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Those isolating work-from-home years are over—it’s time to come back to the office and have some fun with your coworkers! Not convinced? See some employee testimonials about the joys of being back in person.
Those isolating work-from-home years are over—it’s time to come back to the office and have some fun with your coworkers! Not convinced? See some employee testimonials about the joys of being back in person.
After weeks of nervous anticipation in the financial markets and in the capitals of America’s trading partners, Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs have arrived, and, even by his standards, they are shockingly high and wide-ranging. After delivering a potted economic history of the country in which he bizarrely claimed that the Great Depression would have been avoided if high tariffs had been in place, Trump announced that “reciprocal tariffs” would go into effect on April 9th, with rates of 34 per cent on goods imported from China, 24 per cent on Japan, and 20 per cent on the European Union. Some of the highest rates were reserved for export-led developing countries in Asia: 46 per cent on Vietnam, 48 per cent on Laos, and 49 per cent on Cambodia.
After weeks of nervous anticipation in the financial markets and in the capitals of America’s trading partners, Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs have arrived, and, even by his standards, they are shockingly high and wide-ranging. After delivering a potted economic history of the country in which he bizarrely claimed that the Great Depression would have been avoided if high tariffs had been in place, Trump announced that “reciprocal tariffs” would go into effect on April 9th, with rates of 34 per cent on goods imported from China, 24 per cent on Japan, and 20 per cent on the European Union. Some of the highest rates were reserved for export-led developing countries in Asia: 46 per cent on Vietnam, 48 per cent on Laos, and 49 per cent on Cambodia. These levies are separate from the ones Trump has already imposed on steel, aluminum, and foreign-made cars and parts. “Taken as a whole, his tariffs represent a dramatic expansion from the more narrowly targeted duties he imposed ...
Ann RTL Patchett on how the death of her friend’s father inspired her to get rid of useless possessions: “I found little things that had become important over time for no reason other than that I’d kept them for so long.” How to Practice.
Ann RTL Patchett on how the death of her friend’s father inspired her to get rid of useless possessions: “I found little things that had become important over time for no reason other than that I’d kept them for so long.” How to Practice. I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood between me and death.
Researchers have found that people experience genuine pleasure—a rush of dopamine—when processing information that supports their beliefs, even when it’s wrong. Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
Researchers have found that people experience genuine pleasure—a rush of dopamine—when processing information that supports their beliefs, even when it’s wrong. Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
By the standards of world-historical events, Donald Trump’s Wednesday afternoon speech in the Rose Garden on his 74th day since returning to the White House started out remarkably forgettable. Trump opened the event he had billed as America’s “Liberation Day” with a rant about the dire state of the nation. It was familiar material. But, by the time Trump was finished, it was clear we’ve never actually seen anything like it. “The global trade war that he’d so long threatened and somehow never actually triggered now finally seemed to be happening,” Susan B. Glasser writes.
By the standards of world-historical events, Donald Trump’s Wednesday afternoon speech in the Rose Garden on his 74th day since returning to the White House started out remarkably forgettable. Trump opened the event he had billed as America’s “Liberation Day” with a rant about the dire state of the nation. It was familiar material. But, by the time Trump was finished, it was clear we’ve never actually seen anything like it. “The global trade war that he’d so long threatened and somehow never actually triggered now finally seemed to be happening,” Susan B. Glasser writes. Even as Trump spoke, the initial verdict from financial markets around the world came in and it was catastrophic—a global meltdown. The tariffs were worse than expected; stock market futures plunged; the dollar dropped against other currencies. By the close of the markets on Thursday, the damage was all too evident: U.S. stocks had recorded their biggest drop in years, losing close to three trillion dollars in va...
Lucy Dacus is a formidable solo artist—since 2016, she has released three albums of searching, intimate folk rock—but she’s perhaps best known as one-third of the indie supergroup boygenius, alongside Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. Although boygenius formed in 2018, and put out an eponymous EP that year, the release of its début full-length, “The Record,” in 2023, was a seismic event: it garnered seven Grammy nominations and three wins, and earned the band a slot on a Timothée Chalamet-hosted episode of “Saturday Night Live,” a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, and a Rolling Stone cover. “We had these big goals of playing sick shows. But it immediately outpaced our expectations. We just had to adjust. I’m still shocked,” Dacus said. Boygenius is currently inactive. It’s not easy to say no to more money, more attention. Yet the band had predetermined the time frame on the basis of self-preservation. “It was so much fun, and I think we ended at the perfect time,” she said.
Lucy Dacus is a formidable solo artist—since 2016, she has released three albums of searching, intimate folk rock—but she’s perhaps best known as one-third of the indie supergroup boygenius, alongside Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. Although boygenius formed in 2018, and put out an eponymous EP that year, the release of its début full-length, “The Record,” in 2023, was a seismic event: it garnered seven Grammy nominations and three wins, and earned the band a slot on a Timothée Chalamet-hosted episode of “Saturday Night Live,” a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, and a Rolling Stone cover. “We had these big goals of playing sick shows. But it immediately outpaced our expectations. We just had to adjust. I’m still shocked,” Dacus said. Boygenius is currently inactive. It’s not easy to say no to more money, more attention. Yet the band had predetermined the time frame on the basis of self-preservation. “It was so much fun, and I think we ended at the perfect time,” she said...
In last year’s Presidential election, Democrats lost support with nearly every kind of voter: rich, poor, white, Black, Asian American, Hispanic. But the defection that alarmed Democratic strategists the most was that of young voters, especially young men. “The only cohort of men that Biden won in 2020 was 18-to-29-year-olds,” a polling expert and former adviser to Joe Biden’s Presidential campaign said. “That was the one cohort they had to hold on to, and they let it go.”
In last year’s Presidential election, Democrats lost support with nearly every kind of voter: rich, poor, white, Black, Asian American, Hispanic. But the defection that alarmed Democratic strategists the most was that of young voters, especially young men. “The only cohort of men that Biden won in 2020 was 18-to-29-year-olds,” a polling expert and former adviser to Joe Biden’s Presidential campaign said. “That was the one cohort they had to hold on to, and they let it go.” Political strategists have opinions about what happened. The 2024 Presidential campaign was the first to be conducted largely on live streams and long-form podcasts, a medium that happens to be thoroughly dominated by MAGA bros. The biggest of them all, Joe Rogan, spent the final weeks of the campaign giving many hours of fawning airtime to Trump—and to his running mate, J. D. Vance, and his key allies, such as Elon Musk—before endorsing Trump on the eve of the election. Many young men seemed to have bought the pitch...
Bob Dylan’s career is particularly remarkable because of the way it has evolved, David Remnick writes: “with peaks, declivities, crags—all in service to the music he began to revere in Hibbing.” A Unified Field Theory of Bob Dylan A Unified Field Theory of Bob Dylan. He’s in his eighties. How does he keep it fresh?
Bob Dylan’s career is particularly remarkable because of the way it has evolved, David Remnick writes: “with peaks, declivities, crags—all in service to the music he began to revere in Hibbing.” A Unified Field Theory of Bob Dylan. He’s in his eighties. How does he keep it fresh?
So far, it’s a tossup which of the Trump Administration’s wrecking balls will prove most destructive: the one that accelerates global warming, the one that abandons our allies, the one that torches the economy, or the one that compromises public health. Yet all of these are distractions from the President’s long-standing pet project: decimating free and fair elections.
So far, it’s a tossup which of the Trump Administration’s wrecking balls will prove most destructive: the one that accelerates global warming, the one that abandons our allies, the one that torches the economy, or the one that compromises public health. Yet all of these are distractions from the President’s long-standing pet project: decimating free and fair elections. “It may be that we have become so accustomed to hearing Donald Trump’s false claims about rigged elections and corrupt election officials that we have become inured to them, but in the past seven weeks he has pursued a renewed multilateral program to suppress the vote, curtail the franchise, undermine election security, eliminate protections from foreign interference, and neuter the independent oversight of election administration,” Sue Halpern writes. “And, as with the rest of Trump’s calamitous agenda, he is doing it in full view of the American people.” The Administration and congressional Republicans “are only beginn...