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Biden’s Chaotic Withdrawal from Afghanistan Is Complete</strong> - The U.S. has extricated its military from a two-decade-long conflict, but the country, and tens of thousands of Afghan allies, have been abandoned to the Taliban. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/bidens-chaotic-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-is-complete">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Hurricane Ida Proves That We Need to Step Up the Political Fight on Climate Change</strong> - It’s past time to take the planet’s limits seriously. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/hurricane-ida-proves-that-we-need-to-step-up-the-political-fight-%20on-climate-change">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Is the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan the End of the American Empire?</strong> - Only time will tell whether the old adage about Afghanistan’s being the graveyard of empires proves as true for the United States as it did for the Soviet Union. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/is-the-us-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-the-end-of-the-american-%20empire">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Anguish Over What America Left Behind—and Afghanistan’s Future</strong> - In an impassioned address, Biden vowed that he was not going to extend the forever war or the “forever exit.” - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-anguish-over-what-america-left-behind-and-afghanistans-%20future">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>It’s incredibly hard to know what you should pay for secondhand clothes</strong> -
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The secondhand apparel market is booming, but there are varying, inconsistent metrics for consumers to determine the value of pre-owned clothes. | Getty Images
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Gen Z loves to buy secondhand, but online prices are all over the place.
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A vintage leather jacket is, in theory, an easy thing to find online. My weeks-long search, however, only led to an extended deliberation between three near-identical garments — all oxblood red, with a tieable belt — at three wildly different price points: $60, $125, and $250. I was conflicted. How could I make a sound decision when I wasn’t even sure what a secondhand jacket should cost?
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“Choice overload,” as it’s called, is a natural product of capitalism. The numerous options I found on the internet made me dizzy enough to think, perhaps, $250 was an acceptable price for the perfect jacket, despite it being four times more expensive than the cheapest garment in my queue of tabs. Coined by futurist writer Alvin Toffler in 1970, the term describes a mental paralysis that afflicts modern consumers. This sensation doesn’t inhibit an inevitable purchase. Rather, it places additional anxiety upon the shopper, particularly when it comes to discerning the value of what they’re buying.
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This becomes especially complicated in the secondhand apparel market, given the range of prices available and limited information about an item’s provenance. Customers buying brand new goods face this conundrum, but not to the same degree. With new items, the sale price is generally fixed to reflect the labor, shipping costs, overhead expenses, and profit markup that go into maintaining a store’s virtual and physical operations.
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Pre-owned garments, on the other hand, have a wider margin for fluctuation. They are loosely dependent on an item’s condition, the brand label, its fabrics, modern trends, and the seller’s profile. On top of these varying metrics, more inexperienced buyers and sellers are entering the market, often with minimal knowledge about sought-after labels or what qualifies an item as <a href="https://www.certifiedestatesales.com/vintage-vs-antique-vs-collectible/">true vintage</a> (anything that is 20 to 99 years old). And with the profusion of resale marketplaces like Depop and Poshmark and professionalized sites like The RealReal, many consumers have ended up paying well-above-average prices for pre-owned items that aren’t all that special.
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“It’s the wild wild West right now, both for designer and regular vintage goods,” said Sarah Korsiak Cellier, the owner of Rice and Beans Vintage, who specializes in vintage Chanel and designer pieces. “On many resale sites, individuals are setting their own prices. That creates a lot of inconsistency.”
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Thus, sellers are incentivized to mark up their prices, even if the listed amount is unrealistically high. Outrageously priced items don’t often sell, but they show up in searches, subtly skewing consumers’ expectations about what a garment is worth. Since so many shoppers are also casual sellers of pre-owned or thrifted clothes, it leads to more inflated price points.
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In the real estate industry, market conditions are described as either favoring buyers or sellers — depending on whether supply exceeds demand or vice versa. Most secondhand clothing sellers purport that it’s a buyer’s market in the US, since thrift shops are <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/01/21/687255642/thrift-stores-say-theyre-swamped-with-donations-after-tidying-up-with-
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coronavirus-is-wreaking-havoc">overloaded</a> with pre-owned clothes and unused fabrics. But while there is an excess of clothes, not all garments are made equal. Consumers gravitate toward what’s trendy or unique, so popular styles and brands from a certain era, like <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/gen-z-y2k-millennial-90s-fashion-
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nostalgia">retro Y2K</a>, can sell for above-average prices depending on mainstream trends. (Most donated clothes <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200710-why-clothes-are-so-hard-to-recycle">don’t even make it onto thrift store racks</a>; they end up in landfills, exported overseas, or incinerated.)
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— AURA STAR (<span class="citation" data-cites="Lederrick_">@Lederrick_</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lederrick_/status/1282349081818476549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2020</a>
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Thrift store resellers are simultaneously contending with a simmering tide of animosity from consumers about their profit margins. Social media critics typically take aim at young, seemingly wealthy sellers, who buy cheap items in bulk from local Goodwill or Salvation Army stores and mark them up for profit on marketplaces like Depop. I’ve previously reported about this concern over “<a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22396051/thrift-store-
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hauls-ethics-depop">thrift store gentrification</a>”; critics claim such novice sellers are inadvertently raising the prices of thrifted goods by purchasing an excess of garments. It’s a compelling but inexact argument: Individual resellers get the brunt of backlash that should be directed toward profit-seeking thrift stores and loosely regulated resale marketplaces.
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As the resale market grows and piques <a href="https://fashionista.com/2016/05/online-resale-poshmark-the-realreal">the attention of venture capital</a>, the tension over the prices of pre-owned clothes won’t dissipate. It does, however, raise questions about the ever-changing value of clothing. Are there clear metrics the average shopper can abide by to determine a reasonable price for an item? Or in a world with too many clothes, is the value of garments more fluid than we expect?
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“It’s important to remember that anyone can sell anything online,” said Deborah Miller, a textile and clothing appraiser, who has evaluated pieces for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and PBS’s <em>Antiques Roadshow</em>. “Listed prices aren’t always sale prices, and sometimes sellers with a higher profile can command a higher price for the exact same item.”
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When assessing a garment, Miller typically begins with its condition and label, even for non-designer brands. “Once you know the label and condition, a shopper can easily compare the price points through different resale platforms,” she said. “When I look at listed prices, it helps me figure out the outliers, those who might be not-so-knowledgeable sellers that just threw up an item on eBay in the hopes that it sells.” With that range of acceptable prices in mind, Miller then determines whether a certain piece has special details — when it was manufactured, if it’s a unique cut, size, or limited edition. Comparison is crucial for shoppers on peer- to-peer marketplaces, she added, since sellers are setting their own prices.
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The best deals, however, are usually found on resale sites like eBay, in small antique shops, or at in-person sales, according to Miller. At auction or estate sales, for example, buyers are able to clinch better deals, sometimes in bulk, instead of at a consignment shop. “It’s hard for people to wrap their minds around how a garment might have five to six different values,” Miller added. “It depends on who’s buying, who’s selling, and which part of the market the clothes are selling in. Are garments being sold wholesale for liquidation at a physical site? Or is it being sold on an Etsy shop that has a global audience?”
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Before the internet, most vintage sellers operated their businesses locally or regionally, occasionally taking trips out-of-state to source goods. As one of the first international resale marketplaces, eBay changed that: Independent sellers now had the opportunity to reach more customers, and it was where most vintage enthusiasts scoured for affordable items online before Etsy and Depop. That meant sellers were able to charge more, since their pool of potential buyers has vastly expanded.
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Social media, too, has helped accelerate mainstream consumer appetite for vintage goods, said Korsiak Cellier. Part- and full-time sellers alike are putting in more work to style and promote items, thereby pushing up prices. It’s a business model with proven success: Sophia Amoruso, the former CEO of Nasty Gal and a <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/girlbosses-what-comes-next/613519/">self-described girlboss</a>, started her clothing brand on eBay, originally as a vintage seller.
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“When I started, there was no Instagram,” Korsiak Cellier said. “The presentation and curation of the goods could affect how people perceive the price and what they’re willing to pay for it. That wasn’t so important on eBay in the 2000s, but now, that content definitely helps sell things, especially if you have a lot of followers.”
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An in-demand seller with a loyal customer base could significantly markup regular vintage items, compared to those with a smaller online presence. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sororitevintage/?hl=en">Sororité Vintage</a>, for example, a shop that specializes in selling vintage lingerie and designer accessories, has amassed more than 700,000 Instagram followers and routinely sells out its collection. Smaller sellers, however, have remarked that the store routinely inflates its prices even for <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Depop/comments/i9r20q/apparently_sororit%C3%A9_vintage_vintage_reseller_that/">department store-branded lingerie</a>, like Victoria’s Secret or Frederick’s.
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worldwide/#:~:text=In%202020%2C%20the%20global%20market,worth%2027%20billion%20U.S.%20dollars.">$27 billion</a> secondhand apparel market. According to <a href="https://wwd.com/sustainability/business/ebay-etsy-mercari-thredup-
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therealreal-clothing-resale-players-market-1234894315/">Women’s Wear Daily</a>, the resale space currently consists of peer-to-peer selling apps (Etsy, Depop, Poshmark, or eBay), managed marketplaces (The RealReal, StockX, ThredUp), and logistics partners handling the resale of unsold or used clothes from retailers (Trove and Recurate).
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The growth of venture capital-funded resale enterprises concerns Marydee Reynolds, an independent seller behind Chicago-based Saffron Vintage. Selling secondhand isn’t always a consistent or highly profitable business endeavor, but it has helped Reynolds maintain a steady stream of income for nearly two decades. Since the pandemic, she’s struggled to retain freelance work as a musician and voice teacher, so selling vintage has become her full-time job.
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The motivation to pursue growing profits means sellers might not always have clients’ best interests in mind. That’s reflected in pricing, not just among designer goods but regular garments that can easily be found at thrift stores or estate sales at lower prices. “It does make me worry sometimes that resale clothing, especially for designer pieces, is going to be as expensive as retail,” Reynolds added. Some sellers have a habit of sourcing items from other vintage shops and significantly marking up the price. With designer goods, that may not be a sustainable way to run a business, since most items are created in limited quantities.
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“There’s no way to go out there and source rare pieces to turn a quick profit, which is what these resale sites want to do,” said Reynolds. “You can’t go out and find mid-century Dior just because it’s in high demand.”
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The fashion industry, especially certain pockets of the resale market, is not as predictable for investors as, say, consumer tech or other goods that can be scaled. It’s an irrational space, fashion-tech CEO Peiman Raf told <a href="https://www.voguebusiness.com/talent/articles/venture-capital-seed-funding-fashion-brands-startups-madhappy-
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andie/">Vogue Business</a>. “[Fashion] is not something you can inorganically pump thousands of percent of growth into year-over-year like you might be able to in tech or some consumer categories.”
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The RealReal, which resells luxury consignment goods, went public in June 2019, but even after a triumphant year for resale, the platform is <a href="https://seekingalpha.com/article/4423004-realreal-
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no-light-end-of-this-tunnel">still in the red</a> and doesn’t seem to be reaching profitability anytime soon. That’s not entirely indicative of the greater resale market, though, for regular vintage and used clothes (Poshmark, for example, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/17/poshmark-releases-s-1-for-ipo-and-shows-profits.html">is turning a profit</a>).
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It is, however, short-sighted to chart the success of the secondhand market without paying close attention to the firsthand retail market. These spaces are closely linked, since what’s sold firsthand eventually makes its way into the resale space. And contemporary fast fashion brands that have a short shelf life in buyers’ closets are bleeding into local thrift stores and resale platforms.
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Some Depop sellers worry that in five to 10 years, fast fashion will make up the bulk of donated clothes. “There will be nothing worth reselling,” <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Depop/comments/ntvc5f/do_you_ever_think_about_how_the_thriftsecondhand/">one Reddit commenter wrote</a>. “My guess is that the ‘circular economy’ will probably still continue and reselling will too, but the life cycle of the majority of pieces are just going to be a lot shorter given modern clothing quality,” said another.
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Miller, the clothing appraiser, urges shoppers to think of clothing — pre-owned or new — as investments, “not something you can put on the resale market after wearing it a few times.” Secondhand shopping risks losing its eco-friendly bent if it’s predicated on a cycle of ceaseless consumption. The goal of buying pre-owned clothes should be to extend the closet lifespan of an item, not to resell them as quickly as possible.
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I did, eventually, choose to buy the most affordable option: a $60 jacket sold by a Southern California seller, made in Korea by the brand Trappeur. It was stiffer than I had imagined it would be and it had some markings on the sleeves, but I was satisfied. After all, a polyurethane faux-leather jacket from ASOS costs nearly as much and likely won’t last a decade — even if it’ll be resold on Depop year after year.
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It’s not that things aren’t different now. Most notably, we have vaccines available for people 12 and older that dramatically reduce the risk of death and serious illness from the virus. And while <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/11/15/21564488/covid-19-coronavirus-us-kids-schools-testing-education-remote">large numbers of students</a> started last school year learning remotely, this fall nearly all districts are welcoming kids back to classrooms.
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But a lot of things are, depressingly, the same. The virus is far from gone, with the delta variant <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html">driving surges</a> in many parts of the country. And the lack of vaccines for kids under 12 means continued uncertainty for families as the school year begins.
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Mitigation practices like mask mandates have become deeply politicized, with just 46 percent of Republicans supporting such rules for unvaccinated students, in an August poll by <a href="https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2021/8/dfp-vox-return-to-school-tabs.pdf">Data for Progress and Vox</a>, compared with 83 percent of Democrats.
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are least likely to support requiring vaccines, but 48 percent of Republican voters still support such requirements for school staff," src=“https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Xx7WZ6z-QelTRI2x0FZt_RMBiIs=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox- cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22818994/image_<em>8</em>.png” /> <cite>Ethan Winter/Data for Progress</cite></figure></li>
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Given all this, it’s no wonder many parents are confused and left asking some of the same questions they’ve been asking for more than a year: What should schools be doing to keep kids safe? What should I do if my child’s school isn’t taking those precautions? When will vaccines for younger kids be available? Vox spoke with experts to get answers so families at least have information to help them make decisions.
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After all, even though quarantine policies, mask rules, and vaccine timetables can feel confusing and overwhelming, nearly everyone can agree on a couple of common goals: to help kids get an education and to lower transmission of Covid-19. “The ways to do that are very clear,” Paul R. Skolnik, chair of internal medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, told Vox. “It’s just a matter of how to get to the right place.”
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This is the biggest question on a lot of parents’ minds as they send their kids back to the classroom this fall. Unfortunately, it’s also one without a single, easy answer.
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Kids remain less likely than adults to get severely ill with Covid-19. But they can still get sick, and since delta is more transmissible than earlier versions of the virus, more kids around the country are catching it. Pediatric hospitalizations recently reached their highest recorded level of the pandemic, with <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/25/pediatric-covid-hospitalizations-surge-to-highest-on-record-in-us-as-doctors-
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However, experts say there are ways to reduce the risks of children getting Covid-19 at school. And there are also risks, for many kids, of <em>not</em> being in school, from lost instructional time to missing out on interactions with peers.
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In general, at this point in the pandemic, experts from <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/k-12-guidance.html">the CDC</a> to <a href="https://www.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2021/american-academy-of-pediatrics-updates-recommendations-
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for-opening-schools-in-fall-2021/">the American Academy of Pediatrics</a> say the risk-benefit analysis favors getting kids back in the classroom if at all possible. That’s partly because of concerns about learning interruptions caused by more than a year of remote school, which may have exacerbated existing racial and economic inequities in the American school system, as well as having a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/30/learning-loss-from-virtual-school-due-to-
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covid-is-significant-.html">disproportionate impact on students with disabilities</a>. It’s also because <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7012e3.htm">research on Covid-19 transmission in schools</a> is encouraging — to a point.
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“We have seen kids across the US and across the world return to in-person learning despite the ebb and flow of Covid spread,” Ibukun Kalu, a pediatric infectious disease physician and professor at Duke University, told Vox. The results show that “children can return back to schools safely, but there are a number of factors that may impact Covid spread in the school setting.”
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The most effective weapon we have right now against Covid-19 both inside and outside schools, experts agree, is vaccination. “If you are eligible to be vaccinated, you should absolutely, positively get vaccinated,” Skolnik said. Vaccination of teachers and staff, students 12 and older, and all eligible family and community members will help keep everyone in school safer, he said.
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But because children under 12 aren’t yet eligible for vaccines, additional measures are necessary. For a lot of experts, the biggest one is masks. “In settings that implement masking, amongst a few other things, we see low rates of within-school transmission, even when community rates spike,” Kalu said. On the flip side, many have pointed to a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/28/health/coronavirus-schools-children.html">recent CDC report</a> on an unvaccinated, unmasked teacher who ended up transmitting the coronavirus to 12 of the 24 students in a classroom as an example of how quickly the virus can spread when no mitigation is in place.
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In addition to masks and vaccinations, many say schools should also work to improve ventilation — <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/nyregion/new-
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york-city-school-reopening.html">New York City</a>, for example, has said it will send two air purifiers to each classroom this year. Testing can also be helpful to reduce risk, especially in areas of high Covid-19 prevalence (which is most of the US right now). But in order to be most effective, school systems should implement regular at-home testing “to prevent a child who’s positive from entering school,” Neeraj Sood, director of the Covid Initiative at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, told Vox.
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However, a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/nyregion/new-york-city-school-reopening.html">lack of access to rapid tests</a> means few districts are taking this approach. Instead, many are doing the opposite: “A child is already in school, we test the child, the results come 48 hours later, we’ve just confirmed that a child who was potentially infectious was in school the previous 3 days,” Sood said. Such testing can tell exposed people when they may need to quarantine, but it doesn’t stop exposures in the first place.
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Overall, schools should consider combining multiple mitigation measures to get the best results. “We’ve tried to talk about a kind of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/health/coronavirus-swiss-cheese-infection-mackay.html">Swiss-cheese approach</a>,” Tara Smith, an epidemiologist at Kent State University, told Vox. “All these measures together work better than any one alone.”
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Of all the measures that schools employ to stem the spread of Covid-19, probably the most controversial one is masking. While many school districts are requiring masks this fall, some states have banned mask mandates, and debates on the issue have devolved into <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/12/us/tennessee-covid-mask-mandate-school-board-protest/index.html">shouting matches</a> and even <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/13/northern-california-teacher-beaten-up-by-dad-
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angered-by-masking-of-child/">violence</a> at schools around the country.
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Meanwhile, some experts have questioned the need for masks in schools, pointing out that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/us/students-masks-classrooms-britain.html">elementary schools in Britain</a>, by and large, do not use them, relying on quarantines and rapid testing instead — and research last year showed that virus rates within schools did not exceed those in surrounding communities. Sood, for example, supports voluntary masking rather than mandates, arguing that research has yet to conclusively show that<strong> </strong>masks on their own have a significant impact on Covid-19 transmission in schools. “I’m very reluctant to say we should have a mask mandate for children,” he said.
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It’s hard to say exactly which mitigation measures are the most effective since “so many schools made multiple changes at the same time” like requiring masks, improving ventilation, and quarantining exposed students, Kristin Moffitt, a pediatric infectious diseases doctor and researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital, told Vox. However, “we have dozens and dozens of data sets showing that these layered interventions” — including masking alongside ventilation, quarantining, and distancing where possible — “are effective,” Moffitt said. Essentially, since we know a layered strategy works, it makes sense to maintain the layers, even if we don’t know exactly how much each contributes to safety.
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Others argue that masks in schools make sense based on what we know about masks and Covid-19 more generally. “We know well how to mitigate the spread of this virus and that includes the use of masks,” Skolnik said.
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And many see masks as a simple intervention schools can make with little downside. “I don’t think there’s a real detriment to wearing masks,” Smith said. “I don’t think they’re going to be perfect; I don’t think they’re going to prevent all transmission. But I think, better to wear them than not.”
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What can I do if my school doesn’t feel safe?
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Despite a certain level of controversy around masks, experts generally agree that with a layered mitigation strategy (that “Swiss-cheese approach”), the risk of in-school Covid-19 transmission can be greatly reduced and schools can be safe places for kids this fall.
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But if schools aren’t employing mitigation measures, that puts parents in a difficult position. Overall, while 60 percent of parents in the Data for Progress/Vox poll say schools in their community have made the right decisions during the pandemic, 27 percent say they’ve made the wrong ones — and if you feel your child’s school isn’t making the right calls around safety, the prospect of in-person instruction this fall can be frightening.
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If you don’t feel that your child’s school or district is taking the appropriate mitigation steps, you may be able to change that. Smith, for example, emailed the superintendent and school board of her child’s district with data on masks, and the district ended up instituting a mask mandate. While not every parent has a background in epidemiology, “you can try to do what you can,” Smith said. Some districts, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-05/the-deadline-to-sign-up-for-lausd-online-school-is-friday-
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heres-what-you-need-to-know">such as Los Angeles</a>, are also continuing to offer a remote option for families who do not want to send their children back to school in person, though many districts are only offering remote education to immunocompromised students and others with medical needs.
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Meanwhile, if officials aren’t amenable to change, families may be able to switch schools or districts — though that depends on whether there’s another one nearby that is taking a different approach to the virus. Failing that, there’s homeschooling — a choice that’s become more popular during the pandemic, with <a href="https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/03/homeschooling-on-the-rise-
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during-covid-19-pandemic.html">11.1 percent of families</a> homeschooling children last fall, compared with 5.4 percent in spring 2020. But homeschooling also requires that a parent be available to supervise, which isn’t a possibility for every family. It requires “a huge investment from parents,” Smith said.
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These are difficult decisions that can leave parents, yet again, feeling like they have no good options. For parents trying to weigh the safety of in-person school under less- than-ideal circumstances, factors to consider include rates of Covid-19 in the community — transmission is high across much of the US, but you can still look at whether rates are decreasing or increasing in your area, Smith said. Another consideration is whether your family includes immunocompromised, elderly, or otherwise at-risk people who might be exposed to your child.
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And parents can also factor in their child’s individual experiences of school in the past year. Smith’s older son, for example, struggled spending his senior year in high school online. If she was facing a choice between in-person and remote school for him again this year, “I probably would have taken the risk and put him back in school with a good mask and, you know, a prayer,” she said. Her younger son, however, has thrived in remote school, and “I would have felt better keeping him home this year, again, if I had to.”
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Overall, the decision around school this year “really just depends so much on the individual children and just what the potential of the family is,” Smith said.
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What should schools do if a student tests positive or is exposed to Covid-19?
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Beyond questions around masking and general safety, quarantines are one of the biggest issues on parents’ minds this fall. Quarantine policies vary by district, but in the past, students testing positive have led to entire classes, grades, or even schools being sent home for 10 days of remote learning — a process deemed necessary to curb spread but one that’s disruptive to students and families. Unfortunately, with the delta variant driving high caseloads around the country, quarantines continue to be a reality of pandemic school. “One of our local districts right now has 152 students in quarantine, out of a population of about 600,” Smith, who is based in Ohio, told Vox.
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The good news is that research suggests quarantines can be limited in some cases. For example, the CDC has said that if all students in a school are masked, those exposed to an infected student do not need to quarantine from school. “There are good data demonstrating that the likelihood of infection is very, very, very low in those exposure settings,” Moffitt said.
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Not every district is following the CDC recommendation, with some continuing to employ stricter quarantine standards and others <a href="https://twitter.com/RobinCogan/status/1432657470015561732">leaving quarantining up to parents’ discretion</a>. But the picture is changing rapidly — and for students who are fully vaccinated, it’s significantly better. In many places, those students can stay in school if exposed to someone with Covid-19, as long as they themselves test negative. This is a game changer for many middle and high schools — but, of course, most elementary school students can’t be vaccinated yet. Which brings us to another huge question on the minds of many parents of younger kids:
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For parents staring down another year of quarantines and anxiety, it can feel like the date when kids under 12 can be vaccinated just keeps getting farther away. And that’s not entirely an illusion — Pfizer’s initial goal was to submit data to the FDA by September, and potentially have approval by October, Moffitt said. However, with reports of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/health/covid-
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myocarditis-vaccine.html">rare cases of myocarditis</a>, an inflammation of the heart muscle, in teens and young adults who got the vaccine, the FDA asked for more data and a longer follow-up period.
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Now, the FDA is likely to receive data for review in late fall or early winter, with authorization — as long as the vaccine is determined to be safe — sometime in early to midwinter. “Late November might be the earliest, but maybe more likely December or January,” Moffitt said.
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pandemic-c58f8577203b8316299f9fa90ebf7578">Some large school districts</a>, including New York City, Philadelphia, and St. Louis, have mandated vaccines for teachers, but almost none have done the same for vaccine-eligible students. However, a few districts, like <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/fairfax-public-schools-vaccine-
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sports/2021/08/30/5a8c415e-0991-11ec-a6dd-296ba7fb2dce_story.html">Fairfax County, Virginia</a>, have required vaccines for students to participate in sports.
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When vaccines for children under 12 do become available, schools will be legally allowed to mandate them, Moffitt said. “There is a strong precedent for that in terms of vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella” and other diseases.
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However, they’re unlikely to do so until the vaccines are fully approved by the FDA, rather than approved under emergency use authorization. Though Pfizer’s vaccine has been fully approved for adults, it has not yet gained full approval for 12- to 15-year-olds, a process that could take another couple of months, Moffitt said. And full approval for vaccines for younger kids would likely follow a similar timeline.
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Amid parents’ questions about the nuts and bolts of vaccines, quarantines, and masks, many are also trying to help kids adjust to in-person school after many months of remote or hybrid learning — during a pandemic that’s still very much ongoing.
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The good news is that parents can reassure children: The risk of severe Covid-19 is very low for kids, Albert Ko, a professor of public health and epidemiology at Yale, told Vox. As of July, children accounted for fewer than one quarter of 1 percent of all Covid-19 deaths, with seven states reporting no pediatric deaths at all, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/08/05/1025011194/serious-cases-remain-rare-but-coronavirus-in-children-on-the-rise-
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too">NPR reported</a>. Beyond offering reassurance, parents can also take this as an opportunity to teach kids about good health behaviors including hand-washing, staying home when sick, and getting vaccinated when you can. The message to kids: “You can reduce the risk of transmission and help your communities, your families, but also your schools, by practicing sound public health,” Ko said.
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Families can also help kids manage stress by talking not just about the difficulties of the upcoming school year, but also about what kids are excited about, Stacey Doan, a psychology professor at Claremont McKenna College, told Vox in an email. “Having age-appropriate conversations about risk, how things will look different, what might be new challenges, as well as highlighting the positive, things to look forward to, will go a long way.” Schools can also step in to help kids connect with therapy and other resources if they are experiencing depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues, Kalu said.
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Parents also need to tend to their own mental health, which may well be frayed after 18 months of pandemic living. “As parents, we often prioritize the health and well-being of our children, but if we are sick or stressed, we cannot offer the support that our children may need,” Doan said. “So first, take care of yourself.”
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And while concerns about kids’ mental health during the pandemic are very real, it’s also true that with support from their parents, most children can weather even this difficult time, whether they are at school in person or learning remotely. “For young children, parents are still the most important agents, thus by continuing to provide a warm, responsive, and playful environment, most children will be fine,” Doan said. “Most children are in fact very resilient.”
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From quarantines to testing to managing kids’ back-to-school stress, there’s no way this fall is going to be easy on families. But there are a few things schools can do to make it a bit easier. The biggest is transparency: Schools should be very clear with parents about “the measures they’re taking to keep the children safe,” Sood said. They should also share data on Covid-19 rates within the school, and, if possible, conduct surveillance testing so they can make sure their mitigation measures are working.
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“If they start to see changes in the data that suggest that their mitigation protocols are not working, they should quickly have a plan for adjusting some strategies,” Kalu said, whether that’s how frequently they test or how they group students into cohorts. And if anything does need to change, schools should give families as much notice as possible, “because parents and caregivers are planning around these things,” Kalu said.
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All this might seem like a lot for families and school officials to take in — and it is. As Doan points out, “school administrators are also under a lot of stress.” But the good news is that around the country and around the world, schools have done this before. While everyone involved might wish we could leave pandemic education behind, we at least have a wealth of experience to fall back on.
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“We’ve learned a lot through the last year and a half,” Ko said. “We do have the tools at hand to bring kids back to school.”
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In the end, former <em>Jeopardy</em> executive producer Mike Richards was the face of the legendary quiz show for approximately one day — and his brush with fame ultimately led to his complete downfall.
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fired-executive-producer-jeopardy-wheel-of-fortune-1235052887/">As reported by Variety</a>, Sony executive Suzanne Prete announced in a staff memo on Tuesday, August 31, that Richards, an executive producer on <em>Wheel of Fortune</em> and <em>Jeopardy</em>, would be departing from both shows “effective immediately.” The decision came after weeks of turmoil surrounding Richards’s rapid rise and fall as the new permanent host of Jeopardy, a job change that was met with criticism and a closer look at his role in a pair of lawsuits alleging workplace sexism.
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The path to Richards’s abrupt departure began with <em>Jeopardy</em>’s season-long search for a new host.<strong> </strong>After a year of guest hosts, some of whom were backdoor-auditioning for the job of permanent host after the death of Alex Trebek last November, Richards sparked confusion and backlash when news broke on August 11 that he would be stepping up <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeopardy-set-to-announce-mayim-bialik-and-mike-richards-splitting-host-duties">to take the gig</a>.
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In comparison with more prominent candidates like legendary <em>Jeopardy</em> contestant Ken Jennings and superfan <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/22557875/levar-burton-jeopardy-hosting-
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history">LeVar Burton</a>, Richards had zero name recognition outside <em>Jeopardy</em> viewers who’d watched him helm a few episodes as part of the show’s parade of guest hosts earlier this year. The casting news immediately spawned the <em>Jeopardy </em>in-joke “<a href="https://twitter.com/NickBossRoss/status/1423045827380092931">Who Is Mike Richards?</a>”
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Though Richards had only been a <em>Jeopardy</em> producer for one tumultuous year, he’s a game show industry veteran who seems to have long-held aspirations of hosting a game show — any game show — himself. That ambition may have led him to pursue the chance to host <em>Jeopardy</em> once the opportunity presented itself.
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To a mostly unfamiliar public, however, Richards’s seemingly out-of-nowhere ascension predictably fueled a <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeopardy-host-frontrunner-mike-richards-alleged-history-of-
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harassment-discrimination">rising tide</a> of dissatisfaction and scrutiny, which then spurred discussion of trouble in his past. <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2021/8/18/22631299/mike-richards-jeopardy-host-search-process-past-
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comments">The Ringer published an exposé</a> painting Richards as an opportunist with a history of making sexist, classist, and xenophobic remarks and detailing discrimination lawsuits made during his tenure at <em>The Price Is Right</em>. Very quickly, Richards looked unfit to continue the legacy of <em>Jeopardy</em>.
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On Friday, August 20, he confronted that reality: Richards announced that he would be stepping down as host after a single day of taping the show — meaning the drawn-out search for a new permanent host to replace the late, <a href="https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/3/20/18272876/jeopardy-alex-trebek">beloved</a> Trebek will continue. Actress <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/23/media/mayim-bialik-jeopardy/index.html">Mayim Bialik</a>, who was a well-received guest host and had been slated to step in as a recurring host for occasional primetime episodes, will serve as the full-time host for now.
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Meanwhile, although Richards was initially expected to resume his former role as executive producer at <em>Wheel of Fortune</em> and <em>Jeopardy</em>, a simple return to business as usual has apparently proved impossible.
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“We had hoped that when Mike stepped down from the host position at <em>Jeopardy!</em> it would have minimized the disruption and internal difficulties we have all experienced these last few weeks,” Prete’s memo <a href="https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/mike-richards-fired-executive-producer-
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jeopardy-wheel-of-fortune-1235052887/">stated</a>. “That clearly has not happened.” Prete and producer Michael Davies, founder of the Sony subsidiary Embassy Row and executive producer of <em>Who Wants to Be a Millionaire</em>, will be juggling producer duties as the search continues — now for a new executive producer as well as a new permanent <em>Jeopardy</em> host.
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So: Who <em>is</em> Mike Richards, and how did he land, then lose, such a coveted job? His rise and fall feels almost scripted: A powerful man seems to override a fair selection process, then succumbs to scandal due to the skeletons in his closet. But this familiar story can tell us plenty about <em>Jeopardy</em> and its cultural role — and what might be next for the show itself.
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Mike Richards became executive producer of <em>Jeopardy</em> a year ago, after the departure of longtime executive Harry Friedman at the end of the show’s 2019–2020 season. A jubilant <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/jeopardy-wheel-of-fortune-harry-friedman-mike-
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richards-1203318155/">announcement</a> about the switchover in August 2019 noted that Richards had programmed 4,000 hours of game shows during his career — a career that has seen Richards earn four Daytime Emmy awards and 19 nominations.
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According to <a href="https://www.pepperdine.edu/magazine/2021/07/ahead-game/">an alumni profile</a> from Pepperdine University, the 46-year-old Richards began hosting a college TV show in the mid-’90s — <em>The Randumb Show</em>, described as “a weekly late-night sketch comedy talk show which won multiple college broadcasting awards.” Years later, Richards would revive a version of <em>The Randumb Show</em> in podcast form. But first, in 1997, as a new college grad, he leveraged it to gain an internship at <em>The Tonight Show</em> — and his career took off from there.
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By the mid-aughts, Richards had moved from production assistant roles to hosting duties for reality shows like <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460625/"><em>Beauty and the Geek</em></a>. In 2007, he auditioned to host <em>The Price Is Right</em> before assuming the role of <a href="https://variety.com/2008/scene/news/price-names-executive-producer-1117990000/">executive producer</a> instead. He has also reportedly auditioned to host <em>American Idol</em>.
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These industry experiences, especially his intermittent hosting roles, might have made him a veteran primed for the <em>Jeopardy</em> job, but once he was named host, they also made him look insincere to many <em>Jeopardy</em> fans. As past <em>Jeopardy</em> champion Kristin Sausville <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2021/8/18/22631299/mike-richards-jeopardy-host-search-process-
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past-comments">told</a> the Ringer, “[I]t looks like Richards just wanted to host a game show, any game show.”
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Outside of his short tenure as a producer, Richards lacked an intimate tie to <em>Jeopardy</em> or a long- professed love for the show. This made him<strong> </strong>an outlier among the many guest hosts who helmed <em>Jeopardy</em> since Trebek’s illness and death. Popular guest host Ken Jennings is a <em>Jeopardy</em> legend, the most-winning contestant in the show’s history. NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers, a lifelong fan, <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2021/4/5/22368705/aaron-rodgers-jeopardy-guest-host-q-and-a">prepared for his stint</a> as host as intensely as if he were drilling for the Super Bowl. Fan-favorite Burton is a former <em>Celebrity Jeopardy</em> winner who’s been talking about his dream of hosting <em>Jeopardy </em>for nearly a decade.
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Richards also came across to some viewers as a stand-in in other ways. As <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2021/8/5/22611962/jeopardy-new-host-mike-richards-sony">reported</a> by the Ringer’s Claire McNear (a <em>Jeopardy</em> expert who <a href="https://www.twelvebooks.com/titles/claire-
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mcnear/answers-in-the-form-of-questions/9781538702321/">published a book</a> about the show in 2020), Richards may have pushed his way into guest-hosting the show earlier this year by seizing on a planned host’s scheduling conflict that the Ringer described as “minor.” In other words, Richards may have come up with a more-or-less artificial reason for him to take a spin as an emergency guest host, as if he were doing the show a favor by rescuing it from a crisis.
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events/jeopardy-welcomes-mayim-bialik-and-mike-richards-new-hosts">an August 11 press release</a> issued <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ftLvZtE2NmQJ:https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/tagged/mayim-
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bialik+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us">that was later deleted</a>, that the decision to elevate Richards was made not solely by him but rather “a senior group of executives at Sony Pictures Television,” based on “research from multiple panels and focus groups as well as input from the show’s partners and viewers.” Still, it’s difficult to align that insistence with audiences’ <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jeopardy/comments/lpv887/jeopardy_recap_for_mon_feb_22_debut_of_mike/goeijuh/">general</a> <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/tv/news-that-mike-richards-might-be-new-jeopardy-host-met-with-
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resounding-meh-in-seattle/">ambivalence</a> about his hosting performance, as a brutal Morning Consult <a href="https://www.krqe.com/entertainment-news/poll-finds-jeopardy-fans-overwhelmingly-wanted-levar-burton-not-mike-
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The whole situation smacked of opportunism — traits hardly befitting a program like <em>Jeopardy. </em>After all, the game show originally launched in the ’60s as <a href="https://www.history.com/news/quiz-show-scandal-fraud-jeopardy">a more honest alternative</a> to the scandal-laden trivia contests of the ’50s. In addition to the show’s “answer first, followed by the question” format serving as an antidote to more manipulative game show styles, <em>Jeopardy</em> has long generated a sense of unmatched community pride among its fans and contestants.
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The show is a test of its audience’s intelligence and cleverness, and its egalitarian format makes it a microcosm of the American dream. The contest rewards anyone with a lot of knowledge and a little skill at making good bets, which is practically a template for how success in the US is theoretically supposed to work: On <em>Jeopardy,</em> we can see that fabled merit system reward nightly dividends.
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The hosts are part of <em>Jeopardy</em>’s myth-making. In its decades-long run, the show has had only two main hosts — original host Art Fleming and longtime host Trebek, each with reputations that matched the show’s largely scandal-free record.
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Given <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/jeopardy-
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mike-richards-journalism-media-claire-mcnear/2021/08/23/c91d090c-040d-11ec-a266-7c7fe02fa374_story.html">how leery many were</a> of Richards’s selection, it was all but a given that his reputation and past history would be carefully examined to make sure they could live up to the reputation of <em>Jeopardy</em> itself.
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After <a href="https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/mike-richards-jeopardy-host-alex-trebek-1235034673/">the news broke</a> in early August that Richards was in talks to assume the role of host, media outlets began <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeopardy-host-frontrunner-mike-richards-alleged-history-of-harassment-
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discrimination">reporting</a> on several decade-old lawsuits involving Richards and allegations of sexism.
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<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/price-is-right-model-wins-393521/">One suit</a>, filed by former <em>The Price Is Right</em> model Brandy Cochran against the show’s production team in 2010, saw Cochran win $7.7 million in damages after the court found the production team had discriminated against her and then fired her for getting pregnant. Amid other allegations, Cochran said that Richards, then one of the show’s producers, refused to interact with her on set after implying he should have fired her before her pregnancy announcement. She also claimed Richards had pushed for the models to wear skimpier clothing onstage and had made derogatory comments about women in swimsuits.
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right-lawsuit-pregnancy-discrimination-293805/">another lawsuit</a> filed alongside Cochran’s but later dismissed, <em>The Price Is Right</em> model Shane Stirling alleged that Richards joked that he’d fired five other models, only to be left with the one who had gotten pregnant.
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Richards denied the allegations in court in 2012, and then <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeopardy-host-frontrunner-mike-richards-brushes-off-price-is-right-lawsuits-
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in-staff-memo?ref=author">denied them again</a> this month, sending an internal memo to staff in which he insisted, “The way in which my comments and actions have been characterized in these complaints does not reflect the reality of who I am or how we worked together on The Price is Right.”
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Richards’s reputation took another hit, however, as the resurfaced lawsuits joined with other unsavory comments that McNear uncovered for the Ringer. These originated in a 2013 podcast titled <em>The Randumb Show</em>, recycling the name but not the format of Richards’s original college sketch show. The podcast and all of its 41 episodes were deleted from its hosting platform on August 17, but as reported by McNear, many of them featured Richards voicing a litany of controversial opinions.
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In one episode, he referred to “booth babes” — women who cosplay and promote products at industry conventions — as “booth whores,” among other epithets. In other episodes, he made jokes drawing on harmful anti-Semitic stereotypes. McNear’s reporting prompted the <a href="https://twitter.com/ADL/status/1428446674574188546">Anti-Defamation League to call for an investigation</a> into Richards’s history.
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In still more episodes, Richards mocked people on food stamps, welfare, and anyone who takes money from the government. He also dropped disparaging remarks about Haiti while discussing his guest’s apartment complex: “Does Beth live, like, in Haiti? Doesn’t it sound like that? Like, the urine smell, the woman in the muumuu, the stray cats.”
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The Ringer noted that several times on the podcast, Richards praised figures like <em>American Idol</em> host Ryan Seacrest and <em>Survivor </em>host Jeff Probst — who, he claimed, have “actually made the world a safer place for what I like to call the ‘skinny white host,’ like [frequent game show host] George [Gray] and I. Which is, you’ll take a chance on someone that you don’t know.” Richards seemed to be implying that such hosts would make it easier for an unknown white man to be considered for future hosting gigs.
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When it came to naming a new host for <em>Jeopardy,</em> Sony’s decision committee didn’t appear to want to take a chance on anyone but Richards. The only exception was offering a recurring slot to Bialik as the host of occasional primetime specials. (In the wake of Richards’s departure, Bialik will now serve as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/business/mayim-bialik-jeopardy-host.html"><em>Jeopardy</em>’s guest host for at least 15 episodes</a>.)
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As late as the day before he stepped down, with backlash still growing, Richards <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mike-richards-adl-1235000199/">went to work</a> filming the new season, which was set to begin airing on September 13, 2021. He even <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2021/8/18/22631299/mike-richards-jeopardy-host-search-process-past-
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comments">responded</a> to the Ringer’s investigation with a lengthy apology.
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“It is humbling to confront a terribly embarrassing moment of misjudgment, thoughtlessness, and insensitivity from nearly a decade ago,” Richards said in a statement. “Looking back now, there is no excuse, of course, for the comments I made on this podcast and I am deeply sorry.”
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Perhaps if Richards hadn’t already been widely perceived as a disingenuous crown-snatcher, his apology might have gone over better. Instead, within days, he was out.
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The <em>Jeopardy</em> woes remind us that a sterling reputation is difficult to uphold
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On Friday, August 20, Richards announced through an official statement given to the Ringer’s McNear from Sony that he would be stepping down and that the studio would relaunch its search for a new host.
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BREAKING: Mike Richards has stepped down as the host of Jeopardy! Official statement via Sony: <a href="https://t.co/eJSwyBOXwN">pic.twitter.com/eJSwyBOXwN</a>
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— Claire McNear (<span class="citation" data-cites="clairemcnear">@clairemcnear</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/clairemcnear/status/1428720429615681551?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2021</a>
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While many fans reacted to the news with jubilance, others were wearied at the thought of another protracted search for a new host. With Bialik resuming guest host duties for now,<strong> </strong>it’s unclear whether Sony will ultimately draw from the existing pool of now-seasoned hosts it has courted all year or whether it will look further afield.
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What does seem clear is that any new candidate for the job will most likely face a whole new level of scrutiny to determine whether they meet the long list of new moral qualifications that have attached to the job.
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In part because of LeVar Burton’s role as a wholesome role model to the internet, many fans, including celebrities like <a href="https://twitter.com/VancityReynolds/status/1428796230545645568">Ryan Reynolds</a>, support Burton becoming the next host. Other guest hosts have become the targets of scorn from fans because of their own less-than-stellar histories. As Daniel Feinberg <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mike-richards-jeopardy-hosting-
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debacle-critics-notebook-1235000610/">wrote for the Hollywood Reporter</a>, “Selecting somebody with Richards’ background of ambitious ickiness was an affront to Alex Trebek’s legacy of fundamental decency, but I’m still more offended by what Dr. Oz’s guest run did to the show’s legacy of intellectual honesty.”
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Meanwhile, while Bialik has been a popular guest host, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/mayim-bialik-faces-calls-step-down-
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jeopardy-host-after-mike-richards-departure-1621598">backlash continues to grow</a> against her due to her <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeopardy-host-mayim-bialiks-ugly-history-of-shaming-weinsteins-victims-and-being-an-
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anti-vaxxer">history</a> of making anti-vaccine statements, along with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/opinion/mayim-bialik-feminist-harvey-weinstein.html">a 2017 New York Times op- ed</a> on Hollywood sexual misconduct in which she warned women in the industry against behaving “flirtatiously” and “having others celebrate your physical beauty.” She later <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2017/10/mayim-bialik-
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apologizes-for-controversial-weinstein-op-ed.html">apologized</a> for the op-ed, but that hasn’t stopped <em>Jeopardy</em> fans from escalating the push for her removal; since the August 23 announcement that Bialik would return as a guest host, social media attention has turned to further excavating her past.
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at last a host free of controversy <br/>[googles Mayim Bialik]<br/>oh no <a href="https://t.co/7vycUgM3PG">https://t.co/7vycUgM3PG</a>
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— Dave Itzkoff (<span class="citation" data-cites="ditzkoff">@ditzkoff</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/1429848761409409024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2021</a>
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With the quest to find a new, morally sacrosanct host intensifying, backlash continued to build against Richards after his failed hosting attempt. Some fans had been <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/calls-grow-mike-
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richards-step-down-jeopardy-executive-producer-1621991">calling for Richards</a> to resign from his role as executive producer since the moment he stepped down as host, foreshadowing that the entire debacle would eventually end with his leaving <em>Jeopardy</em> altogether. The factors that led to Richards’s departure from his original job, however, seem to be more internal than external: Variety <a href="https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/mike-richards-fired-executive-
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producer-jeopardy-wheel-of-fortune-1235052887/">reported</a> that staff on both <em>Wheel of Fortune</em> and <em>Jeopardy </em>had been left floundering and leaderless in the wake of the scandal.
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The result of this sequence of events is perhaps a reminder that <a href="https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Pride+goes+before+a+fall">pride goes before a fall</a>, or at least before scorned game show fans rummage through history to prove you are unworthy of wearing <em>Jeopardy</em>’s crown. It’s also a reminder that <em>Jeopardy</em>’s importance extends beyond that of the average game show. Because the program combines intellectual curiosity with meritocracy in a way that makes geekery seem fashionable, <em>Jeopardy</em> stands as America’s most popular and culturally significant game show.
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Its mostly scandal-free legacy, then, is a big deal — not only because the show is so popular, but because <em>Jeopardy </em>might just be one of the few cultural cornerstones that still unites Americans,<strong> </strong>one whose moral integrity and significance we can all agree on despite our many other differences. Throughout its decades-long run, <em>Jeopardy</em>’s biggest controversies have not been so large — such as complaints about <a href="https://www.today.com/popculture/jeopardy-
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contestant-addresses-critics-who-felt-he-was-too-arrogant-t218741">arrogant winners</a> or <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/5/2/18516852/jeopardy-james-holzhauer-record-winning-streak-hero-villain">card- shark contestant James Holzhauer</a>, whose mathematical gameplay was condemned by many fans as ruinous to the game’s spontaneity and fun.
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The Mike Richards saga has threatened that legacy, and in its aftermath, with so much on the line, any future host will need to have a reputation that lives up to that of <em>Jeopardy</em> itself.
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They’ll not only have Alex Trebek’s giant shoes to fill — they’ll have to convince the public that they deserve to wear them.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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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>Chhattisgarh govt. permits schools to reopen for Classes 6 and up with 50% attendance</strong> - Schools will be started only in districts where the coronavirus positivity rate has been below 1% for seven days</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>Court for lawmakers fixes Sept 9 for framing of charges against ten politicians</strong> - The case against ten was filed for allegedly making hate speeches.</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>ED conducts search operations in Kolkata in connection with COVID-linked corruption</strong> - Several persons, who were accused of indulging in money laundering by hoarding and black marketing or supplying fake medicines and duplicate instruments like oximeter, have been summoned and interrogated</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>No of COVID-19 breakthrough infections in India within expected numbers: INSACOG</strong> - The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) said Delta continues to be the dominant lineage in India and globally</p></li>
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A flat-chested young lady went to Dr.Rustom about enlarging her breasts. Dr Rustom advised her ‘Every day after your shower, rub your chest and say, ’Scooby doobie doobies, I want bigger boobies!’
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To her utter amazement she grew terrific D-cup boobs! One morning she was running late, got on the bus, and in a panic realized she had forgotten her morning ritual. Frightened she might lose her lovely boobs if she didn’t recite the little rhyme, she stood right there in the middle aisle of the bus, closed her eyes and said, ‘Scooby doobie, doobies, I want bigger boobies.’
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‘Yes I am.. How did you know?’
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