So, of the unelected public figures, Musk and the District Federal judges who have stopped the deportation of illegals or changed USAID dispersions, which has the most unelected power?
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Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust reportedly aims to build a “more inclusive museum experience” and will “decolonize” William Shakespeare’s hometown Stratford-upon-Avon because his work advanced “white supremacy” and also contains language that is “racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise harmful.”
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Germany opened its doors a decade ago to nearly 1 million Syrians, taking in more than any other country in Europe. Today, some 6,000 Syrian doctors make up the single largest group of foreign-born physicians, filling vital gaps in care at hospitals and clinics from the Alps to the Baltic Sea. That is especially true in rural areas, where attracting doctors can be hard. But even in big cities, Syrian doctors now make up the majority of attending physicians at some medical practices.
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Parts of Birmingham and the northeast of England are worse off than even the poorest parts of Slovenia and Lithuania.
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“One in four new recruits to the German armed forces drops out within six months of joining, according to the nation’s military watchdog who warned that personnel shortages were pushing troops “to breaking point”.”
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Parts of Birmingham and the northeast of England are worse off than even the poorest parts of Slovenia and Lithuania.
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“One in four new recruits to the German armed forces drops out within six months of joining, according to the nation’s military watchdog who warned that personnel shortages were pushing troops “to breaking point”.”
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White Male Fiction
From The New York Times’s “Notable Fiction” list.
In 2012 the Times included seven white American men under the age of 43 (the cut-off for a millennial today); in 2013 there were six, in 2014 there were six.
By 2021, there was not one white male millennial on the “Notable Fiction” list. There were none again in 2022, and just one apiece in 2023 and 2024 (since 2021, just 2 of 72 millennials featured were white American men). There were no white male millennials featured in Vulture’s 2024 year-end fiction list, none in Vanity Fair’s, none in The Atlantic’s. Esquire, a magazine ostensibly geared towards male millennials, has featured 53 millennial fiction writers on its year-end book lists since 2020. Only one was a white American man.
The literary pipeline for white men:
By 2021, there was not one white male millennial on the “Notable Fiction” list. There were none again in 2022, and just one apiece in 2023 and 2024 (since 2021, just 2 of 72 millennials featured were white American men). There were no white male millennials featured in Vulture’s 2024 year-end fiction list, none in Vanity Fair’s, none in The Atlantic’s. Esquire, a magazine ostensibly geared towards male millennials, has featured 53 millennial fiction writers on its year-end book lists since 2020. Only one was a white American man.
The literary pipeline for white men:
Between 2001 and 2011, six white men won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Prize for debut fiction. Since 2020, not a single white man has even been nominated (of 25 total nominations). The past decade has seen 70 finalists for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize—with again, not a single straight white American millennial man. Of 14 millennial finalists for the National Book Award during that same time period, exactly zero are white men.
The Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, a launching pad for young writers, currently has zero white male fiction and poetry fellows (of 25 fiction fellows since 2020, just one was a white man). Not a single white American man born after 1984 has published a work of literary fiction in The New Yorker (at least 24, and probably closer to 30, younger millennials have been published in total).
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The number of times people visit the doctor per year varies tremendously across OECD countries from a low of 2.9 in Chile to a high of 17.5 (!) in Korea. It doesn’t seem that there is much correlation between medical spending per capita and life expectancy.
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The cost of child care now exceeds the price of college tuition in 38 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute.
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After remaining almost constant for 30 years, real labor productivity at U.S. restaurants surged over 15% during the COVID pandemic. This surge has persisted even as many conditions have returned to pre-pandemic levels.
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Views of 'Bioethicists':
• 18% — paying organ donors is OK
• 63% — all extensions of life are equally good regardless of length
• 66% — someone's life being worth living gives no reason to create them
• 40% — being blind is only a disadvantage because society is unjustly designed
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Denmark’s state-run postal service, PostNord, will end all letter deliveries at the end of 2025, citing a 90% decline in letter volumes since the start of the century.
The decision ends 400 years of the company’s letter service. Denmark’s 1,500 postboxes will start to disappear from the start of June.
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German borrowing costs surged by the most in 17 years on Wednesday, as investors bet on a big boost to the country’s ailing economy from a historic deal to fund investment in the military and infrastructure.
The yield on the 10-year Bund surged 0.21 percentage points to 2.69 percent, its biggest one-day move since 2008, with markets braced for extra government borrowing.
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The cost of child care now exceeds the price of college tuition in 38 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute.
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After remaining almost constant for 30 years, real labor productivity at U.S. restaurants surged over 15% during the COVID pandemic. This surge has persisted even as many conditions have returned to pre-pandemic levels.
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Views of 'Bioethicists':
• 18% — paying organ donors is OK
• 63% — all extensions of life are equally good regardless of length
• 66% — someone's life being worth living gives no reason to create them
• 40% — being blind is only a disadvantage because society is unjustly designed
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Denmark’s state-run postal service, PostNord, will end all letter deliveries at the end of 2025, citing a 90% decline in letter volumes since the start of the century.
The decision ends 400 years of the company’s letter service. Denmark’s 1,500 postboxes will start to disappear from the start of June.
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German borrowing costs surged by the most in 17 years on Wednesday, as investors bet on a big boost to the country’s ailing economy from a historic deal to fund investment in the military and infrastructure.
The yield on the 10-year Bund surged 0.21 percentage points to 2.69 percent, its biggest one-day move since 2008, with markets braced for extra government borrowing.
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