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Our staffers on good books for America’s big birthday
The decision, unanimous on Title IX but split 6–3 on equal protection, upheld bans in twenty-seven states on transgender female athletes playing on girls’ and women’s teams
On Tuesday, in a decision that will rank among the most consequential—and misguided—of the modern era, the Supreme Court entrenched an expansive vision of birthright citizenship in Trump v. The post Is Trump v. Barbara the New Roe? appeared first on First Things
Buckingham Palace has updated the official description of the monarch’s role vis-à-vis the Church of England. No longer is the king the “Defender of the Faith”; rather, “His Majesty. The post No Faith Worth Defending appeared first on First Things
A Good Place to Lose Your Mind One of our monks, let’s call him Fr. Stan, wasn’t an eloquent preacher at the best of times. He had been married—he returned home one day to find his wife had taken the kids and left without warning or explanation—and came to the monastery later in life. As he developed Alzheimer’s disease, his homilies became even more rambling and disconnected. Once, after an especially disjointed homily that ran on and on, some of the brothers complained to the abbot, who tho...
Reading ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ As recent advances in artificial intelligence have radically altered the way we learn, teach, work, and even wage war, and as they begin to challenge our assumptions about what sets us apart from our machines, Pope Leo XIV has emerged as an eloquent critic of the way this new technology is being employed, and of the pretensions of the Silicon Valley technologists who control it. As expected, his much-anticipated first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, offers a com...
Is Zohran Mamdani becoming much more than a mayor and effectively running a shadow presidential campaign through the candidates he's backing? How significant is Australia’s new centrist party and could something similar be done in the UK? Are the anti-migrant protests and vigilantes in South Africa unique to the region, or part of a global populist pattern of scapegoating migrants for the failures of politics? Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all these questions and more in this week's e...
We hope you’re staying hydrated through these record-breaking temperatures May has brought us! This month, we’re shining a light on some uncomfortable truths about power and pay in the UK’s lowest-paid sectors. Our colleagues in the Resolution Foundation have worked with portfolio company Organise to publish new research on what it really feels like to … Continued The post May WorkerTech Round-Up appeared first on Resolution Foundation
We write to you amidst yet another heatwave, a World Cup and a flurry of activity around Westminster. It’s safe to say a lot is going on at the minute. Over the past month, the Milburn Review released its first findings. We do a whistlestop tour below of Alan Milburn’s diagnosis of what is driving … Continued The post June WorkerTech Round-Up appeared first on Resolution Foundation
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