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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>The Lessons of Pandemic Inflation</strong> - As the inflation rate continues to fall, a new White House study emphasizes the central role that supply-chain disruptions have played in the economy. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-lessons-of-pandemic-inflation">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Donald Trump’s Latino Campaign Begins</strong> - Democrats fear that Univision has turned to the right, but the network may be the least of their problems. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trumps-latino-campaign-begins">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Difference That Sandra Day O’Connor Made</strong> - The late Supreme Court Justice had a keen feeling for the real-world impact of the Court’s decisions. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/the-difference-that-sandra-day-oconnor-made">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Why Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Have a Prayer in Iowa</strong> - The Florida governor has won the backing of the state’s political establishment—and the electorate has always been skeptical of Trump. So what went wrong? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/why-ron-desantis-doesnt-have-a-prayer-in-iowa">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Columbia Suspended Pro-Palestine Student Groups. The Faculty Revolted</strong> - Like other universities, the school has cracked down on activism among students, citing fears of antisemitism. Some professors think it’s gone too far. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/columbia-suspended-pro-palestine-student-groups-the-faculty-revolted">link</a></p></li>
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<img alt="The 92NY building in New York City, shown from the street at an upward angle emphasizing the many stories and large banners reading 92NY." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/OLKH-bZypfXB86reP0B74RbDsis=/0x0:4032x3024/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72935866/GettyImages_1410920807__1_.0.jpg"/>
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In October, 92NY, one of New York’s best-known arts and culture spaces, drew fire after trying to postpone a visit from author Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen had signed an open letter criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza. | Noam Galai/Getty Images
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Artists are protesting Israel’s offensive. The art and literary worlds are struggling to respond.
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Artists are <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/11/06/nicholas-galanin-merritt-johnson-national-gallery-art-washington-dc-withdraw-protest-israel-gaza-war">pulling their work from the National Gallery of Art</a>, which receives funding from <a href="https://www.vox.com/congress">Congress</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CzM0ZqpvijA/?img_index=2">in protest</a> of the US providing military aid to <a href="https://www.vox.com/israel">Israel</a>. Sponsors <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/books/israel-gaza-war-national-book-awards.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share">withdrew</a> from the National Book Awards ceremony last month after learning that authors were planning to call for a ceasefire. Literary events <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/arts/92ny-pauses-season-israel-hamas-war.html#:~:text=The%20organization%20put%20the%20series,author%20who%20had%20criticized%20Israel.&text=Sign%20up%20for%20the%20Israel%2DHamas%20War%20Briefing.">are being postponed or canceled</a>, museums are becoming <a href="https://artdogistanbul.com/en/artists-protest-at-guggenheim-museum/">sites of protest</a>, and <a href="https://lithub.com/join-thousands-of-writers-in-signing-this-letter-for-gaza/">open letters</a> and <a href="https://lithub.com/over-2000-poets-and-writers-are-boycotting-the-poetry-foundation/">boycotts of organizations</a> are proliferating.
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The war between Israel and <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/10/10/23911661/hamas-israel-war-gaza-palestine-explainer">Hamas</a> is <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/israel-palestine-gaza-artforum-letter-fallout.html#_ga=2.72782928.2132789608.1701096729-422193082.1698161287">roiling the arts and literary worlds</a>. The death toll in <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080046/gaza-palestine-israel">Gaza</a>, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/12/3/from-north-to-south-nowhere-safe-in-gaza-as-700-killed-in-24-hours">which has surpassed 15,500 people</a>, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, has compelled thousands of artists and writers to speak out against Israel’s military actions and the institutions they think are failing to meet the moment. Many are accusing organizations of trying to suppress the speech of people critical of Israel and are demanding that institutions issue public statements about where they stand. The artists and writers, in turn, are facing backlash from organizations, donors, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyp7ygZN1IU/?img_index=1">and other artists</a>, who see a failure to appropriately acknowledge the victims of <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/10/7/23907323/israel-war-hamas-attack-explained-southern-israel-gaza">Hamas’s terrorist attack on October 7</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/23950628/antisemitism-rise-europe-israel-hamas-war">the rise in global antisemitism</a> since the conflict began.
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The conflict is forcing leaders to navigate larger existential questions about the power and limits of arts institutions at this moment, including whether museums should try to stay neutral or whether they should take an active role in responding to political and social issues. These questions aren’t entirely new, but they’ve taken on a new sense of urgency amid current politics and deepening polarization since 2016, experts say.
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“Galleries, museums, curators, and the people who are in charge of art programs have become much more invested in the idea that institutions and artworks have a political or a social function,” says JJ Charlesworth, an art critic and editor at ArtReview<em> </em>magazine. “The idea of the art gallery as some kind of special or isolated separate space is, I think, very out of fashion. It’s causing friction now because, particularly in America, the interests that support cultural institutions don’t always share the same politics” as the artists.
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How museums are navigating broader cultural changes
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After <a href="https://www.vox.com/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> was elected in 2016, a number of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/08/arts/design/artists-and-critics-call-for-culture-strike-on-inauguration-day.html">prominent artists called on museums</a> <a href="https://hyperallergic.com/350191/j20-art-strike-ny-closings/">to close in an act of protest</a>. (Instead, some <a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-called-strike-museums-open-doors-wider-inauguration-day">opened their doors</a> and invited visitors to attend poetry readings or make protest signs.) Museums have also had to respond to <a href="https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/analysis/2020/01/23012020-museum-metoo-erie-art-museum/">Me Too scandals</a> and calls to diversify their institutions following <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/museums-diversity-equity-commitments-1901564">the 2020 killing of George Floyd</a>, as well as political campaigns specific to their museums. In 2019, artists and demonstrators successfully forced the vice chair of the Whitney Museum board, Warren Kanders, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/arts/whitney-warren-kanders-resigns.html">to resign over his company’s sale of tear gas</a>. That same year, the artist and activist Nan Goldin helped foment a movement that raised awareness about the Sackler family’s role in creating the opioid epidemic, which led museums to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/arts/design/sackler-museums-donations-oxycontin.html">stop accepting money from the family</a>.
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Museums are, in some ways, responding to larger societal shifts, including the expectation that they more accurately reflect the diversity of the communities they are a part of. They also have to consider how to stay relevant in a world where there’s more media and culture competing for their visitors’ attention.
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Balancing the need to be current, especially in the midst of major political moments, is tricky, says Mary Elizabeth Williams, a former museum professional who’s written about <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3288226">how museums should approach political activism and protest art</a>. “As people become more divided in the United States, there’s voices calling for action, but museums need to balance that and find a way to engage in their communities but not alienate certain members of the population.” Cultural organizations risk losing funders and even their nonprofit status if they make the wrong move, she says.
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Decisions about whether and when to show controversial work can also be difficult. The wrong move can reflect poorly on an institution, both in the moment and for decades to come. The Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, faced public backlash for decades <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/a-museum-canceled-its-robert-mapplethorpe-show--and-decades-later-its-finally-trying-to-make-amends/2019/06/12/692f2744-83ce-11e9-bce7-40b4105f7ca0_story.html">over canceling a 1989 show</a> by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who was gay, due to fear that anti-gay lawmakers would attack it for its themes and depictions of male sexuality. The decision by four major museums to delay a retrospective by <a href="https://artreview.com/philip-guston-and-the-politics-of-painted-images-tate-modern/">the Jewish painter Philip Guston in 2020</a> because some of his paintings featured cartoonish, unglamorous depictions of white-hooded Klansmen, similarly <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/arts/design/philip-guston-exhibition-delayed-criticism.html">invited widespread criticism</a>.
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland tours “The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans” exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in September. The following month, two artists pulled their work from the long-awaited exhibit, citing US military aid to Israel as the reason.
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Why artists and writers are protesting over the war
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Amid the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/10/7/23907683/israel-hamas-war-news-updates-october-2023">Israel-Hamas war</a>, museums are once again getting blowback for canceling events and not displaying artwork they fear will bring unwanted attention. Manhattan’s El Museo del Barrio <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/arts/design/el-museo-del-barrio-artwork-palestinian-flag.html">was denounced by artists in late October for deciding not to show</a> a piece prominently featuring the <a href="https://www.vox.com/palestine">Palestinian</a> flag. Leadership at the Frick Pittsburgh, an art museum in Pennsylvania, was called out after postponing an upcoming Islamic art <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/arts/design/islamic-exhibition-postponed-frick-pittsburgh.html">exhibition</a>. The museum director initially told the press that they realized the exhibition “for many people, especially in our community, would be traumatic.” After Muslim and Jewish groups criticized the decision, the Frick said in a separate statement that it postponed the show because it hadn’t prepared it with their “characteristic engagement with broad community partners, in this case the Pittsburgh Muslim community.”
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This turmoil is not unique to the United States. In other countries, <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/23950628/antisemitism-rise-europe-israel-hamas-war">especially those that have laws against antisemitism</a> and <a href="https://www.npr.org/2011/03/03/134239713/France-Isnt-The-Only-Country-To-Prohibit-Hate-Speech">other forms of hate speech</a>, debates over <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18079996/israel-palestine-conflict-guide-explainer">Israel and Palestine</a> are exposing major divisions. In November, a committee meant to choose the next director of Documenta, an renowned Germany contemporary art exhibition, <a href="https://www.e-flux.com/notes/575919/documenta-resignation-letter">resigned en masse</a> after one member was forced to step down because of his support for <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/23935054/boycott-movement-palestine-against-israel-bds">the BDS movement</a>. The Lisson Gallery in London <a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ai-weiwei-lisson-gallery-canceled-show-israel-hamas-war-tweet-1234686670/">said last month that it was pulling a show of new work by Ai Weiwei</a>, one of the world’s most famous contemporary artists, over his comments on social media about the Jewish community.
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Laura Raicovich, author of <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2560-culture-strike"><em>Culture Strike: Arts and Museums in an Age of Protest</em></a> and former director of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/arts/design/queens-museum-director-laura-raicovich.html">Queens Museum</a>, says that museums have never been purely neutral spaces, but rather are always reflections of a society’s cultural values, norms, and power structures. It’s the divergence between the lived experiences of museum workers and artists, and the collectors, dealers, and institutions that support them — and who tend to be wealthier — that’s becoming more difficult to ignore.
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“As the work within the museum has come under pressure to be more reflective of larger society, it gets further away from the lives of many of the people serving on the board, so there’s a widening of the gap,” Raicovich says. “The museum director ends up being the translator between the two, oftentimes the protector between one and the other. They’re supposed to negotiate the space. That is really impossible. It’s just too big of a gap.”
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The literary world is grappling with similar debates. Organizers of the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/malaysia-pulls-out-frankfurt-book-fair-citing-organisers-pro-israel-stance-2023-10-17/#:~:text=Litprom%2C%20which%20is%20funded%20by,%22less%20politically%20charged%20atmosphere%22.">drew sharp rebuke in October for postponing an awards ceremony</a> for the Palestinian writer Adania Shibli. In November, <a href="https://lithub.com/over-2000-poets-and-writers-are-boycotting-the-poetry-foundation/">more than 2,000 poets and writers</a> signed an open letter pledging to boycott <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/">the Poetry Foundation</a>, a nonprofit that publishes <em>Poetry </em>magazine, after writer Joshua Gutterman Tranen said that a review he’d written had been “<a href="https://twitter.com/jdgtranen/status/1719811468558828029?s=20">shelved</a>” because of its anti-Zionist themes.
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“Cultural institutions have long benefitted from the brilliant work of writers and artists who have put their hearts and lives on the line to tell their stories,” Noor Hindi, <a href="https://noorhindi.com/">a Palestinian American poet</a> who co-authored the letter, told Vox in a statement. “We are serving them, not the other way around … These institutions and publications make a mockery of our work, our names, and our histories when they refuse to take a stand as our governments endorse, arm, and fund the oppression of our people.”
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A spokesperson for the Poetry Foundation disputed the idea that it tried to silence a writer for political reasons, calling it “misinformation.” The spokesperson told Vox, “This led to the current boycott, as well as something that foundation staff were hoping to avoid in the first place: pulling attention away from the people and organizations sharing news and resources about the crisis.”
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For Jewish cultural institutions that have historically supported Israel, the conflict is making it difficult to continue operating. In October, <a href="https://www.92ny.org/">92NY</a>, one of New York City’s premier art and cultural spaces, tried to postpone an event with <a href="https://vietnguyen.info/">Viet Thanh Nguyen</a>, the Pulitzer-Prize winning Vietnamese American author, over his public statements on the crisis, including <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/october/an-open-letter-on-the-situation-in-palestine">signing a letter</a> that cited an Israeli historian calling the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza “<a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide">a textbook case of genocide</a>.” “We are a Jewish institution that has always welcomed people with diverse viewpoints to our stage,” the organization <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/arts/92ny-viet-thanh-nguyen-israel.html">said in a statement</a>. “The brutal Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel … has absolutely devastated the community. Given the public comments by the invited author on Israel and this moment, we felt the responsible course of action was to postpone the event while we take some time to determine how best to use our platform and support the entire 92NY community.”
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The event <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/arts/92ny-viet-thanh-nguyen-israel.html">happened anyway</a>, at a nearby bookstore, but the fallout was substantial. Employees of the 92NY’s poetry center <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/10/24/1208204142/staff-at-nyc-cultural-center-resign-after-acclaimed-authors-event-canceled#:~:text=Luca%20Bruno%2FAP-,Acclaimed%20writer%20Viet%20Thanh%20Nguyen%20reading%20in%202017.,at%20the%20cultural%20center%20resigning.&text=Staff%20from%20The%2092nd%20Street,by%20author%20Viet%20Thanh%20Nguyen.">resigned in protest</a>, and other writers pulled out of upcoming events. The organization has since announced that its literary series is on hold while it considers its next steps.
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In addition to the open letter to the Poetry Foundation, and the <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/october/an-open-letter-on-the-situation-in-palestine">one signed</a> by Nguyen and Irish novelist Sally Rooney, a group of over 1,800 Jewish writers, including Naomi Klein and Tavi Gevinson, published <a href="https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-dangerous-conflation/">a letter in early November</a> disavowing the idea that criticism of Israel was inherently antisemitic. Another group, <a href="https://www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com/">Writers Against The War On Gaza</a>, have issued a <a href="https://www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com/">statement of solidarity</a> with the Palestinian people and in “opposition to the silencing of dissent and to racist and revisionist media cycles.” They are joined in open-letter writing by authors who have <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/10/14/an-open-letter-from-participants-in-the-palestine-festival-of-literature/">participated in the Palestine Festival of Literature</a>, <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/scholarsofpalestineopenletter/home">scholars</a> who have studied Palestine and Israel, and members of the media <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/11/09/open-letter-journalists-israel-gaza/">critical</a> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-killed-11-palestinian-journalists-gaza-since-oct-7-palestinian-2023-10-16/">of Israel’s killing of journalists</a> and the way US-based news outlets have covered the conflict.
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They go in the other direction, too: In October, a group of Israeli authors and academics <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-15/ty-article/.premium/israeli-leftist-academics-call-out-political-allies-for-tolerating-hamas/0000018b-34f5-da5e-abef-bdf572610000?lts=1700037969918">penned a letter excoriating the left</a> in the US and around the world for what they say is a failure to appropriately condemn the violence perpetrated against Israeli civilians by Hamas.
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The letters are proving consequential, as prominent figures resign or are fired because of their association. David Velasco, the editor-in-chief of the magazine Artforum, <a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/artforum-staff-statement-firing-david-velasco-gaza-letter-1234686167/">was fired</a> in late October for publishing an open letter on the magazine’s website signed by hundreds of members of the arts community, which called for an immediate ceasefire and said <a href="https://www.artforum.com/columns/open-letter-art-community-cultural-organizations-518019/">there was</a> “ample evidence that we are witnessing the unfolding of a genocide.” Artforum’s<em> </em>publishers, in an update posted to the site, <a href="https://www.artforum.com/news/a-statement-from-artforum-s-publishers-518836/">said that</a> the letter, “was misinterpreted as being reflective of the magazine’s position [and] understandably led to significant dismay among our readers and community, which we deeply regret. It also put members of our team in the untenable position of being represented by a statement that was not uniformly theirs.” Velasco <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/arts/artforum-editor-fired-david-velasco-palestine-gaza.html">told the Times</a><em> </em>he had “no regrets,” and at least four staffers resigned in protest.
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How the art and literary worlds will move forward after these major rifts is an open question. So many artists and writers have made it clear where they stand. Leadership of the cultural institutions they’re associated with, who have to weigh a different set of concerns, meanwhile, may not be willing, or even capable, of meeting them in this moment.
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“It would be great if museums didn’t have to think about donors, or funding, or their status,” Williams says. “But that’s just the reality that we live in.”
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Right in the center of the island nation of Madagascar there’s a strange, almost perfectly circular geological structure. It covers a bigger area than the city of Paris — and at first glance, it looks completely empty. But right in the center of that structure, there’s a single, isolated village: a few dozen houses, some fields of crops, and dirt roads stretching out in every direction.
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When we first saw this village on <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@-18.850569,46.2148575,13z?entry=ttu">Google Earth</a>, its extreme remoteness fascinated us. Was the village full of people? How did they wind up there? And what did life look like in such a place? To find out, we teamed up with a local crew in Madagascar and fell down a rabbit hole of geology and mapping along the way. It’s a story of how continental shifts and volcanic geology came together to form a place for a group of people to call home.
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You can find the video above and the entire library of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLXo7UDZvByw2ixzpQCufnA"><strong>Vox’s videos on YouTube</strong></a>.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is a leading proponent of taxing very rich people’s assets. | Getty Images
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The Supreme Court spent much of Tuesday morning beating up Andrew Grossman, a lawyer asking the justices to revive a long-defunct <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/11/27/23970859/supreme-court-wealth-tax-moore-united-states">limit on Congress’s ability to levy taxes</a>.
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The case Grossman was arguing, <em>Moore v. United States</em>, is widely viewed as a preemptive strike on wealth taxes — that is, taxes that target the stockpiled wealth of very rich people and that don’t simply tax the income rich people earn off of their wealth.
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During her 2020 presidential campaign, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/24/18196275/elizabeth-warren-wealth-tax">proposed a 2 percent wealth tax</a> on Americans worth over $50 million, but neither Warren’s proposed tax nor anything similar has ever become law, and there’s no chance that it will become law so long as Republicans control at least one house of Congress.
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In any event, most of the justices appeared extraordinarily skeptical of Grossman’s arguments, and of the idea that the Court should revive a long-discredited limit on the federal government’s taxing power which the Court briefly embraced during its <em>Lochner </em>Era — an age where the justices regularly <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/11/27/23970859/supreme-court-wealth-tax-moore-united-states">signed onto dubious legal arguments</a> that protected capital from taxes and from workplace regulation.
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Only Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch appeared to have any sympathy at all for Grossman’s attacks on Congress’s power to tax investors. And, while both men threw a barrage of hostile questions at Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, Alito and Gorsuch’s colleagues seemed uninterested in humoring them.
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At one point, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Republican, interrupted Alito to ask Prelogar a softball question — a clear sign that Kavanaugh was unpersuaded by Alito’s arguments. At another point, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, another Republican appointee, cut off a similar line of questions by Gorsuch.
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All of this said, the Court did spend a considerable amount of time while Prelogar was arguing the government’s case hunting around for a way to decide the <em>Moore</em> case narrowly. It is possible that the Court upholds the specific tax at issue in the <em>Moore</em> case on such narrow grounds that the justices could leave the door open to striking down a Warren-style wealth tax at some future date.
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But fiscal policy wonks who feared that <em>Moore</em> could blow a massive hole in the federal government’s finances can probably heave a sigh of relief. At the end of the day, Grossman’s arguments appeared to be too weak, and too rooted in discredited legal theories that the Court abandoned nearly a century ago, to persuade even this very conservative Supreme Court.
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The full array of legal issues in <em>Moore</em> is dizzyingly complex. To completely understand the case, someone must have a working knowledge of how tax accounting typically works, how it works for certain investors who are taxed differently than others, how the Court once read a provision of the Constitution enacted to <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1123596?read-now=1&seq=11#page_scan_tab_contents">preserve a Union between free states and slaveholders</a> to protect investors from taxes, and why the United States amended its Constitution to restore the federal government’s ability to tax investment income. (I <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/11/27/23970859/supreme-court-wealth-tax-moore-united-states">explain all of these details here</a>.)
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But the shortest explanation of what’s at issue in <em>Moore</em> is that it asks whether the Constitution prohibits Congress from taxing investment income before that income is “realized” — meaning that the investor has sold an asset for a profit or otherwise disposed of that asset.
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Ordinarily, investors are not taxed right away when their assets gain value. If an investor buys $5,000 worth of stock, for example, and holds onto it for 10 years until its value grows to $25,000, they will pay no taxes at all on that stock during that 10-year period. If they then sell the stock for its $25,000 market value, they will pay taxes on the $20,000 in profit they made.
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As the Supreme Court explained in <a href="https://casetext.com/case/helvering-v-horst#p116"><em>Helvering v. Horst</em></a> (1940), this ordinary rule — the rule that investments are not taxed until they are sold or otherwise realized — is “founded on administrative convenience.” It is often difficult to determine how much an asset is worth before it is sold, so delaying taxation until realization prevents a situation where no one can be sure how much a particular taxpayer owes the government.
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The specific tax at issue in <em>Moore</em> is a one-time tax, enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, in order to partially offset the cost of a large tax break that law gave to corporations.
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Before this 2017 bill became law, the United States attempted to tax US corporations’ overseas income. Under the old regime, however, corporations could <a href="https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-tcja-repatriation-tax-and-how-does-it-work">defer taxation of their foreign profits indefinitely</a> by creating a foreign subsidiary. Income earned by these foreign subsidiaries would not be taxed until it was repatriated into the United States, giving companies a strong incentive to hoard money overseas and away from US tax collectors.
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The 2017 law largely gave up on trying to tax this overseas corporate income. But it also imposed a one-time tax on US investors in foreign corporations in order to offset some of the lost revenue resulting from the new tax regime. Under this offset, certain investors in foreign corporations must pay a percentage of the money that the corporation has kept overseas, even though the investor has not sold their stock or received any of that money as a dividend.
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This one-time tax is <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/11/27/23970859/supreme-court-wealth-tax-moore-united-states">expected to raise $340 billion</a>.
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The plaintiffs in <em>Moore</em> are US investors in a company that provides supplies to farmers in India. In 2017, they paid an additional $14,729 in taxes due to the one-time provision. They then sued to get this money back, claiming that the Constitution forbids the federal government from taxing unrealized income.
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Grossman’s core argument is that the Supreme Court’s decision in <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/252/189/"><em>Eisner v. Macomber</em></a><em> </em>(1920), which held that “enrichment through increase in value of capital investment is not income in any proper meaning of the term,” outright forbids Congress from taxing unrealized income. And, if Grossman had made this argument a century ago, he’d have a really strong case.
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But we are no longer living in the 1920s, and the Supreme Court has repudiated <em>Macomber</em> so many times that, near the end of the argument, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson suggested that maybe the best thing the Court could do is to explicitly overrule that decision.
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Among other things, the Supreme Court said in <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/348/426/"><em>Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass</em></a> (1955), that <em>Macomber’</em>s narrow definition of “income” was “not meant to provide a touchstone to all future gross income questions.” And <em>Glenshaw Glass</em> was only one of the Court’s decisions casting doubt on <em>Macomber. </em>In 1954, one year before <em>Glenshaw Glass</em> was decided, a federal appeals court said that <em>Macomber</em> “<a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8265135916057990131&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr">has been limited to its specific facts</a>.”
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Moreover, as both Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Barrett pointed out to Grossman, the current tax code is absolutely riddled with provisions that tax unrealized income, in violation of the rule that the Court briefly embraced in <em>Macomber</em>. These include provisions taxing partners on a partnership’s income, even if that money hasn’t yet been distributed to the individual partners, as well as taxes governing entities such as “Subpart F” and “Subpart S” corporations whose investors are taxed similarly.
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As Barrett told Grossman, it’s unclear how these longstanding taxes can be distinguished from the tax at issue in <em>Moore</em>, except for the fact that the tax before the Court is a “one shot.”
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Similarly, as Justice Elena Kagan pointed out, it is “quite well-settled” that the United States may tax individual shareholders on unrealized income from a foreign corporation because these sorts of taxes prevent Americans from stashing their money in a foreign company where it cannot be taxed.
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Meanwhile, Alito and Gorsuch, the only two justices who seemed to have much of an appetite for reviving <em>Macomber</em>, often descended into baroque historical arguments that are unlikely to persuade any of their colleagues.
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Alito, for example, spent a surprising amount of time jousting with Prelogar about why lawyers in an <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/157/429/">1895 tax case</a> did not cite a different, <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11242064637331858030&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr">1871 tax case</a> that Prelogar discusses in her brief. Gorsuch, similarly, claimed that the Justice Department agreed with <em>Macomber</em>’s definition of income in a brief it filed in 1918.
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That said, while there are almost certainly five votes — and possibly as many as seven votes — to uphold the 2017 tax provision at issue in <em>Moore</em>, many of the justices spent Prelogar’s time at the podium looking for a way to decide this case narrowly. Justice Clarence Thomas, for example, repeatedly suggested that unrealized income from corporate stock could be taxed because the corporation has realized that income even if it hasn’t distributed it to its investors. A similar tax on unrealized income from real estate, however, would not be allowed.
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Similarly, Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested that the Court could avoid entirely the question of whether Congress may tax unrealized income because income earned by a corporation should count as realized income once the corporation earns it.
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Likewise, in an exchange with Alito, Prelogar told the Court that, if Congress were to enact a particularly aggressive tax, such as a tax on all unrealized investments in every American’s retirement fund, the Court might strike that tax down on the grounds that Congress has not historically claimed the power to enact such a sweeping tax.
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But Alito’s fear of such a ridiculous tax appeared limited to Alito. As Kavanaugh said in response, “Members of Congress want to get reelected,” and a lawmaker’s desire to remain in the good graces of their voters should be enough to ward off absurd tax proposals.
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So the <em>Moore</em> decision may wind up being a nothingburger that upholds the 2017 tax provision on narrow grounds without saying much at all about the constitutionality of a Warren-style wealth tax. Still, most of the justices seemed to agree with Kavanaugh that Congress, and not the Court, should typically decide who is taxed and how they are taxed.
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>NASA says SpaceX’s next Starship flight could test refueling tech</strong> - SpaceX appears on track for at least a preliminary propellant transfer test next year. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1988814">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Man dies on way home from Panera after having three “charged” lemonades</strong> - A large lemonade contains up to 390 mg of caffeine, nearly the FDA’s daily safe limit. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1988926">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Fallout TV series trailer is here, and it’s loaded with homages to the games</strong> - The show looks faithful—maybe to a fault. Let’s look at what the trailer reveals. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1988728">link</a></p></li>
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This actually happened a few hours ago.<br/> So I had to take my mother to the hospital today for a procedure. The receptionist called us up and she was the only one there as her coworker had gone on break. As I’m wheeling my mother to the desk to do the paperwork, a nice old man approaches the desk.
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Currently in the waiting room fretting about my mother so hopefully telling a funny story out in to the world will get me some (non reddit) karma
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The Finnish President was planning a visit to a border town in the USSR. The local Kommissar, hoping to impress the Finns, decided to visit a local school. In preparation, he had all the children learn new songs, march in formation, wear their best uniforms, etc. Propaganda at its finest.
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The big day arrived and the Kommissar stood before the students and loudly asked “Who has the best schools in the world?” To which the student replied “The Soviet Union!” He asked again “Who has the best playgrounds and candies in the world?” Again the students shouted “The Soviet Union!” This went on for a about half an hour when the Finnish President heard a little boy crying.
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“What’s the matter, child? Why are you crying?”
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“Because I want to go to the Soviet Union!”
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One day he and his wife were riding one of his tractors around a field, when his wife fell out and was ran over. She died of her injuries and the man was distraught. He vowed to never enjoy tractors again and sold all of his tractors and merchandise.
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“I’m an ex tractor fan”
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This time, he remained there, giving the woman a wink and a smile, then said, “Sister, I have an idea. We’re out here in the wilderness where no one will ever know what happened. Let’s pretend we’re married.”
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