Sam Horwich-Scholefield

Important history lesson from Maia Szalavitz:

"Our history of enacting — and then reforming — harsh mandatory drug sentencing legislation illustrates its failure."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/opinion/fentanyl-mandatory-drug-sentences.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

"For applicants with the same SAT or ACT score, children from families in the top 1 percent were 34 percent more likely to be admitted than the average applicant, and those from the top 0.1 percent were more than twice as likely to get in."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/24/upshot/ivy-league-elite-college-admissions.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

“Much of the challenges at the global level are questions of distribution,” Dr. Myrskylä said. “So some places have too many old people. Some places have too many young people. It would of course make enormous sense to open the borders much more. And at the same time we see that’s incredibly difficult with the increasing right-wing populist movements.”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/16/world/world-demographics.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Photo of the year?

"The number of cremations in the eastern province of Zhejiang rose to 171,000 in the first quarter of this year, the website said. That was 72,000 more cremations, a roughly 70 percent increase, than had been reported in the same period last year."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/world/asia/china-covid-data-toll.html?smid=nytcore-android-share