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- Dementia is typically seen as an erosion of memory and the self. A new book suggests different ways to think about it, writes Marion Renault:
- “The real problem with living in a story of apocalypse is that if we are not thoughtful about it, it will make us want to withdraw even more. And so we really have to actively intervene,” the professor and author Sarah Ray says on “How to Age Up”:
- "The administration isn’t even pretending that it forced China to pay any special price for its defiance," @jonathanbchait.bsky.social writes. It is "moving on as if the point this whole time was to get along better with Beijing":
- When Donald Trump launched his trade war on the world, he issued a stern warning: “Do not retaliate and you will be rewarded.” China ignored the warning. It was rewarded anyway, Jonathan Chait writes. theatln.tc/MXiMMWFj
- "Whenever public attention on immigration shifts from the border to U.S. streets, support for aggressive enforcement tends to erode," @nickmiroff.bsky.social writes. "It happened during Trump’s first term. It’s happening even faster now":
- “All of this hullabaloo about nonsense deals with Britain and China serves to distract from the brute reality of the Trump and MAGA trade agenda,” writes @davidfrum.bsky.social. “Fiscal redistribution from poor to rich: That is the goal.”
- Refugees fleeing the civil war in Sudan’s Darfur region are finding little help, in part due to the Trump administration’s devastating cuts to foreign aid. Lynsey Addario’s photographs capture the first humanitarian crisis of the post-American world:
- "The administration isn’t even pretending that it forced China to pay any special price for its defiance," @jonathanbchait.bsky.social writes. It is "moving on as if the point this whole time was to get along better with Beijing":
- “After centuries of intellectual progress, Americans must face a terrible question,” the physicist Alan Lightman writes. “Are we now descending from light into dark?” theatln.tc/GonKaWSv
- Donald Trump never meant to keep his promises. His voters are starting to notice, @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/sO3CuM9X
