What I read today - Nov 29
- What’s the worst that could happen under New Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos? Some scenarios, hechinger report
- Alex Wheatle: ‘I felt like the token black writer who talks about ghetto stuff’, The Guardian
- Making America White Again, The New Yorker
- J.D. Vance, the False Prophet of Blue America, The New Republic
- U.S. Abortion Rate Continues To Decline, The National Review
Interesting... but are greater restrictions the source of the decline? If it's a general decrease, then what's happening in states where there aren't as many restrictions? - Abortion Rates Dropped Sharply. What Caused It?, Think Progress
Obv biased the other way than the National Review, but a more comprehensive report than just a pat on the back. - New Clarity for the U.S. Abortion Debate: A Steep Drop in Unintended Pregnancy Is Driving Recent Abortion Declines, Guttmacher Institute
A comprehensive study of the situation looking at trends in pregnancy to understand the decline in abortion - Venezuela's currency now worth so little shopkeepers weigh vast piles of notes instead of counting them, The Independent
- If Trump Goes Hard on Immigration, Who Will Grow, Process, and Serve Our Food?, Civil Eats
- Who Will Be Donald Trump’s Agriculture Secretary?, Modern Farmer
- Trump’s Attorney General Could Smooth Way For Monsanto-Bayer Merger, Says Report, Modern Farmer
- The Pilgrims Had No Idea How to Farm Here. Luckily, They Had the Native Americans, Modern Farmer
- Are Semester Abroad Accents Real or Fake?, Atlas Obscura