by dap | Apr 2, 2025 | The Guardian
Why is the moral panic only ever about younger generations? It’s time we heard what confuses or worries them about us
Every generation looks at the next generation, and the one after that, with bafflement and concern. There’s probably a name for this phenomenon. That’s not to say we (the olds) aren’t right to be more worried than ever about what they (the young) are up to. There’s a lot for us to be worried about and confused about in equal measure. The
got at this. Even having had its emojis and red pills – and emojis of red pills – patiently explained to me, I remain concerned and confused. Mainly confused. It’s all decidedly mysterious – and not in a good, exciting way.
This intergenerational bewilderment seems only to work in one direction: down, rather than up. We flail around trying to make sense of what’s going on with the young. If you are young, this is relevant to you, too, because you will soon be feeling like this about those coming up behind you. What I want to know is what, if anything, baffles the young about the old. Do they get together to express despair and confusion at the conduct of the olds? Is there stroking of chins, scratching and shaking of heads, as they ask: “What’s going on with elderly people today? I can hardly understand a thing they’re saying. I don’t know what’s going to become of them, I’m sure.”
by dap | Apr 2, 2025 | The Guardian
Comments come after it was revealed judge ignored DoJ recommendations against expelling survivors from panel
survivors who were ousted from a committee trying to negotiate a settlement resolving the New Orleans Catholic archdiocese’s bankruptcy say they have lost their confidence in the judge presiding over the case.
Their comments come after it was revealed that Judge Meredith Grabill
US justice department recommendations against expelling the survivors from the group, delivering the latest twist in the child sexual abuse scandal roiling one of America’s oldest Roman Catholic dioceses.
by dap | Apr 2, 2025 | The Guardian
In first abortion-related case since Trump win, court to consider clinics’ acceptance of low-income insurance
In its first abortion-related case since Donald Trump retook control of the White House, the US supreme court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday morning in a case challenging South Carolina’s attempt to effectively “defund” Planned Parenthood because the reproductive health giant performs abortions.
The case, Medina v Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, deals with a 2018 executive order from the South Carolina governor Henry McMaster that blocked clinics that provide abortions from receiving reimbursements via Medicaid, the US government’s healthcare program for low-income people, despite the fact that those reimbursements don’t actually cover abortions. “Payment of taxpayer funds to abortion clinics, for any purpose, results in the subsidy of abortion and the denial of the right to life,” McMaster said at the time.
by dap | Apr 2, 2025 | The Guardian
Ron Klain tells author Chris Whipple then president could not focus and obsessed about foreign leaders, ahead of debate that ended his campaign
In a new book, Joe Biden’s former White House chief of staff paints a devastating picture of the then US president’s mental and physical state before the debate with Donald Trump that sent his 2024 campaign into a tailspin, resulting in his relinquishing the Democratic nomination to Kamala Harris.
Ron Klain served Biden from 2021
, then returned to his side last June, to run debate preparation as he had for numerous Democratic presidents before.
by dap | Apr 2, 2025 | The Guardian
Liberal judge Susan Crawford wins race for seat on Wisconsin supreme court in litmus test for Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s popularity
The UK government will not engage in a “kneejerk” response to any tariffs imposed by
, as it warned there will be a “difficult period” ahead in trade relations with the US and called for calm,
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The education secretary Bridget Phillipson said the government had been “working through every eventuality”. “We still have negotiations under way with our US counterparts about securing an economic deal, but we will always act in the national interest and the interest of the British people.”
by dap | Apr 2, 2025 | The Guardian
As the 2026 World Cup approaches, the USMNT lack the charisma, underdog charm and striking victories of their predecessors
Imagine the 1980 Miracle on Ice, but with the USA on the other side.
In this scenario, the US men’s hockey team aren’t a scrappy band of outmatched amateurs playing for the country perceived as the good guys in the cold war. The opponents aren’t an aloof, brutally effective Soviet Union team expected to steamroll their way to a gold medal just as their military were attempting to steamroll their way through Afghanistan.
by dap | Apr 2, 2025 | The Guardian
Bridget Phillipson warns of ‘difficult period’ ahead for trade, but government ‘working through every eventuality’
The UK government will not engage in a “kneejerk” response to any tariffs imposed by Donald Trump, as it warned there will be a “difficult period” ahead in trade relations with the US and called for calm.
The US president is to announce his latest round of tariffs on Wednesday – which he has called “liberation day” – sparking concerns over a global trade war.
by | Apr 2, 2025 | The Guardian
Donald Trump to announce latest round of tariffs at 8pm GMTIpek Ozkardeskaya, senior analyst at Swissquote Bank, said that after the US manufacturing data yesterday,The
by dap | Apr 2, 2025 | The Guardian
In today’s newsletter: The administration’s sweeping tariffs have left markets bracing for volatility – but what impact will they have on an unsteady global economy?
Good morning. According to Donald Trump,
: the advent of a new trade order in which Americans reap the benefit of massive tariffs on imports, and the rest of the world picks up the tab.
Unsurprisingly, the United States’ trading partners tend to take a very different view. And they are doing everything they can to avoid being passive targets for the White House’s carnivorous vision of American exceptionalism.
Israel-Gaza war | Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz announced a major expansion of the military operation in Gaza on Wednesday, saying large areas of the enclave would be seized and added to the security zones of Israel.
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Israel-Gaza war | Some of the bodies of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, killed by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in Gaza, were found with their hands or legs tied and had gunshot wounds to the head and chest,
. The accounts add to evidence pointing to a potentially serious war crime on 23 March.
UK news | More than 20 women have contacted police to say
by the serial rapist Zhenhao Zou, with detectives fearing there may be even more victims to come. Zou, 28, was convicted last month of raping three women in
and seven in China between 2019 and 2024.
US politics | Cory Booker, the Democratic US senator from New Jersey, has broken the record for longest speech ever by a lone senator by spending 25 hours and five minutes
in the chamber. Booker’s speech was intended to highlight the “grave and urgent” danger that Trump poses to democracy.
Cinema | Val Kilmer, the actor best known for his roles in Top Gun, Batman Forever and The Doors,
. His daughter Mercedes told the New York Times that the cause of death was pneumonia.
by | Apr 2, 2025 | The Guardian
Defence minister Israel Katz says large areas of the territory would be seized and added to the security zones of Israel. Follow the latest developmentsIsrael’s
