Or that she too could pray, that she too could

She will imagine the man’s head, his rolled-back eyes, and she will throw up on the floor and spend hours cleaning up the watery vomit.

The smell is heavy, fills her nose, makes breathing difficult.

billowing above her, like the clouds outside an airplane window.

bruised vegetables they had just bargained hard for

Later, Chika will learn that Hausa Muslims are hacking down Igbo Christians with machetes, clubbing them with huge stones, as she and the woman are speaking.

we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous oneWe will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the west,we will rise from the windswept northeast

But one thing is certain:

For while we have our eyes on the futurehistory has its eyes on usThis is the era of just redemption

That even as we grieved, we grewThat even as we hurt, we hopedThat even as we tired, we tried

And yet the dawn is ours

For there is always light,if only we're brave enough to see itIf only we're brave enough to be it

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they may be horrific and mean and based in decades of well-funded sexism, but they are logical, and they were taught to us young.

I’m hoping that until the messy little business of restructuring the world in order to find true equality is completed, the message of the next 10 years will be, not to love your body, but instead, find peace with it.

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“Everybody’s beautiful, and all bodies are perfect!” said 2019, to a small murmur from those pointing out that the workplace, Tinder, fashion and health professionals disagree.

So the impact of enforcing body positivity on people who, under their skin, know there are rational reasons they have sex with the lights off, or fear exercising in public, or click on Instagram links to cosmetic surgeons in Turkey, or have been on diets since they were 12, can feel like two trucks crashing in their throat.

Heston Services, it feels to me as though we’ve not moved forward, instead, veered just a little to the side.

Across the decade, one mantra of mainstream feminism was to love your body – through any means necessary.

Over the years these weight-loss stories moved online, regifted as empowerment. There were the gurus of weight loss, then fitness, and later “clean eating”; there were the plus-sized bikini models laughing on Instagram. There was Dove, with its soaps expertly marketed to cure women of their bodies. There was Lena Dunham’s belly, site of a thousand think pieces, only 300 or so by me. There was the supermodel-esque actor Jameela Jamil who, in campaigning against unrealistic body ideals inspired thousands of women, but made an equal number very cross indeed.

There was the speed at which it had become familiar to see an actress turn to the side on a red carpet and simply disappear.

If childhood is a time of innocence that warrants protection, then that stage of life ends much earlier and more abruptly for black boys.

— especially police — to do it for her, if she wants

Karen has inherited Miss Ann's entitlement; it has been handed down, like the family silver or an antique wedding veil.

was firmly placed on a pedestal,

No, Becky won't be voting for Black candidates because they're not the right kind of Black. You know, the kind that "fits in."

Not because they're Black, of course — Becky doesn't "see color."

Becky is the sorority sister who will sing along to Beyoncé at the top of her voice, but unless the actual Beyoncé shows up to join her sorority (as if!), Becky won't vote to admit any Black pledge candidates.

Karen Trader, Karen Huff, Karen Ramos, Karen Davis, Karen Petersen, Karen Johnson, Karen Robinson.

And here we have a judge who's invoking Dr. King, the same hero who motivates me to be a public defender, in this twisted moral logic for why Brennan should be locked up.

there's this idea that this metaphorical "sleeping giant" of Latinos will somehow come out of the woodwork and have a huge impact.

I’ll be happy that they have the moral luck to heedlessly topple the statues of people who ate slaughtered animals.

I for one am looking forward to  telling stories about how we used to kill animals for food to my incredulously wide eyed grandchildren while they tuck into a clean meat venison salmon steak.

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Conventional pork production is widely considered to be terrible for pigs, which are smart social animals, as they are left confined and bored like a dog kept in a kennel cage for months on end.

I’ll focus on two aspects here: how individuals can reduce their “suffering footprint” beyond traditional veganism and why trying to change individual consumer behavior, as the animal movement has done for decades, is probably less effective than alternatives that better appeal to self-interest.

The sheer volume of animals raised for consumption is hard to fathom. There are currently 23 billion chickens being farmed (15 billion for meat and 8 billion for eggs), 6 billion mammals (such as cows, pigs, and rabbits), and over 100 billion farmed fish, according to an interview with expert Lewis Bollard. In the USA, 99% of these animals live on factory farms.

That was bad news for U.S. soybean farmers, who exported roughly 25% of their harvest to China in 2017, before the trade war began.

In response, China imposed a 25% tariff on U.S. soybeans and other agricultural products, meaning American goods became more expensive for Chinese importers.

levied $34 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods,

No, no. You know who the taxpayer is? It’s called China. China pays $28 billion, and you know what they did to pay it, Joe? They devalued their currency, and they also paid up, and you know [who] got the money? Our farmers, our great farmers, because they were targeted.”

I just gave $28 billion to our farmers,

It is not clear how Trump came to the conclusion that China footed the $28 billion bill for farmer subsidies

fell 70%.

Farmers are viewed as a core constituency in Trump’s electoral base, and the President continues to hold commanding leads over Biden in 2020 polls of American farmers.

What would the basis of their choice have been?

“If you handed any expecting parent a whole list of everything their child could possibly encounter during their entire life span—illnesses and stuff like that—then anyone would be scared.

Grievances included (among others) China's large trade surpluses in goods, higher tariffs on cars, forcing US companies to turn over their technology and manufacture in China instead of exporting from America, and subsidizing sectors like steel and aluminum, which would thereby squeeze American companies out of export markets.

rump's higher tariffs have raised prices for American consumers and costs for American businesses.

It will hurt American consumers, but they can switch to Trump's side, pleading that he also protect them from imports by raising costs on their foreign competitors.

For many Americans, the higher costs resulting from his tariffs mean they can no longer compete with foreign firms in either the US or global market

Third, such actions could threaten to undermine Trump's other deals

The first is the possibility of corruption.

In less than two years since Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs first went into effect, American manufactures of metal file cabinets, propane cylinders, wheels, wind towers, and loads of other products have all faced higher input costs and demanded new protection

not across the board but specific industries that are harmed by this

appear subject to quotas, or volume limits, and not tariffs.

Economically, the country-level exemptions are important. In 2017, the United States imported more bumpers from exempted countries, for example, than from those targeted by the new protection.

In keeping with the evolving structure of Trump's protection on steel and aluminum, imports from Australia, Canada, and Mexico would be exempted.2

cascading protection

antidumping.

Trump extended his original 25 percent tariffs on steel and 10 percent tariffs on aluminum to four products that are "derivatives" of the metals (figure 1).1 Trump's additional protection is dominated by trade in bumpers ($231 million) and steel nails ($231 million); covered imports of aluminum wire ($15 million) and body stampings ($2 million) are much smaller.

cascading protection.

But the increase in imports was due at least in part to American consumers of nails and bumpers switching to foreign suppliers to avoid paying for the American versions of products that Trump's tariffs had made more costly.

At the time, Czachor predicted, "for finished product that has a high content of steel, we're going to need to see some help on those. Some tariffs."

cost increase driven by Trump's steel tariffs meant his company would no longer be price competitive with kegs made in Germany and Mexico, let alone China.

Trump was imposing new tariffs to help an industry suffering because of his previous tariffs.

Against their will, he began by imposing tariffs that raised their costs by hitting their parts and components

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imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.