Don’t worry, this effect has been debunked pretty thoroughly. Smartphones aren’t changing our little fingers. It’s just that, thankfully, our brains have changed.
george willAfter reading Jonathan Haidt’s new book, An Anxious Generation, about how phones affect children’s development, he concludes: children until they become adults. ”
As a result, George argues, Gen Z is far more resilient, anxious, depressed, “timid” and “embarrassed” than previous generations.
George predicts that restricting cell phone use in early childhood won’t be a panacea, but Hite’s recommendation to ban access until high school is probably a good rule of thumb, scratched by the iPhone. Dew. George warns against imposing phone restrictions in the government’s twisted hands.
in Dana Milbank’s In a recent dispatch from Tracking Trump, he writes about how the former president’s followers have embraced a near-religious fervor. When Donald Trump arrives at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, as the country’s “true president,” his followers welcome him with enthusiastic applause, and this is their “unwavering belief.”
Donald Trump told them to invest in Trump Media, and many of them did so in confidence, only to watch the company’s stock lose 43 percent of its value in just three business days. This is a transformation into a company that rivals Easter.
Meanwhile, through Dana’s record this week, Dana concluded that Trump sees these people not as believers, but as the “suckers” he has always thought of them.
Fareed Zakaria As the United States rapidly becomes more secular, the authors write, politics can increasingly be expected to fill the void left by the decline of religion. People are looking for order, meaning, and a cause bigger than themselves, so it’s no wonder President Trump’s events can sometimes feel more like altar calls than political rallies.
All of modern wealth, technology and independence “cannot fill the void in our hearts that God and faith once occupied,” Fareed said. But he warns that “burying it in politics is dangerous.”
Chaser: Jen Rubin In her latest newsletter, she writes that not all of President Trump’s violations are crimes. He’s done a lot of terrible things that remain legal. See above.
from Katherine Rampel’s A new column about the Great Medicaid Purge, which turned out to be even worse than expected. Experts predict that perhaps 15 million people will lose coverage, a figure of about 20 million known before the process was completed. And most of it is paper work!
“In any other wealthy country, a government failure of this magnitude would be a scandal,” Catherine writes. “Or at least a little embarrassing. Think about it: Government dysfunction is undermining half a century of vital safety net programs.”
Equally bad is that the government has little control over the fate of those purged, and no idea whether they currently have access to any medical care.
Catherine writes that politicians are not addressing this issue at all. That’s terrible, but also understandable. This failure is too embarrassing for everyone on all sides.
Only the weekend remains before Monday’s solar eclipse draws a total line across North America. Two members of the Today’s Opinions editor troika are decamped to the Lone Star State, and a third one said via Slack: “But what if a fireball comes from the sun and hits Texas? That leaves Drew. Am I the only one thinking this?
Even without a fireball, a solar eclipse is a good omen. Alexandra Petri Introducing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who wrote that she found the eclipse and Friday’s earthquake outside Manhattan to be clear signs. It’s God’s wrath.
And further portents are everywhere, with Alex writing: Sometimes, when you try to cross the road, a red hand lights up in the air along with a mysterious number. Countdown. But for what? ”
In fact, the only thing that the great cosmic coincidence of the Sun and Moon portends is an increase in human knowledge.planetary physicist Sabine Stanley A commentary on all the exciting science we learned through solar eclipses, including solar flares, ocean tides, changes in the Earth’s rotation, and the “equatorial bulge” (although Earth apparently had some) We are investigating. Too many donuts), and even what’s going on deep within the planet’s liquid core, the furthest destination on Earth from the sun.
By the way, don’t worry about the Today’s Opinions team. “Don’t worry,” one solar eclipse observer replied. “I’m going to wear ‘Don’t Mess With Texas’ eclipse glasses, so the sun doesn’t give me any ideas.”
- The Republican Party is out of power and abortions are on the rise. Jason Wyrick writes — So what happened when I flipped out? Roe vs. Wade Can it even be achieved?
- David Ignatiusfrom Kiev, looks at how Ukraine’s tech army is taking on Russia.
- North Korea sent weapons to Russia, and now President Vladimir Putin is returning the favor to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. editorial committee is written.
Goodbye. It’s a haiku. It’s… Bye-Ku.
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