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We’re hardwired for negativity. That doesn’t mean we’re doomed to it.
Business
Over the past week or so, the US economy took a major hit, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it was no longer in the business of caring about the environment, and the only thing the internet can talk about is Sydney Sweeney. But here’s the thing: Even amid the constant deluge of news that alternates between the negative and the just silly, there’s another story unfolding. It’s quieter, slower, less flashy, but it’s real, and it matters. And that’s the story of progress.Business Good NewsA weekly dose of stories chronicling progress around the world.That’s why a few months ago I launched Good News, Vox’s weekly newsletter dedicated not to ignoring our often difficult reality, but to placing it in the broader context it deserves. This past Monday, Good News got the Unexplainable treatment,...
We’re Addicted to the Feeling of Being Right
Politics tamfitronics We live in a time of large-scale democratic reckoning, coupled with crumbling trust in public institutions and their elite functionaries. More people will cast electoral votes in 2024 and 2025 than at any other moment in human history: a so-called super-cycle election event that involves sixty-four sovereign nations around the planet—including India and the United States, most of Europe, and dozens of nations many people would struggle to locate on a map—accounting for 49 percent of the total global population. Together, these countries control most of the combined natural resources, financial power, and military hardware of the entire human project.The results of this great tallying of political desire are, naturally, beyond any single person’s assessment. The many millions of votes being cast might also take years to show their genuine effect in public...
“We’re not Igbos” – Controversy as Ikwerre ethnic group rejects affiliation with southeast
Politics tamfitronics The Ikwerre ethnic nationality, represented by the Iwhnurohna Progressive Union (IPU), has ignited fresh controversy over their ethnic identity, firmly rejecting any affiliation with the Igbo people of the Southeast geopolitical zone of Nigeria.The Ikwerre, primarily based in Rivers State in Nigeria’s South-South region, voiced strong opposition to comments by a former Secretary-General of the apex Igbo organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Uche Okwukwu, who claimed that the Ikwerre are of Igbo descent.Speaking at a press conference in Abuja, the President of IPU, Dr Okachikwu Dibia, expressed his community’s discontent with what he described as an “unholy narrative” propagated by Igbo leaders such as Okwukwu and the late President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu.Dibia stated that the Ikwerre ethnic group would file a petition to the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, and other national...
In “We’re Not Going Back!” Dems Find an Antidote to the Politics of Nostalgia
Politics tamfitronics Editorial / August 27, 2024Underneath the cliché that “we’re all in this together” lie harder truths that will need to be faced if Harris and Walz want to rally the nation for real change.Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, greet supporters.(Kamil Krzaczynski / Getty)The failed campaign to save Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti—the Italian immigrants and anarchists who were executed in 1927 for a bank robbery and murder they didn’t commit—prompted John Dos Passos to lament, in his novel The Big Moneythat “our nation has been beaten by strangers who have bought the laws and fenced off the meadows and cut down the woods for pulp and turned our pleasant cities into slums and sweated the wealth out of our people and when...
