Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
What beauty companies are selling to kids
It’s not an exaggeration to say that Jessica DeFino transformed my relationship with skincare. After reading her newsletter, The Review of Beauty, I started questioning the purported “anti-aging” benefits of the products I was putting on my face and asked myself what it meant to buy into a philosophy of “anti-aging” in the first place. […]
Revenge of the flip phone
I laughed out loud the first time I saw a folding phone. The contraptions, which debuted when the Samsung Galaxy Fold hit the market in 2019, are smartphones with bendable screens. You can fold them in half and put them in your pocket. That first Galaxy Fold was huge, heavy, cost nearly $2,000, and looked […]
Why doesn’t Donald Trump want to release the Epstein Files?
In the week and a half since the Justice Department released a memo saying there’s no evidence that indicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was murdered, that he never kept a “client list,” and that the department doesn’t plan on releasing any new documents on the matter, the calls from across the political spectrum to “release […]
The three-way battle for the Democratic Party
A three-sided debate has broken out over the Democratic Party’s future. On one side is the party establishment, damaged by the disappointing end to the Biden era but seeking to rebrand itself with a new agenda it hopes will better appeal to voters. Two main factions have emerged to challenge that establishment, from opposite directions. […]
The Trump administration’s fundamental misunderstanding about deportations
The Trump administration has offered little consolation to American businesses worried about losing undocumented workers to deportations. US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins did offer them one solution last week: to replace immigrant farmworkers with Americans who are now required to work in order to access Medicaid benefits, under the recently signed Republican spending bill. “When […]