"For many travelers, luxury and babies don’t mix. For those who prefer to mix with grown-ups while they’re trying to unwind, we have adults-only pools and kid-free cruises."

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Memes are incredibly powerful.

"For tenants, the system upends the practice of negotiating with apartment building staff. RealPage discourages bargaining with renters and has even recommended that landlords in some cases accept a lower occupancy rate in order to raise _...Read More_

The New York Times: American Culture Is Trash Culture.

>"Democracy is a system of politics that has disagreement at its heart. But how do we stop conflicts becoming destructive?"

>"Buckingham Palace said the queen, who was 96, died peacefully at Balmoral Castle, her estate in the Scottish Highlands. Her son became Britain’s new monarch, King Charles III."

In direct contrast to social media’s portrayal of “an idealized fantasy of motherhood at odds with the lived experience of motherhood,” many writers are laying bare the sometimes excruciatingly painful experience of being a mom.

>"The idea that women arrive at motherhood prepared for the job has done damage for centuries. Can new science help us to let it go?"

>"After a Planned Parenthood in Knoxville, Tenn., burned down in January, patients relying on gender-affirming care scrambled to find support elsewhere."

"We live in Canberra and Washington, DC, two stately capital cities that embody all the trappings and the ethos of the bureaucratic state. With their monuments, statues and symmetrical lines, the architects of both cities dreamt them as _...Read More_

>"When my adult children came home during Covid lockdown, I loved like I could protect them."

>"The hype around a new AI language generator reveals the sterility of mainstream thinking on AI today — and indeed on how we think about thinking itself."

>"Two conservative critiques of the administrative state are in contradiction with each other."