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Hey, it’s me, the closest trail to the metropolis, and I’m begging you to take your midlife crisis elsewhere.
Every week, a fresh crop of you forty-something corporate marauders comes on pilgrimage like I’m your personal Annapurna.
I’m a two-mile gravel slope with a play area, Carl.
You haul up to my “trailhead” (a.k.a. the Jiffy Lube parking lot) wearing six hundred dollars’ worth of tactical nylon, looking like you’re about to audition for Outward Bound: The Musical.
The sippy straw of your inevitable hydration bladder quivers next to your budding jowl.
What is it, can’t risk twisting off a bottle cap at this altitude?
There are ZARAs taller than me.
And put those hiking poles away. It’s a 5 percent incline. You could have done this in Crocs.
You inhale richly and muse aloud that you love being off-grid, as the lights of a 7-Eleven glitter in the near distance.
You’re about as off-grid as the Times Square T-Mobile.
Did you know Uber Eats delivers here?
You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout, who identifies every moment from her past that filled her with shame, and mutters, “Yep, that tracks. I see it all now.”
A quick note from Taylor Harris: This installment detours from my typical style of sharing actual events from my life and trying to make sense of them. What you’ll find here is satire. I’ve had the chance to respond publicly to RFK Jr’s comments on autism, but I wanted to come at white Christian nationalism, pseudoscience, and ableism from a different angle here.
[A church staff member greets a woman asking for prayer after the service.]
“Moving to the center would enable Democrats to confront [Trump] more aggressively and effectively because voters would see them as credible.” — From “The Partisans Are Wrong: Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win” by The New York Times Editorial Board
American politics today can seem to be dominated by extremes. President Trump is carrying out far-right policies rooted in white supremacy and open brutality, while some of the country’s highest-profile Democrats identify as democratic socialists—two exactly equal sides of the same coin. To those of you who are not writing this editorial, moderation probably feels a little outdated.

An uncomfortable reminder of the tension between your beliefs and behaviour might give you the push you need to change
- by Matt Huston

A fresh investigation of vast numbers of young people from around the world has thrown up some surprising results
- by Jakob Pietschnig & Sandra Oberleiter
A mass movement against the Trump administration is essential, but no one should take an Iraq War booster’s advice.
The post David Brooks Is the Last Person We Should Be Listening to Right Now appeared first on The Intercept.

India’s Maoist guerillas have just surrendered, after decades of waging war on the government from their forest bases
- by Rahul Pandita
Democracy should mean the rule of the people. But in modern Britain, democratic will is often subverted by the rule of money. Financial oligarchy and political democracy are incompatible. This is the deep contradiction at the heart of capitalist ‘democracy’. On the one hand, the intrinsic equality of universal suffrage guarantees every citizen the same […]