Childcare costs, in-office pressures, and a cultural nudge toward traditional gender roles are pushing moms out, while men in power nod along.

Meanwhile, the tradwife movement parades its perfect, baked-from-scratch, filtered-life versions of domesticity online, making the impossible look effortless.

It’s absurd. It’s dangerous. And it’s time we stop letting the economy treat raising kids as invisible labor.

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Early on, the Pentagon testified it would spend about $134 million for the LA deployment, which sounds like a low-ball figure to anyone who’s recently shopped for groceries to feed 5,000 hungry young men three meals a day. And now, California’s governor is asking for the total cost to taxpayers of this “unlawful” deployment—because whether it’s political theater or not, we’re the ones footing the bill.

The post From Alligator Alcatraz to National Guard Patrols: What Is the Cost of the Trump Administration’s Cruelty? appeared first on Ms. Magazine.

The bill's 1,000-plus pages contain another dangerous threat: freeing still-experimental AI from regulation, essentially turning Americans into lab rats in a billionaire-bro tryout without guardrails. 

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Why? Three days earlier, we had learned from The Washington Post how a "strategic bitcoin reserve" would work. Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency, is being easily minted too. Unlike our government-backed dollars, crypto is privately created, the reason there are now about 9000 such currencies. Easy-peasy, they're what your mom might call too good to be true.

The Post's article recapped how president-elect Donald Trump, who once poo-pooed bitcoin for being "based on thin air," had recently claimed it was "going to the moon." He wants to make sure the U.S. leads the way. So Trump is now entertaining the idea of the U.S. government purchasing bitcoin and holding it in reserve. What does that mean?

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I focused on the health-related parts of Project 2025's chapter on Health and Human Services—our nation's department for medical and family concerns—as its authors rail against the Center for Disease Control, abortion access and abortion pills, childcare, fertility treatments, what makes a proper family, and more. It's dystopian, to say the least.

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"Derivative" as an adjective means to be hackneyed and stale or even plagiarized or stolen. So how can a small group of Wall Street banks, hedge funds, private equity and investment firms make trillions selling and trading in derivatives, and not necessarily the stuff they're derived from? What are they exactly?

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If you're worried about the deteriorating appearance of downtown areas, hospitals or the housing market, if you've noticed a growing shabbiness, or if you've notice the government's indifference, these books will help explain not only what's wrong, but what we ordinary people can and must do to stop the steal—the real steal.

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In the aftermath of Barbie, we must not discount the huge economic changes that have arisen for women since she was created in 1959. In the U.S., there's a growing movement for wiser, more sustainable investing that better reflects women's values. I'm hoping Greta Gerwig—whose film surpassed the $1 billion mark—will join.

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"People don't realize they can choose differently. We all believe in democracy. So why not democracy for the economic system?" asked Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein, associate professor of global development at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

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