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In late April the
New York Times deputy editor
Dodai Stewart made an impassioned if straightforward argument: The entire nation needs a simultaneous and, this part is key,
paid week off. Although filed in the paper’s “After Thoughts” column, Stewart’s decree stopped me in my tracks and remained lodged in the foreground of my mind. Stewart admitted she didn’t have answers to all the questions that such a concept inevitably dredges up (“How will hospitals function? Who will feed the tigers at the zoo?”), but that isn’t much the point. In the past year I’ve done as many in my peer group have: wistfully daydreaming, manifesting, willing an escape from the ever-present weight of responsibilities and work reveries that remaine
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There’s no getting around it: Quarantine is making us weird. Humans did not evolve as social animals for thousands of years to sit alone in their houses, communicating solely by typing and talking through a series of small digital boxes.
After almost a year of Covid lockdown, I’ve completely lost the ability to make small talk. I wasn’t
great at it before, but at least I was able to say hi and exchange pleasantries at daycare drop off. Now when I see someone I know in person not even friends! Just acquaintances! I simply stare at them while my eyes slowly well up with tears. You d think Zoom and email and Twitter and TikTok might offer some solace to the contact-starved, but after 11 long months it s getting more difficult to mediate those interactions as well. Alone in our dwellings, we are pure id. We howl back and forth into the social media black hole while we boil yet another pot of ramen for dinner.
Donald Trump boards Air Force One for the last time
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President Donald J. Trump: The End
on a terrible experiment
“Folks, we just survived something really crazy awful: four years of a president without shame, backed by a party without spine, amplified by a network without integrity, each pumping out conspiracy theories without truth, brought directly to our brains by social networks without ethics - all heated up by a pandemic without mercy. It’s amazing that our whole system didn’t blow, because the country really had become like a giant overheated steam engine. What we saw in the Capitol last week were the bolts and hinges starting to come loose. The departure of Donald J. Trump from the White House and the depletion of his enablers’ power in the Senate aren’t happening a second too soon. Nor is Joe Biden’s inauguration, but he has his work cut out for him. Because we haven’t even begun to fully comprehend how much damage Trump, armed with Twitter and Facebook
More than seven million people clicked on Anne Helen Petersen’s essay Why Millennials Became the Burnout Generation when it was published on Buzzfeed in 2019. The piece went viral and has now been