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☆ You're not imagining it — it feels damn near impossible to get into top colleges right now
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementEven students who have gone megaviral for acceptance videos showing they got into multiple Ivy League schools called social media a major stressor. Schools are rethinking their admissions processes amid a glut of applicantsAn exponential increase in applications has benefited schools financially and reputationally. "A lot of these schools are making so much money from these application fees, which are $80, $90," Rim said. AdvertisementAnd as the game gets more and more competitive year after year, students know they must rise to untold challenges.

Persons: —, Christopher Rim, Rim, It's, Steve Gardner, Gardner, Grant Tucker, Grant Tucker Gardner, Olivia Zhang, Zhang, Kyungyong Lim, Tucker, Tucker's, Oliva Zhang, they've, Lim, who's, it's, " Tucker Organizations: Service, Command, New York City, Hamptons, Rim, Business, Ivy League, New York University, Northeastern, Babson, NYU, MIT, Yale, Facebook, Harvard, Duke, Cancer, Olympic, . News Locations: Asia, Christopher, New, yesteryear, Georgetown, Harvard merch, Jacksonville , Florida

☆ My baby needed 6 blood transfusions while in the womb. The postpartum depression didn't hit me until I knew he was OK months later.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-28 | by ( Kelly Burch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

During my first pregnancy, doctors explained I was at risk for Rh incompatibility . He would need a blood transfusion before he was even born. Beau needed 3 more transfusions after birthUnfortunately, birth wasn't the end of Beau's health concerns. Sure enough, he needed a blood transfusion. Beau needed two additional transfusions, but by five months, he was stable and healthy.

Persons: —, Courtney Yaeger, Beau, I'd, jaundiced, he'd Organizations: Service, Business, Fetal Care Center, Yale New, Yale New Haven Children's Locations: Yale New Haven

☆ Matthew Perry's death means hard questions for the ketamine movement
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-20 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

AdvertisementWhen Charles Patti read that ketamine had been a major factor in the "Friends" star Matthew Perry's death, his heart sank. AdvertisementMultiple researchers told Business Insider that labeling ketamine as the sole cause of Perry's death is misleading. "Matthew Perry's ketamine overdose should be a lesson in expanded use of the dangerous drug," declared The New York Post. There's no data on how many people go from receiving ketamine treatment in clinics to using it without a prescription. Herzberg, the historian, said he's not particularly worried about Perry's death causing a moral panic.

Persons: Matthew Perry, —, Charles Patti, Matthew Perry's, Patti, Perry, Matthew, Joanna Moncrieff, Ryan Marino, Marilyn Monroe's, David Herzberg, Len Bias, Gerard Sanacora, it's, Chrissy Teigen, Elon Musk, We've, Herzberg, wasn't, Sanacora, I've, Sandhya Prashad, wouldn't, Keith Trujillo, Trujillo, he's Organizations: Service, Los, Business, New York, University of Buffalo, Yale, FDA, American Society, Physicians, Psychotherapists Locations: Florida, Los Angeles County, British, Swiss

☆ Fact-Checking Kremlin's Claim That More Foreign Companies Remain in Russia Than Have Left
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-06 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementAfter Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, over 1,000 foreign companies announced they would exit Russia in protest against the war. "More foreign companies remain in Russia than those who left the country," Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson for the Kremlin, told Business Insider in late October. 1: Data from Yale UniversityYale University runs an ongoing study that examines which foreign companies have left Russia since the war began. Here are their results as of November 21:KSE's data shows that most foreign companies have not left Russia. Russia is making it difficult for foreign companies to exitMany companies still operating in Russia are also stuck in the process of exiting the market.

Persons: KSE, —, it's, haven't, Dmitry Peskov, Steven Tian, Tian, Agathe Demarais, Igor Lipsits Organizations: Kremlin, Yale, Service, BI, Yale University Yale University, Kyiv School of, Kyiv School of Economics, University of St, Yale's, Leadership Institute, BP, Benetton, Unilever, Nestlé, European Council, Foreign Relations, Financial Times Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Gallen, Switzerland, Ukrainian, Russian

☆ Unknown traders appear to have anticipated October 7 Hamas attack, research finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Short selling is a way to bet against the value of a security. “Our findings suggest that traders informed about the coming attacks profited from these tragic events,” the authors wrote. The research found that on October 2, just five days before the Hamas attack, “nearly 100% of the off-exchange trading volume in the MSCI Israel ETF … consisted of short selling.”“Days before the attack, traders appeared to anticipate the events to come,” the professors wrote. In the days before the attack, bets against Israeli securities traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange “increased dramatically,” the paper said. “Taken together, our evidence is consistent with informed traders anticipating and profiting from the Hamas attack,” the authors wrote.

Persons: hasn’t, Jonathan Macey, ”, Robert Jackson Jr, Joshua Mitts, “, Mitts, it’s “, ” Mitts, Jackson, Bill Bagley, Charles Whitehead, Whitehead, – Organizations: New, New York CNN, Columbia University, New York University, Israel, Fund, Yale Law School, CNN, “ Regulators, SEC, NYU, …, US Securities and Exchange Commission, Israeli Securities Authority, Reuters, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, Bank, Cornell Law School Locations: New York, Israel, Gaza, Columbia, Bank Leumi

☆ Marvel's Jonathan Majors told the ex he's accused of abusing she needed to act like Michelle Obama and sacrifice for him, prosecutor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Janon Fisher | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Prosecutors painted Majors as a controlling partner, who once threatened suicide to manipulate. Defense said Jabbari threatened suicide, and the allegations were the result of being scorned. "He even threatened suicide to control her." In June of 2022, she went to a music festival in the UK with a friend where cellphone service was spotty, Perez told the jury. "He told her that she needed to comport herself in the way he needed her to be."

Persons: Jonathan Majors, Prosecutors, Jabbari, —, Coretta Scott King, Michelle Obama, Michael Perez, Grace Jabbari, Kang, Conqueror, Cleopatra, D'Angelo, Jabarri, Majors, Alan Chin, Perez, comport, Priya Chaudhry, Chaudhry, That’s Jabbari, ould Organizations: Defense, Service, Marvel, Manhattan, Majors, Yale, Chelsea, NYPD, Manhattan Criminal, Fine, David Geffen School of Drama, Sundance, Searchlight Pictures, Jabbari Locations: Chinatown, Fort Greene , Brooklyn, Manhattan, California, Texas

NEW YORK (AP) — When Paul Giamatti made “Sideways” with Alexander Payne, he stayed in a little house in the middle of a large vineyard. I told David Hemingson: We’re writing for Paul Giamatti." “He’s just the best actor,” Payne adds. Twenty years ago, Giamatti was surprisingly passed over for an Oscar nomination for “Sideways.” This time, many are predicting he’ll receive his first Academy Award nomination for best actor. If the movie does, if (Randolph) does, if Hemingson does or Alexander does — it’d be great if somebody does."

Persons: Paul Giamatti, Alexander Payne, Giamatti, Alexander, ‘, ’ ”, Thomas Hayden, ”, John Adams ”, Jerry Heller, he’s, Payne, —, Paul Hunham, who’s, Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, ” Giamatti, “, Giamatti’s, Miles Raymond of “, grouch, “ He’s, He’s, ” Payne, David Hemingson, “ I’ve, aspersions, Paul, Bartlett Giamatti, Toni, Choate, You’ll, Miles, Sessa, wouldn’t, I’m, Randolph, Stephen Asma, cackling, ’ I’m Organizations: Thomas Hayden Church, Yale, Major League Baseball, Hopkins School Locations: Napa Valley, Manhattan, California, New England, Haven , Connecticut

Finally Souza, an innkeeper and community leader in Bela Vista do Jaraqui, said he rallied two dozen neighbors to drill a 60-meter well in the heart of the world's largest freshwater basin. With rivers forming the backbone of transportation across the Amazon region, the drought has disrupted access to food and medicine in dozens of cities. The Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, is regarded by scientists as a bulwark against climate change because its dense vegetation absorbs carbon and emits oxygen. The five researchers predicting a 2026 recovery said the effects of the drought could endure even longer if El Nino is prolonged. That would release huge amounts of carbon dioxide, contributing to climate change and wiping out a wealth of plant and animal species found only in the Amazon.

Persons: Bruno Kelly, Raimundo Leite de Souza, Souza, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Michael Coe, we're, El Nino, Coe, El, Philip Fearnside, Henrique Barbosa, Eduardo Taveira, Taveira, Paulo Brando, Brando, Barbosa, Brad Haynes, Jake Spring, Ana Mano, Andre Romani, Suzanne Goldenberg Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Rio, cobras, United, Reuters, Research Center, National Institute of, Research, University of Maryland, Honda, LG, Positivo, GIANTS, Yale University, Sao Paulo, Thomson Locations: Tefe, Amazonas, Brazil, Rights MANAUS, caimans, Bela Vista, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Venezuela, Colombia, United Nations, U.S, South America, South, Pacific, North America, El Nino, University, Baltimore, Western Europe, Brazil's Amazonas, Manaus, Itacoatiara, Madeira Rivers, Sao Paulo, Sao

☆ Reaction to the death of former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

"Fortunately for us, she set her sights a little higher – becoming the first woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. U.S. SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS"A daughter of the American Southwest, Sandra Day O'Connor blazed an historic trail as our Nation's first female Justice. SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS“The passing of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor reminds all of us of what an extraordinary woman and justice she was. JUSTIN DRIVER, PROFESSOR AT YALE LAW SCHOOL AND FORMER LAW CLERK TO O'CONNOR"Today, we lost a towering, trailblazing jurist who dramatically improved our nation. SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY, FORMER CHAIRMAN AND CURRENT MEMBER OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE“Justice O’Connor was the first Supreme Court nominee I had the honor of voting for as a senator.

Persons: Sandra Day O'Connor, BARACK OBAMA, Sandra Day, Michelle, JOHN ROBERTS, SUSAN COLLINS “, Sandra Day O’Connor, ” CRISTINA RODRIGUEZ, O'CONNOR, NANCY PELOSI, O’Connor, EUGENE VOLOKH, JUSTIN, Justice O’Connor, CHUCK GRASSLEY, LARRY KRAMER, iCivics, John Kruzel, Andrew Chung, Scott Malone, Alistaiir Bell, Richard Chang Organizations: U.S, Supreme, Stanford Law School, SUPREME, REPUBLICAN U.S, AT YALE, SCHOOL, LAW, UCLA, OF, trailblazer, CIVICS, Thomson Locations: U.S, Arizona, Texas, American, New York

☆ Brain Study Suggests Traumatic Memories Are Processed as Present Experience
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Ellen Barry | More About Ellen Barry | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Decades of treatment of military veterans and sexual assault survivors have left little doubt that traumatic memories function differently from other memories. The team conducted brain scans of 28 people with PTSD while they listened to recorded narrations of their own memories. Some of the recorded memories were neutral, some were simply “sad,” and some were traumatic. The brain scans found clear differences, the researchers reported in a paper published on Thursday in the journal Nature Neuroscience. The people listening to the sad memories, which often involved the death of a family member, showed consistently high engagement of the hippocampus, part of the brain that organizes and contextualizes memories.

Organizations: Yale University, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount, Neuroscience

☆ Are the COP climate summits working? These countries are going to the courts, instead
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Ella Nilsen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“It is a recipe for permanent climate chaos and suffering.”Yet the UN climate summit, known as COP, is tedious. Even fierce climate advocates who agree COP should be more ambitious still believe the summit is a powerful and worthwhile endeavor. “There is a lot of questioning whether this process will deliver or not,” Ani Dasgupta, president and CEO of international climate nonprofit World Resources Institute, told CNN. In this June 2017 photo, President Donald Trump after announcing his intention to abandon the Paris Agreement in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. Doug Mills/The New York Times/ReduxStill, former and current US negotiators say climate diplomacy has helped keep the world’s temperature from reaching truly alarming highs.

Persons: António Guterres, ” Guterres, Paris, Payam Akhavan, ” Akhavan, ” Ani Dasgupta, ’ COP’s, ”, Sue Biniaz, John Kerry, Frances F, Denny, Biniaz, ” Biniaz, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Doug Mills, Jonathan Pershing, William, Flora Hewlett, Pershing, ” Pershing, “, Todd Stern, Jens Astrup, Stern, “ It’s, ” Stern, it’s, It’s, Margaretha Wewerinke, Singh, Mitzi Jonelle Tan, Peter Dejong, Hailey Campbell, ’ ”, Campbell Organizations: CNN, United Nations, Law, United, Resources Institute, Yale University, The New York Times, “, ”, White, New York Times, Kerry, Bella Center, Getty, US, Republicans, International Court of Justice Locations: Paris, Small, States, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Antigua, Barbuda, Dubai, COP28, United States, New Haven , Connecticut, Rose, Washington , DC, Copenhagen, AFP, Europe, Mississippi, Philippines, Sharm el, Sheikh, Egypt, Hawaii, Honolulu

☆ I'm a freshman at Yale and just went to my first Harvard-Yale football game. The weekend was one of my favorites at college so far.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Miles Kirkpatrick | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

I attended the famous Harvard-Yale football game as a Yale freshman for the first time. I went tailgating, stripped in the stadium, and chanted as Yale won the game. The rival weekend is one of my favorite events of college so far. AdvertisementThe Harvard-Yale rivalry is unlike any other, and as a Yale student, I recently learned firsthand just how deep this rivalry went. The 139th iteration of The Game took place in November, and it was my first as a college freshman; the lead-up to the big game was also my first Harvard-Yale weekend.

Persons: — Organizations: Harvard, Yale, Service Locations: Yale

People who claimed the power to control nature and the energy resources around them saw the environment as a tool to be used for progress, historians say. Over hundreds of years, that impulse has remade the planet's climate, too — and brought its inhabitants to the brink of catastrophe. Tapping nature for its resources drove progress and productivity for some, but it's also been a major driver of emissions and environmental degradation. By the mid-19th century, steam power was adopted in manufacturing, cotton mills, steam ships and locomotives around the world, turning coal into a global trade. Centuries later, the United Kingdom has nearly weaned itself off coal, with weeks or months at a stretch where the national grid gets no coal power.

Persons: ”, Luis Zambrano, it's, Anya Zilberstein, ” Zilberstein, Vera S, Candiani, Jan Golinski, “, ” Golinski, Deborah Coen, Andreas Malm, Barak, it’s, J.R, McNeill, ” McNeill, Victor Seow, Elizabeth Chatterjee, “ Indira Gandhi, Chatterjee, Joshua Howe, Howe, Yale's Coen, —, ” Howe, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Jonsson Organizations: National University Autónoma, Concordia University, Mexico City —, America, Princeton, University of New, Yale, Lund University, Tel Aviv University, Laboratory, Global, Project, Energy, Georgetown University, Communist, University of Chicago, Reed College, . Environmental Protection Agency, U.S, AP Locations: Nations, Mexico, Lake Texcoco, Montreal, Spanish, University of New Hampshire, Maui, Britain, Sweden, ”, India, Egypt, Nigeria, Ottoman Empire, United Kingdom, Cumbria, England, Wales, Scotland, China, Japan, U.S, Europe, United States, British, Portland , Oregon

☆ Mike McDaniel, mastermind behind the NFL’s most exciting offense, started out as a Broncos intern
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Samuel Joseph | Sam Joseph | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

CNN —Back in September, the Miami Dolphins put up a historic scoreline. “The Dolphins offense has underperformed and been in the shadow of the clubs’ defense for decades,” Joe Schad, a Dolphins journalist for the Palm Beach Post, told CNN Sport. “They’re feared for the first time since legendary quarterback Dan Marino was under center.”The Mike McDaniel effectOften decked out in aviator sunglasses and white sneakers, Coach McDaniel is part-quote machine, part-football geek, part-stand-up comedian and part-offensive guru. McVay became the youngest NFL head coach when he was hired by the Los Angeles Rams at the age of 30 in 2017. Tua Tagovailoa, the NFL's only left-handed starting quarterback, spearheads the Dolphins offense.

Persons: Don Shula, Dan Marino, Mike McDaniel, ’, McDaniel, ” Joe Schad, “ They’re, “ Mike McDaniel, ”, I’ve, Mike Shanahan, Gary Kubiak, Kubiak, Troy Calhoun, ” Calhoun, “, Calhoun, ” McDaniel, Shanahan, Sean McVay, Matt LeFleur, Kyle Shanahan, McDaniel’s, McVay, he’s, Erik Spoelstra, Spo’s, 🐬🇩, Mc, Su Organizations: CNN, Miami Dolphins, Denver Broncos, Miami, The Dolphins, Washington, Dolphins, Palm, CNN Sport, NFL, Houston Texans, OC, Getty, National Football League, United States Air Force Academy football, Sacramento Mountain Lions, United Football League, Washington Redskins, Los Angeles Rams, 49ers, Athletic, Yale, Miami Heat Locations: Miami, Aurora , Colorado, Houston, Cleveland, Atlanta, San Francisco, Germany

☆ We Should All Give Thanks for Taylor Swift
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Peggy Noonan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and has taught in the history department at Yale University. Before entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. In November, 2016 she was named one of the city's Literary Lions by the New York Public Library.

Persons: Peggy Noonan, ”, ” Noonan, Ronald Reagan, Noonan Organizations: Wall, Journal, NBC News, The, Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, Yale University, Reagan White House, CBS News, Journalism, New York University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Lions, New York Public Library Locations: New York, Brooklyn , New York, Massapequa Park, Long, Rutherford , New Jersey, Rutherford, New York City

Some 165 photographers working on assignment for National Geographic shot more than 2.1 million images in 2023. The feature — published in the magazine's December issue and online in November — contains "stunning photographs that unearth remarkable, rarely seen moments," according to National Geographic. Louie PaluThe training was conducted in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to National Geographic. A journey homeThis harrowing photograph by Renan Ozturk — a former National Geographic "Adventurer of the Year" — captures a journey home. Today India celebrates "National Technology Day" annually on May 11 to commemorate the 1998 tests.

Persons: Kiliii Yuyan, Kiliii, Yuyan, Louie Palu, Liam Burke, Alexander Semenov, Renan Ozturk —, Renan Ozturk, Michael —, Nenad Sestan, Max Aguilera, Chinky Shukla, Taj Mohammad, Chinky Shukla Mohammad, Jaime Rojo Organizations: National Geographic, Pictures, Geographic, CNBC, NATO, Yale University, Yale, World Health Organization, India Locations: Rock, Palau, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, U.S, Ukraine, Finland, United States, Sandwich Islands, New Delhi, Rajasthan, India, Pokhran

☆ Red wine headaches: New study suggests possible causes
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Scientists may be closer to understanding the culprit behind the consumption of red wine causing headaches for some people, according to new research. A flavonol naturally occurring in red wines may interfere with the body’s ability to metabolize alcohol, causing an accumulation of toxins that can lead to swift headaches, suggests the study published Monday in the journal Scientific Reports. Using lab tests, the authors found that a derivative of quercetin — quercetin glucuronide — inhibited the enzyme variant. What’s next in the study of red wine headachesThe authors plan to test their hypothesis in a small clinical trial of people who develop these headaches, by comparing red wines with high amounts of quercetin with those that have little. In some cases, it can be four to five times higher.”As a result, you may have better luck with cheaper red wines or with white wines, which have a lower flavonol content overall, according to the study.

Persons: ”, Andrew Waterhouse, Waterhouse, imbibing, Apramita Devi, —, Jonas Spaak, Vasilis Vasiliou, What’s, ” Spaak Organizations: CNN —, University of California, UC Davis, Karolinska Institute, Yale University Locations: Davis, East, Stockholm, Sweden, Napa

☆ Sam Altman inspired a mass defection at OpenAI — something Steve Jobs never did at Apple
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sam Altman's ouster has been so unpopular that most OpenAI workers have threatened to quit. The chaotic ouster of Sam Altman from OpenAI offers lessons around corporate stewardship and about seizing opportunity . It's a remarkable and uncommon show of support for a top dog at a company, leadership experts told Business Insider. Young, leadership expert and author of "Kissinger's Betrayal: How America Lost the Vietnam War" told BI. "Emotions and personalities play a much greater role in the small company," he said.

Persons: Sam Altman's, —, didn't, Sam Altman, It's, Satya Nadella, Altman, Jamie Dimon, Warren, Jeff Bezos, Jerry McGuire, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Sonnenfeld, who's, Steve Jobs, it's, Ken Frazier, Merck, Indra Nooyi, Marc Benioff, Benioff, Stephen B . Young, Young Organizations: Service, OpenAI, JPMorgan, Yale School of Management, Yale's, Leadership, Apple, PepsiCo Locations: Salesforce, Vietnam

☆ Why Warblers Flock to Wealthier Neighborhoods
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Hillary Rosner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The evolutionary effects of redlining are percolating through urban wildlife populations, but they are not yet set in stone. Not only does the composition of wildlife differ between neighborhoods, but so does the incidence of people looking for wildlife. Diego Ellis Soto, a Ph.D. student at Yale, found that across the country, historically redlined neighborhoods were the least studied areas for bird diversity. Mr. Ellis Soto, who is from Uruguay, said he was shocked when he arrived in New Haven and saw how segregated the city was. “How can we protect what we don’t have information for?” Mr. Ellis Soto said.

Persons: ” Chloé Schmidt, Schmidt, “, “ Redlining, redlining, ”, Dr, Katti, Diego Ellis Soto, Ellis Soto, Mr Organizations: German Center, Integrative Biodiversity Research, Yale Locations: New Jersey, U.S, Uruguay, New Haven

☆ So You Think You Want a Political Fighter?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Peggy Noonan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

☆ Make America Build Again
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +37 min

America is the sixth-most-expensive place in the world to build subways and trolleys. The solutions will cost trillions of dollars and require a pace of building unseen in America since World War II. Perhaps the single most pressing question we face today is: How do we make America build again? "For this class of projects, federal environmental laws are more the exception." The prospect of overhauling our hard-won environmental laws might feel like sacrilege to anyone who cares about the Earth.

Persons: Anne, Marie Griger's, Griger, —, They're, Obama, I'm, we've, We've, I'd, It's, Matt Harrison Clough, Jamie Pleune, AECOM, Joe Biden's, There's, David Adelman, David Spence, Spence, James Coleman, NECA, Coleman, everyone's, Danielle Stokes, Nobody, Bill McKibben, Mother Jones, McKibben, Michael Gerrard, Columbia University —, they've, David Pettit, it's, Zachary Liscow, That's who's, Adam Rogers Organizations: RES Group, Environmental, Infrastructure Investment, Jobs, Land Management, Forest Service, University of Utah, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, Brookings, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, White, University of Texas, Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council, Act, NEPA, Berkeley, University of California, University of Southern, Southern Methodist University, Ecosystems Conservation, GOP, Biden, Motorola, Telecommunications, Conservatives, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, University of Richmond, UC Berkeley, USC, Star, Sabin, Climate, Columbia University, Natural Resources Defense, Republicans, Democrats, Management, Budget, Yale Law School Locations: Panama, Colorado, . California, Los Angeles, San Francisco, China, America, Washington, , Wyoming, Nantucket, New England, San Francisco ., University of Southern California, California, New York, Florida, Southern California, Las Vegas

☆ Thousands of Ukrainian children taken to Belarus -Yale research
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Anthony Deutsch | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

More than 2,000 children Yale identified were transported to the Dubrava children's centre in Belarus' Minsk region between September 2022 and May 2023, it said, while 392 children were taken to 12 other facilities. "Russia's federal government and Belarus' regime have been working together to coordinate and fund the movement of children from Russia-occupied Ukraine through Russia to Belarus." Transports to Belarus through Russia were "ultimately coordinated" between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko, it added. Lukashenko approved the use of state organizations to transport children from Ukraine to Belarus and finance their transportation, the Yale report said. Once in Belarus, children have been subjected to military training and re-education, it said.

Persons: Alexander Lukashenko, Pavel Bednyakov, Vladimir Putin, Russia's Putin, Maria Lvova, Lukashenko, David Ljunggren, Mike Collett, White, Alexandra Hudson, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS, Sputnik, Rights, Yale University, Humanitarian, Yale School of Public Health, State Department, Reuters, U.S . State Department, Ukraine, Yale, Transports, Criminal, Thomson Locations: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Russian, United States, Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Minsk, The Hague

☆ Kamala Harris Is Biden’s No. 2 Problem
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Peggy Noonan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

☆ Opinion | Conservative Thinkers Didn’t Create Trumpism
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

There is a story that professional ideamongers like to tell about political history that gives pride of place to their own work. It’s a story that usually begins with some small tribe of writers or intellectuals who come up with a set of theories that describe the world in a new way. This fall, I’ve been co-teaching a course at Yale University, the Crisis of Liberalism, which looks for the roots of today’s disturbances in long-running debates about the liberal order. And one of my thoughts is that both of them break, in different ways, with the familiar narrative about intellectuals and democracy I’ve just sketched. With wokeness, you have a movement in which the intelligentsia really matters but democratic politics much less so.

Persons: Reagan, Clinton’s, George W, Myron Magnet, Marvin Olasky, Barack Obama’s, I’ve, we’ve, progressivism, Obama Organizations: New, The Washington Monthly, The New, Yale University, American Locations: The New Republic

That's the assessment of a new report released on Thursday by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). There is growing concern about a contradiction in the U.S. economy: jobs are plentiful and economic growth is strong, especially compared with other advanced economies, but surveys show many Americans are sour about the outlook. A key part of the report is a new tool developed to measure the well-being of Americans, which combines 11 different measures. Researchers around the world have long sought to find better ways to gauge the well-being of people that look beyond measures such as economic growth or unemployment. Reuters GraphicsOne unique part of the measure is an attempt to quantify the "political voice" of Americans.

Persons: Gaelen Morse, Matthew Slaughter, Nicholas Lemann, there's, Lemann, Jacob Hacker, Timothy Aeppel, Paul Simao Organizations: REUTERS, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business, Federal Reserve, U.S . Census, Columbia Journalism School, Reuters, Yale University, Thomson Locations: Columbus , Ohio, U.S, America

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