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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>Trolled by Trump, Again</strong> - Thoughts after a week of waiting and waiting for the indictment that the former President promised. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/trolled-by-trump-again">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Secret Joke at the Heart of the Harvard Affirmative-Action Case</strong> - A federal official wrote a parody of Harvard’s attitude toward Asian Americans and shared it with the dean of admissions. Why did a judge try to hide that from the public? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-secret-joke-at-the-heart-of-the-harvard-affirmative-action-case">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Advice for Alvin Bragg from Former Trump Prosecutors</strong> - The Manhattan District Attorney faces huge legal and political challenges, but the former President’s antics could help the prosecution’s case. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/advice-for-alvin-bragg-from-former-trump-prosecutors">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Should Latinos Be Considered a Race?</strong> - A proposed change to the census faces opposition from Afro-Latino groups, and exposes conflicts among Latino communities. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/should-latinos-be-considered-a-race">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Jia Tolentino on the Ozempic Weight-Loss Craze</strong> - A drug designed to treat diabetes is changing how celebrities—and maybe the rest of us—will look. Plus, D. T. Max on the Latino author who fabricated his very identity. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/jia-tolentino-on-the-ozempic-weight-loss-craze">link</a></p></li>
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A non-stressful approach to figuring out what guides you.
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It might have been a minute since you paused to consider your life’s purpose — if you ever have at all. It can be an overwhelming question, lofty and existential, and according to the people who study it, one that is frequently misunderstood.
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“‘Purpose’ is conflated with lots of other words,” says <a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/william-damon">William Damon</a>, a professor of education at Stanford University, “like ‘meaning’ and ‘passion.’” Purpose, however, is something different — it’s broader than a goal, but it’s the guiding motivation that gives your life a sense of direction.
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According to Damon, a life purpose has three components: It’s a long-term calling, act, or way of life that interests you; it’s something you have some competence in; and it makes a marginal difference in the world. Striving to be the best parent you can is a purpose — raising kids to become caring, respectful, and happy adults is your way of making a material impact — whereas wanting to make a lot of money with the sole intention of satisfying your every whim is not. It’s also common to have multiple purposes in life, Damon says: Your faith, your family, the satisfaction you get from your job are all common sources.
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Considering your purpose may seem like a project for the privileged, that you must have enough time and money to seriously consider your values. However, purpose can relate to practical matters, such as keeping your family safe, as well as the broader contours of your interests. You can work toward your purpose in incremental ways without sacrificing resources.
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If you struggle to define your purpose, to clearly articulate the thing — or things — you excel in that also leaves a mark on society, don’t fret. In his 20 years of research on life purpose, Damon finds most people falter for a bit before landing on the activity that lights their fire — about a quarter of participants in almost all of his studies did not have a purpose, he says. But gradually, he adds, over time, people do become more purposeful. “Out of all the things I’ve studied in terms of capacities and skills that young people develop,” Damon says, “purpose is the slowest one because it doesn’t really come to fruition until for most people until the late 20s, early 30s.”
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Purpose isn’t fixed, either. As your life and values change, your purpose may, too. Throughout their lifespan, people’s purpose shifts according to their circumstances. Those parents who found purpose rearing their children may feel untethered and without meaning once they become empty-nesters. Or, an adult in their 40s may realize their creative hobby brings joy to an audience beyond their inner circle and decide to devote their time to sharing their talents.
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Having a purpose in life isn’t simply a fanciful pursuit. Research has found that having purpose can <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2734064">prolong life</a>, <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1814723116">reduce depressive symptoms</a>, and <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17439760903271439">improve life satisfaction</a>. Whether you’re faltering or flourishing, you can cultivate a purpose — or align your interests to live more purposefully. All it takes is some mining of the soul.
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How to cultivate purpose in your own life
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Thinking as broadly as possible, ask yourself some potentially challenging questions. What do you care about? What do you hope to accomplish? What difference do you want to make? What do you have to offer? What skills do you have that support the issues you’re passionate about? “It’s an ongoing process of reflecting on the things that you want to address in your life, the things you want to accomplish, or make progress toward in your life, and thinking about what you can uniquely contribute to that issue,” says <a href="https://www.cgu.edu/people/kendall-cotton-bronk/">Kendall Cotton Bronk</a>, a professor of psychology at Claremont Graduate University. “And it doesn’t happen overnight.”
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As counterintuitive as it may sound, purpose shouldn’t be something achievable, says <a href="https://artsci.wustl.edu/faculty-staff/patrick-hill">Patrick Hill</a>, an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Goals, even long-term ones, are still more short-term than purpose, which is a lifelong framework under which to organize those goals, Hill says. “If your purpose in life was to perform on Broadway and the first time you perform on Broadway, you’ve succeeded,” he says. “Then it’s like, what do I do now?” Instead, take that specific goal, such as performing on Broadway, and think bigger. Instead, your purpose may be to share unique and diverse stories with a wider audience.
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In a <a href="https://www3.nd.edu/~dlapsle1/Lab/Articles%20&%20Chapters_files/Hill%20Burrow%20Brandenbeger%20et%20al%20%282010%29%20JADP.pdf">2010 study</a>, Hill developed four categories of life purposes: creative, prosocial, financial, and personal recognition. For example, people with creative purposes are fulfilled by various artistic pursuits throughout their lives — performing in school plays as a kid, writing for the college newspaper, or pursuing a career as a copywriter. Prosocially focused people have goals of helping others, people with financial purposes are motivated by economic well-being, and personal recognition orientation is marked by a desire for respect from colleagues and peers. While the means of living out your purpose changes depending on your age and circumstances, Hill found that the same motivation drives you. “Whatever your purpose in life is, you’re probably going to pursue it and progress towards it in different ways across the lifespan,” Hill says. “Which doesn’t necessarily mean your purpose has changed, but just the way that you engage with it changed.”
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One of Hill’s <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363917270_The_PATHS_to_Purpose_A_New_Framework_toward_Understanding_Purpose_Development">recent studies</a> outlined three ways people nurture their purpose. Some are proactive in their quest: they define a goal — to mentor others, for example — and work toward achieving it. Others stumble onto their raison d’être and upon deeper reflection, realize their actions have been serving their purpose all along. People also take inspiration from their peers and attempt to pursue a passion in the same manner. While these frameworks aren’t necessarily prescriptive in nature, Cotton Bronk says, intentional thinking may lead you down one of these paths of discovery.
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Your job can be purposeful, but not your sole purpose
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One of the most common ways of living out purpose is through work. This isn’t inherently a bad thing: When people pursue their passions, they tend to end up in jobs they enjoy and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220902-the-search-for-meaning-at-work">give them meaning</a>. But because <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/26/work-is-the-most-important-way-of-proving-your-worth-in-the-us-says-professor.html">American society values work</a> above leisure, art, and community, people tend to lose themselves in labor. “If your job is your sole source of meaning and identity, and you lose it, what’s left?” says Simone Stolzoff, author of the forthcoming book <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704142/the-good-enough-job-by-simone-stolzoff/"><em>The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work</em></a>.
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Untangling work from purpose can be difficult. For instance, if your purpose is to support your family, working an unfulfilling yet well-paying job is still meeting your purpose, Damon says. You should never feel ashamed for trying to get by. But if you can, try to foster purpose during non-working hours. Stolzoff stresses the importance of engaging in meaningful activities outside of work: coffee dates with friends, tending to a community garden, playing on a recreational sports league, exploring your faith. Regardless if your job gives you purpose or if it’s simply a way of funding the rest of your life, you can meet your need for passion (which is not the same as purpose, but is good to have) outside of work through enjoyable hobbies, like reading, knitting, or playing music — all energizing activities, but ones you do for yourself, and not for the greater good.
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It is possible to tie your job to a greater purpose. In a <a href="https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/Crafting-a-Job_Revisioning-Employees.pdf">study of cleaners in a hospital</a>, those who saw themselves as integral to the patients’ healing process found more meaning in their jobs than those who did not. “Connecting what you do to a greater sense of ‘why’ can often make the daily tasks and fluctuations of your job more pleasurable,” Stolzoff says. “Just be clear about why you care about what you’re doing, and how those values are reflected in your behaviors, and how you choose to spend your time.”
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Because many people do find purpose in their work, retirement or periods of unemployment can be unmooring. During this phase of life, think back on the core purpose your job fulfilled — perhaps educating people — and find ways to achieve that elsewhere, Damon says, like substitute teaching, babysitting grandchildren, or volunteering at a youth organization.
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So how do you nurture purpose when life is always changing? If you’re in the middle of a major move, in an unfulfilling job, or are dealing with new circumstances — like parenthood or retirement — living purposefully can seem like a daunting task. Hill recommends paying attention to the activities in your day-to-day life that motivate you, excite you, or make you feel goal-oriented. “Organize your life in a way that allows for you to make those things more habitual,” Hill says. “Ultimately, that can be a way to help people think about developing a purpose from the ground up, eventually.”
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If you struggle to identify anything that enlivens you at work or at home, take it as a sign that you may not have purpose in this domain, Hill says. You shouldn’t quit your job if you find no excitement in it, but how can you manufacture motivation in other areas of your life? Maybe that means joining an activist organization that fights for systemic change or teaching piano lessons to neighborhood kids.
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Since purpose tends to materialize well into adulthood, Damon suggests looking back on previous moments in your life when you had a sense of fulfillment: when you were captain of the basketball team, when you helped a lost tourist find their hotel, when you tutored your cousin in math. “It gives them clues about the kinds of experiences that offer them this satisfaction and what they’re capable of,” Damon says. How can you recreate these circumstances where you thrive within your current life?
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Clearly defining the areas where you make the most impact can be difficult. Enlisting the help of trusted friends or loved ones gives you an objective view of your strengths, Cotton Bronk says. Try asking five people — mentors, colleagues, friends, family — three questions, she suggests: “What do you think I do particularly well?” “What do you think I really enjoy doing?” and “How do you think I will leave my mark?” Often, those in your inner circle can more easily identify your talents and passions than you can.
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Cultivating a purpose and marching on the path of progress looks different for everyone. What you value and excel in will be unique to you and the various seasons of your life. Just make sure your purpose is what matters to <em>you</em>.
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“The important part is that you’re actively choosing,” Stolzoff says. “Opposed to, as is all too often the case, inheriting the values of the institutions that we’re a part of. We start climbing ladders that we don’t actually want to be on, or playing games we don’t actually want to win because we haven’t taken the time to think critically about, what is it that I actually value?”
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Last week marked the fifth anniversary of the 2018 <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/26/17160646/march-for-our-lives-crowd-size-count">March for Our Lives</a> demonstration in Washington, DC.
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The student-led demonstration brought the issue of mass shootings to the forefront of American conversation and reignited a longstanding debate on what to do about the pervasive issue of gun violence across the country.
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Now, five years later, its first national organizing director, <a href="https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2022/11/29/23482867/maxwell-frost-florida-midterm-elections-2022-gen-z-congress">Maxwell Frost</a>, is a first-term Congress member representing Florida’s 10th District.
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast"><em>Today, Explained</em></a> hosts <a href="https://www.vox.com/authors/noel-king">Noel King</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/authors/sean-rameswaram">Sean Rameswaram</a> sat down with Frost and <a href="https://www.vox.com/videos/2018/4/19/17253324/strikethrough-parkland-student-david-hogg-beats-critics">David Hogg</a>, a co-founder of March for Our Lives. Hogg and Frost are part of America’s increasingly politically influential Gen Z generation. They shared what they think their generation cares about when it comes to gun violence, climate change, and the 2024 presidential election. Plus, Rep. Frost walks us through the details of a new bill he co-introduced with Sen. Chris Murphy, which would create the first federal office dedicated to gun violence prevention.
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<em>Below is an excerpt of the conversation, edited for length and clarity. There’s much more in the full podcast, so find </em>Today, Explained<em> on </em><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/today-explained/id1346207297"><em>Apple Podcasts</em></a><em>, </em><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3pXx5SXzXwJxnf4A5pWN2A"><em>Spotify</em></a><em>, </em><a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/vox/today-explained"><em>Stitcher</em></a><em>, or </em><a href="https://link.chtbl.com/todayexplainedpod"><em>wherever you listen.</em></a>
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How are you feeling right now about the five-year anniversary of the March for Our Lives?
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Complicated. I wouldn’t say that I’m always hopeful by any means, considering what happens every day in this country with this issue. But I also am not entirely pessimistic either. How could you be? We were a group of high school students that started out five years ago, who many people said would never do anything and would never amount to anything. But now I’m sitting in this room with you all five years later, with the first member of Congress from our organization to be elected as the youngest member of Congress.
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You want to organize on the ground, but you want a movement that permeates the culture, bridges the gap between cool and consciousness, and builds an environment where people want to do it because it’s the thing to do or it’s cool or whatever. And that’s really what March for Our Lives did, especially that whole year. It was cool to go to the march. I remember going to mine and seeing a ton of people I didn’t see in a long time. They were like, “Yeah, I just felt like I had to be here. Like it’s the moment.” And that’s why I always say, the way you know the strength of a movement, it’s what they’re doing when no one gives a shit, when it’s not in the news, when no one cares. Because when it is on the news and people care, the way you organize the infrastructure you built, that’s what matters. And so that’s what we see March for Our Lives doing today,
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What was the objective five years ago? I mean, you have, as you say, millions of young people out in the streets. But at that point, you also need them to do something. What was it you were trying to get out of this moment?
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One, it enabled us to help register voters. Two, it helped set the tone for a generation and a cultural shift in that generation to say, this is who we are. I think one of the most important things the marches have done is offer survivors solidarity and in knowing that they’re not alone. I think that’s one of the really hard things about this is survivors, because of the guilt that they feel, put so much pressure on themselves that they have to solve this that it crushes the movement because those people end up not being able to take care of themselves and they end up feeling crushed. When you’re there with your friends and your allies and you make new friends, you know that you’re not alone and you know that you can have the permission to step back when you need to rest. And it’s not reliant on any single one of us.
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March for Our Lives sent me and Sean this very tantalizing fact, which is that this movement has won the passage of 250-plus gun laws since it began. That’s an extraordinary number. What are those laws and where would we see them out in the wild?
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One of the laws that we did pass after Parkland was the thing called an extremist protection order or a red flag law that enables you to disarm somebody that is a risk to themselves or others. An instance where this was actually used was for my own mom. Somebody threatened to kill my mom and sent her a death threat that said F with the NRA and you’ll be DOA. We used the law that we passed after Parkland to disarm that individual that lived, I think, only like 20 minutes away from us. That law has now been used at least, last I checked, I think it was around 9,000 times. There’s a lot of people, the detractors out there say, well, you know, gun laws don’t work. But the reality is no law is perfect. I will fully admit that. But, you know, that law may have helped prevent me from having to bury my own mom.
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How do you go about taking credit for 250 laws when there’s been this preexisting movement for decades?
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I would say that we are part of it and helping to reignite a movement that was already there before us, especially a movement pioneered by Black women in places like Jamaica, Queens, in New York City, like Erica Ford. I like to think that part of the change that March for Our Lives helped bring, from really the beginning when we started this work, was about making sure it’s not just about Parkland, it’s not just about Sandy Hook, or any community that goes through mass shootings. It’s about communities that go through all forms of gun violence, and not speaking for them, but making sure that people understand that they have always been in this conversation and they have to be part of the conversation. It can’t just be about how we stop gun violence inside of schools.
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Rep. Frost, I hear that you’re getting ready to introduce your first piece of legislation. Can you tell us what’s in it?
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We’re releasing a piece of legislation that’s bicameral, introduced in both the Senate and the House, with Sen. Chris Murphy, who I’ve known for a long time from my work going to the Sandy Hook vigils and everything. This is a piece of legislation that’s pretty simple. What it does is it creates a federal Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which is really important for many different reasons. Number one, the federal government does not have a coordinated approach to ending gun violence. And so what this would do is have a coordinating office department that works with DHS, ATF, HHS, all these different agencies to provide a coordinated response to ending gun violence that’s both preventative and reactionary and looks at the root causes and provides data for members of Congress. Most of the data and research that comes from this issue does not come from our government. It comes from outside organizations, third-party organizations, nonprofits. That’s important work but [government work is needed] for an issue that takes 100 lives a day. In this country, right now, the leading cause of death for children is gun violence. So this would be a federal coordinated approach to ending gun violence, looking at the causes, providing real data after these horrible situations happen. So that way members of Congress, state legislatures, municipal governments have real data from the government, so that way they can act upon it.
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Do you have any idea how this is going to land?
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I think we have a really good opportunity to get this done, whether it’s through Congress or through executive action, because the president can also create the office himself. So we’re hoping that one of the two will end up happening.
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What else is on Gen Z’s agenda?
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I don’t think Gen Z cares about different values or issues more than other Americans, right? If you were to ask people of past generations about moments that were defining for their generation, no matter who they are, you hear about the moon landing, post 9/11. Where the country came together for our generation, you ask them and you’re gonna hear Parkland, Pulse, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, death, death, death, trauma. It really changes the way a generation thinks about the issues because we’re kind of confused, like why are we still dealing with these issues? And we want to be a part of the solution. We’re not here to play the blame game.
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I think we care about the existential climate crisis that we’re seeing the effects of. We care about ending gun violence because we see that young people are really at the front lines of this issue a lot of the time, especially when it comes to, yes, mass shootings, but also, unfortunately, what many folks call daily gun violence, that’s in a lot of our communities — especially Black and brown communities, that stems from underinvestment in our communities, poverty, and the economic status of a lot of our people. I think the age of the single-issue voter is kind of dying because young people really see things holistically and they really care about everything because they know everything is connected.
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In order to enact the agenda that you are talking about, a Democrat needs to be president of this country. Right now, two of the biggest threats to that happening in 2024 come from your home state — former President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis — who, Maxwell, you have accused of engaging in, um, fascism.
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Number one, I think Ron DeSantis is the greatest threat to democracy in this country right now. This governor took the New College of Florida, a small liberal arts college, less than 1,000 students, and he wants to make an example of them. So he abused his power as governor and completely took out the board of trustees, put a bunch of conservative lap dogs on it, fired the president of the university, and installed a new interim president who is the former Republican speaker of the House, who is not qualified to be the president of the university. DeSantis also changed the salary from $200,000 to $699,000 a year. Then the state allocated $15 million in like a few days to this university for “institutional changes,” which they’re going to use to market to a lot more conservative areas to change the demographics of the students. I say that to say, this is not something that governors do. He’s using his power to close down businesses and attack teachers. There’s this atmosphere of fear in, not just in Orlando, but across the entire state, because of what he’s doing.
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What does it say to you guys that this individual you define as a fascist is exceedingly popular?
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We have to realize that a lot of these polls poll likely voters who are not the entire population of a state. I’m not saying he’s not super popular in the state of Florida, but there’s a difference between policy and politics. When you have enough money and when there’s voids in democratic organizing in a state, you’re able to shift the narrative. Most people would hear about permitless carry and over 70 percent of Floridians say, “No, that’s a stupid idea. We don’t want that.” But then a lot of the same people would say, “Yes, I want to vote for DeSantis.” It’s because he’s effective at separating those two things.
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What’s happening is Republicans are doubling down on their efforts to fuel voter suppression to change who can vote, to change who the voters are instead of changing their policies. It’s going to backfire on them eventually when those demographics that they’re relying on die out because they are inherently older and our generation can come in to start replacing them.
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But Joe Biden does not represent your generation per se. Joe Biden is not a young progressive, and young progressives have argued he’s not even that progressive. We’re looking at a situation in which potentially the Democratic nominee is in his 80s. You are both in your 20s. Should Joe Biden run again or is it time for someone new, someone younger?
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I always have the same answer to this because I truly believe this. If the president wants to run again, which it seems like he does, I’m gonna support him. Do I agree with him on everything? No, I worked for Bernie Sanders in the primary. I’m definitely to the left of the president. But I’m very pleasantly surprised. The president just took this executive action on gun violence. He signed into law the bipartisan Safer Communities Act. Is it everything that we need to end gun violence? No, but it’s going to save lives. You look at something like Build Back Better — the fact that the president put that forward, free universal tuition, free college, two-year college for all of our people, free child care for all of our people. Everything that was in Build Back Better, I think if we would have passed it, Democrats would still have the House right now. I think we’ve seen a president that’s really surprised me as a young progressive. Do we agree on everything? No, but I’ll support him.
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When you see President Biden approving new oil drilling in Alaska, do you feel like you can come out and speak out against him? Or is the race in 2024 too fragile to risk speaking ill of the sitting president?
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I spoke out against the Willow project, and a lot of times in life, you have to hold multiple truths, especially in politics. The president who signed the law, the most money ever going to defeating the climate crisis, also approved a drilling project, which is going to be really bad for our environment. Both things are true, at the same time in our reality. It’s just something we have to hold and we figure out, how do we move forward? Does it mean we don’t work to hold them accountable? No. I talked about the fact that part of the reason Gen Z turned out is because of the president’s bold vision on the climate crisis and ending it and so I was honest about that. But that’s not to the detriment of 2024.
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I think there’s two ways that you can look at this. You can either look at what’s going on in Florida as, “Oh my gosh, everything’s turning back and we’re losing,” which is what they want us to believe, that there was absolutely nothing that we as people can do to stand up for the founding principles of our country. Granted, the men who talked about them are very, very, very deeply flawed. Nonetheless, I still think that most of us agree on those principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It means that all of us can succeed together because we all know and care about each other, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans that want a better future for all of us, because we know the best is ahead and not behind us.
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Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifies during the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hearing titled Fiscal Year 2024 Request for the Department of Defense, March 23. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
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The US Department of Defense is pouring money into hypersonic weapons after years of defense officials’ warnings that China is gaining superiority in that arena. But a 21st-century arms race is a major risk, especially without a full picture of Chinese weapons development and amid the increasingly poor relationship between the two nations.
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Hypersonic weapons, or vehicles and missiles that travel faster than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, aren’t new; the US has been developing and testing those weapons since the 1950s. But there’s been relatively little US<strong> </strong>investment in these systems in recent decades, while China and Russia have developed their hypersonics programs. Russia even <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/world/europe/hypersonic-missiles-russia-ukraine.html">used six of its hypersonic Kinzhal missiles in Ukraine earlier this month</a>, the largest number the country has deployed in one strike in the war. Other countries including Australia, Iran, both North and South Korea, Brazil, Germany, Israel, India, and Japan are developing hypersonic programs. However, the increase in funding and tempo of the US program comes as relations between the US and China are the worst they’ve been in decades.
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The DoD’s proposed budget for Army and Air Force hypersonics development and requisition for the years 2023 through 2027 sits at $15 billion, according to a January report from the <a href="https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58924#:~:text=DoD's%20Current%20Hypersonic%20Missile%20Programs,-The%20Department%20of&text=In%20its%20latest%20five%2Dyear,%242%20billion%20for%20procuring%20missiles.">Congressional Budget Office</a>. That figure doesn’t include the Navy’s hypersonics development program, which in February announced a $1.1 billion contract with the defense manufacturer <a href="https://news.lockheedmartin.com/2023-02-17-Lockheed-Martin-Awarded-1-1-Billion-Initial-Contract-to-Provide-Nations-First-Sea-Based-Hypersonic-Strike-Capability">Lockheed Martin</a> to add a hypersonic system to Zumwalt-class destroyers.
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/us/politics/china-hypersonic-missile.html">Defense officials</a> have been arguing for years that the US is “behind” China in its hypersonic weapons development, and that may be true. China fielded <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/ba0a3cde-719b-4040-93cb-a486e1f843fb">a test in 2021</a> of a hypersonic, nuclear-capable weapon which at the time took many in the defense community by surprise and showed astounding development in China’s hypersonics capabilities.
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“Once, American technological predominance was regarded as all but unassailable, and China tended to be dismissed as a copycat that was unlikely to close the gap,” Elsa Kania, an adjunct senior fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, told Vox in an email. “Today, recognition of China’s potential to lead in new frontiers and strategic technologies is heightening the urgency behind U.S. efforts and programs on several fronts.”
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Worryingly, there are no multilateral or bilateral treaties regarding the use of hypersonic weapons — a situation which, as <a href="https://thebulletin.org/2022/10/sixty-years-after-the-cuban-missile-crisis-how-to-face-a-new-era-of-global-catastrophic-risks/?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Ad&utm_campaign=SearchAds&utm_content=NuclearRisk_CMCnewera_10132022&gclid=Cj0KCQjwt_qgBhDFARIsABcDjOdtYl-YM_pEQvWLioD7Fi9Tq5ckT0nYWG006YNULw_SNoHKgEhkGUwaApD9EALw_wcB">the Cuban Missile Crisis</a> demonstrated in October 1962, can lead to global panic or even catastrophe. And there’s no current indication that any such treaty or agreement is on the table, given that the major players in the hypersonic space are on the outs with little desire to negotiate on much of anything, much less a burgeoning battlefield threat.
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Still, that hasn’t stopped US defense officials, legislators, and <a href="https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2023/01/24/lockheed-martin-lmt-q4-2022-earnings-call-transcri/">weapons manufacturers</a> from pushing ahead with lobbying for hypersonic technology — and as of now, the government is ready to pour money into the project.
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The US military began working on hypersonic systems back in the 1960s, mostly looking at <a href="https://www.popsci.com/technology/hypersonic-weapon-milestones/">hypersonic flight capabilities</a> for carrying people, not necessarily just weapons. But in the 1980s, that began to change, as Popular Science reported last year. That’s when the Air Force tested the Maneuvering Reentry Vehicle (MaRV), showing that missiles going at Mach 5 or faster as they re-entered Earth’s atmosphere could be maneuvered to hit a target. The US started pursuing hypersonic weapons development in earnest in the early 2000s, as part of its <a href="https://sgp.fas.org/crs/nuke/R41464.pdf">conventional prompt global strike program</a>.
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There are two main hypersonic weapons system concepts — the <a href="https://sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/IF11459.pdf">glide vehicle </a>and<a href="https://sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/IF11459.pdf"> </a><a href="https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/hypersonic-air-breathing-weapon-concept-hawc-usa/">air-breathing missile</a> — that the US is developing. While the weapons systems themselves are conventional, or non-nuclear, China is developing nuclear-capable missiles, as the 2021 tests showed.
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“China has been seeking ways to counter US missile defense systems for decades; China’s always felt that US missile defense systems undermine China’s nuclear deterrence,” Lyle Morris, fellow for foreign policy and national security at Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis told Vox in an interview. Starting in the early 2000s, China ramped up its hypersonics development in response to the dissolution of the <a href="https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/abmtreaty">Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty</a>, originally signed by the US and the Soviet Union. With anti-ballistic systems development now unfettered, China felt the need for a different kind of deterrent.
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Glide-type weapons, which China has tested, are launched from a ballistic missile, Timothy Heath, a senior international defense researcher at the RAND Corporation, explained. “The way their system works is you launch a ballistic missile with this hypersonic glider sitting on top of it. At a certain point, the glider separates from the ballistic missile and goes on this hypersonic trajectory, which is in the atmosphere, unlike a ballistic missile, and travels at hypersponic speeds, maneuvers, and strikes its target primarily using inertia from the launch.”
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According to Heath, China says they’re ready to deploy their hypersonic weapons, which is “a step or two beyond where the US program is right now, we are still in the testing phase of hypersonic missiles, so the Chinese do appear to have made faster progress than the US.” China’s ballistic missile program is<strong> </strong>also<strong> </strong>highly sophisticated; given that, and the US’s concurrent underinvestment in ballistic missiles, it’s not surprising that China was able to outpace the US in developing these weapons.
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Where hypersonic weapons really differ from ballistic weapons aren’t necessarily their speed, but their maneuverability in flight and their ability to evade missile detection and defense systems <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-is-patriot-missile-defense-system-2022-12-21/">like the Patriot</a>, one of the US’s most advanced missile defense system which is also used in 17 other countries besides the US. They <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hypersonic-weapons-cant-hide-from-new-eyes-in-space/#:~:text=They%20use%20aerodynamic%20lift%20to,used%20to%20track%20ballistic%20missiles">evade detection</a> during parts of their journey by exiting or nearly exiting the earth’s atmosphere, and by shifting their course during flight.
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“In the near term, hypersonic weapons systems are expected to have the potential to overcome even the most sophisticated air and missile defense systems,” Kania told Vox.
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Given China’s successful hypersonics testing and the hostile mood between Beijing and Washington, it’s reasonable to be concerned about the acceleration in both weapons development and hostile rhetoric. But in reality, there are several roadblocks to widespread use of these weapons in battle, given how expensive they are — <a href="https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58924">about $15 million to $18 million per missile</a>, according to the Congressional Budget Office — and the reality of the battlefield, where basics like <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/us/politics/military-weapons-ukraine-war.html">artillery</a> are much more useful.
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Some experts, including Morris and Heath, expressed doubt about the actual utility of hypersonics on the battlefield; according to a February report from the <a href="https://sgp.fas.org/crs/weapons/R45811.pdf">Congressional Research Service</a>, critics of the US’s hypersonics development program say the weapons “lack defined mission requirements, contribute little to US military capability, and are unnecessary for deterrence.”
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Of course, there’s also the concern that China could share technology with US adversaries like North Korea and Iran, and particularly Russia all of whom are standing up their own hypersonics programs. “As China and Russia seem to be on track to expand defense and technological cooperation, at least covertly, the transfer or sharing of data or research related to hypersonics development would be unsurprising,” Kania told Vox. “Certainly, Beijing has more leverage at this point and strong interest in learning from Russia’s experiences in Ukraine.”
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Part of the concern about China’s hypersonics program in particular is the idea that the US is being caught flat-footed, and that looking anything less than absolutely dominant is a problem for US defense. That concern was particularly evident in 2021, after China’s successful hypersonic missile tests. Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, referred to the tests as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/us/politics/china-hypersonic-missile.html">a precursor to China’s “Sputnik moment,”</a> comparing the test to <a href="https://history.nasa.gov/sputnik.html">the Soviet Union’s launch of the first artificial Earth-orbiting satellite</a> in 1957.
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If there were a conflict between the US and China or another adversary with hypersonic weapons, Heath said, hypersonics wouldn’t be the deciding factor “given that the US has such an advantage in other military technologies like stealth aircraft, long-range bombers, aircraft carriers, submarines — all of these conventional capabilities that allow the US to deploy forces far from the US and fight and dominate their adversaries without the need for long-range missiles.”
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Still, as the US pours money into hypersonics, and other nations develop their capabilities, it’s critically important to find a way to agree on how these weapons should be used in battle. That’s not likely to happen, Morris said, until there’s a major escalatory event — China’s military and the US defense apparatus are in a particularly touchy phase, and that lack of communication increases the risk of misunderstanding and miscalculation.
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Furthermore, most major weapons agreements have been between the US and Russia or the Soviet Union; since <a href="https://www.csis.org/analysis/russia-suspends-new-start-and-increases-nuclear-risks">Russia pulled out of the New START</a>, the last remaining major nuclear arms control treaty, the possibility of any kind of agreement to limit defense technologies is probably a pipe dream.
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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>Satwik-Chirag win Swiss Open title</strong> - Playing the Chinese pair for the first time, Satwik and Chirag turned up the heat at the right moments.</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>The way Shubman Gill is playing, I’ll pick him ahead of myself: Shikhar Dhawan</strong> - Shubman Gill has been in sublime form in all three formats this season, even as Mr. Dhawan finds himself out of favour due to a dip in form</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>Half-centuries from Madhevere, Ballance help Zimbabwe beat Netherlands by 7 wickets, clinch ODI series 2-1</strong> - This 2-1 series win helped Zimbabwe finish the Super League in 12th place, with 65 points in their kitty.</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>Here are the big stories from Tamil Nadu today</strong> - Welcome to the Tamil Nadu Today newsletter, your guide from The Hindu on the major news stories to follow today. Curated and written by Lalitha Ranjani.</p></li>
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So we went outside and stood by a house. Mustering all my strength, I managed to jump about 18 inches off the ground.
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“Ha! Is that as high as you can jump?”
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“Hold on, let’s see how high the house jumps.”
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