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(117, NULL, 'The low-key Nigerian executive who just led an NBA franchise to a historic finals appearance', 'the-low-key-nigerian-executive-who-just-led-an-nba-franchise-to-a-historic-finals-appearance', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"737\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WJRU.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WJRU.jpg 2410w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WJRU.jpg?resize=768,553 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WJRU.jpg?resize=50,36 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WJRU.jpg?resize=160,115 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WJRU.jpg?resize=320,230 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WJRU.jpg?resize=640,461 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WJRU.jpg?resize=940,677 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WJRU.jpg?resize=1600,1152 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>A Nigerian will be involved in the NBA Finals this year after all—and it&#8217;s not the Greek-Nigerian superstar, <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1569408/nbas-giannis-antetokounmpo-mvp-favorite-isnt-big-in-nigeria/\">Giannis Antetokounmpo</a>.</p>\n<p>For much of the season, NBA fans have witnessed a season of coming-of-age performances from Antetokounmpo, the Milwaukee Bucks star of Nigerian heritage who seemed set to lead his franchise to a first NBA championship in 48 years. Such has been Antetokounmpo&#8217;s form that he&#8217;s marked as a favorite for the NBA’s coveted Most Valuable Player award and is already ranked by some as the <a href=\"http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26495696/a-star-built-giannis-best-basketball-player-alive\">game&#8217;s best player</a>—ahead of all-time great, LeBron James.</p>\n<p>But Antetokounmpo&#8217;s dream was halted by a Toronto Raptors team with another Nigerian in the driving seat: Masai Ujiri, the Nigerian executive who runs the franchise.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1628866\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1628866\" class=\"wp-image-1628866 size-hero-l\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WA4M.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=940\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WA4M.jpg 3470w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WA4M.jpg?resize=768,558 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WA4M.jpg?resize=50,36 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WA4M.jpg?resize=160,116 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WA4M.jpg?resize=320,232 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WA4M.jpg?resize=640,465 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WA4M.jpg?resize=940,682 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WA4M.jpg?resize=1600,1161 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1628866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giannis Antetokounmpo, &#8220;the Greek Freak,&#8221; fell short of the NBA finals.</p></div>\n<p>As Raptors&#8217; president of basketball operations, Ujiri&#8217;s contributions to the franchise have come off the court. Perhaps none has been more pivotal than engineering the blockbuster trade which brought San Antonio Spurs&#8217; Kawhi Leonard, an NBA champion and three-time NBA All-Star, to Toronto last summer. The move<a href=\"http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26823519/kawhi-trade-pays-raptors-finals-berth\"> has paid off</a> remarkably with Leonard leading the team in postseason scoring and bringing his experience to bear at crucial times during the Raptors&#8217; run—including <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CROx4XvLJTk\">an iconic series-winning, buzzer beater</a> in game seven in the second round.</p>\n<p>Going into the Finals, the Raptors are marked underdogs against a Golden State Warriors team that have won three of the last four championships. But whatever happens, Toronto Raptors, with Ujiri at the helm, have already made history with the franchise&#8217;s first ever appearance in the NBA Finals.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1628867\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1628867\" class=\"wp-image-1628867 size-hero-l\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS22MOH.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=940\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS22MOH.jpg 4064w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS22MOH.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS22MOH.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS22MOH.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS22MOH.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS22MOH.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS22MOH.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS22MOH.jpg?resize=1600,1067 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1628867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ujiri pulled off a major coup by bringing superstar Kawhi Leonard to Toronto Raptors.</p></div>\n<h2>&#8220;Started from the bottom&#8221;</h2>\n<p>Before he began making franchise-defining deals, Ujiri, 48, first cut his teeth at the bottom of the power pyramid. Born in England to a Nigerian father and Kenyan mother—which explains his first name, Ujiri was raised in northern Nigeria until he moved to the United States in high school with ambition of playing college basketball.</p>\n<p>After a nomadic playing career across Europe, he retired from playing and took up his first NBA gig as an unpaid scout with Orlando Magic in 2002. His talents were spotted within a year, landing him a paid scouting role with the Denver Nuggets which later promoted him to director of international scouting.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1629040\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1629040\" class=\"size-hero-l wp-image-1629040\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_120315046678.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=940\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_120315046678.jpg 4062w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_120315046678.jpg?resize=768,524 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_120315046678.jpg?resize=50,34 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_120315046678.jpg?resize=160,109 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_120315046678.jpg?resize=320,218 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_120315046678.jpg?resize=640,437 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_120315046678.jpg?resize=940,641 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_120315046678.jpg?resize=1600,1092 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1629040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Denver</p></div>\n<p>In 2007, Ujiri was first hired by the Raptors as director of global scouting after which he was promoted to assistant general manager a year later. Ujiri was rehired by the Denver Nuggets in 2010 as executive vice president in charge of basketball operations where his work saw him named the NBA executive of the year in 2013—the only non-American ever to win the award. He then rejoined Toronto Raptors in 2013 as general manager and has served as president of basketball operations since 2016, a role in which <a href=\"https://theundefeated.com/features/raptors-president-masai-ujiri-got-toronto-on-the-verge-of-nba-finals-while-also-focusing-on-africa/\">he prefers</a> to keep a low profile.</p>\n<p>Ujiri also lends his wealth of international experience and influence to promoting basketball development across Africa. As director of the NBA&#8217;s Basketball Without Borders program, Ujiri plays a major role in driving the NBA&#8217;s annual coaching clinics and camps across the continent. Those efforts have culminated in the NBA <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1477512/nba-opens-training-center-in-senegal/\">opening an official Africa academy</a> and <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1552644/the-nba-is-looking-to-africa-for-basketballs-future-talent-and-audience-with-obamas-help/\">backing a regional African league</a> as the league&#8217;s appeal and popularity continues to grow on the continent.</p>\n<p>Ujiri&#8217;s faith in African talent also goes beyond coaching clinics: his Toronto Raptors roster boasts two of the NBA&#8217;s biggest African stars in Serge Ibaka (Congo) and Pascal Siakam (Cameroon).</p>\n<div id=\"article-content\" class=\"_230bb africa\">\n<p class=\"a1dbe africa\"><b><i>Sign up to the </i></b><a href=\"https://qz.com/emails/africa-weekly-brief/\"><b><i>Quartz Africa Weekly Brief here</i></b></a><b><i> for news and analysis on African business, tech and innovation in your inbox</i></b></p>\n</div>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/africa/1628842/toronto-raptors-nigerian-gm-masai-ujiri-leads-to-nba-finals-2019/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(118, NULL, 'Burnout is making us worse at our jobs, according to the WHO', 'burnout-is-making-us-worse-at-our-jobs-according-to-the-who', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4DR0U-e1558965509759.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"An umbrella is seen in a trash can after a rainy night in Seville\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4DR0U-e1558965509759.jpg 2700w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4DR0U-e1558965509759.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4DR0U-e1558965509759.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4DR0U-e1558965509759.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4DR0U-e1558965509759.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4DR0U-e1558965509759.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4DR0U-e1558965509759.jpg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4DR0U-e1558965509759.jpg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>&#8220;Burnout&#8221; is big this year. The term has been applied to everything from being tired at the weekend to the malaise of <a href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work\">an entire generation</a>.</p>\n<p>Now the World Health Organization, an international body to which many others look for guidance, is giving burnout victims legitimacy by including what it calls &#8220;burn-out&#8221; in the <a href=\"https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/25-05-2019-world-health-assembly-update\">latest version</a> of its International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health problems, a <a href=\"https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en#/http://id.who.int/icd/entity/129180281\">handbook</a> for recognized medical conditions. It&#8217;s the first time time burnout has been recognized by the organization, Tarik Jasarevic, a WHO spokesman, <a href=\"https://www.afp.com/es/noticias/3964/la-oms-incluye-el-desgaste-profesional-o-burn-out-en-su-lista-de-enfermedades-doc-1gz03a2\">told reporters</a>.</p>\n<p>According to the WHO, &#8220;burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.&#8221; Burnout isn&#8217;t simply a synonym for stress, the definition suggests; it&#8217;s the result of deep, long-term stress that hasn&#8217;t been dealt with, either by the sufferer or their employer.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Burn-out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context,&#8221; the WHO notes, &#8220;and should not be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.&#8221;</p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a good argument for taking the signs of workplace burnout seriously, whether you are experiencing them or observing them in an employee. According to the WHO&#8217;s classification, adopted May 25, burnout has three components:</p>\n<blockquote><p>1) Feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion,</p>\n<p>2) Increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one&#8217;s job, or</p>\n<p>3) Reduced professional efficacy</p></blockquote>\n<p>That trio makes clear why companies should want to address burnout head-on. While personal exhaustion may be the first and perhaps most acknowledged symptom of burnout, the other two suggest that burned-out employees simply can&#8217;t work as effectively.</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/work/1629015/burnout-is-a-medical-condition-says-the-world-health-organization/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(119, NULL, 'A Fox News anchor readies to “sling facts” in a trade war debate with her Chinese counterpart', 'a-fox-news-anchor-readies-to-sling-facts-in-a-trade-war-debate-with-her-chinese-counterpart', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"567\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.28.10-PM.png?w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.28.10-PM.png 2880w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.28.10-PM.png?resize=768,426 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.28.10-PM.png?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.28.10-PM.png?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.28.10-PM.png?resize=320,177 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.28.10-PM.png?resize=640,355 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.28.10-PM.png?resize=940,521 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.28.10-PM.png?resize=1600,887 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>The intricacies of trade policy don&#8217;t usually make for gripping prime-time television, but that may well change on Wednesday (May 29) evening when anchors from Fox and China&#8217;s state broadcaster butt heads in a highly anticipated debate.</p>\n<p>The invitation for a verbal sparring had come via Twitter from Fox&#8217;s Trish Regan.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"  data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/China?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#China</a> State TV &#8211; let’s have an HONEST debate on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/trade?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#trade</a>. You accuse me of being ‘emotional’ and not knowing my facts &#8211; wrong! You name the time and place, and I’ll be there! <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrishRegan?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TrishRegan</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/D0QMp0cIz4\">pic.twitter.com/D0QMp0cIz4</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Trish Regan (@trish_regan) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/trish_regan/status/1131714542680104961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2019</a></p></blockquote>\n<p>Liu Xin, a host on CGTN—the overseas arm of China Central Television (CCTV) that is <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/business/cctv-china-usa-propaganda.html\">controlled by the Chinese Communist Party</a> (paywall)—was quick to accept, with one caveat: no &#8220;mud throwing.&#8221; To which Regan <a href=\"https://twitter.com/trish_regan/status/1131902497986162689\">responded</a>, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry—I don&#8217;t sling mud, I sling facts. So, let&#8217;s find a date.&#8221;</p>\n<p>The details were confirmed soon after. Regan and Liu would face off in a prime-time debate, aired on Fox Business, on Wednesday at 8pm ET.</p>\n<p>Regan, who joined Fox as an anchor in 2015, is the <a href=\"https://www.foxbusiness.com/person/r/trish-regan\">host of <em>Trish Regan Primetime</em></a>. She ran into controversy last year when she described Denmark as a bleak nation that &#8220;like Venezuela, has stripped people of their opportunities,&#8221; earning <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/08/14/fox-compared-socialist-denmark-venezuela-sparking-puzzled-backlash-top-officials/?utm_term=.dfca29400002\">an angry retort</a> (paywall) from the Danish finance minister.</p>\n<p>Liu <a href=\"https://www.cgtn.com/home/info/faces_detail.do?name=Liu-Xin\">anchors <em>The Point</em></a>, a prime-time current affairs show, and has been working with CCTV since 1997, when she graduated from Nanjing University&#8217;s English studies program. In the days since the debate with Regan was announced, a video of Liu <a href=\"https://www.sohu.com/a/316592559_115479?sec=wd\">competing in an international English speech competition</a> in 1996 in London has made the rounds on Chinese social media.</p>\n<p>The debate comes after the latest talks between the two countries broke down earlier this month and the US government <a href=\"https://qz.com/1618066/trumps-25-china-tariff-how-much-would-it-raise-the-price-of-sneakers/\">raised tariffs</a> on virtually all China imports to 25%, to which China <a href=\"https://qz.com/1618238/all-2493-items-targeted-by-chinas-tariffs-in-us-trade-war/\">responded with new tariffs</a> of its own.</p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear whether Chinese audiences will be able to watch the debate live, which CGTN has called &#8220;<a href=\"https://www.weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404375242834342264#_0\">history&#8217;s first</a>&#8221; (link in Chinese). But <a href=\"https://www.weibo.com/2803301701/HvOUNxRiq?from=page_1002062803301701_profile&wvr=6&mod=weibotime&type=comment\">People&#8217;s Daily</a>, <a href=\"https://www.weibo.com/2656274875/HvJ27FK8r?from=page_1002062656274875_profile&wvr=6&mod=weibotime\">CCTV</a>, and state backed tabloid <a href=\"https://www.weibo.com/1686785965/HvGuhgAnz?from=page_1002061686785965_profile&wvr=6&mod=weibotime&type=comment\">Global Times</a> (links in Chinese) have all shared news of the impending showdown.</p>\n<p>The viral kerfuffle between the two women started last week when Liu insisted that China would never accept an unequal trade deal, <a href=\"https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774d3549444f34457a6333566d54/index.html\">slamming Regan</a> for her &#8220;economic warmongering&#8221; and for being &#8220;all emotion and accusation—supported with little substance.&#8221;</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1628964\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1628964\" class=\"size-hero-m wp-image-1628964\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.36.05-PM.png?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.36.05-PM.png 2880w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.36.05-PM.png?resize=768,433 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.36.05-PM.png?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.36.05-PM.png?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.36.05-PM.png?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.36.05-PM.png?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.36.05-PM.png?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.36.05-PM.png?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1628964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </span></p></div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liu was responding to comments Regan had made about the US-China trade war a week earlier, when she <a href=\"https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trish-regan-trade-war-is-on-with-china-we-have-upper-hand-its-now-or-never\">accused China</a> of &#8220;stealing as high as $600 billion in intellectual property&#8221; every year from the US, and would &#8220;keep on stealing it if left unchecked.&#8221;</span></p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Regan&#8217;s suggestion for punishing China: refuse to buy from them. &#8220;If we stop buying, they stop earning. This is our weapon, and this is a weapon president Trump isn’t afraid to use.”</p>\n<p>Liu hit back, criticizing what she called Regan&#8217;s &#8220;derogatory&#8221; language and behavior that &#8220;cross a line of decency.&#8221; She insisted that &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China will remain &#8216;the adult in the room.&#8217; &#8221; </span></p>\n<p><img class=\"size-hero-m wp-image-1628961\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.33.03-PM.png?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.33.03-PM.png 2880w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.33.03-PM.png?resize=768,425 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.33.03-PM.png?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.33.03-PM.png?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.33.03-PM.png?resize=320,177 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.33.03-PM.png?resize=640,354 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.33.03-PM.png?resize=940,520 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-27-at-4.33.03-PM.png?resize=1600,884 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" /></p>\n<p>Chinese internet users appear to be eagerly awaiting the big debate. Many praised Liu&#8217;s calm and professional demeanor, while condemning what one described as Regan&#8217;s reckless, tantrum-like behavior.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Did Trish learn her speaking style from the WWE [World Wrestling Entertainment]?&#8221; wrote one user. &#8220;She speaks as if she&#8217;s wrestling. It&#8217;s all sensationalism. She&#8217;s a classic demagogue like Trump.&#8221;</p>\n<p>One enterprising English teacher, perhaps sensing an opportunity for more business amid the trade war spat, wrote, “Why do Chinese people need to learn English? So that we can tell the world how great our motherland is.”</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1628862/fox-anchor-trish-regan-and-cctvs-liu-xin-debate-to-debate-trade-war/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(120, NULL, 'The extreme choices before Europe drew the biggest voter turnout in 20 years', 'the-extreme-choices-before-europe-drew-the-biggest-voter-turnout-in-20-years', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WMON-e1558948967872.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" /><p>Votes are still being counted in the European Parliament elections, which wrapped up on Sunday, but one thing is certain: Faith in democracy isn&#8217;t dead yet.</p>\n<p>The elections gave Brits (<a href=\"https://qz.com/1623396/eu-election-2019-in-five-posters/\">and everyone else</a>) a chance to express their views on the UK&#8217;s decision to leave the bloc. They provided an opportunity <a href=\"https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/europe-s-smaller-parties-win-big-in-european-parliament-elections\">for smaller parties</a> to make headway with voters disillusioned by mainstream politics. And they offered hundreds of millions of people the opportunity to express the direction they would like the bloc to go in: towards the inward-looking ideologies of populism and Euroskepticism, or the outward-looking politics of pro-European integration.</p>\n<p>These factors pushed voters to turn up. The election attracted its highest voter turnout in two decades—50.5%—a sign that political apathy about the EU&#8217;s future hasn&#8217;t become the prevailing force amongst the bloc&#8217;s citizens yet.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"  data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">50.5% of EU citizens eligible to vote took part in the European elections, the highest turnout in 20 years. <a href=\"https://t.co/2Z6IJmAih0\">pic.twitter.com/2Z6IJmAih0</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; European Parliament (@Europarl_EN) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Europarl_EN/status/1132773174486151169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2019</a></p></blockquote>\n<p>The number of eligible voters taking part in previous elections had been <a href=\"https://qz.com/1605690/european-election-belgiums-voter-turnout-rate-is-an-outlier/\">on the decline</a>. Just <a href=\"https://www.politico.eu/interactive/voters-turnout-in-the-european-elections/\">43% voted</a> in the last election in 2014, down from a high of 63% in 1979. There are many reasons for this, including low levels of interest for EU machinations in general, compared with national politics. As an institution, the EU can often feel &#8220;remote and inhuman&#8221; to voters, as <a href=\"https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/12/the-eus-next-big-election-is-heading-for-disaster/\">James Traub writes in Foreign Policy.</a></p>\n<p>But since the last elections, the bloc <a href=\"https://qz.com/1626415/voter-turnout-will-be-key-to-2019-eu-election-results/\">has been roiled</a> by Brexit, a migrant crisis, climate change protests, and fears over how much anti-EU sentiment could undermine all that the EU has achieved since its founding. Voters took note.</p>\n<div class=\"atlas-chart\" data-id=\"rZDQQkaM4\" data-width=\"640\" data-height=\"449\"><img src=\"https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/qz-production-atlas-assets/charts/atlas_rZDQQkaM4.png\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width:100%;\"></div>\n<p>In the months before the election, <a href=\"https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_fear_will_save_the_eu\">support for EU membership</a> amongst the bloc&#8217;s 28 member states skyrocketed. A survey commissioned by the <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_seven_days_to_save_the_european_union\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">European Council on Foreign Relations</a> (ECFR) showed that more than half of Europeans were worried the EU could collapse in the next 10 to 20 years, while 28% of EU voters said they believed that war between EU member states would be possible.</p>\n<p>These concerns provided an opportunity for pro-Europeans. &#8220;Fear is a strong motivator,&#8221; <a href=\"https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_fear_will_save_the_eu\">ECFR wrote</a>. &#8220;Populists have been successful in <a href=\"https://www.politico.eu/article/populist-attitude-to-eu-matteo-salvini-far-right/\">leveraging voters’ fears—</a>of immigrants, of change, of the other—into votes. Now it’s time for pro-Europeans to leverage a continent’s anxiety and come up with convincing solutions.&#8221;</p>\n<p>The rise in voter turnout could also be a sign that the EU&#8217;s campaign to appeal to voters paid off. In the run-up to the start of elections on May 23, the European Parliament ran an <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/23/choose-your-future-eu-raise-turnout-viral-video-european-elections\">organized effort</a> to promote the elections. A network of thousands of campaigners held more than 2,000 events across Europe, with a social media campaign called &#8220;<a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/23/choose-your-future-eu-raise-turnout-viral-video-european-elections\">Choose Your Future</a>.&#8221; Other EU institutions appealed to voters through <a href=\"https://qz.com/1623396/eu-election-2019-in-five-posters/\">evocative posters and slogans.</a></p>\n<p>The election&#8217;s preliminary results are by no means a resounding victory for pro-European sentiment. While pro-EU parties in a coalition are likely to hold on to their majority in the EU Parliament, wins by nationalist parties underscore the split in voters over the <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/world/europe/european-elections-results.html\">EU&#8217;s future</a>. But at the very least, high voter turnout signaled that the bloc&#8217;s citizens are invested in giving the institution a chance to course correct—a chance it might not get again.</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1626267/european-elections-2019-see-highest-voter-turnout-in-two-decades/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(121, NULL, 'This Bengaluru techie is helping solve real-world mysteries on Reddit', 'this-bengaluru-techie-is-helping-solve-real-world-mysteries-on-reddit', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR3LFP9-e1558945313132.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" /><p>Seven years ago, an anonymous post on the <a class=\"link-external\" href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/RBI/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Reddit Bureau of Investigation</a> garnered a fair bit of interest. A user uploaded a picture of what vaguely resembled a garden or a lawn, with no details. A single question accompanied the photograph: where was this clicked?</p>\n<p>The post triggered a digital chase on the online message board. While some members wrote in that they had tried to analyse the picture on websites like Foto Forensics, a few others studied its flora closely (Was it Spanish moss? Pecan? Live Oak?). After a fair bit of probing, the flora investigators came up with an answer: South Carolina.</p>\n<p>In faraway Kottayam, Naveen Cherian eagerly watched the investigation unfold, all the while taking notes. He was hooked. The engineering graduate, who had grown up reading mystery novels like Enid Blyton’s The Five Find-Outers, Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys, knew he wanted to contribute more to this online world of sleuthing. So, in 2016, when the opportunity arose, he decided to become a moderator of the Reddit Bureau of Investigation, or as its members call it, the RBI.</p>\n<p>In his cherished role Cherian, who is now a content developer in Bengaluru, has watched around 400 mysteries born and most of them die still a conundrum. But in this time, he has also seen several puzzles put together by resolute RBI members, until the complete picture was revealed.</p>\n<p>Only last year, in a thread co-moderated by Cherian, the RBI seemed to have tracked down the dead owner of a wedding ring that was picked up by a child from a parking lot in Missouri, United States, more than 20 years ago. The clue that helped crack the case was the engraving on the ring—RBI members traced the name to a marriage certificate.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Moderators are rarely too excited or anxious about one mystery,&#8221; Cherian said. &#8220;Once we contribute to it, we move on to the next one, but, yes, once something has been solved conclusively, we are happy.&#8221;</p>\n<h2 class=\"cms-block cms-block-heading\">Enforcer of rules</h2>\n<p>The <a class=\"link-external\" href=\"https://www.wired.co.uk/article/moderators-rbi-reddit-fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Reddit Bureau of Investigation</a> is one of Reddit’s 1.2 million subreddits, with 113,000 members. It is a cohort of anonymous, amateur online detectives—or “crowdsourcing investigators” as Cherian describes his ilk—who use their sleuthing skills and online investigative tools to help solve “real-world problems” like hit-and-run cases, mysteries and missing items.</p>\n<p>Cherian’s role in this—as one of the six moderators—is to make sure that all members adhere to the subreddit’s guidelines. The ground rules are clear: all criminal matters must be handled by the police, no personal information must be revealed, and interactions must be civil.</p>\n<p>&#8220;We delete, ban or mute an errant member and remove threads that break rules,” said Cherian. “If we are not careful, Reddit will brutally shut us down.” It was a lesson re-emphasised painfully in 2013, when Reddit <a href=\"https://scroll.in/article/714911/film-on-indian-american-boston-bomber-reveals-the-power-for-misuse-of-social-media\">wrongly accused</a> a young Indian-American of perpetrating the Boston Marathon bombings.</p>\n<p>Indian presence on RBI is tough to gauge—Reddit declined to share information, citing user anonymity—but Cherian, 27, is positive he is the only Indian, possibly even Asian, among the moderators. “Although anonymous, we communicate with each other,” he said.<span class=\"pull-quote\"><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span><span>India has gained notoriety as the centre of scam calls</span><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\n<p>But this does not mean that India has no presence on the subreddit. The country, in fact, has gained notoriety as the centre of scam calls. “Scammers pose as Internal Revenue Service officials, and we get at least two new posts on this every day on the sub,” said an exasperated Cherian. “We got so fed up with discussing the same topic over and over again that we added a sticky post titled ‘Scam calls are a thing’—it’s the first post you will see on the sub.”</p>\n<p>Fraudsters typically target vulnerable senior citizens, who are duped into paying $5,000 to $30,000. “Sometimes, victims ask us to identify whether they are genuine calls. They never are. The Internal Revenue Service will get in touch with a taxpayer only through the post. I advise them to contact their local authority and then usually the Federal Bureau of Investigation gets involved.”</p>\n<h2 class=\"cms-block cms-block-heading\">Whole new world</h2>\n<p>It was a US-based cousin who had first recommended Reddit to Cherian in 2008. A school student in Kottayam, and later Kochi, he had made peace with his dial-up connection, Orkut and Facebook. “Reddit opened up a whole new world, with subs for diverse topics like news, technology and even jokes,” he said. Unlike most consumers of the internet with fickle obsessions, he was a regular visitor to the website, although he created an account only in 2013.</p>\n<p>When Cherian first discovered the Reddit Bureau of Investigation, it seemed perfect for someone who was perennially consumed by mysteries and puzzles. “I always wanted to do something different with my life.” Besides sleuthing, the RBI also combined his other interest: technology. “In Grade 8, I got the first prize in a competition organised by St Joseph’s Institute of Information Technology, Pune, to write C and C++ programs. I think I was the youngest person to win it.&#8221;</p>\n<p>He followed the subreddit like any other member until there was a call for more moderators and he, along with two others, were chosen. A training programme followed, conducted online by its creator who, Cherian says, remained anonymous throughout.</p>\n<p>The Reddit Bureau of Investigation is not a very large community (for comparison, the sub r/funny has more than 24 million members), but what it lacks in numbers, it makes up for in spirit. At the time of writing, a post that had been up for seven hours titled “How did someone get my friend’s personal details during a flight?” had 47 comments (“Facebook” responded many). One of its most popular posts on how a “men’s help company teaches people to get away with sexually assaulting women” had 376 comments.</p>\n<p>When they are not busy sleuthing, members form threads to discuss investigative tools of all kinds: genealogy sites, property information assessment systems, websites to look up licence plates, ways to trawl through census records. Tips like these gradually taught Cherian the art (and science) of detection. “I used Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Gimp and other tools to colour correct pictures, get the negatives, glean information from CCTV footage and decipher inscriptions on metal objects like jewellery and licence plates,” he said. Of late, he has been focused on the subreddit’s backend operations.</p>\n<p>One mystery he distinctly remembers is a case similar to the verdant image from South Carolina. In 2016, a photograph of a greenscape was posted on the Reddit Bureau of Investigation with few details. “Members pitched in by scanning hiking trails on Google maps. It looked like [the picture] was clicked at a wildlife park, so one member visited its website to confirm.” Fifteen hours after the question was posed, the answer was found: Oklahoma.</p>\n<p>His favourite mystery remains one in which a user purchased a book that had a romantic letter hidden between its pages. It was penned by an army soldier and the user wanted to track down the writer to return it. “We got his records from The United States Department of Veterans Affairs and found out which section of the army he belonged to and which town he lived in,” said Cherian. “Our job ended there. But later, one user posted the information on a subreddit dedicated to the town, where his grandson happened to be an active member. He personally connected the two.”<span class=\"pull-quote\"><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span><span>For him, much of Reddit’s allure lies in its anonymity.</span><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\n<p>Verifying this, or any such story, on Reddit is hard because of the very nature of the forum. Attempts to track down the thread were futile and the only thread with similar details did not reflect such breathless developments that befitted a romantic mystery. “Reddit search results are not always accurate,” explained Cherian. “It’s not easy to track threads as tools have been updated several times.” For him, much of Reddit’s allure lies in its anonymity. “You can be yourself. Sometimes, I use the common account moderators use for anonymity, or else original posters tend to get vocal against specific moderators.”</p>\n<p>Cherian survives on roughly four hours of sleep, while juggling his day job and moderator duties. He compares his work with the Bureau to going to a panchayat office and agreeing to help fill out someone’s form. “Suddenly, everyone wants you to help them out. Its voluntary work, but it’s also rewarding.” His only grouse is that a few investigations do not meet a satisfying end, through no fault of theirs. “Sometimes users say thank you and disappear without updates.”</p>\n<p><em>This piece was first published on <a href=\"https://scroll.in/magazine/923401/the-bengaluru-techie-who-is-helping-reddit-users-crack-real-world-crimes-and-mysteries\">Scroll.in</a>. We welcome your comments at <a href=\"mailto:ideas.india@qz.com\">ideas.india@qz.com</a>.</em></p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/india/1628946/the-bengaluru-techie-who-moderates-reddit-bureau-of-investigation/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(122, NULL, 'Why SpiceJet could benefit the most from Jet Airways’ troubles', 'why-spicejet-could-benefit-the-most-from-jet-airways-troubles', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"592\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/spicejet-new-e1558938911451.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/spicejet-new-e1558938911451.jpg 2482w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/spicejet-new-e1558938911451.jpg?resize=768,444 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/spicejet-new-e1558938911451.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/spicejet-new-e1558938911451.jpg?resize=160,92 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/spicejet-new-e1558938911451.jpg?resize=320,185 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/spicejet-new-e1558938911451.jpg?resize=640,370 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/spicejet-new-e1558938911451.jpg?resize=940,543 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/spicejet-new-e1558938911451.jpg?resize=1600,924 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>India&#8217;s airlines have been <a href=\"https://qz.com/india/1605218/jet-airways-share-price-falls-as-indigo-spicejet-gain-on-bse/\">making the most out of</a> the vacuum created by the grounding of the country&#8217;s oldest <a href=\"https://qz.com/india/1597773/indias-jet-airways-cancels-all-flights-from-tonight/\">private carrier ,Jet Airways,</a> over a month ago.</p>\n<p>Almost all of them have been <a href=\"https://www.businesstoday.in/sectors/aviation/indigo-and-rivals-squabble-over-jet-airways-slots/story/348226.html\">vying for Jet&#8217;s prime slots</a>, expanding their fleets, and adding new routes. It is budget carrier SpiceJet, though, that is poised to score most, according to a recent report by the investment management firm JM Financial.</p>\n<p>The sector watchdog, the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA), has allocated 130 airport slots from Jet&#8217;s portfolio to the airline, including 68 prime slots at Mumbai. This is higher than the number of such slots wrested by any airline, including market leader Indigo&#8217;s 120.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Availability of additional slots will aid SpiceJet to optimally utilise its increased fleet size,&#8221; read the JM Financial report.</p>\n<p>Yesterday (May 26), the no-frills carrier added its <a href=\"https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/spicejet-adds-100th-plane-to-fleet-fourth-domestic-airline-to-do-so-1558865501760.html\">100th aircraft</a><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: \'PT Serif\',serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"> to its fleet,</span> becoming the fourth domestic airline to do so after IndiGo, Jet Airways, and state-owned Air India. &#8220;SpiceJet has added 23 planes and over a 100 new flights, most of them connecting the key metros of Mumbai and Delhi, in just over a month&#8217;s time,&#8221; it said in a statement.</p>\n<p>Aiding the expansion has been the fact that SpiceJet and Jet Airways both operate Boeing aircraft. Since Jet&#8217;s grounding, 20 aircraft from its fleet has been handed over to SpiceJet by lessors.</p>\n<p>&#8220;In the next two years, Indigo, SpiceJet, GoAir are expected to add 94, 42, and 25 aircraft (respectively), while Vistara and Air Asia may add 20 each,&#8221; JM Financial said in its note. Despite lagging IndiGo in fleet expansion, the firm expects SpiceJet to clock &#8220;disproportionate growth (in profitability)&#8221; relative to its current size.</p>\n<p>&#8220;SpiceJet has an order of 155 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. The planes are 20% more fuel efficient than the Boeing 737 NG aircraft (which dominates its current fleet), with 8% lower operating cost per seat,&#8221; the note explained.</p>\n<p>Even though <a href=\"https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation/airlines-/-aviation/boeing-737-max-to-be-grounded-fully-by-early-evening-today-dgca-officials/articleshow/68385633.cms\">Boeing 737 MAXs are grounded</a> over safety concerns, JM Financial expects the ban to be lifted in the second quarter of the current financial year.</p>\n<p>Being a key player in the Indian government&#8217;s regional connectivity scheme UDAN has also benefited SpiceJet. <a href=\"https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation/airlines-/-aviation/whats-ailing-the-indian-aviation-industry/articleshow/68970564.cms?from=mdr\">Around 21% of</a> its 1,10,220 flights operate on monopoly routes under the scheme.</p>\n<p>SpiceJet plans to induct Bombardier Q400 aircraft will aid regional growth. &#8220;The new Q400 aircraft with 90 seats (versus 78 seats for older aircraft) will help size-up demand in regional routes,&#8221; according to JM Financial.</p>\n<h2>IndiGo perched on top</h2>\n<p>Even then, SpiceJet has a long way to go.</p>\n<p>IndiGo is still the industry leader, flying half of all domestic passengers in April, according to <a href=\"http://dgca.nic.in/reports/Traffic-ind.htm\">DGCA data</a>. SpiceJet&#8217;s and Air India&#8217;s market share stood at 13.1% and 13.9%, respectively.</p>\n<p>&#8220;With 100 aircraft, SpiceJet has definitely scaled up. However, to become the market leader it still has a long way to go, especially in order to keep up with an airline like IndiGo,” said Ashish Nainan, an aviation analyst at rating agency CARE Ratings.</p>\n<p>Experts believe the real picture of who benefits from Jet&#8217;s crisis will emerge only when both the airlines post their earnings for the January-March period next week.</p>\n<p>“Given the current situations of debt-laden Air India, the two biggest market players are IndiGo and SpiceJet. In the March quarter earnings, it’s expected that both the airlines will put up a great show,” an analyst who does not wish to be named told Quartz.</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/india/1628775/spicejet-not-indigo-to-gain-the-most-from-jet-airways-crisis/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL);
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(123, NULL, 'Even at a trifling 14%, India’s new parliament will have the most women members ever', 'even-at-a-trifling-14-indias-new-parliament-will-have-the-most-women-members-ever', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_19145635718913-e1558930293442.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" /><p>India&#8217;s parliament is still a considerable distance from a reasonable measure of gender equality, but undoubtedly, it has made strides.</p>\n<p>At 14%, or 77 of all 542 seats, the 17th Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) will have the highest representation of women ever, <a href=\"https://lokdhaba.ashoka.edu.in/LokDhaba-Shiny/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to Lok Dhaba</a>, a repository of election results based on data from the election commission of India (ECI).</p>\n<p>The share of sitting women members of parliament (MPs) is up from <a href=\"https://www.prsindia.org/parliamenttrack/vital-stats/profile-newly-elected-17th-lok-sabha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5% in the first Lok Sabha</a> way back in 1952.</p>\n<div class=\"atlas-chart\" data-id=\"sJWoaWUWe\" data-width=\"640\" data-height=\"449\"><img src=\"https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/qz-production-atlas-assets/charts/atlas_sJWoaWUWe.png\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width:100%;\"></div>\n<p>Priyanka Chaturvedi, a Congress spokesperson who <a href=\"https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/lok-sabha/maharashtra/shiv-sena-appoints-priyanka-chaturvedi-as-upneta/articleshow/69073780.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party&#8217;s ally Shiv Sena</a> only a few weeks before the elections, observed that women had a better winning streak than men during the recent polls.</p>\n<p>In 2019, up to <a href=\"https://thewire.in/politics/how-women-candidates-fared-in-the-2019-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">715 women candidates contested</a> the Lok Sabha elections versus 7,334 males—10% of women won as opposed to 6% of the men.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"  data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">17th Lok Sabha will have more women representation than ever at 14.4%! This election has broken another myth that women have lesser chances of winning&#8230;Their winning strike rate is better than the men! <br />Shine on!<br />राज तिलक की करो तैयारी, आगे बढ़ रहीं हैं महिलाएँ हमारी!</p>\n<p>&mdash; Priyanka Chaturvedi (@priyankac19) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/priyankac19/status/1132123615275749379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2019</a></p></blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Some of the larger states saw a higher number of women winning, Quartz&#8217;s analysis of Lok Dhaba data shows. India&#8217;s most populous state with 80 seats, Uttar Pradesh elected the most number of women (11).</p>\n<div class=\"atlas-chart\" data-id=\"nmLTou0QZ\" data-width=\"640\" data-height=\"449\"><img src=\"https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/qz-production-atlas-assets/charts/atlas_nmLTou0QZ.png\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width:100%;\"></div>\n<p>The profiles of 700-plus female candidates contesting the 2019 general elections, according to an analysis by the <a href=\"https://adrindia.org/content/lok-sabha-elections-2019-analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-and-other-details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Association for Democratic Reforms</a>, are as follows:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>396</strong> women candidates attained graduate-level or more of education. That&#8217;s over half the total pool.</li>\n<li><strong>531</strong> aged between 25 and 50 years. A quarter of them were aged between 51 and 80 years. The <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Tejasvi_Surya/status/1132173309456478208?s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">youngest was</a> 25-year-old Chandrani Murmu of Biju Janata Dal (BJP) who won from Keonjhar, Odisha.</li>\n<li><strong>110</strong> had criminal cases registered against them. Up to 78 faced serious charges.</li>\n<li><strong>255</strong> crorepati women candidates. The average assets of women candidates stood at Rs5.63 crore ($810,945). Hema Malini, a two-time winner from Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, boasted of the highest value of assets with over Rs250 crore.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Smriti Irani, who <a href=\"https://qz.com/india/1626699/smriti-irani-from-modi-critic-to-rahul-gandhis-amethi-nemesis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">beat Congress president Rahul Gandhi</a> on his traditional home turf, Amethi, is being heralded as the biggest winner of them all. Pragya Thakur, the Malegaon blast-accused who called Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s assassin Nathuram Godse a patriot, is perhaps <a href=\"https://qz.com/india/1626137/india-to-get-terror-accused-parliamentarian-in-pragya-thakur/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the most controversial</a> among them.</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/india/1626215/smriti-irani-pragya-thakur-to-be-among-indias-77-new-women-mps/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(124, NULL, 'How Shashi Tharoor beat the Modi wave and Sabarimala anger for a third straight victory', 'how-shashi-tharoor-beat-the-modi-wave-and-sabarimala-anger-for-a-third-straight-victory', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"638\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX17JNV.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"India-Election-Thiruvananthapuram-Shashi Tharoor\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX17JNV.jpg 3500w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX17JNV.jpg?resize=768,479 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX17JNV.jpg?resize=50,31 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX17JNV.jpg?resize=160,100 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX17JNV.jpg?resize=320,199 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX17JNV.jpg?resize=640,399 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX17JNV.jpg?resize=940,586 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX17JNV.jpg?resize=1600,997 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>One of the most keenly-watched contests in India’s general election was in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of the southern state of Kerala.</p>\n<p>The incumbent member of parliament, Shashi Tharoor of the Indian National Congress (INC), won by a margin he himself did not anticipate. The former United Nations under-secretary general has been representing this high-profile constituency since 2009. In 2014, he won by a narrow margin of 15,000-odd votes against O Rajagopal, a veteran of Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). This time, he was locked in a tight contest against Kummanam Rajasekharan of the saffron outfit, which ultimately even saw its vote share dip by 1%, after having secured a third of it in 2014.</p>\n<p>This election was also significant as Kerala had always kept the BJP at bay despite the BJP holding considerable sway in the rest of the country and even in many parts of Thiruvananthapuram. This round was seen as its best chance to buck that trend.</p>\n<p>In the end, Tharoor replicated his 2009 win with a nearly 100,000-vote victory margin, backed by new voters and the consolidation of minorities in a three-way contest against Rajasekharan and the Communist Party of India’s (CPI) C Divakaran.</p>\n<p>Unlike 2014, when the BJP candidate fought on the plank of development, it tried to harness the Sabarimala <span class=\"pull-quote\"><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span><span>Thiruvananthapuram clearly preferred Tharoor’s more progressive agenda.</span><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span></span>controversy to cross the hurdle in 2019. Last year, the Indian supreme court had ruled in favour of the entry of women of menstruating age into the temple against the traditional norm. The BJP was at the vanguard of resisting this change in the months following the verdict. However, Thiruvananthapuram clearly preferred Tharoor’s more progressive agenda.</p>\n<p>Remarkably, he also defied the predictions of opinion polls and exit polls, significantly rising in political stature. The 63-year-old is now in contention to become the leader of his party in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian parliament.</p>\n<h2>What worked?</h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tharoor is among the most popular political leaders in India’s social media landscape with followers cutting across ideological divides. He was the most followed Indian politician on Twitter for the longest time till Narendra Modi stepped in. He has authored over 15 books, with his latest, <em>Why I am a Hindu</em>, almost reading like a treatise against the BJP&#8217;s Hindutva ideology.</p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His sophisticated English is often a topic of conversation, and often sparks controversy. Even during the latest election campaign, his usage of the word “squeamish” was misrepresented by his opponents.</p>\n<p>There are many factors that enabled Tharoor’s stellar win. The most significant being the consolidation of minorities in favour of Tharoor as the contest became a straight fight with Rajasekharan towards the end.</p>\n<p>Tharoor’s massive popularity among youth and women is one of the factors that favoured him. In 2014, the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar was used by his political opponents to vilify him, hurting his prospects. Even this time around, there was no dearth of smear campaigns by proxies of both his opponents. Even Tharoor’s 1989 book, <em>The Great Indian Novel</em>, became an issue this time around.</p>\n<p>Tharoor’s diplomatic stand on the Sabarimala issue is also supposed to have helped him pull through. A self-professed liberal, he claimed to be conflicted on account of the sentiments of the people he represented.</p>\n<p>The BJP, on its part, threw the kitchen sink at him. A fortnight before polling, Tharoor was seen lagging, with his party machinery seemingly not fully behind him. However, he managed to overcome that with an all-out effort in <span class=\"pull-quote\"><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span><span>A lot of fence-sitters and swing voters, too, seem to have favoured him.</span><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span></span>the last couple of weeks with many of his party leaders backing him at the last minute.</p>\n<p>Moreover, Rajasekharan doesn’t enjoy a moderate image like Tharoor’s 2014 opponent Rajagopal.</p>\n<p>The CPI candidate’s vote share too dipped by 3% even as Tharoor’s own went up by 7%. A lot of fence-sitters and swing voters, too, seem to have favoured him, going by the numbers.</p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if this impressive win propels Tharoor to a leadership position in his party, though.</p>\n<p><em>We welcome your comments at <a href=\"mailto:ideas.india@qz.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ideas.india@qz.com</a>.</em></p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/india/1628863/congresss-shashi-tharoor-survived-modi-sabarimala-in-kerala/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(125, NULL, 'After 700 displaced, India’s northeast to see more severe thunderstorms', 'after-700-displaced-indias-northeast-to-see-more-severe-thunderstorms', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX1BJGP.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX1BJGP.jpg 1600w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX1BJGP.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX1BJGP.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX1BJGP.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX1BJGP.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX1BJGP.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX1BJGP.jpg?resize=940,529 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p class=\"p1\">Tripura’s spell of extreme weather may not have ended yet.</p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Since Friday (May 24), heavy rain and thunderstorms have caused over 700 people <a href=\"https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/heavy-rain-thunderstorms-strike-tripura-over-700-people-homeless-2043076\">to be displaced</a> into relief camps across the small northeastern state of India. Now, <a href=\"https://www.skymetweather.com/content/weather-news-and-analysis/pre-monsoon-rains-to-increase-further-over-assam-arunachal-pradesh-meghalaya-and-nagaland/\">Skymet says</a>, “pre-monsoon weather activities” there, as well as in nearby states of the region, are picking up pace after a brief lull.</p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">This will mean that over the next two or three days, the entire northeast may see an uptick in stormy weather. “</span><span class=\"s2\">At present, a cyclonic circulation is persisting over Assam and adjoining parts of Meghalaya. Moreover, humid winds blowing over the region from Bay of Bengal are continuously increasing moisture in Northeast India,” Skymet noted this morning (May 27). </span></p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s3\">Tripura is not likely to bear the brunt of the storms in the region, at least not this time. States further north—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, and Nagaland—will face heavier rains than Manipur, Mizoram, and Tripura, Skymet said. </span></p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s4\">Yet, the recent thunderstorms have damaged over 1,000 houses in the state, along with the displacements. Trees and electric posts, too, have reportedly been uprooted. </span><span class=\"s5\">&#8220;A total of 40 rescue boats were pressed into service by the state revenue department to evacuate the people from affected areas. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Tripura State Rifles (TSR) have also joined the rescue operations,&#8221; Sarat Das, head of the state disaster management authority, <a href=\"https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/heavy-rain-thunderstorms-strike-tripura-over-700-people-homeless-2043076\"><span class=\"s3\">told the Press Trust of India</span></a> (PTI).</span></p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/india/1628871/tripura-meghalaya-brace-for-thunderstorms-even-before-monsoon/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(126, NULL, 'A short and simple way to brighten your Memorial Day weekend', 'a-short-and-simple-way-to-brighten-your-memorial-day-weekend', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WME2.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WME2.jpg 2765w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WME2.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WME2.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WME2.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WME2.jpg?resize=320,214 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WME2.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WME2.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WME2.jpg?resize=1600,1068 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>As an American, I&#8217;m generally happy living in the UK, which I have done for nearly five years. I don&#8217;t miss the guns, the endless politicking, or the aggressive 24/7 marketing. Holidays, however, almost always make me homesick. This <a href=\"https://twitter.com/USWNT/status/1132684052094509056\">harmonica rendition</a> of &#8220;The Star Spangled Banner,&#8221; performed today in New Jersey, captures so much of what I miss about America in a mere two minutes.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"  data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/2764.png\" alt=\"❤\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" /><img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/1f62d.png\" alt=\"😭\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" /><img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/2764.png\" alt=\"❤\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" /><img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/1f62d.png\" alt=\"😭\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" /></p>\n<p>we love Pete so much. <a href=\"https://t.co/Lxd3Xqo9eu\">pic.twitter.com/Lxd3Xqo9eu</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; U.S. Soccer WNT (@USWNT) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/USWNT/status/1132684052094509056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2019</a></p></blockquote>\n<p>Start with the scene, which is one of the lead-up games of the US women&#8217;s national soccer team. There&#8217;s an enormous flag, which would make most Europeans wince, or grimace, but still makes me weirdly proud. I am under no illusions about American exceptionalism; our history is a dark and revealing one, whose promise is woefully unrealized. But the US is my country, and sometimes, for a moment, it&#8217;s nice to be proud rather than apologetic (for the racism, the guns, the poverty). My dad fought in the Korean War and was a fierce patriot—every grace invoked the sacrifice of our soldiers—and he proudly flew a flag off our deck. I wouldn&#8217;t do the same, but I love that he did.</p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the soccer, or football as it&#8217;s known here. The UK may have invented the sport, but it is light years behind the US when it comes to the women&#8217;s side. The US has Title IX, a law prohibiting discrimination in all federally funded education programs. Title IX opened the floodgates to every town having a local team, run by parents and followed by residents in any given neighborhood. It propelled generations of girls to play. I remember star players like Mia Hamm and <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-A1-Rz_pks\">Brandi Chastain</a>, and the historic 1999 FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup they helped win.</p>\n<p>I was recently at a conference in Boston, and we drove by a field, at 6pm on a Tuesday, full of kids and parents playing baseball (not soccer, but similar sentiment). It evoked a feeling I do not have here, even though I find myself on the sidelines of many sporting events (netball, cricket, football).</p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/may/19/womens-football-how-girls-are-moving-goalposts\">wonderful and sad piece</a> in the Guardian recalls that it wasn&#8217;t always so in England: During two world wars, Preston, in Lancashire, was home to the Dick, Kerr Ladies (1917-1965), &#8220;a football team <a class=\"u-underline in-body-link--immersive\" title=\"\" href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2009/sep/09/england-women-football\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">formed at a munitions factory</a> during the first world war to raise funds for wounded soldiers from the western front who were being treated at the town’s military hospital.&#8221; The team was wildly popular, often cited as the most successful women’s team ever, and raised the equivalent of millions of pounds in today’s money for the troops<strong>.</strong> According to the Guardian, on Boxing Day in 1920, the team &#8220;hit a peak with a crowd of more than 53,000 filing into Everton’s Goodison Park and a further estimated 14,000 outside, unable to get in.&#8221; (Today in the UK, a typical game in the FA Women’s Super League attracts a mere 900.) Months after that match, a few small-minded men ruled that football was &#8220;quite unsuitable for females and ought not to be encouraged.&#8221; Women were banned from playing on FA-affiliated pitches. (The UK is trying. It is halfway through its four-year <a class=\"u-underline in-body-link--immersive\" title=\"\" href=\"http://www.thefa.com/news/2017/mar/13/fa-womens-football-strategy-gameplan-for-growth-double-participation-130317\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Gameplan for Growth,</a> which aims, among other things, to double the number of women and girls taking part in football in England by July 2020.)</p>\n<p>Back to that &#8220;Star Spangled Banner&#8221; rendition&#8230; The song itself is one of beauty, hope, and triumph. We taught our kids the words on a trip to Wales, and my husband, a Brit, teared up at all that it tries to accomplish: Francis Scott Key&#8217;s attempt to put America&#8217;s determination to song, with a range of 19 semitones: difficult, sharp, aspirational. England&#8217;s equivalent is &#8220;God Save the Queen,&#8221; which includes these lyrics:</p>\n<blockquote><p>God save the Queen!</p>\n<p>Send her victorious,</p>\n<p>Happy and glorious,</p>\n<p>Long to reign over us:</p>\n<p>God save the Queen!</p></blockquote>\n<p>Not exactly take-up-arms and fight-to-the-death kind of material.</p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the harmonica and the man playing it: Pete DuPré, a 96-year-old World War II veteran who shows amazing musical skills. I held my breath when he went for the high notes, as it&#8217;s not the easiest instrument to play. I went to college in the American West, amidst the majesty of the Rockies. Folk music is seared in my memory as the soundtrack to discovering that region. My world up till then—the US east coast—had felt huge as I traversed up and down for sporting events and college tours. But it is a speck compared to the vast plains of the middle of America. DuPré&#8217;s rendition captured all of that: America&#8217;s beauty, its promise, its grandeur. For a moment, the disappointment and complexity of today&#8217;s United States evaporated for the &#8220;bombs bursting in air&#8221; that &#8220;gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.&#8221;</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/quartzy/1628771/memorial-day-watch-wwii-vet-play-star-spangled-banner-at-us-womens-soccer-match/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(127, NULL, 'Where the candidates to become the UK’s next prime minister stand on a hard or soft Brexit', 'where-the-candidates-to-become-the-uks-next-prime-minister-stand-on-a-hard-or-soft-brexit', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HZTK-e1558896492432.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Boris-Johnson-leadership-contest-May-2019\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HZTK-e1558896492432.jpg 1384w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HZTK-e1558896492432.jpg?resize=768,433 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HZTK-e1558896492432.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HZTK-e1558896492432.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HZTK-e1558896492432.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HZTK-e1558896492432.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HZTK-e1558896492432.jpg?resize=940,529 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>Britain has been in turmoil ever since it voted narrowly to leave the EU three years ago. It is mired in an existential debate about its position in Europe, with broad disagreement about the best way to extract itself from the EU. Divisions within the ruling Conservative party led prime minister Theresa May to announce that she would leave her post on June 7.</p>\n<p>May&#8217;s inability to get Parliament to agree on a deal to leave the EU by the original deadline of March 29, 2019 <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/05/theresa-may-resigns/590218/\">meant her days were numbered</a>. The Conservatives will now <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48395611\">elect a new leader</a> to take over as prime minister. The key issue the candidates will run on—first to fellow MPs, who whittle down the candidates to two, and then to party members, who vote by mail on the remaining two—is what they propose will happen on the new Brexit deadline of Oct. 31, 2019. Namely, if the deadline approaches and Parliament, again, hasn&#8217;t agreed on a deal to smooth its transition out of the EU, will the prime minister push to leave the bloc anyway, in a so-called &#8220;no deal Brexit&#8221;?</p>\n<p>By every serious account, a no-deal Brexit would be <a href=\"https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2019/02/14/inflation-at-3-5-and-a-two-year-recession-the-impact-of-no-deal/\">the most damaging</a> form of divorce for the UK economy. Still, it has become a popular position among the staunchest pro-Brexit constituencies, including—<a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/04/most-tory-members-would-choose-no-deal-over-may-brexit-plan\">it seems</a>—the Conservative party members charged with selecting the UK&#8217;s next prime minister.</p>\n<p>Where do the eight candidates (so far) stand on the prospect for a no deal Brexit?</p>\n<h2><strong>In favor of a no-deal Brexit</strong></h2>\n<p><strong>Boris Johnson</strong>: The former mayor of London, former foreign secretary, and one of leaders of the Leave campaign during the referendum, is <a href=\"https://qz.com/1627532/boris-johnson-is-the-bookmakers-favorite-for-britains-next-pm/\">the bookies&#8217; favorite</a> to win the leadership contest. He is <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/24/boris-johnson-favourite-as-uk-to-have-new-pm-by-end-of-july\">very comfortable</a> with a no-deal Brexit. That said, he changes his mind like the weather. Witty and charismatic, he is also prone to lies and exaggerations; his consistent disregard for detail has led many to say he is his <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/world/europe/boris-johnson-theresa-may.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fstephen-castle&action=click&contentCollection=undefined&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection\">own worst enemy</a>.</p>\n<p><strong>Michael Gove</strong>: The former secretary of education, justice, and now environment led the Leave campaign with Johnson, but then double-crossed him in the contest to succeed David Cameron, declaring his own candidacy for the job (deja vu). He has pitched himself as serious and experienced, by contrast to frenemy Johnson. <a href=\"https://news.sky.com/story/michael-gove-joins-race-for-tory-leadership-as-rivals-vow-to-keep-no-deal-brexit-on-table-11728857\">In favor of no-deal Brexit, if necessary</a>.</p>\n<p><strong>Dominic Raab</strong>: The former Brexit secretary spent one of the first full days of his candidacy defending his claim that feminists are &#8220;<a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/26/dominic-raab-defends-calling-feminists-obnoxious-bigots\">obnoxious bigots</a>.&#8221; <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48411784\">In favor of no-deal Brexit, if necessary</a>.</p>\n<p><strong>Andrea Leadsom: </strong>The former House of Commons leader dropped out of the 2016 leadership race after suggesting <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36760986\">she was better suited</a> to be prime minister than May because she was a mother (May doesn&#8217;t have kids, which give you &#8220;a very real stake&#8221; in Britain&#8217;s future, Leadsom suggested). She is <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2019/may/26/reunite-country-says-tory-candidate-andrea-leadsom-video\">prepared to leave without a deal</a>.</p>\n<p><strong>Esther McVey:</strong> The Former works and pensions secretary is ready—<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=W0aCqPABUhI\">eager, even</a>—to leave the EU with no deal, positioning herself as one of the most hardline candidates when it comes to Brexit.</p>\n<h2><strong>Against a no-deal Brexit </strong></h2>\n<p><strong>Rory Stewart</strong>: The international development secretary called pursuing a no-deal Brexit &#8220;<a href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rory-stewart-boris-johnson-conservative-leader-no-deal-brexit-cabinet-theresa-may-resign-a8929881.html\">damaging and dishonest</a>.&#8221; He has ruled out working with Johnson <a href=\"https://twitter.com/RoryStewartUK/status/1132272412366725120\">if he loses</a> the contest to him, due to his views on Brexit. &#8220;Boris has many, many qualities but I talked to him a few days ago and I thought he had said to me that he was not going for a no-deal exit,&#8221; Stewart said.</p>\n<p class=\"story-body__crosshead\"><strong>Matt Hancock</strong>: The health secretary is frequently dubbed &#8220;ambitious.&#8221; Campaigned to remain in the EU during the referendum but now viewed as ally by Brexiteer ministers. Said we have to be &#8220;<a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48403705\">brutally honest</a>&#8221; about the trade-offs required to get a deal through Parliament, noting that parliament voted in March to change the constitution to stop a no-deal Brexit.</p>\n<h2><strong><img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/1f937-200d-2642-fe0f.png\" alt=\"🤷‍♂️\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" /> on a no-deal Brexit</strong></h2>\n<p><strong>Jeremy Hunt</strong>: The foreign secretary campaigned to remain in the EU, but has since changed his mind. Position on no-deal Brexit is a bit murky. First, he said if the UK were to leave without a negotiated deal, &#8220;it would be a mistake we would regret for generations.&#8221; Later, <a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https://twitter.com/Jeremy_Hunt/status/1030335562425790464\">he tweeted</a>: &#8220;Important not to misrepresent my words. Britain would survive and prosper without a deal&#8230; but it would be a big mistake for Europe because of inevitable impact on long-term partnership with UK. We will only sign up to deal that respects referendum result.&#8221;</p>\n<p><em>Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelt the name of former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab. </em></p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1628726/what-the-candidates-for-uk-prime-minister-think-about-a-no-deal-brexit/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(128, NULL, 'Ireland has voted overwhelmingly in favor of making divorce easier', 'ireland-has-voted-overwhelmingly-in-favor-of-making-divorce-easier', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR32VDM-e1558877917822.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ireland-referendum-divorce-2019\" /><p>The Irish overwhelmingly voted in favor of changing the country&#8217;s archaic divorce laws, which currently require a four-year waiting period. <a href=\"https://www.referendum.ie/current-referendum/\">More than 82%</a> of voters supported changing the constitution to lower the waiting time, and also to recognize foreign divorces. It was the <a href=\"https://www.politico.eu/article/ireland-marriage-referendum-irish-voters-back-loosening-divorce-laws/\">largest margin of victory</a> for a referendum since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, which 95% of voters backed.</p>\n<p>The government said it would introduce legislation to change the laws and has previously mentioned a two-year waiting time instead.</p>\n<p>The referendum comes as part of a broader push to liberalize Ireland&#8217;s social policies. Divorce was only legalized in 1995 and by a razor-thin margin (50.2% to 49.7%). But change, when it comes, can come quickly: In 2015, 62% of voters endorsed legalizing <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32858501\">same-sex marriage</a>, and last year, 66%  backed <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44256152\">repealing Ireland&#8217;s abortion ban</a>.</p>\n<p>The results of the latest divorce referendum were so widely anticipated that there was little celebration. &#8220;This was not about rocking the system, it was about humanizing the system,” <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/26/ireland-votes-to-liberalise-divorce-laws-after-referendum\">said Josepha Madigan</a>, the culture minister, who led the government’s referendum campaign. About half of the Irish electorate cast votes, with the “yes” (or, tá) vote winning in all 31 constituencies.</p>\n<p>While that&#8217;s progress for a country with deep Catholic roots, a two-year waiting period would still make divorce difficult. Places like the <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-divorce-law-to-end-the-blame-game\">UK (2019)</a> and <a href=\"https://www.hg.org/divorce-law-newyork.html\">New York state (2010)</a> have moved to a no-fault divorce framework in which couples do not have to provide a &#8220;fact&#8221; or reason for divorcing, instead relying on the fact that it&#8217;s just not working. In the UK, prior to the changes, one spouse had to allege adultery or unreasonable behavior for the proceedings to start; the change means one or both parties can claim the marriage has broken down irretrievably. The move was also intended to stop one partner from blocking a divorce if the other one wants it.</p>\n<p>At the time of the proposed UK changes, <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-divorce-law-to-end-the-blame-game\">Justice Secretary David Gauke</a> said it would benefit kids: &#8220;Hostility and conflict between parents leave their mark on children and can damage their life chances,&#8221; he said.</p>\n<p>It seems the changes in all countries might benefit the adults, too.</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1628689/ireland-votes-overwhelmingly-in-favor-of-making-divorce-easier/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(129, NULL, 'This masculinity retreat will make you rethink your identity—no matter who you are', 'this-masculinity-retreat-will-make-you-rethink-your-identity-no-matter-who-you-are', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"599\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mens_retreat.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mens_retreat.jpg 3200w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mens_retreat.jpg?resize=768,450 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mens_retreat.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mens_retreat.jpg?resize=160,94 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mens_retreat.jpg?resize=320,187 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mens_retreat.jpg?resize=640,375 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mens_retreat.jpg?resize=940,550 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mens_retreat.jpg?resize=1600,937 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>“It’s just past 11pm and I’m sitting in a living room, looking around at a sea of men who I’ve never met before. And I’m so glad that I am.” These are the last words I wrote in my journal as day one ends.</p>\n<p>There are a group of men in a circle sitting on mismatched chairs. We’ve all come here for <a href=\"https://www.itsandrewhorn.com/blog/2019/2/12/junto-a-movement-to-explore-modern-masculinity-and-emotional-mastery\">a men’s retreat</a>, Junto, a movement founded and led by entrepreneur Andrew Horn. I have immersed myself with 17 other men in New York’s Catskill Mountains to spend three days in a beautifully kitsch home to embrace my past, present, and future.</p>\n<p>We all came here to find clarity on who we are. Throughout the weekend, Andrew would ask, “What stories are we telling ourselves?” That was the work we were there to do—to uncover those stories that we’ve held for so long that they have turned into hindrances, freezing ourselves in time. We will sit in groups, write alone, pair off together, and think intentionally about living authentic lives—a passage into redefining ourselves as men.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1627481\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1627481\" class=\"wp-image-1627481 size-hero-l\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0158-2.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=940\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0158-2.jpg 1512w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0158-2.jpg?resize=768,548 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0158-2.jpg?resize=50,36 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0158-2.jpg?resize=160,114 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0158-2.jpg?resize=320,228 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0158-2.jpg?resize=640,456 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0158-2.jpg?resize=940,670 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1627481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wilderness of the mind.</p></div>\n<p>In order for men’s work to exist, women’s work had to come first—they were <a href=\"https://togetherwerisect.com/2017/02/07/the-bridge-poem-donna-kate-rushin/\">the bridge</a>. In 1988, nearing the end of second-wave feminism, singer and songwriter <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TupvVpxY_U\">Kate Bush</a> wrote, “This Woman’s Work,” well before Maxwell covered it. In 2017, The Crunkistas of the Crunk Feminist Collective penned the letter, “<a href=\"http://www.crunkfeministcollective.com/2010/04/06/dear-patriarchy/\">Dear Patriarchy</a>,” a break-up letter, if you will.</p>\n<p>It’s time, no?</p>\n<p>The words &#8220;masculine&#8221; or &#8220;manhood&#8221; have little bearing on how I see myself, but much bearing on how I present myself in the world. I wondered, where are we—culturally, systemically, and inter-personally—in the international conversation around masculinity? Quiet as its kept, true men’s work is an accomplice with feminism. Many men, and surely the men of Junto, have realized that their relationships, professions, and parental roles are not served within the traditions of patriarchy.</p>\n<p>Andrew, who was raised in Hawaii, was compelled to start a conversation about modern masculinity in the wake of the #MeToo movement, which was founded by Tarana Burke. “I just wanted to provide a bridge for men that wanted to take action, build an equitable world, and inspire different options for men to help,” he says. By focusing on emotional mastery, modern masculinity, and radical authenticity, we embarked on what Andrew calls, “men’s work as service” to ourselves so that we can better serve our communities, families, each other.</p>\n<p>Two nights before I met Andrew, he reminded me to keep an open mind before I embarked on this journey. I could hear in his voice that he took much pride in this trip, the invitation, and what was to come. I also knew I could only experience the weekend, if I too, was all in. And so, I was.</p>\n<p>Before meeting up with the rest of the retreat attendees in the West Village, I had an inclination that I’d be the only black man at this retreat, the sixth workshop for Junto thus far. I also wondered if I would be the only self-identified gay man. And I was—on both counts (though I was not the only man of color there). I’ve navigated varied spaces where I am, or others are, hyper-aware of my body. There, my spidey sense tends to go off, because <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1897/08/strivings-of-the-negro-people/305446/\">double consciousness</a>. At my inner and outer core, I strive to understand humanity and collective power. But viscerally, I am strangely un-estranged from entering spaces that do not represent me or my totality, where it is easy to feel “out of place” or, even worse, unseen. There have always been places in which queer women and men of color could celebrate our heritage, such as <a href=\"https://www.bklynboihood.com/\">Brooklyn Boihood</a>, <a href=\"https://www.papijuice.com/about\">Papi Juice</a>, or <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nativesonnow/\">Native Son Now</a>, where we are “gay, black, and unbothered,” as <a href=\"http://thetenthmagazine.com/\">The Tenth</a> magazine proudly proclaims. But, this was not that. I patiently listened and settled in, but more than one gentleman at the retreat pulled me aside, genuinely concerned to make sure I felt comfortable, as if they’d heard my inner monologue. The authenticity of Andrew and the men of Junto to “hold space” for each other dissipated my spidey sense that first afternoon as we supported each other’s inner monologues and found commonalities in one another.</p>\n<p>We paired off for honest and intimate conversations. My first, with attendee Jake Chai, helped me relax as he opened up fully to me. After spending the day getting to know ourselves, I was exhausted, nervous about tomorrow, but excited for what was to come.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1627480\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1627480\" class=\"wp-image-1627480 size-hero-l\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0203.jpeg?quality=80&strip=all&w=940\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0203.jpeg 2000w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0203.jpeg?resize=768,576 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0203.jpeg?resize=50,38 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0203.jpeg?resize=160,120 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0203.jpeg?resize=320,240 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0203.jpeg?resize=640,480 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0203.jpeg?resize=940,705 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_0203.jpeg?resize=1600,1201 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1627480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candles lit after a particularly deep conversation during Junto.</p></div>\n<p>The next morning, after a deep morning meditation, we gathered in the living area to speak about our fathers and their impacts on our relationship to manhood. We all had stories about the impact of our fathers on our own male identity, some through loss. But when we were asked: “Whose father was not in their childhood?” I was the only one who raised his hand. With my head whirling, my voice slightly trembling, and my hands shaking, I stood in front of these men, the last among them to tell the story of my father: that I don’t have one.</p>\n<p>I reminded them that my father, and more broadly, some black men in America, are in direct combat with our fathers and great-forefathers. They carry the inter-generational trauma of being sold on auction blocks in front of their families or their lives behind bars. Black men, like those in the <a href=\"https://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/i-am-a-man\">Memphis sanitation strike in 1968</a>, exclaimed “I <u>AM</u> a Man.” The mere idea that working class men must declare their humanity is no different than how black lives declare it today. I have fought long, and hard, to not define my life by that pathology. How do I reconcile an absentee father as a son in a land that deemed us 3/5 human in written, expressed law?</p>\n<p>Thus, I learned to be an aesthete of a red toolbox from my grandmother. My mother taught me how to practice cleanliness and endurance. My Aunt Sheena bought my first my first tie for “Dress-Up Day” in the fifth grade. My neighbor, April, taught me to tie it into a Half-Windsor knot. Today, anytime I get my Dapper Dan on, I return to those precious memories. That tie still sits proudly in my closet. The memories I have of my father are blurry, fragmented, and mere fantasy—because he did not sustain them. I can’t touch those memories.</p>\n<p>I can touch the absence though. Federico Chiesa, one of the men at the Junto retreat, took the opportunity to reach out to his father back in Italy. He received a vulnerable email in return, beginning a new chapter in their relationship. We all smiled and sat around as he read us the thoughtful and heartfelt message. The mood was heavy, and though I could not do as Federico had done, I still felt light as we all championed one another’s bravery. We then left for a hike into the woods.</p>\n<p>There were many opportunities to express gratitude or express longing for estranged relationships—I emailed a friend I hadn’t spoken to in four years. A few us of reached out to estranged parents, friends, and former lovers. Max Hersh, another attendee, had 18 months prior made the labored decision to leave his community in Orthodox Judaism to forge his own path. After attending Junto, he said he felt more rooted in himself.</p>\n<p>Andrew encouraged us to stay in our feelings all weekend, existing with an emotion instead of discarding it. It’s hard work, but we accomplished something, individually and collectively. It was not mere fraternity or brotherhood. In Audre Lorde’s biomythography, <em>Zami: A New Spelling of My Name</em>, she uses Zami, “a Carricou name for women who work together as friends and lovers.” What is the word for men, living, loving, and working together as friends? For Andrew, it’s Junto.</p>\n<p>Junto is pushing up against old norms. This is messy work, but it’s necessary to feel free and vulnerable instead of dangerous and alone. In my estimation, freedom and vulnerability are not taught to men outright, though it something that we most certainly require. As this human work continues, we must recognize the intersections of men that vary by class, gender performance, ethnicity, queer identities, sexual freedom, and cultural differences that will continually push the conversation as long as those men are in the room and also have a seat, and an ear, at the table.</p>\n<span class=\"pull-quote\"><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span><span>We must recognize the intersections of men that will continually push the conversation as long as those men have a seat at the table.</span><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span></span>\n<p>And Junto is doing it well, with genuine thought and feeling, creating a model that others can follow. After returning from the retreat, I found an article that Andrew wrote, “P.S. &#8211;  I’m aware that the guys in these photos are a bunch of white guys. The future of modern masculinity does not look like these photos. We will be intentional about how to incorporate diverse voices, perspectives and world views into everything we do moving forward.” With Junto, it’s clear that Andrew and others are moving that way. During a group conversation about love and relationships, Andrew stopped, and turned to me, “These conversations have been a bit heteronormative. Is there anything you would like to add, Marcus?” He was interested in doing “the work.” Junto is building an accessible curriculum online to share this work so that other communities can also use the framework in their own way.</p>\n<p>The weekend closed with a rite of passage ceremony, one that reminded me of the tradition of passages and their significance as a conduit for change, defining ourselves, and unity. Andrew notes the rite of passage is a “ceremonial experience that connects men to purpose and service because it has the power to shift the way men think about themselves and who they can be.”</p>\n<p>The effects of the retreat lingered. I mulled over how attendee Thomas Martin joined me by my side to help me finish a run after he was already done, holding me high with his words and presence. I mulled over the laughter. I mulled over the bonding. I mulled over the meals we shared and the bread we broke for days after I returned to the city. At our last dinner gathering, a gentleman on my left told an inspiring story about the dedication to his family and himself, “I knew I could be better by yards and not by inches,” he said.</p>\n<p>I felt that deeply. As we moved each other over and over again with powerful stories of redemption and becoming, I realized this type of men’s work is responding to rigid customs on gender, our personal values as humans, and the desire to be infinitely more than what society systemically tries to repress—the magic of our individuality. This is what our aspirations to be better men must run contrary to, to be revolutionary.</p>\n<p><em>This story is part of How We’ll Win in 2019, a year-long exploration of workplace gender equality. </em><a href=\"http://qz.com/is/how-well-win-2019\"><em>Read more stories here</em></a><em>.</em></p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1627479/how-a-masculinity-retreat-can-make-anyone-rethink-their-identity/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL);
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(130, NULL, 'Scientists are closer to pinning down why the world’s best marathon runner is so good', 'scientists-are-closer-to-pinning-down-why-the-worlds-best-marathon-runner-is-so-good', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIEZ-e1558874993630.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIEZ-e1558874993630.jpg 2275w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIEZ-e1558874993630.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIEZ-e1558874993630.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIEZ-e1558874993630.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIEZ-e1558874993630.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIEZ-e1558874993630.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIEZ-e1558874993630.jpg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIEZ-e1558874993630.jpg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge is undoubtedly the greatest marathoner of the modern age. He has won <a href=\"https://www.africanews.com/2019/04/29/kenya-s-eliud-kipchoge-wins-2019-london-marathon/\">11 of the 12</a> marathons he has competed in. His <a href=\"https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/wilson-kipsang-sets-world-record-of-20323-in\">only loss</a> was to another Kenyan, Wilson Kipsang, during the 2013 Berlin Marathon when he came in second.</p>\n<p>In 2018, Kipchoge not only won the Berlin Marathon: He also <a href=\"https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a23244541/berlin-marathon-world-record/\">broke the world record</a>, completing 42 km (26.2 miles) in 2:01:39. Earlier this year, he ran the <a href=\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/athletics/2019/04/28/london-marathon-2019-live-updates-results-winners-latest-news/\">second fastest marathon</a> in history, in London.</p>\n<p>Kipchoge, then, is virtually unbeatable over the 42-km distance. This raises questions about his physical and mental strength and willpower. How does he do it? Is he superhuman?</p>\n<p>Kipchoge isn’t the only Kenyan athlete to dominate the world’s record tables. Since the 1960 Rome Olympics, Kenyan runners have enjoyed <a href=\"https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9b58/9a401e65cb8bbd1f3cacb633eac2d9fad7cc.pdf\">unparalleled dominance</a> in distance running events, from 800 m to the marathon. Together with their Ethiopian neighbors, Kenyan athletes have not only <a href=\"http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-12/24/c_137695935.htm\">dominated long-distance Olympic races</a> but have also dominated the world cross-country and road-racing circuit.</p>\n<p>So it is not surprising that questions abound about what makes Kenyan runners so talented. A plethora of studies have sought the answer, or answers. And they have come up with several possible reasons to elucidate the phenomenal performance of Kenya runners.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1628691\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1628691\" class=\"size-hero-l wp-image-1628691\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIF3.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=940\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIF3.jpg 3830w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIF3.jpg?resize=768,545 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIF3.jpg?resize=50,35 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIF3.jpg?resize=160,114 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIF3.jpg?resize=320,227 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIF3.jpg?resize=640,454 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIF3.jpg?resize=940,667 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6TIF3.jpg?resize=1600,1135 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1628691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenya&#8217;s Eliud Kipchoge celebrates winning the men&#8217;s race and setting a new course record for London Marathon last month</p></div>\n<p>I have come to my own conclusions based on research that I have conducted on various aspects of Kenyan athletes over the past two decades. I have published several research papers on the subject. Some of the papers have looked at the exemplary performance of the Kenyan runners through different lenses.</p>\n<p>In one of the publications, colleagues and I investigated the <a href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02640410500189033\">demographic characteristics of elite Kenyan endurance runners</a> participating in international competitions. We tracked their evolution over the period of their international emergence and current dominance. In another paper, we <a href=\"http://ku.ac.ke/schools/human_sciences/images/NIKOLAIDIS%20et%20al%202017.pdf\">looked at</a> the running performance, nationality, sex and age in marathon running between 1999–2015. In 2005 my colleagues and I <a href=\"https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/Abstract/2017/08000/Running_Performance,_Nationality,_Sex,_and_Age_in.18.aspx\">looked at</a> the food and macronutrient intake of elite Kenyan distance runners.</p>\n<p>Based on this body of knowledge and empirical data, I would observe that Kipchoge’s extraordinary and excellent performance has a lot to do with his mental strength, physical fitness, diet, and great running economy which enables him to utilize oxygen and generate energy more efficiently. Overall, there is an interplay between nature and nurture in the success of Kenyan runners.</p>\n<p>Admittedly, my research does not answer all of the questions surrounding the performance of Kenyan runners. More research still needs to be done to explain and fully understand the phenomenon.</p>\n<h2>Explanations about Kenyans</h2>\n<p>Researchers propose a series of explanations for the outstanding success of Kenya’s elite athletes in general. Some experts attribute their prowess to <a href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12471299\">favorable physiological characteristics</a>. Such characteristics include, among others, maximal oxygen uptake, higher ability of the body to convert certain fats to energy, particularly during prolonged periods, and the ability to efficiently consume oxygen.</p>\n<p>Sports scientists like myself have also <a href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15657475\">linked their success</a> to their diet, which is typically high in carbohydrates and low in fat. Their protein intake matches that of other elite athletes. Generally, the staple diets of Kenyan runners include <em>ugali</em> (stiff porridge made from maize or millet flour), green leafy vegetables, milk, kidney beans, and eggs.</p>\n<p>Genetic makeup is another factor. But <a href=\"https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b10f/1c4b91b86b9b6031b476a538d2eff20a1a79.pdf\">studies have been unable to prove</a> that Kenyan athletes are genetically adapted towards distance running. One thing that does work to their advantage, however, is the fact most of them were born and raised at high altitude. The body <a href=\"https://www.livescience.com/32750-why-do-athletes-train-at-high-altitudes.html\">produces more and bigger red blood cells</a> at high altitude. This increases oxygen delivery to the muscles and boosts performance.</p>\n<p>Another factor to consider in analyzing the dominance of Kenya’s athletes is the <a href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Emerging+evidence+of+the+physical+activity+transition+in+Kenya\">long distances</a> they ran to and from school as children—often up to <a href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-18271403\">10 km one way</a>. Many of them also engaged in daily physical activities such as farming, herding animals, and fetching firewood and water. Experts believe that this led to the development of <a href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0838.1995.tb00037.x\">high aerobic capacity</a> which means that their bodies take in more oxygen and use it more efficiently to generate energy.</p>\n<p>Finally, some researchers have suggested that Kenya’s long-distance runners have a <a href=\"https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/34/5/391#ref-3\">psychological and social advantage</a> because they now see themselves as unbeatable on the global stage. This <a href=\"https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/34/5/391\">psycho-social edge</a> over other long-distance runners has developed among Kenyan runners because they have an aura of invincibility, both in their own and their opponents’ minds.</p>\n<h2>Eliud Kipchoge’s case</h2>\n<p>Explanations for Kipchoge’s performance have included physiological characteristics like <a href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1180686/\">genetic endowment</a>, and advantageous environmental conditions, such as being born and raised at <a href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12162861\">high altitude</a>.</p>\n<p>Based on my own empirical research, most of which aligns with previous studies, I have come to the conclusion that—like many other successful elite athletes—Kipchoge’s success has a lot to do with a unique interplay between nature and nurture. This includes, but is not limited to, genetics, physiology, nutrition, coaching, and mental and emotional preparedness.</p>\n<p>Kipchoge is at his peak. In 2017, he tried to become the first person to run a <a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-athletics-kipchoge/kipchoge-to-make-new-sub-two-hour-marathon-attempt-this-year-idUSKCN1SB0TE\">marathon in less than two hours</a>. He will make a fresh attempt this year and I have no doubt that he can do it.<!-- Below is The Conversation\'s page counter tag. Please DO NOT REMOVE. --><img style=\"border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; margin: 0 !important; max-height: 1px !important; max-width: 1px !important; min-height: 1px !important; min-width: 1px !important; opacity: 0 !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0 !important; text-shadow: none !important;\" src=\"https://counter.theconversation.com/content/117040/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic\" alt=\"The Conversation\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /><!-- End of code. If you don\'t see any code above, please get new code from the Advanced tab after you click the republish button. The page counter does not collect any personal data. More info: http://theconversation.com/republishing-guidelines --></p>\n<p>—<a href=\"https://theconversation.com/profiles/vincent-o-onywera-335921\">Vincent O. Onywera</a>, Professor of Exercise and Sports Science, <a href=\"http://theconversation.com/institutions/kenyatta-university-2655\">Kenyatta University</a></p>\n<p><em>This article is republished from <a href=\"http://theconversation.com\">The Conversation</a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the <a href=\"https://theconversation.com/kipchoges-marathon-success-remains-a-mystery-some-clues-from-my-research-117040\">original article</a>.</em></p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/africa/1628684/why-kenyans-keep-winning-marathons-long-distance-races/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(131, NULL, 'Kids’ summer schedules should be about sampling, not specializing', 'kids-summer-schedules-should-be-about-sampling-not-specializing', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HYEA-e1558875026826.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Roger-Federer-tennis-grit\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HYEA-e1558875026826.jpg 2748w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HYEA-e1558875026826.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HYEA-e1558875026826.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HYEA-e1558875026826.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HYEA-e1558875026826.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HYEA-e1558875026826.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HYEA-e1558875026826.jpg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTS2HYEA-e1558875026826.jpg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>By now, many well-heeled American parents have signed up their kids for summer camps in coding, math, <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/style/for-kids-comma-some-capitalism.html\">innovation</a>, or some other subject for intensive, immersive study.</p>\n<p>Angela Duckworth, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and <a href=\"https://qz.com/684190/what-everyone-gets-wrong-about-grit/\">guru of grit</a>, suggests another approach: this summer, <a href=\"https://characterlab.org/thoughts-of-the-week/summer-is-for-sampling/\">take a generalist’s approach</a>.</p>\n<p>“Don’t confuse the healthy development of a work ethic with premature commitment to a singular passion,” she writes in her weekly email. She argues that while there are clearly benefits to specialization in adulthood and late adolescence, younger kids need to sample lots of things: “the exploration of possibilities that, really, you cannot know anything about until you try them,” Duckworth writes.</p>\n<p>It is an unfortunate fact of modern, productivity-maximizing life that many parents channel their output-orientation toward their kids. In the US, this manifests itself particularly in the push for kids to specialize in a sport way earlier than they should, in a bid to gain entrance to highly competitive universities, offset the absurd cost of higher education, or just not miss the boat on securing a spot on an elite travel team.</p>\n<p>For some kids, the ones who love the things they are pursuing, this is fine. I was one of these kids, and begged to be able to ice skate for as many hours a day as possible. But for too many children, it&#8217;s an unrealistic extension of parents&#8217; wish to raise an exceptional child.</p>\n<p>We know the story of Tiger Woods and golf or the Williams sisters and tennis. They started early and their parents were maniacally focused. Woods just became the oldest person to win the Masters; the Williams sisters have won nearly 150 titles between them. But as David Epstein, author of <em>Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World</em>, <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/opinion/sunday/kids-sports-music-choices.html\">notes in the New York Times</a>, this isn&#8217;t the way most elite athletes grow up.</p>\n<p>“Athletes who go on to become elite usually have a ‘sampling period,’” he writes. They try lots of sports, develop a wide variety of skills and learn about what they like and don’t like: team sports or individual ones; full-contact or less aggressive activities; inside or outside sports. “The way to develop the best 20-year-old athlete, it turns out, is not the same as the way to make the best 10-year-old athlete,” he notes.</p>\n<p>He cites the example of Roger Federer, who in 2018, at the ripe old age of 36, <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/43091815\">became the oldest tennis player</a> ever to be ranked first in the world. Federer spent his childhood dabbling in skiing, wrestling, swimming, skateboarding, and squash, also taking in basketball, handball, tennis, table tennis, and soccer at different times. Epstein writes that Federer later credited this wide range of activities with “developing his athleticism and coordination.”</p>\n<p>Duckworth agrees, <a href=\"https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/3/142?int_source=trendmd&int_medium=trendmd&int_campaign=trendmd&utm_source=Character+Lab+-+Email+List&utm_campaign=9c266ad385-TOTW_Summer+is+for+sampling&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4810b42811-9c266ad385-253629325\">citing academic research </a>to back up the fact that specialization is not the route to success (if success is determined by making it to the Olympics or becoming a professional athlete).</p>\n<p>The truth is that more hours spent doing something probably makes you better at it. But there are caveats. K. Anders Ericsson, a leading expert on peak performance and author of various books, argues that practice, not talent, makes people excellent. And it’s a certain kind of practice, which he dubs “deliberate,” which is the most important. Among other things, it is really unpleasant, <a href=\"https://qz.com/915646/how-to-make-your-kid-good-at-anything-according-to-anders-ericsson-an-expert-on-peak-performance-and-originator-of-the-10000-hour-rule/\">as I wrote previously</a>:</p>\n<blockquote><p>Deliberate practice involves the pursuit of personal improvement via well-defined, specific goals and targeted areas of expertise. It requires a teacher or coach who has demonstrated an ability to help others improve the desired area of expertise—say chess, ballet, or music—and who can give continuous feedback. It also requires constantly practicing outside of one’s comfort zone.</p></blockquote>\n<p>But more than learning how to practice, the question should be: to what end? Maybe parents should stop fixating on how to make their kid amazing at soccer, and focus instead of what makes a kid happy.  (Which, to be fair, might be excelling at soccer.)</p>\n<p>A kid&#8217;s ideal summer schedule, according to them, is likely not to be rushed, stressed, and overextended. It probably involve lots of time with friends, plenty of down time, and some experimentation. Parents can design for this as carefully as they might for a series of camps—allowing kids to get bored once in a while, <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/smarter-living/the-case-for-doing-nothing.html\">which can be good for them</a>, or encouraging them to get a character-building summer job, the less glamorous <a href=\"https://qz.com/703049/teens-summer-jobs-unglamorous/\">the better</a>.</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1628680/what-should-my-child-do-this-summer-sample-dont-specialize/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(132, NULL, 'To accommodate Trump, Japan changed the rules of sumo', 'to-accommodate-trump-japan-changed-the-rules-of-sumo', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WK96-e1558865431834.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Donald-Trump-presenting-sumo-trophy-in-Tokyo\" /><p>Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency is notable for breaking the rules: he refuses to release his <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/24/irs-trumps-taxes-2020-1468771\">tax returns</a>, regularly <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/01/trump-plays-with-fire-when-he-insults-his-intelligence-officers/?utm_term=.5414f0c390aa\">insults</a> his own intelligence agencies, and stymies attempts at <a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/22/trump-loses-two-subpoena-fights-in-three-days.html\">congressional oversight</a> of the White House.</p>\n<p>In Japan today, Trump and the first lady attended the final day of a major sumo tournament in Tokyo, as guests of Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. Earlier, Trump <a href=\"https://twitter.com/AbeShinzo/status/1132467086607802368\">played golf with Abe</a>, who arranged a lunch of cheeseburgers made with American beef, the <a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/japan-ends-longstanding-trade-restrictions-on-american-beef-usda.html\">subject of ongoing trade negotiations</a> between the US and Japan.</p>\n<p>The sport of sumo <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/travel/24journeys.html?auth=login-email\">can be traced back</a> to early Shinto rites and ceremonies conducted in eighth-century imperial courts. It is wedded to long-held traditions, but at a delicate moment of diplomacy between the US and Japan some of its practices were altered to accommodate Trump at a showpiece tournament for the sport. These included:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump awarded a huge, custom-made &#8220;President&#8217;s Cup&#8221; trophy to the winner, adorned with an eagle and weighing more than 60 pounds.</li>\n<li>Spectators sit cross-legged on cushions on the floor at the tournament; Trump instead sat in a “low-backed” chair.</li>\n<li>Spectators sometimes throw their cushions at the ring after upsets or particularly exciting matches; they were banned from doing this.</li>\n<li>Shoes are forbidden in the sumo ring, but Trump and Abe wore special slippers when they <a href=\"https://twitter.com/nhk_news/status/1132571583732748288\">presented the trophy</a>.</li>\n<li>Tickets were scarcer than usual, according to <a href=\"https://www.apnews.com/aca0f0570d7346c18092b1ee42a62c74\">the Associated Press</a>, with half of the usual number of same-day tickets put up for sale, for security reasons.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Some sumo fans were not pleased with Trump&#8217;s special treatment. Masaru Tomamoto, 73, <a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-usa-sumo/japans-sumo-fans-welcome-trump-trophy-but-wish-hed-sit-cross-legged-idUSKCN1SS08V\">told Reuters</a> he wished the president would follow tradition: &#8220;I think that it would be much better for him to sit cross-legged with the cushion on the floor, rather than on chair.” Added another fan, Izumi Chiba, “As we say, when you are in Rome, do as the Romans do.”</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1628658\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1628658\" class=\"size-hero-m wp-image-1628658\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_19146349482074.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=640\" alt=\"Trump-watching-sumo-Japan-May-2019\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_19146349482074.jpg 4756w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_19146349482074.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_19146349482074.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_19146349482074.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_19146349482074.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_19146349482074.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_19146349482074.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_19146349482074.jpg?resize=1600,1067 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1628658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking on.</p></div>\n<p>Around 11,500 people attended the tournament. Victory went to <a href=\"https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Trump-attends-sumo-gives-President\'s-Cup-to-winner-Asanoyama\">Asanoyama</a>, whose real name is Hiroki Ishibashi and who weighs 390 pounds. He called the honor of receiving the special trophy from Trump “almost too much to say in words.” Trump&#8217;s interest in sumo is not surprising; he has been <a href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-and-wwe-how-the-road-to-the-white-house-began-at-wrestlemania-35697/\">connected to World Wrestling Entertainment</a> for decades, including taking part in a 2007 bout dubbed the &#8220;Battle of the Billionaires.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s charm offensive for Trump, which will include <a href=\"https://qz.com/1584358/the-reign-of-japans-new-emperor-naruhito-will-be-called-reiwa/\">a visit with the new emperor</a>, comes as the country tries to avoid the US imposing <a href=\"https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/18/business/economy-business/trump-delays-u-s-auto-tariffs-six-months-calls-imports-security-threat/#.XOpyNdNKgWo\">tariffs on imported cars</a>, which would hit the export-driven Japanese economy hard. Japan also looks to the US for support in containing North Korea. Before he met Abe for golf, Trump <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48412016\">dismissed recent North Korean missile tests</a> as &#8220;small&#8221; and said he was confident that Kim Jong Un would &#8220;keep his promise&#8221; on getting rid of nuclear weapons, <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/bolton-says-north-korea-is-violating-un-resolutions-and-refusing-talks/2019/05/25/b9541aa0-7e5a-11e9-b1f3-b233fe5811ef_story.html?utm_term=.a5dc4c24ea99\">contradicting the stance</a> taken by his national security adviser.</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1628656/to-accommodate-trump-japan-changed-the-rules-of-sumo/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(133, NULL, 'Yanis Varoufakis’ curious second crusade on Europe', 'yanis-varoufakis-curious-second-crusade-on-europe', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/rtr4narf.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Newly appointed Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis arrives at a hand over ceremony in Athens, January 28, 2015.\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/rtr4narf.jpg 2400w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/rtr4narf.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/rtr4narf.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/rtr4narf.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/rtr4narf.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/rtr4narf.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/rtr4narf.jpg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/rtr4narf.jpg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" />Yanis Varoufakis is tired. &#8220;I need a double vodka,&#8221; the former Greek finance minister says, as we walk along a balmy Athens street in search&hellip;', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1627854/yanis-varoufakis-is-taking-on-the-european-union-again/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(134, NULL, 'Malawi’s election results are being delayed after vote forgery claims', 'malawis-election-results-are-being-delayed-after-vote-forgery-claims', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W6Q4-e1558825545507.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Voters queue to cast their ballots in Malawi in Lilongwe.\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W6Q4-e1558825545507.jpg 1593w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W6Q4-e1558825545507.jpg?resize=768,433 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W6Q4-e1558825545507.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W6Q4-e1558825545507.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W6Q4-e1558825545507.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W6Q4-e1558825545507.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W6Q4-e1558825545507.jpg?resize=940,529 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>Malawi&#8217;s electoral commission says it will not release the presidential election results because of a court injunction obtained by the main opposition party, the Malawi Congress Party.</p>\n<p>The party&#8217;s leader Lazarus Chakwera wants the electoral body to fix irregularities around the votes in some parts of the country where there have been huge anomalies and electoral disputes. Hence, the party wants a recount of ballot papers in the presence of representatives of all political parties.</p>\n<p>Despite the voting process appearing to be well-managed, peaceful and transparent, the handling of the results has been chaotic. There have been complaints of forgery of result sheets.</p>\n<p>On Thursday a Malawi Electoral Commission official was arrested for allegedly tampering with the result sheets from the constituency’s tally centers which were under him. The official, allegedly, erased some results from the result sheets from the polling centers with correction fluid and inserted other figures. Such issues have prompted the opposition party to seek help from the court.</p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish to inform you that the Commission has been served with an injunction restraining us from proceeding with announcement of presidential results. The Commission will wait for this process to be concluded before announcing the results,&#8221; said Jane Ansah the chairperson of the Malawi Electoral Commission</p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the vice president Saulos Chilima of the United Transformation Movement, who is running against his boss president Peter Mutharika, has called for a fresh election due to the serious electoral irregularities.</p>\n<p>&#8220;I am calling upon the electoral commission for the nullification of the aggregated vote under the Tripartite Elections of 21 May, 2019. The country must re-group and prepare for credible elections to the satisfaction of the people of Malawi. We should not allow fraudsters to continue holding this country at ransom,&#8221; said Chilima in a statement</p>\n<p>With 75% of the polling centers counted on Thursday, president Peter Mutharika had 40.49% support, while main opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera had 35.44%. Vice president Saulos Chilima,was third with 18.25%.</p>\n<p>Malawians who casted their votes at more than 5,000 polling stations across the country on May 21 are hoping for a transformed Malawi which overcomes corruption and lack of job opportunities. Nearly 7 million people registered to vote and 54% of them were between the ages of 18 and 34 with up to 56% of registered voters being female.</p>\n<p>As Mutharika seeks for a re-election, his term has been dominated by food shortages, power outages, and low security in the killings of people living with albinism.</p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>Sign up to the </i></b><a href=\"https://qz.com/emails/africa-weekly-brief/\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Quartz Africa Weekly Brief here</i></b></span></a><b><i> for news and analysis on African business, tech and innovation in your inbox</i></b></p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/africa/1628614/malawis-election-results-delayed-after-voter-forgery-claims/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(135, NULL, 'US homebuyers submit reams of personal data—but can’t trust it’ll be kept secure', 'us-homebuyers-submit-reams-of-personal-data-but-cant-trust-itll-be-kept-secure', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/house.jpeg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"First American data leak highlights how much info homebuyers share\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/house.jpeg 3883w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/house.jpeg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/house.jpeg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/house.jpeg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/house.jpeg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/house.jpeg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/house.jpeg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/house.jpeg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>Home ownership is an essential element of the classic American Dream. But millions of buyers and sellers who trusted <a href=\"https://www.firstam.com/index.html\">First American Financial</a> (FAF), a major national title insurance company, just discovered a nightmare scenario.</p>\n<p>The California-based firm admitted on May 24 that &#8220;a design defect in an application&#8221; left its customers&#8217; personal data exposed. The leak was discovered by Washington real estate developer Ben Shoval, who reported it to <a href=\"https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/first-american-financial-corp-leaked-hundreds-of-millions-of-title-insurance-records/\">Krebs on Security</a> because he said he couldn&#8217;t get an answer from First American Financial. Shoval said, and Krebs confirmed, that the site was leaking &#8220;tens if not hundreds of millions of records.&#8221; They contend that anyone who knew the URL for a valid document at the website could view other documents just by modifying a single digit in the link, with no additional authentication needed.</p>\n<p>The title insurance firm, among the biggest in the US, did issue a statement on the data exposure after Krebs on Security contacted it. However, it did not provide any figures on just how much data may have been exposed or for how long, saying only that the company took immediate action to address the situation and shut down external access to the application. &#8220;We are currently evaluating what effect, if any, this had on the security of customer information,&#8221; First American Financial&#8217;s statement said. &#8220;We will have no further comment until our internal review is completed.&#8221;</p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear whether the documents were actually accessed by fraudsters or used in any scams. But it does seem that scammers armed with a single link to a company document would have had access to a treasure trove of sensitive data that could be used in &#8220;business email compromise&#8221; scams, which the FBI says are the most costly form of cybercrime today. These scams often involve impersonating real estate agents, closing agencies, or title and escrow firms to trick property buyers into wiring funds to fraudsters.</p>\n<p>Title insurance agencies like First American Financial are a kind of middle man that works for buyers, sellers, lenders, insurers, and other parties in any given transaction, but they generally receive a commission from an <a href=\"https://smallbusiness.chron.com/duties-roles-title-company-23536.html\">insurance company that hires them</a>. The title company reviews the property records to ensure that there is nothing—a lien on the land or a forgotten foreclosure, say—encumbering a sale. It also facilitates closings and files and records paperwork.</p>\n<p>All parties rely on the title insurer&#8217;s data security. But buyers in particular submit a great deal of personal information in this process, from social security numbers and drivers&#8217; licenses to financial data and bank records, all of which are valuable to fraudsters and were apparently visible on the FAF site.</p>\n<p>Buyers who need a mortgage are required to purchase title insurance, as it protects their lenders from doling out for a property that&#8217;s ineligible for sale. Owners, on the other hand, <a href=\"https://alttitle.com/owners-title-insurance-is-optional/\">are not required</a> to use a title insurance agency but will have to deal with one if they are selling to a buyer who requires a bank loan.</p>\n<p>By the afternoon of May 24, First American Financial had patched up its leak. But it seems that millions of documents were vulnerable at least as far back as 2017. Presumably we&#8217;ll know more about what really happened and how long the exposure went on when the company completes its internal review.</p>\n<p>The company, which earned more than $5.7 billion in 2018, states on its website that it &#8220;facilitates and streamlines real estate transactions,&#8221; providing services which &#8220;protect&#8221; real estate investments. Right now, however, it seems that First American Financial actually endangered millions.</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1628542/first-american-data-leak-highlights-how-much-info-homebuyers-share/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(136, NULL, 'A sense of purpose could prolong your life', 'a-sense-of-purpose-could-prolong-your-life', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/purpose.jpeg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/purpose.jpeg 5436w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/purpose.jpeg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/purpose.jpeg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/purpose.jpeg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/purpose.jpeg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/purpose.jpeg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/purpose.jpeg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/purpose.jpeg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>The meaning of life is a question that has plagued philosophers for millennia, and <a href=\"https://qz.com/1310792/the-secret-to-a-meaningful-life-is-simpler-than-you-think/\">there is no single correct answer</a>. But increasingly, scientists are finding that having a sense of purpose, whatever yours may be, is key to well-being.</p>\n<p>Now, a study published on May 24 in <a href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2734064?utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_term=052419\">JAMA Current Open</a> adds to the growing body of knowledge on the link between health and a driving force, finding that purposefulness is tied to longer lives. Researchers from the University of Michigan School of Public Health analyzed data from nearly 7,000 individuals<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> over 50 years old and concluded that &#8220;stronger purpose in life was associated with decreased mortality.&#8221; They believe that &#8220;purposeful living may have health benefits.&#8221;</span></p>\n<p>The new research relied on data from individuals who enrolled in the American Health and Retirement Study (HRS)—longterm research that looks at a cross-section of subjects over time. The original research measured participants&#8217; psychological well-being in 2006, their physical health and, subsequently, causes of death by 2010. The new analysis found that those whose psychological questionnaires reflected a lack of purpose were more likely to die than those who had &#8220;a self-organizing life aim that stimulates goals.&#8221;</p>\n<p>In fact, people without a purpose were more than twice as likely to die than those with an aim and goals. Purpose proved to be more indicative of longevity than gender, race, or education levels, and more important for decreasing risk of death than drinking, smoking, or exercising regularly.</p>\n<p>Notably, the research indicates that any purpose is better than none, as the reason people felt purposeful didn&#8217;t figure into the analysis. So it doesn&#8217;t seem to matter what it is that drives an individual, whether it&#8217;s a passion for growing peonies, say, or wanting to see their children develop, or loving the work they do. The important thing is simply having something that makes them excited about life and drives them.</p>\n<p>But those who feel no sense of purpose now shouldn&#8217;t despair because that drive can be cultivated, as the study notes. &#8220;There are a number of interventions that have been developed with the goal of improving life purpose,&#8221; the researchers write. They point to previous analyses that have found volunteering, well-being therapy, meditation, and <a href=\"https://qz.com/1542425/zen-master-thich-that-hanh-explains-how-to-walk-more-mindfully/amp/\">mindfulness training</a> have all been shown to cultivate a greater sense of purpose, improve quality of life, and influence physical health.</p>\n<p>Future work should examine when such interventions are appropriate in people diagnosed with diseases and, the researchers argue, purposefulness training could be integrated into treatment approaches. They note that their conclusions are consistent with work done in Japan measuring <a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/22/the-japanese-secret-to-a-longer-and-happier-life-is-gaining-attention-from-millions.html\">the concept of <i>ikigai</i></a>, which is <a href=\"https://thriveglobal.com/stories/ikigai-lifes-worth/\">defined</a> as &#8220;something to live for, the joy and goal of living&#8221; and has been associated with survival.</p>\n<p>Although there has been work done on purpose and longevity before, the latest findings surprised even the researchers who devised this latest study. Celeste Leigh Pearce, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan and a co-author of the paper, <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/25/726695968/whats-your-purpose-finding-a-sense-of-meaning-in-life-is-linked-to-health\">tells NPR</a>, &#8220;I approached this with a very skeptical eye. I just find it so convincing that I&#8217;m developing a whole research program around it.&#8221;</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1628452/a-sense-of-purpose-could-prolong-your-life/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL);
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(137, NULL, 'These photos of everyday South Africans show the country’s lived realities long after apartheid', 'these-photos-of-everyday-south-africans-show-the-countrys-lived-realities-long-after-apartheid', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Fees-Must-Fall-Msimango_18-November-201620161010_0027A-e1558806340118.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" /><p>May 10 marked the anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s iconic <a href=\"https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Inaugural_Speech_17984.html\">inaugural speech</a> announcing the end of apartheid and the emergence of “a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.”</p>\n<p>Over two decades later, apartheid’s corrosive effects—from racism to economic equality—linger on and dominate narratives coming from the country. However, South Africa’s historic photography school, Market Photo Workshop, and its alumni has led the charge in showing a life and living that endures in post-apartheid South Africa.</p>\n<p>For over thirty years, Market Photo Workshop a nonprofit education center in Johannesburg has followed in the footsteps of its founder, David Goldblatt, the late world-famous photographer, by capturing the lives of everyday South Africans.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1628529\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1628529\" class=\"size-hero-l wp-image-1628529\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Renata-Larroyd-Documentary-Photography-Journeys-The-Challenges-Faced-by-Commuters-Using-South-African-Public-Transport-12A.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=940\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Renata-Larroyd-Documentary-Photography-Journeys-The-Challenges-Faced-by-Commuters-Using-South-African-Public-Transport-12A.jpg 3000w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Renata-Larroyd-Documentary-Photography-Journeys-The-Challenges-Faced-by-Commuters-Using-South-African-Public-Transport-12A.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Renata-Larroyd-Documentary-Photography-Journeys-The-Challenges-Faced-by-Commuters-Using-South-African-Public-Transport-12A.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Renata-Larroyd-Documentary-Photography-Journeys-The-Challenges-Faced-by-Commuters-Using-South-African-Public-Transport-12A.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Renata-Larroyd-Documentary-Photography-Journeys-The-Challenges-Faced-by-Commuters-Using-South-African-Public-Transport-12A.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Renata-Larroyd-Documentary-Photography-Journeys-The-Challenges-Faced-by-Commuters-Using-South-African-Public-Transport-12A.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Renata-Larroyd-Documentary-Photography-Journeys-The-Challenges-Faced-by-Commuters-Using-South-African-Public-Transport-12A.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Renata-Larroyd-Documentary-Photography-Journeys-The-Challenges-Faced-by-Commuters-Using-South-African-Public-Transport-12A.jpg?resize=1600,1067 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1628529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">South African Commuters through the window of a taxi leaving Noord Taxi Rank at the end of the day. Johannesburg.</p></div>\n<p>Goldblatt, who passed away in June 2018, is known for his distinctive photography as, in the turbulent apartheid era, he chose to focus his lens on the seemingly ordinary and domestic. By illustrating his subjects’ humanity, he uncovered the inhumanity of the system they lived under.</p>\n<p>True to Goldblatt’s vision and legacy, Market Photo Workshop has been instrumental in re-shaping the narratives coming from South Africa and countering racist and degrading perspectives of the region that show <a href=\"https://hyperallergic.com/466560/discerning-photographys-white-gaze/\">stereotypical images</a> of backwardness and barbarity.</p>\n<p>For MPW and Goldblatt, a key approach to challenging those depictions lies in diversifying the storytellers behind the lens. Since its founding in 1989, Market Photo Workshop has been devoted to bringing visual storytelling literacy to neglected and marginalized parts of South Africa.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1628530\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1628530\" class=\"size-hero-l wp-image-1628530\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Term4-Assess_Photo-Essay_34_KF-Mokoena_23-November-2015A.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=940\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Term4-Assess_Photo-Essay_34_KF-Mokoena_23-November-2015A.jpg 5184w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Term4-Assess_Photo-Essay_34_KF-Mokoena_23-November-2015A.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Term4-Assess_Photo-Essay_34_KF-Mokoena_23-November-2015A.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Term4-Assess_Photo-Essay_34_KF-Mokoena_23-November-2015A.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Term4-Assess_Photo-Essay_34_KF-Mokoena_23-November-2015A.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Term4-Assess_Photo-Essay_34_KF-Mokoena_23-November-2015A.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Term4-Assess_Photo-Essay_34_KF-Mokoena_23-November-2015A.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Term4-Assess_Photo-Essay_34_KF-Mokoena_23-November-2015A.jpg?resize=1600,1067 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1628530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lefa on duty, as he tries to stop his cow from exiting the kraal to go to the open field. Outskirts of Orlando West.</p></div>\n<p>It has produced internationally acclaimed photographers and visual storytellers whose work is driven by Goldblatt’s ethos. Some of these alumni are having their work featured at the <a href=\"https://www.bronxdoc.org/exhibits/transitions-south-africa/detail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bronxdoc.org/exhibits/transitions-south-africa/detail&source=gmail&ust=1559004355201000&usg=AFQjCNHAr2iA2-3cH3RJgeAXv0DXg8BXaA\">Bronx Documentary Center</a> in an exhibit titled &#8220;Transitions: South Africa, Market Photo Workshop” to commemorate the school’s anniversary.</p>\n<p>Even as inequality and racism endure in contemporary South Africa, the photographers delicately humanize their subjects, while illustrating or alluding to the social issues of the day. Some of the more obvious issue-based images include Rosetta Msimango’s picture of students hurling back tear gas canisters during the Fees Must Fall protests and Jacques Nelles photo of an elderly gun-wielding Afrikaner from Nelles’s “White Fear” series.</p>\n<p>But the photos on display are mostly intimate images of daily life in South Africa. They demonstrate photography’s current role in the country and explore how MPW alumni view their communities and society at large. For instance, 29-year-old documentary photographer Cebisile Mbonani’s portrait of a tailor in Yoeville Market in her native Soweto, a famous economic hub for migrants from across the continent. It was a project from her course at MPW.</p>\n<p>“It almost feels like the school is collaborating with the students to capture South Africa in a political, cultural and social context,’ Mbonani said. “Projects like Yeoville can be easily given to five professional photographers to capture a public space like Yeoville Market but the school allowed the students to go into the space and find their voice.”</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1628531\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1628531\" class=\"size-hero-l wp-image-1628531\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/©Jacques-Nelles_Market-Photo-WorkshopJacques-Nelles17A.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=940\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"679\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1628531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This image is from the series &#8220;White Fear.&#8221;</p></div>\n<p>Inspired by world-famous photographers like Yagazie Emezie and Joana Choumali, Mbonani intends to use her training from MPW to focus more on a subject she believes is missing from visual storytelling in South Africa today: Women. “They are here but invisible, hard to find,” she said.</p>\n<p>Market Photo Workshop has since expanded to include a gallery and project space; it offers <a href=\"https://marketphotoworkshop.co.za/courses/\">four photography courses</a> across different proficiency levels. Some of its most notable <a href=\"http://marketphotoworkshop.co.za/alumni/#1478160097614-b49e4532-679f\">alumni</a> include photographers Musa Nxumalo, Sabelo Mlangeni and Jodi Bieber, and award-winning visual artists Zanele Muholi and Lebohang Kganye.</p>\n<p>As the center embarks on a new decade, it hopes to “become one of biggest photography resources center in Africa,” according to Nathi Khumalo, a program manager at MPW, and “to one day decentralize the [visual storytelling] space to different provinces and countries.”</p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>Sign up to the </i></b><a href=\"https://qz.com/emails/africa-weekly-brief/\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Quartz Africa Weekly Brief here</i></b></span></a><b><i> for news and analysis on African business, tech and innovation in your inbox</i></b></p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/africa/1628526/south-africa-post-apartheid-photos-by-david-goldblatt-workshop/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(138, NULL, 'Saudi Arabia’s abortion laws are more forgiving than Alabama’s', 'saudi-arabias-abortion-laws-are-more-forgiving-than-alabamas', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/saudiawomen.jpeg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/saudiawomen.jpeg 5184w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/saudiawomen.jpeg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/saudiawomen.jpeg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/saudiawomen.jpeg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/saudiawomen.jpeg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/saudiawomen.jpeg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/saudiawomen.jpeg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/saudiawomen.jpeg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>The United States prides itself on being the land of the free and the home of the brave, a place that protects individual liberty and prizes privacy. Yet the freedom of women in the US is increasingly being threatened by highly restrictive <a href=\"https://qz.com/1624830/pictures-of-stop-the-bans-abortion-rights-rallies/\">abortion bans</a>, passed at the state level, which violate the US Constitution. These laws make the legal codes of many Muslim-majority societies in the Middle East and North Africa seem more free, a fact that may surprise freedom-prizing Americans.</p>\n<p>Israeli newspaper Haaretz <a href=\"https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-alabama-iran-or-saudi-arabia-we-checked-where-abortion-laws-are-better-for-women-1.7271623\">reported this week</a> (paywall) that the abortion bans just passed in <a href=\"https://qz.com/1620691/alabama-abortion-law-kay-ivey-and-the-white-women-for-trump/\">Alabama</a> and <a href=\"https://qz.com/1618977/how-georgias-heartbeat-abortion-bill-will-impact-mens-lives/\">Georgia</a> are more restrictive than prohibitions in about half of the Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East. Leila Hessini, vice president of the Global Fund for Women, which promotes gender equality initiatives worldwide, tells the publication, “There is not the same level of fervor, violence, and attacks on women and providers as in the US—we’re not seeing right now in the Middle East and North Africa a desire to make laws more punitive and more restrictive for women who need abortions and providers. We are seeing that in the US.”</p>\n<p>On May 15, Alabama’s Republican governor Kay Ivey signed the single most <a href=\"https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2019/03/surge-bans-abortion-early-six-weeks-most-people-know-they-are-pregnant\">punitive abortion law in America</a>, and one of the most restrictive <a href=\"https://www.guttmacher.org/sites/default/files/report_downloads/aww_appendix_table_1.pdf\">in the Western world</a> (pdf). It is aimed at doctors but will affect all women who seek an abortion by making provision of this service a felony punishable by up to 99 years in prison.</p>\n<p>There is an exception to save a mother’s life in the new Alabama law, but none for pregnancies arising from incest or rape. Ivey and the bill&#8217;s supporters know that the state law is unconstitutional and will be challenged in federal courts, but they said they passed it with the intention of taking a case to the Supreme Court, where they will fight to overturn <em>Roe v. Wade, </em>the matter that legalized abortion in the US in 1973.</p>\n<p>In Saudi Arabia, abortion is allowed in cases of risk to a woman’s life and to protect her physical and mental health. A pregnancy arising from incest or rape might qualify for a legal abortion there under the mental health exemption. Saudi women just got the <a href=\"https://qz.com/1313101/saudi-arabias-women-are-finally-allowed-to-drive-a-car-on-their-own/\">freedom to drive</a> last year, but it seems they have less to fear when it comes to terminating pregnancies than women in Alabama.</p>\n<p>Similarly, abortion laws in other Muslim-majority nations allow pregnancies to be terminated in cases of rape, incest, fetal impairment, or risk to a woman&#8217;s mental or physical health. These exemptions to abortion bans exist in Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates.</p>\n<p>In Turkey, abortion is legal and free during the first trimester. Thereafter it is allowed only if a woman&#8217;s life is at risk or to protect her physical and mental health or in case of fetal abnormalities.</p>\n<p>Similar exemptions are legalized in the North African countries Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria. And Tunisia—like Turkey—provides free abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy at public health facilities with no restrictions.</p>\n<p>Notably, Alabama in 2014 passed a law banning civil courts from considering “foreign law” in their rulings. It was drafted by the man who wrote Alabama’s new anti-abortion bill, activist Eric Johnston, founder of the Alabama Pro-Life Coalition. Johnston had argued that the foreign law exemption was necessary to protect American women because the Islamic legal code, known as sharia, restricts women&#8217;s freedom and should not be a consideration in state cases. “Sharia law violates women&#8217;s rights,” he said.</p>\n<p>However, as Haaretz points out, there is no centralized body that decides sharia law. It is interpreted by religious figures around the world whose views vary widely, which explains the differences in various majority-Muslim nations&#8217; positions on abortion.</p>\n<p>Now, Alabama finds itself in the company of about half of Muslim-majority Middle Eastern countries, including Iran, Syria, the Palestinian territories, and Iraq, which according to United Nations and World Health Organization data, have total bans on abortions except where a woman’s life is in danger. So much for the US being land of the free.</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1628427/saudi-arabias-abortion-laws-are-more-forgiving-than-alabamas/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(139, NULL, 'Nigeria’s ongoing middle-class brain drain is costing it two generations in one swoop', 'nigerias-ongoing-middle-class-brain-drain-is-costing-it-two-generations-in-one-swoop', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/murtala-mohammed-international-airport-lagos.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/murtala-mohammed-international-airport-lagos.jpg 2200w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/murtala-mohammed-international-airport-lagos.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/murtala-mohammed-international-airport-lagos.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/murtala-mohammed-international-airport-lagos.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/murtala-mohammed-international-airport-lagos.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/murtala-mohammed-international-airport-lagos.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/murtala-mohammed-international-airport-lagos.jpg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/murtala-mohammed-international-airport-lagos.jpg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>When Timi and Ehis got married in a small, intimate ceremony in Lagos last October, it marked the start of their new lives together—but it was not one they planned to live in Nigeria.</p>\n<p>Six months later, the young newlyweds both quit their jobs and moved to Ottawa, Canada joining thousands of middle-class Nigerians who have moved to the North American country through its skilled workers immigration program. Their reason for making the move boils down to one thing: thinking of their future children.</p>\n<p>That sentiment cuts across board as thousands of Nigerians increasingly emigrate through a mix of avenues. Skilled worker programs (also referred to as Express Entry) inviting immigrants to Canada and Australia are a <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1271591/nigerias-stressed-out-middle-class-is-trying-to-leave-in-droves-and-the-destination-is-canada/\">popular and legitimate choice</a>. But other choices—including applying for asylum and refugee protection in Canada, sometimes while<a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/nigerians-are-walking-into-canada-prompting-request-for-us-to-take-action/2018/04/27/f9357a0c-45b6-11e8-b2dc-b0a403e4720a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6accd9a6e411\"> crossing the US-Canada border illegally</a>—are being explored as well. As of March, Nigeria had more pending refugee protection claims in Canada than <a href=\"https://irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/statistics/protection/Pages/RPDStat2019.aspx\">any other country globally.</a>  There&#8217;s also the choice of <a href=\"https://www.theatlas.com/charts/BkvOnOd3V\">deliberately overstaying</a> on a visitors&#8217; visa in the United States, a trend that&#8217;s proven strong enough for the Trump administration <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1618935/us-cancels-dropbox-visa-interview-waiver-in-nigeria/\">to clampdown</a> on US visas for Nigerians.</p>\n<div class=\"atlas-chart\" data-id=\"pkKmFtEAp\" data-width=\"640\" data-height=\"449\"><img src=\"https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/qz-production-atlas-assets/charts/atlas_pkKmFtEAp.png\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width:100%;\"></div>\n<p>Whatever the method of emigration, pursuing the chance to seek a better life—particularly education for children—remains a common theme. Decades <a href=\"https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/04/09/funding-of-education-in-Nigeria-below-UNESCO-recommended-benchmark-says-ministry/\">of under-funding</a> have impacted the quality of teachers and lecturers as well as the learning infrastructure in Nigeria&#8217;s educational system, leading to <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1603479/nigerian-universities-need-to-reverse-years-of-decline/\">significant decline</a>.<br />\n<span class=\"pull-quote\"><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span><span>&#8220;It seems stupid right now to put all one&#8217;s eggs in the Nigerian basket.&#8221;</span><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span></span>Strikes by Nigerian university lecturers protesting low wages and inadequate benefits are now an almost annual occurrence. The lack of investment in public educational institutions has also fueled a rise in expensive private schools and universities for middle and high-income families seeking higher standards. But even those schools pale in comparison with quality of education obtainable outside Nigeria.</p>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest area of concern for most people who are leaving is getting access to the right type of education for their children,&#8221; says Tunde Leye, an economist with Lagos-based SBM Intel who wrote <a href=\"https://medium.com/@ajileyeb/why-they-are-leaving-nigeria-to-create-hope-99c424a22805\">a personal essay</a> on the subject two years ago while considering the move himself. &#8220;The point of it all is that here, your money can&#8217;t buy you the quality of education that is available abroad and the gap will only get bigger.&#8221;</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1628438\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1628438\" class=\"size-hero-m wp-image-1628438\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR5PNN.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1628438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">But we remain loyal.</p></div>\n<p>&#8220;Then there is the access to opportunities that become available to the children on the back of the education they have. The range of opportunities that are available to children in Nigeria is limited because the range of education is limited,&#8221; Leye says.</p>\n<p>Wale Oyediran, a Berlin-based software engineer who left Nigeria last year, is wise to the importance of quality education and the advantage of being globally competitive, especially in a technology driven world. As a result, he says there is &#8220;no question&#8221; he will start his family abroad rather than Nigeria given &#8220;the opportunities and exposure&#8221; potentially available to his future children. &#8220;To raise kids that will have all they need to conquer the next generation is super expensive in Nigeria,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It is way easier outside [Nigeria].&#8221;</p>\n<p>For his part, Oyediran remains interested in returning to Nigeria and contributing to the growth of the blooming tech industry but says the immediate priority is securing back-up options for economic security. &#8220;The [young] people that appear to be contributing to the current building process in Nigeria all have one leg outside the country with fallback plans like a second citizenship or residency,&#8221; he shares. &#8220;It seems stupid right now to put all one&#8217;s eggs in the Nigerian basket.&#8221;</p>\n<h2>Not looking back</h2>\n<p>The lack of faith in Nigeria&#8217;s political leaders and their ability to reverse the decline in the educational sector is such that many of the middle-class Nigerians making the exodus to Europe and North America do not trust the situation will change soon. The looming big picture for Nigeria is that many who either have emigrated or plan to are unlikely to return and neither are the children they raise in their new countries of residence.</p>\n<p><span class=\"pull-quote\"><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span><span>&#8220;One of my biggest fears now is having a child in Nigeria.&#8221;</span><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span></span>Richard (real name withheld), an experienced lawyer says he moved to England last year mainly to ensure that his three children attend high school and university there. And as they&#8217;ve already &#8220;expressed a strong preference&#8221; for life there, Richard says it&#8217;s already &#8220;likely&#8221; his children will remain in Britain after their education. &#8220;They don&#8217;t like it when we joke about moving back in the short-term,&#8221; he says.</p>\n<div class=\"atlas-chart\" data-id=\"dlTNC8-8j\" data-width=\"640\" data-height=\"449\"><img src=\"https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/qz-production-atlas-assets/charts/atlas_dlTNC8-8j.png\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width:100%;\"></div>\n<p>&#8220;Moving abroad is me giving my two children a chance to experience life in an environment that ‘works’,&#8221; says Opeyemi, a telecoms software specialist, who is due to move to Canada with her family within weeks having had their application approved. &#8220;I&#8217;ve decided my children will not be growing up in Nigeria and I won&#8217;t be encouraging them to move back home either.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Meanwhile, for her part, Chinwe, a 29-year old digital marketing expert at one of the big advertising agencies in Lagos, is actively choosing to remain single as she waits on her application to move to Canada being approved. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want my kids to grow up here and so I&#8217;m not pursuing any serious relationships. One of my biggest fears now is having a child in Nigeria,&#8221; she says. &#8220;What I currently earn won&#8217;t be enough to provide a top-quality education if I have kids here but, in Canada,  even the public schools are quite good.&#8221; Like Opeyemi, Chinwe is not big on looking back: &#8220;My kids won&#8217;t know anybody in Nigeria so there&#8217;s nothing for them to come back to and the country is only going to get worse anyway.&#8221;</p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to miss the general dire outlook on the country&#8217;s prospects among Nigerians who emigrate but it&#8217;s even harder to miss the factors that inform that outlook. Nigeria&#8217;s unemployment rate has climbed for 13 consecutive quarters and an ambitious four-year plan to boost the economy following a recession in 2016 is <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1624604/nigeria-economy-not-matching-government-projections/\">proving to be a failure</a>. As a consequence of slow economic growth, a ballooning population and years of failed leadership, Nigeria is not only the <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1313380/nigerias-has-the-highest-rate-of-extreme-poverty-globally/\">poverty capital of the world</a> but <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1421543/nigerias-poverty-crisis-is-worsening-oxfam-world-bank-data/\">is set to remain so</a> for at least a generation given its alarmingly low human capital spending.</p>\n<div class=\"atlas-chart\" data-id=\"nRG7jhTuB\" data-width=\"640\" data-height=\"449\"><img src=\"https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/qz-production-atlas-assets/charts/atlas_nRG7jhTuB.png\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width:100%;\"></div>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>As it turns out, the ongoing emigration also compounds the problem as an important socio-economic demographic is increasingly choosing to leave. &#8220;Emigration is not cheap and most of the people leaving are not poor by any standard—it&#8217;s the rich and middle class that are leaving,&#8221; Leye says. &#8220;It&#8217;s an epidemic but people only do this kind of things when they&#8217;ve lost hope.&#8221;</p>\n<p><span class=\"pull-quote\"><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span><span>The grass isn&#8217;t always greener for Nigerians as they face expensive challenges relocating, settling into a new country and starting over.</span><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span></span>But the grass outside Nigeria isn&#8217;t necessarily always greener for emigrants as they face real and expensive challenges of relocating, settling into a new country and starting over. For instance, securing white-collar, upwardly mobile employment does not come easy for emigrants especially in countries like Canada that place a strong emphasis on local expertise or education. As such, highly qualified individuals who leave high-level jobs in Nigeria often have to trade down to restart their lives.</p>\n<p>In one case, an experienced optometrist, who asked not to be named, obtained a resident permit and moved to Calgary last year but says she will have to take expensive certification courses for up to four years before being able to practice and works at a grocery store in the interim. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it&#8217;s an even tougher reality for immigrants who move by overstaying visas illegally as, without valid work permits and social security, their job prospects are very limited.</p>\n<p>Despite the known challenges, the possibility of a higher quality of life and education for their children remains a strong pull for several middle-class Nigerians who can afford to move. For their part, one month after moving to Ottawa, Ehis and Timi have both secured jobs and are positive they made the right choice. They also plan to start a family in Canada and stay there for the education of their future children. &#8220;That&#8217;s the major reason behind the move,&#8221; Ehis says.</p>\n<div class=\"qz-table-container\">\n<table class=\"qz-table cf single-column\">\n<thead class=\"qz-table-header cf\">\n<tr>\n<th></th>\n<th>Top occupations for skilled worker program applicants (2017)</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"qz-table-row\">\n<td>1</td>\n<td>Information systems analysts & consultants</td>\n</tr>\n<tr class=\"qz-table-row qz-table-row-alt\">\n<td>2</td>\n<td>Software engineers</td>\n</tr>\n<tr class=\"qz-table-row\">\n<td>3</td>\n<td>Computer programmers & interactive media developers</td>\n</tr>\n<tr class=\"qz-table-row qz-table-row-alt\">\n<td>4</td>\n<td>Financial auditors & accountants</td>\n</tr>\n<tr class=\"qz-table-row\">\n<td>5</td>\n<td>Administrative assistants</td>\n</tr>\n<tr class=\"qz-table-row qz-table-row-alt\">\n<td>6</td>\n<td>Advertising, marketing & PR professionals</td>\n</tr>\n<tr class=\"qz-table-row\">\n<td>7</td>\n<td>University professors & lecturers</td>\n</tr>\n<tr class=\"qz-table-row qz-table-row-alt\">\n<td>8</td>\n<td>Financial & investment analysts</td>\n</tr>\n<tr class=\"qz-table-row\">\n<td>9</td>\n<td>Business management consultants</td>\n</tr>\n<tr class=\"qz-table-row qz-table-row-alt\">\n<td>10</td>\n<td>Food service supervisors</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n</div>\n<p>In truth, the brain drain and exodus of middle-class Nigerians is not exactly new after similar outward waves during military regimes in the late 1980s to early 1990s and also since the turn of civilian rule in Nigeria. The difference, Leye argues, is that while the trend previously seemed restricted to &#8220;people in specific professions, now it&#8217;s more of a free for all&#8221; especially with countries like Canada looking to fill several gaps in their workforce and are offering diverse opportunities <a href=\"https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/express-entry-year-end-report-2017.html\">from software engineers and accountants to cooks</a>.</p>\n<p>One often cited upside of emigration is the chance of seeing skilled members of diaspora return to boost the local brain trust. But anyone banking on that future possibility simply needs to look to the past for answers, Leye says: &#8220;Those whose parents emigrated in the &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s are becoming some of the people we&#8217;re celebrating now as &#8220;Nigerian&#8221; success stories abroad. Those kind of people are definitely not coming back.&#8221;</p>\n<p><b><i>Sign up to the </i></b><a href=\"https://qz.com/emails/africa-weekly-brief/\"><b><i>Quartz Africa Weekly Brief here</i></b></a><b><i> for news and analysis on African business, tech and innovation in your inbox</i></b></p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/africa/1615518/nigerias-middle-class-keep-emigrating-to-canada-australia/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(140, NULL, 'Theresa May’s resignation tears put her in esteemed company', 'theresa-mays-resignation-tears-put-her-in-esteemed-company', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/may.jpeg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/may.jpeg 3845w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/may.jpeg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/may.jpeg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/may.jpeg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/may.jpeg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/may.jpeg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/may.jpeg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/may.jpeg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>On May 24, British prime minister Theresa May <a href=\"https://qz.com/1627405/theresa-mays-resignation-ends-the-pounds-record-losing-streak/\">announced her resignation</a>. The usually steely leader, who failed to negotiate a deal for Britain&#8217;s exit from the European Union, was emotional as she spoke, choking up during her statement.</p>\n<p>British commentators and tweeters had almost as much to say about her tears as about the substance of her message (she&#8217;ll be handing over leadership in six weeks). &#8220;Let’s save our tears for Theresa May’s victims,&#8221; tweeted Daily Mirror associate editor <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Kevin_Maguire/status/1131889049017491456\">Kevin Maguire</a>, a sentiment that was echoed by many. The <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/24/theresa-may-tears-humanity-sympathy-britain-broken\">Guardian</a> wrote that &#8220;May saved her tears for herself. If only she’d shown this humanity before.&#8221; The <a href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-resignation-speech-cry-tears-brexit-women-a8929361.html\">Independent opined</a>, &#8220;When she allowed her emotion to show during her resignation speech, Theresa May finally did something good for women.&#8221; <a href=\"https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/24/theresa-mays-resignation-tears-ones-anger-not-self-pity-9681414/\">Metro UK judged</a> that &#8220;May’s resignation tears were ones of anger not self-pity.&#8221;</p>\n<p>The general sentiment seemed to be that May was doing something unusual by crying. Yet her breakdown puts her in a growing club of politicians who have shed tears in public, including the undeniably cool New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and former US president Barack Obama, who was famously open about his emotions. <a href=\"https://qz.com/work/1589513/how-to-handle-crying-at-work/\">Crying at work</a>, which used to be totally taboo, is now more acceptable.</p>\n<p>AOC, for example, thinks it&#8217;s important to show vulnerability. In a recent story in the <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/movies/knock-down-the-house-netflix.html\">New York Times</a> (paywall) about the documentary <em>Knock Down the House</em>, which shows the campaigns of four female congressional candidates in 2018, she said, &#8220;What I love about the vulnerability that we see, throughout this entire film from everybody—it shows the world a different model of strength. You know, I’m like ugly crying on a screen.”</p>\n<p>She realizes her political opponents may try to use the tears against her but predicts that it won&#8217;t work. “I already know they’re going to screen-grab shots of me crying and make memes out of it. I think the fact that you have nothing to hide is a huge and intimidating strength,” AOC said.</p>\n<p>Similarly, <a href=\"https://amy4thepeople.com/\">Amy Vilela</a> of Las Vegas, who did not win her bid for public office but is also depicted in the film, explained, &#8220;As a businesswoman, you’re always told, ‘You should never let them see you cry.’ But at the end, it came down to: Darn it, I wish more of our politicians would cry.”</p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">Indeed, it seems that <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/09/the-crying-game-obama-tears-politicians\">crying politicians</a> have become more common. Former British prime minister <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2773063/Cameron-wept-Hague-jabbered-auctioneer-speed-QUENTIN-LETTS-sees-Hague-s-farewell-conference-speech.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">David Cameron cried in 2014</a> while being praised by a colleague. The consummate tough guy Russian president <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/05/putin-tears-vlad-election\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Vladimir Putin, </a>who <a href=\"https://qz.com/1617087/vladimir-putin-is-playing-the-best-hockey-of-his-life-at-age-66/\">plays hockey</a> and famously rides horses <a href=\"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-01/vladimir-putin-rides-a-horse-in-siberia/8864600\">shirtless in Siberia</a>, cried during a victory speech in Red Square in 2012. Obama <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh1i-oKmwH8\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">cried at least five times </a>during his two terms as US president.</span></p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">But emotional displays at work are only OK in certain contexts and more acceptable for men, </span>management professor Kimberly Elsbach at the University of California, Davis, <a href=\"https://qz.com/work/1308009/how-to-cry-at-work-without-the-social-cost/\">writes in Quartz</a>. In a study she conducted, observers of crying in response to critical feedback attributed tears to weakness and saw them as unprofessional, or manipulative. But study subjects thought it was appropriate to cry in private about negative performance reviews and didn&#8217;t judge those tears as harshly. She says that psychologists have found that people tend to perceive weeping women as displaying an inherent trait that makes them less capable, but men&#8217;s tears are seen as merely situational and thus less problematic.</p>\n<p>Last month, Quartz&#8217;s Sarah Todd made <a href=\"https://qz.com/work/1589513/how-to-handle-crying-at-work/\">the case for crying at work</a>. She argues that emotional displays are a sign of engagement, which means that employers should want employees who occasionally get weepy, based on the findings of Liane Davey, an organizational psychologist and author of the <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Good-Fight-Productive-Conflict-Organization/dp/198902520X?tag=quartz07-20\">new book</a> <em>The Good Fight: Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Organization Back on Track</em>. Davey contends that crying is not a problem but the cultural norms that restrict tears are—and those need to change.</p>\n<p>It seems natural that May, who failed in her mission to negotiate a Brexit deal and said she leaves with regrets about this failure and &#8220;enormous gratitude&#8221; to have had the chance to lead the nation she loves, would cry a bit while resigning. Even the Iron Lady, Britain&#8217;s only other female prime minister Margaret Thatcher, got weepy when she left office in 1990. May had a tough job to do and the performance review she got was negative. Perhaps if she cried in private it might have seemed more appropriate to some, but her tears are really the least of Britain&#8217;s problems now.</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1628365/theresa-mays-resignation-tears-put-her-in-esteemed-company/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(141, NULL, 'A fight between fighting styles just got settled by a court in China', 'a-fight-between-fighting-styles-just-got-settled-by-a-court-in-china', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/taichi.jpeg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Students perform tai chi in Tianjin municipality.\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/taichi.jpeg 1939w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/taichi.jpeg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/taichi.jpeg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/taichi.jpeg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/taichi.jpeg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/taichi.jpeg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/taichi.jpeg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/taichi.jpeg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>Mixed martial arts (MMA) have dealt a blow to traditional fighting styles all over the world. In China, however, the relatively new combat sport is facing formidable foes: tradition and the government.</p>\n<p>MMA was so named in 1993. It is a veritable postmodern pastiche of combat styles—including Brazilian jiu jitsu, Israeli krav maga, Thai kickboxing, and more. This no-holds-barred whatever works form of fighting is immensely popular worldwide. In China, however, where traditional martial arts like tai chi and kung fu are practiced by young and old alike, champions of MMA may beat old-school masters in matches, but they can&#8217;t win a cultural battle that has been <a href=\"https://qz.com/986399/the-mma-fighter-who-beat-up-a-tai-chi-master-didnt-win-the-fight/\">raging for years</a>.</p>\n<div data-v-c9b888a2=\"\">\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\" data-v-76111246=\"\" data-v-c9b888a2=\"\">The outspoken Chinese MMA fighter Xu Xiaodong—also known as &#8220;Mad Dog&#8221;—was recently ordered by a Chinese court to pay 400,000 yuan (nearly $58,000) in fines and publicly apologize on social media—seven days consecutively—for insulting tai chi grandmaster Chen Xiaowang. His <a href=\"https://qz.com/1049669/chinas-tencent-hkg-0700-is-quietly-testing-a-social-credit-score-based-on-peoples-online-behavior/\">social credit score</a> has been lowered, and the <a href=\"https://www.scmp.com/sport/mixed-martial-arts/article/3011644/china-orders-xu-xiaodong-publicly-apologise-and-pay\">South China Morning Post</a> reports that Xu also faces travel restrictions for accusing Chen of being a fake master. As a result, Xu can’t ride in second class or above on planes or sleeper trains, and cannot ride high-speed trains at all (and if he had kids they&#8217;d face prohibitions, too).</p>\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\" data-v-76111246=\"\" data-v-c9b888a2=\"\">Despite the legal smackdown and accompanying constraints, however, Xu is fighting for his fight style, and winning. It took him 36 hours to travel from Beijing to his latest bout in Karamay on May 21—thanks to the travel restrictions—yet he still managed to destroy traditional <a class=\"link-text\" href=\"https://www.scmp.com/sport/mixed-martial-arts/article/3011099/chinese-mma-fighter-xu-xiaodong-breaks-balding-wing-chun\" data-v-f8b97894=\"\"><span class=\"text\" data-v-f8b97894=\"\">wing chun master</span></a> Lu Gang.</p>\n<p data-v-76111246=\"\" data-v-c9b888a2=\"\">Wing chun is the fighting style <a href=\"https://qz.com/1144408/bruce-lee-maximized-his-success-by-taking-the-best-of-both-eastern-and-western-philosophies/\">made famous by Bruce Lee</a>. It did not seem effective at all in the face of the newer form practiced by &#8220;Mad Dog.&#8221; Though Lu is known for his skill with pressure points, he seemed incapable of pressuring Xu at all and quickly ended up with a broken nose. The fight reportedly lasted less than a minute.</p>\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\" data-v-76111246=\"\" data-v-c9b888a2=\"\">Xu said he was forced to battle Lu wearing clown makeup and using a fake name to appease Chinese martial arts authorities, who otherwise would not allow the fight to be live-streamed. Yet Lu was the one humiliated.</p>\n<p data-v-76111246=\"\" data-v-c9b888a2=\"\">That is precisely what concerns traditional martial artists and Chinese authorities.  The ancient forms that Mad Dog is taking on are widely celebrated and essential to China&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1113559/confucius-institutes-in-africa-are-nurturing-mandarin-speakers-with-pro-china-views/\">soft power</a>.&#8221; A fascination with the culture&#8217;s old fighting styles brings tourists, fuels the local film industry, and sends a message about China&#8217;s strength and skills around the world. Xu&#8217;s determination to expose what he calls fake masters threatens much more than the culture&#8217;s ego then—it also endangers lucrative businesses and undermines a message that the government wants to continue to send.</p>\n<p data-v-76111246=\"\" data-v-c9b888a2=\"\">Xu has paid a high price for continuing his mission. He runs an MMA gym in Beijing but says he and his family have been forced to go into hiding because he is commonly confronted by crowds in the streets seeking to defend the honor of traditional martial arts. A video of him <a href=\"https://qz.com/986399/the-mma-fighter-who-beat-up-a-tai-chi-master-didnt-win-the-fight/\">knocking out tai chi master</a> Wei Lei in 10 seconds went viral two years ago and, ever since, &#8220;Mad Dog&#8221; has been hounded. Yet it seems he&#8217;s not giving up the fight.</p>\n</div>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1628238/mixed-martial-arts-vs-tai-chi-case-settled-by-court-in-china/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL);
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(142, NULL, 'Harvey Weinstein could still go to jail', 'harvey-weinstein-could-still-go-to-jail', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/weinstein.jpeg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/weinstein.jpeg 2322w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/weinstein.jpeg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/weinstein.jpeg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/weinstein.jpeg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/weinstein.jpeg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/weinstein.jpeg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/weinstein.jpeg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/weinstein.jpeg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>The movie producer Harvey Weinstein may have reached a settlement in a civil suit involving 80 women who accuse him of sexual misconduct, but his legal woes are far from over and he could still end up behind bars.</p>\n<p>Weinstein and his former studio, the Weinstein Company, on May 23 <a href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/harvey-weinstein-tentative-44-million-settlement-agreement-sexual/story?id=63245954\">reportedly agreed to</a> a tentative $44 million settlement in a civil suit over sexual misconduct. The plaintiffs in the civil case aren&#8217;t all satisfied with the terms of that deal, however, which means it may fall through, and he is still facing other complaints. Criminal charges in two sexual assault cases in New York are also pending, so the possibility of incarceration remains.</p>\n<p>The proposed deal would be covered by insurance and pay out $30 million to Weinstein&#8217;s accusers, creditors of his former studio, and some former employees. The remaining $14 million would go to paying the legal fees of the producer&#8217;s co-defendants, who were also named in the suit. This means that his 80 or so accusers would end up with about $375,000 each. It is far less than the $90 million originally discussed for a victims&#8217; fund in a settlement contemplated last year.</p>\n<p class=\"css-18icg9x evys1bk0\">The model Zoe Brock—who accused Weinstein of sexually inappropriate behavior at a hotel in Cannes during the 1998 film festival in <a href=\"https://medium.com/bullies-assholes-i-have-known/harvey-weinstein-and-i-at-the-hotel-du-cap-57e5883cde36\">a Medium post</a> in October 2017, right after allegations against him were published in the New York Times—said she is &#8220;heartbroken&#8221; over <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-accusers-settlement.html\">the proposed deal</a> (paywall). Another of his accusers, actress Wedil David, issued a statement through her lawyers on May 24 saying she &#8220;steadfastly&#8221; rejects the deal.</p>\n<p class=\"css-18icg9x evys1bk0\">Attorneys Douglas Wigdor and Kevin Mintzer explained in an email that David doesn&#8217;t blame any victim who wants to take the settlement, but say she won&#8217;t participate &#8220;in a process that is fundamentally flawed and unfair.&#8221; They argue that the deal would &#8220;provide millions of dollars to the ultra-wealthy directors of the Weinstein Company&#8221; and would &#8220;allow Harvey Weinstein and the men who enabled him, including his brother, Robert Weinstein, to escape liability and accountability without, apparently, contributing a dime of their own money.&#8221;</p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/25/entertainment/ashley-judd-weinstein-civil-trial-settlement/index.html\">actress Ashley Judd</a>, among the first of Weinstein&#8217;s accusers to speak up about the producer&#8217;s conduct, is not a party to the same case. She <a href=\"https://twitter.com/AshleyJudd/status/1131971443808526338\">tweeted on Friday</a> that she is still going forward with her civil suit against the producer and plans to take it to trial.</p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Weinstein is also charged criminally for raping a woman in a New York hotel room in 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex on another woman at his Manhattan apartment in 2006. He faces two counts of predatory sexual assault, one count of criminal sexual act in the first degree, and one count each of first-degree rape and third-degree rape. He pleaded not guilty to all charges and is expected to go to trial in September. Weinstein faces a maximum of 25 years in prison on the first-degree rape charge alone.</div>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/quartzy/1628139/harvey-weinstein-could-still-go-to-jail/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(143, NULL, 'Andrew Yang is winning over the left by stealing Donald Trump’s playbook', 'andrew-yang-is-winning-over-the-left-by-stealing-donald-trumps-playbook', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-24-1-e1558725008660.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-24-1-e1558725008660.jpg 1512w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-24-1-e1558725008660.jpg?resize=768,433 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-24-1-e1558725008660.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-24-1-e1558725008660.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-24-1-e1558725008660.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-24-1-e1558725008660.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-24-1-e1558725008660.jpg?resize=940,529 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">“<a href=\"https://shop.yang2020.com/products/math-hat\">MATH</a>” hats. Fox News. The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. </span>Andrew Yang knows how to run an insurgent presidential campaign. <span class=\"s1\">The 44-year-old candidate, once barely known outside New York and Silicon Valley, is now leader of the “Yang Gang,” a growing following of <a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/YangForPresidentHQ/\">online fans</a> and IRL admirers rallying to Yang&#8217;s campaign cry of “humanity first.&#8221;</span><span class=\"s2\"><br />\n</span></p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1625888\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1625888\" class=\"size-hero-xl wp-image-1625888\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-18.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1600\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-18.jpg 6312w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-18.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-18.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-18.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-18.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-18.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-18.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-18.jpg?resize=1600,1067 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1625888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang talks with campaign manager Zach Graumann as they eat dinner before an event on April 27, 2019, in Boone, Iowa.</p></div>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Yang is now <a href=\"https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html\">outpolling</a> seasoned pols like Kirsten Gillibrand, averaging 1% in recent surveys. Despite being &#8220;neither popular nor well-known,&#8221; as a <a href=\"https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-andrew-yang-could-win-the-2020-democratic-primary/\">FiveThirtyEight story puts it</a>, he&#8217;s disturbing the forces of the Democratic establishment. His rallies are attracting <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/who-is-that-guy-andrew-yangs-presidential-campaign-draws-crowds-money-and-an-expected-spot-on-the-democratic-debate-stage/2019/05/09/c1bf788c-6c5e-11e9-8f44-e8d8bb1df986_story.html\">thousands of people</a> (paywall). A two-hour <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTsEzmFamZ8&feature=youtu.be\">appearance on Joe Rogan&#8217;s podcast</a> in February garnered almost 3 million views. He&#8217;s winning over betting markets, which have given the long-shot candidate <a href=\"https://electionbettingodds.com/\">2.3% odds at taking the White House</a>, besting senator Corey Booker and Texas phenom Beto O&#8217;Rourke. Despite his distance from Washington, Yang&#8217;s surge shows that a candidate seemingly assembled from the musings of a <a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/YangForPresidentHQ/\">Silicon Valley </a></span><a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/YangForPresidentHQ/\">Reddit thread</a> can take on the Democratic establishment.</p>\n<p><img class=\"wp-image-1628056 alignright\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/hat_front_1024x1024@2x.png?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/hat_front_1024x1024@2x.png 720w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/hat_front_1024x1024@2x.png?resize=50,50 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/hat_front_1024x1024@2x.png?resize=160,160 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/hat_front_1024x1024@2x.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/hat_front_1024x1024@2x.png?resize=640,640 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/hat_front_1024x1024@2x.png?resize=32,32 32w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/hat_front_1024x1024@2x.png?resize=64,64 64w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/hat_front_1024x1024@2x.png?resize=96,96 96w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/hat_front_1024x1024@2x.png?resize=128,128 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" /></p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Yang’s done it in part by stealing the most effective tactics from Trump&#8217;s electoral victory. </span><span class=\"s1\">Need a visible symbol for your followers? Sell $30 <a href=\"https://shop.yang2020.com/products/math-hat\">MATH hats</a> (&#8220;Make America Think Harder&#8221;) and own the <a href=\"https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/yang-gang-the-memes-powering-one-longshot-democrats-unlikely-ascent-to-the-debate-stage\">meme game</a>. </span><span class=\"s1\">Need to vanquish better-known primary opponents? Flood every media outlet that will give you an interview. No one is talking about a controversial, radical idea? Turn it into your signature issue, rechristening universal basic income, a guaranteed payment to every American, as a $1,000 “freedom dividend” (and force primary rivals like Bernie Sanders and O’Rourke to come out against it). </span><span class=\"s1\">As other candidates play it safe, Yang doubles down on policies that no reasonable wonk would touch, and promotes them</span><span class=\"s1\"> on Republican turf such as Fox News (a tactic <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/22/democratic-town-hall-fox-poll-1338127\">his fellow long-shot candidates</a> have adopted). </span></p>\n<p><!-- caption placeholder --></p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Politically speaking, Yang presents himself as Trump’s antithesis. “The opposite of Donald Trump,” Yang</span><span class=\"s2\"> <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/us/politics/andrew-yang-2020-asian-candidates.html\"><span class=\"s3\">told one of his rallies this year</span></a></span><span class=\"s1\"> (paywall), “is an Asian man who likes math!” T</span><span class=\"s1\">hat may be true as far as his policies go. </span><span class=\"s1\">But his campaign strategy is an homage to America&#8217;s most unlikely president (without the racism and xenophobia)</span><span class=\"s1\">. </span><span class=\"s1\">Yang is among the few to have effectively staked the outsider lane of the Democratic primary while making it look authentic. If</span><span class=\"s1\"> Yang wins, the title of the most unlikely American president in modern history will pass to the Taiwanese-American and former test-prep CEO without a political office to his name.</span></p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1625880\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1625880\" class=\"size-hero-xl wp-image-1625880\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-01.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1600\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-01.jpg 6169w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-01.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-01.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-01.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-01.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-01.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-01.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-01.jpg?resize=1600,1067 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1625880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Andrew Yang supporter, Katie Weis, 28, of Omaha, Nebraska, waits to have a photo taken with the candidate.</p></div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1625881\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1625881\" class=\"size-hero-xl wp-image-1625881\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-09.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1600\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-09.jpg 5929w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-09.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-09.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-09.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-09.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-09.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-09.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-09.jpg?resize=1600,1067 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1625881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voters sign up to support Yang.</p></div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1625892\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1625892\" class=\"size-hero-xl wp-image-1625892\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-22.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1600\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-22.jpg 6720w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-22.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-22.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-22.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-22.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-22.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-22.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-22.jpg?resize=1600,1067 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1625892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Waters (center) listens as Yang speaks during the Boone County Democracy Ball in Boone, Iowa on April 27.</p></div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1625882\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1625882\" class=\"size-hero-xl wp-image-1625882\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-10.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1600\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-10.jpg 6720w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-10.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-10.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-10.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-10.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-10.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-10.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-10.jpg?resize=1600,1067 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1625882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chandler McMullen (right), 20, cheers ass Yang speaks during the Reaching Rural Voters Rural Caucus Forum.</p></div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1625884\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1625884\" class=\"size-hero-xl wp-image-1625884\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-12.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1600\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-12.jpg 6720w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-12.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-12.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-12.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-12.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-12.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-12.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-12.jpg?resize=1600,1067 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1625884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yang talks with supporters.</p></div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So far, Yang’s strategy has whipped up grassroots support. He&#8217;s <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/who-is-that-guy-andrew-yangs-presidential-campaign-draws-crowds-money-and-an-expected-spot-on-the-democratic-debate-stage/2019/05/09/c1bf788c-6c5e-11e9-8f44-e8d8bb1df986_story.html?utm_term=.a28d0a26fea4\">raised $2 million</a> (paywall) from more than 65,000 supporters, enough to win a spot on the Democratic primary debate stage in June. His fans lean millennial, left, and young, but (as with Trump) he&#8217;s scrambled voters&#8217; partisan allegiances. His <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=32&v=gaN0I4-f3fM\">campaign video</a> features plaudits from far-right Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Rev. Al Sharpton. Even the &#8220;alt-right&#8221; crowd, which Yang has <a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/9/18256622/andrew-yang-2020-president-meme-yanggang\">repeatedly denounced,</a> has glommed onto his presidential bid. </span></p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1625890\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1625890\" class=\"size-hero-xl wp-image-1625890\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-20.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1600\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-20.jpg 6720w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-20.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-20.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-20.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-20.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-20.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-20.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-20.jpg?resize=1600,1067 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1625890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yang speaks during an Instagram livestream en route to an event in Iowa.</p></div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"></div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1625885\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1625885\" class=\"size-hero-xl wp-image-1625885\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-13.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1600\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-13.jpg 6424w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-13.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-13.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-13.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-13.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-13.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-13.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-13.jpg?resize=1600,1067 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1625885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yang takes photos with supporters after speaking at the Reaching Rural Voters Rural Caucus Forum.</p></div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1625887\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1625887\" class=\"size-hero-xl wp-image-1625887\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-16.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1600\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-16.jpg 6072w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-16.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-16.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-16.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-16.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-16.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-16.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-16.jpg?resize=1600,1067 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1625887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yang high-fives a member of his &#8220;Yang Gang&#8221; of supporters.</p></div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With little to lose, Yang just keeps saying things that make people</span> <span class=\"s1\"><i>believe.</i></span> <span class=\"s1\">Nicholas Der, a</span> <span class=\"s1\">27-year-old financial coach, <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/20/andrew-yang-2020-226931\">told Politico</a> he had only learned of Yang a</span> <span class=\"s1\">week before coming to</span> <span class=\"s1\">his Iowa rally in May.</span> There, Yang was selling his freedom dividend and warning against an automation apocalypse. “What are the truck drivers going to do when the robot trucks come and start driving themselves?” <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/who-is-that-guy-andrew-yangs-presidential-campaign-draws-crowds-money-and-an-expected-spot-on-the-democratic-debate-stage/2019/05/09/c1bf788c-6c5e-11e9-8f44-e8d8bb1df986_story.html?utm_term=.a28d0a26fea4\">Yang asked</a> (paywall). That was enough for Der. <span class=\"s1\">“Two minutes in, I was like, ‘I love this dude,’” Der said. “He is the truth.” </span></p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The thirst for truth is found in many voters these days. After transitioning from the hopeful talk of the Obama era to the hangover</span><span class=\"s1\"> of the Trump administration, some Democratic voters want a hard break from conventional politics. </span><span class=\"s1\">Yang has been happy to </span><span class=\"s1\">stake out such positions.</span><span class=\"s1\"> His <a href=\"https://www.yang2020.com/\">website</a> has 80 policy proposals.</span><span class=\"s1\"> If a position exists, you&#8217;re likely to find it there. P</span>ay NCAA college athletes. Free marriage counseling. Empowering mixed martial arts fighters. Abolish the penny. Automatic voter registration. Make Puerto Rico a state. Revitalize American malls.</p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Many sound like gimmicks. But his message boils down to the argument that the American social contract is broken. </span><span class=\"s1\">The old divide between socialism and capitalism no longer works. In an economy dominated by robots and software</span><span class=\"s1\">, he argues, we need to rethink everything. &#8220;</span><span class=\"s1\">The problem is the government is outdated and dysfunctional, and doesn’t have the ability to update itself,&#8221; he told Quartz last year. &#8220;You need to rewrite the operating system of the government.&#8221; </span><span class=\"s1\">Failing to do so, he said, is &#8220;a sure path to dystopia.&#8221;</span></p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1625891\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1625891\" class=\"size-hero-xl wp-image-1625891\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-21.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1600\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-21.jpg 6720w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-21.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-21.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-21.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-21.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-21.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-21.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-21.jpg?resize=1600,1067 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1625891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yang talks with local Democrats during the Boone County Democracy Ball.</p></div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Yang told Quartz last year, &#8220;I’m running to win. But if I mainstream a few of these issues, I will sleep well at night.” </span><span class=\"s1\">That, of course, was 10 months and an obscurity ago. With warm receptions in places like Iowa, profiles in <a href=\"http://time.com/5587792/andrew-yang-presidential-candidate/\">Time</a>, <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/20/andrew-yang-2020-226931\">Politico</a>, and <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006483925/who-is-andrew-yang-the-internets-favorite-candidate.html\">the New York Times</a> (paywall), there&#8217;s a sense he has a shot. G</span>amblers keep raising odds in his favor (he was at <a href=\"https://electionbettingodds.com/DemPrimary2020.html\">0% in March)</a>.</p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The thing about betting markets, <a href=\"https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/prediction-markets-give-diamond-in-the-rough-candidate-andrew-yang-better-odds-to-win-than-booker-warren-or-gillibrand\">say researchers</a>, is they capture what political surveys often miss: early enthusiasm. I<span class=\"s1\">t may be that most people simply haven’t heard of Yang yet. When they do on the Democrats&#8217; primary debate stage on June 26, it’s anyone’s guess what will happen next</span><strong><span class=\"s1\">. </span></strong></p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1625883\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1625883\" class=\"size-hero-xl wp-image-1625883\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-11.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1600\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-11.jpg 6720w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-11.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-11.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-11.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-11.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-11.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-11.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Andrew-Yang-11.jpg?resize=1600,1067 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1625883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yang leaves the Reaching Rural Voters Rural Caucus Forum.</p></div>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1627154/andrew-yang-is-the-silicon-valley-candidate-stealing-trumps-playbook/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(144, NULL, 'This Latin phrase will change the way you manage problems', 'this-latin-phrase-will-change-the-way-you-manage-problems', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/walk2.jpeg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/walk2.jpeg 3024w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/walk2.jpeg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/walk2.jpeg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/walk2.jpeg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/walk2.jpeg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/walk2.jpeg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/walk2.jpeg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/walk2.jpeg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>All the conveniences of postmodern life don&#8217;t seem to be relaxing us. Pop songs are increasingly about <a href=\"https://qz.com/quartzy/1624828/bieber-and-sheeran-add-to-anxious-and-depressed-pop-song-trend/\">anxiety and depression</a>. &#8220;Burnout&#8221; has become the <a href=\"https://qz.com/work/1571065/how-to-love-your-job-and-avoid-burnout/\">buzzword of 2019</a>. We&#8217;ve all got problems and don&#8217;t know how to solve them, though there&#8217;s surely never been a time in history when more advice, self-help books, mindfulness apps, and <a href=\"https://qz.com/quartzy/1627022/in-goop-healths-best-highlights-tips-and-tricks/\">wellness gurus</a> were so widely available to so many people.</p>\n<p>Maybe the proliferation of advice is one of our issues. How do you choose the right solution when there&#8217;s too much guidance for any one person to make sense of?</p>\n<p>Bonnie Smith Whitehouse, an English professor at Belmont University in Tennessee, has a marvelously simple answer. Go back to the classics. She offers this Latin phrase for your consideration: <em>Solvitur ambulando</em>. Loosely translated, this means, &#8220;It is solved by walking,&#8221; and by &#8220;it&#8221; Whitehouse means practically anything.</p>\n<p>Whitehouse is not alone in her contention that walking is the key to health, well-being, and creativity. Her new &#8220;interactive journal&#8221; for mindful walking, <em><a href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/573044/afoot-and-lighthearted-by-bonnie-smith-whitehouse/9780525574811/\">Afoot and Lighthearted,</a></em> is a charming and aesthetic ode to the classic constitutional, replete with data on the physical and mental health <a href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/walking-helps-us-think\">benefits of this activity</a> (paywall). Interspersed among citations of scientific studies are quotes from the world&#8217;s great philosophers, writers, artists, scientists, and naturalists about the wonders of ambling, as well as mindfulness exercises, prompts, and blank pages to record thoughts about or after wandering.</p>\n<p>In the 19th century, the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote, &#8220;Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.&#8221;</p>\n<p>This is the message that Whitehouse is spreading, too. She argues that walking is a way to be more present, ease anxiety, spark creativity, increase productivity, and detox from digital overload (that is, if you don&#8217;t walk with your face in your phone). &#8220;For many years, I have wondered how, in the frantic pace of this age we call our time, I might keep my focus on what nourishes me,&#8221; the professor writes. &#8220;I decided that, like many creative walkers before me, I had to disrupt habits that neither fed or sustained me by radically and literally walking away from them.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Taking a page from Shakespeare—whose character Prospero said in <em>The Tempest</em>, &#8220;A turn or two I&#8217;ll walk, to still my beating mind&#8221;—Whitehouse adopted constitutionals to soothe her spirit and cultivate attention and wonder. The practice was so effective that she also developed a class, which she has been teaching for six years, on walking, writing, and well-being.</p>\n<p>Her journal, a smallish book that wouldn&#8217;t burden you on an excursion, is based on the lessons she has learned and that she teaches. She calls it &#8220;a road map to a present and more creative state of mind.&#8221; And it&#8217;s perfect for these distracted times because it&#8217;s the kind of text you can dip in and out of at random, finding useful insights and inspiring thoughts, <a href=\"https://qz.com/quartzy/1530348/instagram-is-changing-the-way-we-write-and-design-books/\">a book for the Instagram era</a> that doesn&#8217;t demand too much extended attention though it promises to help you develop just that.</p>\n<p>Of course, you don&#8217;t really need a journal to learn how to walk mindfully. As Whitehouse herself points out, this mild exercise has been used to improve health and thinking for as long as humans have been writing. Rambling, aimlessly and otherwise, is how we have for millennia cleared our minds, solved problems, found ideas, and exercised our freedom, <a href=\"https://www.newschannel10.com/2019/04/23/buddhist-monk-walking-across-america-route-aims-spread-message-peace/\">individually and politically</a>, which is why the writer Rebecca Solnit has advised that &#8220;democracy should be exercised regularly, on foot.&#8221;</p>\n<p>The promenade is also a practical act with spiritual ramifications. In <em>Walking Meditation: Easy Steps to Mindfulness</em>, by Vietnamese peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, <a href=\"https://qz.com/1542425/zen-master-thich-that-hanh-explains-how-to-walk-more-mindfully/\">the Zen Buddhist master explains</a> that walking and paying attention—just noticing your steps and your breath—are acts of enlightenment. He points out that by cultivating a habit of walking attentively, we can start to see the world around us more clearly.</p>\n<p>When we&#8217;re angry or worried or troubled by our thoughts, we tend to focus on what&#8217;s going wrong. Thich Nhat Hanh contends that mindful walking connects us to all that is working instead, in our minds, bodies, and the environment around us. Each time we do that, he argues, we heal the world and ourselves.</p>\n<p>So, the next time you&#8217;re feeling frustrated, angry, anxious, tired, bored, or annoyed, resist the temptation to go online in search of more advice (though I do love having readers and will certainly miss you). Instead, walk off your woes and stride toward inspiration, like the 18th-century composer Ludwig van Beethoven, whose daily noontime constitutional was integral to his creative process.</p>\n<p>It may be the key to unlocking your genius. At the very least, you&#8217;ll regain peace. In the words of the poet Simon Armitage, &#8220;You never come back from a walk feeling worse.&#8221;</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/quartzy/1627981/this-latin-phrase-will-change-the-way-you-manage-problems/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(145, NULL, 'Alzheimer’s drugs cost seven times more than cancer drugs to develop', 'alzheimers-drugs-cost-seven-times-more-than-cancer-drugs-to-develop', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_16278646601915-e1558727981227.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"A flock of birds flying away over a river.\" /><p>The <a href=\"https://www.alz.org/media/Documents/fda-approved-treatments-alzheimers-ts.pdf\">last US-approved Alzheimer&#8217;s drug</a>—which was a new package of two existing drugs in a single pill—<a href=\"https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/nda/2003/21-487_Namenda.cfm\">received the green light in 2003</a>. In the nearly two decades since, there have been countless failures to develop any new treatment for the most common form of dementia. The most recent was in March, when Biogen and its partner Eisai <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/21/health/alzheimers-drug-trial-failure-aducanumab-bn/index.html\">announced the failure</a> of a drug targeting the buildups of amyloid proteins in the brain, which are a hallmark of the disease.</p>\n<p>The constant failure of clinical trials in Alzheimer&#8217;s disease is one of the main factors that has made future drug development for the condition so expensive. Late last year, researchers from the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas estimated that the total cost of developing any new Alzheimer&#8217;s drugs, including failures, is estimated to be $5.7 billion—twice the average cost of drug development. Their work, which <a href=\"https://www.trci.alzdem.com/article/S2352-8737(18)30026-X/fulltext\">was published</a> (paywall) in Alzheimer&#8217;s and Dementia Translational Research and Clinical Interventions (a journal created by the nonprofit Alzheimer&#8217;s Association), estimated that it will take $38.4 billion to create a promising pipeline of drugs that can also tackle the disease using several different approaches.</p>\n<div class=\"atlas-chart\" data-id=\"y6PwHKgOz\" data-width=\"640\" data-height=\"449\"><img src=\"https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/qz-production-atlas-assets/charts/atlas_y6PwHKgOz.png\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width:100%;\"></div>\n<p>Historically, clinical trials for Alzheimer&#8217;s drugs have started late in participants&#8217; progression with the disease. Scientists know that buildups of amyloid proteins and another kind called tau can start to accumulate in the brain years or even decades before a person starts to experience symptoms of memory loss or trouble with cognition. Once symptoms start, however, it&#8217;s often too late: They irreversibly damage groups of neurons in a way that the brain cannot recover from. Although drugs may slow some of these participants&#8217; symptoms, they can&#8217;t  undo any of the damage from the disease.</p>\n<p>Ideally, clinical trials would start sooner, before participants begin to show symptoms. The trouble is, it&#8217;s nearly impossible to identify these patients. The brain is a resilient organ; if it finds that some of the ways it used to carry out normal tasks, like remembering to-do lists or new acquaintances&#8217; names, are compromised, it can rely on other neuron connections and regions to carry it out. It also has no pain receptors. People who will go on to develop the disease, therefore, have no idea that anything is wrong. Scientists are working on ways to identify biomarkers—other changes to proteins in the blood, cognition, or even the eye—to try to identify such individuals, but at the moment, none are ready for clinical use.</p>\n<p>In addition to the difficulty of finding suitable participants for Alzheimer&#8217;s research, clinical trials take years because the condition progresses very slowly. The authors of the above paper estimate that it takes over 13 years to put a drug through all of the clinical trials required for approval from the US Food and Drug Administration. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a trade group that lobbies for pharmaceutical companies, estimates that this process takes <a href=\"http://phrma-docs.phrma.org/sites/default/files/pdf/rd_brochure_022307.pdf\">about a decade</a> (pdf) for other drugs on average.</p>\n<p>Cancer drugs, on the other hand, have been found to take significantly fewer resources and less time than other kinds of drugs to develop. They have <a href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2653012\">far shorter clinical trials</a> where success is measured by increased survival rates, and often piggyback off existing therapies to make incremental improvements.</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1627744/alzheimers-drugs-cost-seven-times-more-than-cancer-drugs-to-develop/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(146, NULL, 'The current global measles outbreak, mapped', 'the-current-global-measles-outbreak-mapped', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4OFFS-e1558641066183.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"An image of a syringe and the mumps, measles, and rubella vaccine\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4OFFS-e1558641066183.jpg 2314w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4OFFS-e1558641066183.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4OFFS-e1558641066183.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4OFFS-e1558641066183.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4OFFS-e1558641066183.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4OFFS-e1558641066183.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4OFFS-e1558641066183.jpg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4OFFS-e1558641066183.jpg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>The World Health Organization (WHO) reports there are <a href=\"https://www.who.int/immunization/newsroom/measles-data-2019/en/\">more than 112,000 confirmed cases</a> of measles worldwide, as of this month—a 300% increase from the 28,124 cases this time last year.</p>\n<p>The actual number of people afflicted is certainly higher. The WHO only collects data on cases confirmed through lab testing or clinical visits. There are likely thousands who never seek medical attention.</p>\n<p>The virus causes severe flu-like symptoms and a characteristic bumpy rash. There is no cure, and the best course of action is to try to treat symptoms as they come. Usually not fatal in wealthy countries, it can cause permanent loss of sight. In poorer countries, the risks of dying are much greater.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1626968\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1626968\" class=\"size-hero-m wp-image-1626968\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Measles-cases-across-the-globe-as-of-May-8-2019_mapbuilder-1.png?w=640\" alt=\"A map of current measles cases.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Measles-cases-across-the-globe-as-of-May-8-2019_mapbuilder-1.png 1800w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Measles-cases-across-the-globe-as-of-May-8-2019_mapbuilder-1.png?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Measles-cases-across-the-globe-as-of-May-8-2019_mapbuilder-1.png?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Measles-cases-across-the-globe-as-of-May-8-2019_mapbuilder-1.png?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Measles-cases-across-the-globe-as-of-May-8-2019_mapbuilder-1.png?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Measles-cases-across-the-globe-as-of-May-8-2019_mapbuilder-1.png?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Measles-cases-across-the-globe-as-of-May-8-2019_mapbuilder-1.png?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Measles-cases-across-the-globe-as-of-May-8-2019_mapbuilder-1.png?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1626968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of current measles cases.</p></div>\n<h2>Why this year&#8217;s measles outbreak is bigger</h2>\n<p>There are two main factors. First, there&#8217;s been a global trend of skeptical parents failing to get their children vaccinated due to <a href=\"https://www.cfr.org/article/measles-and-threat-anti-vaccination-movement\">false concerns about their safety</a>. Measles has become largely preventable through two shots administered during childhood. In 2000, the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said that the virus had been eliminated in the US. Yet there have been more than 700 cases recorded in 22 states this year.</p>\n<p>The WHO estimates that globally, only about 85% of people have received a first vaccine dose and only 67% have received the second to make them fully immune. To stop wide transmission of the virus, 95% of people need to have the vaccine. Measles is a highly contagious, spread through direct contact with someone who has it. &#8220;The only reservoir for the measles virus is people,&#8221; James Goodson, a senior measles scientist at the CDC, <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/04/30/717473521/u-s-measles-outbreak-is-linked-to-global-surge-in-the-virus\">told NPR</a>. Global travel only increases the chances of the virus spreading further.</p>\n<p>The only way to stop the current outbreak is to make sure more children are vaccinated, Goodson <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/04/30/717473521/u-s-measles-outbreak-is-linked-to-global-surge-in-the-virus\">told NPR.</a> The trouble is many countries can point to reasons for why vaccination rates may be low—from lack of infrastructure to safely distribute vaccines, to distrust in vaccines and public-health care overall, or disruptions caused by conflict. <strong><br />\n</strong></p>\n<h2>Where measles has hit hardest</h2>\n<p>The epidemic is worst in Madagascar, where poor resources, limited medical care, and malnutrition make the outbreak more widespread and deadly. There are 62,000 confirmed cases, and estimates suggest there are <a href=\"https://www.apnews.com/0cd4deb8141742b5903fbef3cb0e8afa\">actually twice as many</a>. Thousands of children have died. Only about 58% of the country&#8217;s 25.5 million people are vaccinated. The WHO says that cases are finally falling after it launched a campaign last month to get children vaccinated.</p>\n<p>The Philippines is also having a severe outbreak, with <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/23/725726094/the-philippines-is-fighting-one-of-the-worlds-worst-measles-outbreaks\">more than 33,000 cases</a>. Like the US, the Philippine government had assumed the virus was eliminated. However, distrust of vaccines—likely sparked by a hasty campaign to promote a vaccine against Dengue fever that has can have fatal side effects for some children—has meant that vaccination rates against measles plummeted. The Dengue vaccine was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and recommended to all children by the WHO, <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/719037789/botched-vaccine-launch-has-deadly-repercussions\">despite the safety concerns</a>. After hundreds of children died due to complications, the campaign was stopped. But the number of Filipino parents who believe vaccines are critical for their children&#8217;s health <a href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21645515.2018.1522468?journalCode=khvi20&\">fell from roughly 80% to 20%</a>.</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1626838/the-current-global-measles-outbreak-mapped/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL);
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(147, NULL, 'The most important result of the European Parliament elections isn’t necessarily who wins', 'the-most-important-result-of-the-european-parliament-elections-isnt-necessarily-who-wins', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W73G-e1558620258807.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"EU elections polling station\" /><p>Millions of Europeans will vote this weekend on the kind of future they envision for the EU, in the largest transnational democratic contest in the world. Perhaps the most important question is not which party or position they choose—pro- or anti-EU, populist or centrist—but whether they will vote at all.</p>\n<p>Participation in European Parliament elections, in which voters select 751 members of the Brussels-based chamber, has been on the decline for years—from 62% in the inaugural election in 1979 to 43% in 2014. Since its last vote five years ago, the bloc has been battered by Brexit—just ask <a href=\"https://qz.com/1627405/theresa-mays-resignation-ends-the-pounds-record-losing-streak/\">Theresa May</a>—a migrant crisis, and a rise in populism and euroskepticism. Ahead of the next one lurks critical decisions on the environment,<a href=\"https://qz.com/1544961/the-euro-zone-economy-is-back-on-familiar-ground-slow-grinding-growth/\"> slow economic growth</a>, and China&#8217;s<a href=\"https://qz.com/1621047/eu-elections-2019-why-china-cares/\"> increasingly assertive presence</a>.</p>\n<div class=\"atlas-chart\" data-id=\"rZDQQkaM4\" data-width=\"640\" data-height=\"449\"><img src=\"https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/qz-production-atlas-assets/charts/atlas_rZDQQkaM4.png\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width:100%;\"></div>\n<p>If these issues are not enough to get voters to turn out, what will? Perhaps it will be the descriptions of the elections as a &#8220;<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/world/europe/emmanuel-macron-europe-elections.html?searchResultPosition=1&module=inline\">battle for the soul of Europe</a>&#8221; or a &#8220;<a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/05/20/european-elections-a-referendum-on-future-of-eu-lawmaker-says.html\">referendum on the future of the EU</a>.&#8221;</p>\n<p>As French president Emmanuel Macron <a href=\"https://qz.com/1565407/emmanuel-macrons-open-letter-to-europe-has-five-key-proposals/\">wrote in a March editorial</a> published in 22 languages in dozens of European newspapers: &#8220;It is for you to decide whether Europe and the values of progress that it embodies are to be more than just a passing episode in history.”</p>\n<p>To be sure, 43% turnout is not too shabby compared with other elections (last year&#8217;s 49.2% turnout for the US midterms was<a href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46119736\"> the highest</a> since 1914). Nor is voter turnout a perfect measure of the strength of a democratic project (see North Korea&#8217;s 99%<a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/20/north-korean-elections-draw-9997-turnout-says-state-media\"> participation rate</a>).</p>\n<p>But more than its institutions, (mostly) shared currency, open borders, and bureaucracy, the EU has been held together by shared faith in the idea of a united Europe. That faith is fraying, as is faith in the democratic model of government: A quarter of Europeans recently polled by the Center for the Governance of Change said they would prefer it if policy decisions were made<a href=\"https://qz.com/1576057/could-ai-make-better-policy-than-politicians/\"> by artificial intelligence</a> instead of politicians.</p>\n<p>For all the emotion the European project elicits among a segment of the population, the prevailing attitude is apathy.</p>\n<div><em>This essay was originally published in the weekend edition of the Quartz Daily Brief newsletter. <a href=\"https://qz.com/emails/daily-brief/\">Sign up for it here</a>.</em></div>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1626415/voter-turnout-will-be-key-to-2019-eu-election-results/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:54', '2019-05-27 15:26:54', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(148, NULL, 'Pl@ntNet is the world’s best social network', 'pl-ntnet-is-the-worlds-best-social-network', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Thunbergia-erecta_ChloeGlad-e1557415279800.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Thunbergia-erecta_ChloeGlad-e1557415279800.jpg 2393w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Thunbergia-erecta_ChloeGlad-e1557415279800.jpg?resize=768,433 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Thunbergia-erecta_ChloeGlad-e1557415279800.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Thunbergia-erecta_ChloeGlad-e1557415279800.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Thunbergia-erecta_ChloeGlad-e1557415279800.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Thunbergia-erecta_ChloeGlad-e1557415279800.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Thunbergia-erecta_ChloeGlad-e1557415279800.jpg?resize=940,530 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Thunbergia-erecta_ChloeGlad-e1557415279800.jpg?resize=1600,903 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>Pl@ntNet (pronounced plant-net) is the only social app that always makes me happier. Likened to <a href=\"https://bigthink.com/design-for-good/these-two-apps-let-you-shazam-plants-and-animals\">Shazam for plants</a>, <a href=\"https://plantnet.org/en/\">it was developed</a> a decade ago by a consortium of computer science and botanical research institutions in France. In almost every way, Pl@ntNet is unlike other social networks.</p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it works: Users snap a picture of a plant, label it (leaves, flowers, bark, stems, or habitat), and then send their digital specimen to the cloud. An algorithm matches the digital image against a massive plant database and presents its best guesses as to what type of plant it is. The user who submitted the original image picks from a list of the most likely candidates, and ranks the probability the image is a match on a five-star scale. The community then vets each image, validating the identification or suggesting a new one. It&#8217;s completely free, there&#8217;s no advertising, and every image becomes available through a Creative Commons license. Think of it like taking a 19th-century botanical expedition on your phone.</p>\n<p><img class=\"wp-image-1618415 aligncenter\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_735ADF049BB0-1.jpeg?quality=80&strip=all&w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_735ADF049BB0-1.jpeg 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_735ADF049BB0-1.jpeg?resize=50,89 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_735ADF049BB0-1.jpeg?resize=160,284 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_735ADF049BB0-1.jpeg?resize=320,568 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" /></p>\n<p>Pl@ntNet is unwittingly on the front lines of a transformation in social media. The original promise of the web—weird, distributed, and open—has yielded to walled gardens: digital platforms tended by massive public companies. Their advertising-driven business models dictate engagement above all else. This has birthed addictive machines that feed off human outrage. Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube set the rules of conversation for billions of people, where those rules are not designed to benefit users, but to maximize engagement. A tweak of an algorithm can amplify or banish entire groups or discussions.</p>\n<p>What would social media look like without that engagement imperative? A motley crew of social-media networks is trying to find out. Under the banner of the IndieWeb, they&#8217;re building smaller, private, local, and even paid social-media networks that feel little like the desperate, shouty voids they hope to displace. Computer scientist Cal Newport describes these new services, from <a href=\"https://micro.blog/\">Micro.blog</a> to <a href=\"https://joinmastodon.org/\">Mastodon</a>, as attempts to root out the worst of social media while preserving the best. &#8220;The internet may work better when it&#8217;s spread out, as it&#8217;s designed,&#8221; Newport wrote after a TEDx talk on the topic went viral. &#8220;In this vision of the future, there will be many more social-media platforms, but far fewer people spending significant time on any of them.&#8221; Pl@ntNet (unwittingly) is one of those exemplars.</p>\n<h2>Plant power</h2>\n<p>First created in 2009, Pl@ntNet grew in popularity after its free <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plantnet/id600547573?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS</a> and <a href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.plantnet&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android</a> apps were released in 2013. Today, almost 100,0000 daily active users—a number that doubles each year—submit thousands of plant ID requests: 60 million so far, says Pierre Bonnet, co-coordinator of the Pl@ntNet project and a botanist at France&#8217;s <a href=\"https://www.cirad.fr/en\">CIRAD Institute</a>. The amount of botanical data that Pl@ntNet users submit each year is greater than the data collected by France&#8217;s entire network of professional botanists in the past decade, Bonnet says.</p>\n<p>That&#8217;s an unprecedented pace for scientists. Three years ago, Pl@ntNet only contained about 6,400 species, many of them growing near France. The app can now pick out 20,000 species in <a href=\"https://identify.plantnet.org/\">26 distinct &#8220;projects&#8221;</a>—groups of collected species that include everything from the &#8220;weeds of Europe&#8221; to &#8220;Amazonia,&#8221; a collection of 1,260 species in French Guiana. As Pl@ntNet users snap and upload about <a href=\"https://www.gotscience.org/2017/09/citizen-scientists-identify-plants/\">50,000</a> photos each day, the system&#8217;s algorithms are only getting more refined, rivaling the best experts in their fields. Bonnet says the machine-learning model, trained on 2.5 million photos, can now correctly identify 83% of the plant species in its database, and 91% are in the first five suggestions.</p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the social side. Once a user makes an identification (or marks the plant as unknown), they submit their photos to the Pl@ntNet community. Thousands of professional botanists and flora-philes scan the stream of new observations to verify a species, or suggest a new one. If a person confirms your observation, a little green &#8220;crowd&#8221; icon appears. Your score rises as more people validate your labels, although a few users are certified to train the algorithm without community validation. (I&#8217;m currently ranked 1,840 out of more than 1 million users; I&#8217;ve made 144 identifications and had 54 of them validated by the community.)</p>\n<p>&#8220;We conduct this research activity for the benefit of society; we really don&#8217;t want to develop a community only for the sake of community,&#8221; says Bonnet. That mission has led to some atypical choices for a social network. Users can&#8217;t link their accounts to Facebook. There are no alerts, no avatars, no public profiles. People&#8217;s locations are never shared. The only direct communication I have with my fellow Pl@ntNet users is the crowd-verification icon that appears after people review my photos. One such acknowledgment suggested my generic geranium observation near Golden Gate Park was actually<em> a geranium robertianum</em>, commonly known as Wren flower, or Death come quickly (a plant I won&#8217;t soon forget). It was a silent smile, passed between nature lovers.</p>\n<p><img class=\"wp-image-1624824 aligncenter\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_9A124F259AC1-1.jpeg?quality=80&strip=all&w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_9A124F259AC1-1.jpeg 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_9A124F259AC1-1.jpeg?resize=50,66 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_9A124F259AC1-1.jpeg?resize=160,212 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_9A124F259AC1-1.jpeg?resize=320,424 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" /></p>\n<p>Of course, Pl@ntNet&#8217;s expansion to a million users hasn&#8217;t been without challenges. Developers looking to make a quick buck can build lookalike apps using Pl@ntNet&#8217;s API—kept public in the interest of scientific transparency—and charge customers through the app stores. <a href=\"#\" class=\"footnote\" data-number=\"1\"> Some copycats make deceptive claims  <span class=\"footnote-number\">1</span></a> that they can identify most of the world&#8217;s species, even though most of the world&#8217;s species have never been discovered, let alone photographed. People also submit inappropriate content as public observations (an algorithm now automatically screens out most of this illicit content).</p>\n<h2>California dreaming</h2>\n<p>Pl@ntNet has quickly become my Rosetta Stone for the West Coast. I moved here from Washington DC eight years ago, after years spent living around the world. In each place, I could only name a few of the most common plant species: red maples in Connecticut,  white oaks in DC, the ubiquitous Banyon and mango trees in the tropical latitudes. Even after a childhood spent roaming woods and marshes in Florida, I never advanced beyond the basics of wildlife identification.</p>\n<p>Pl@ntNet changed that. About three-quarters of the photos I&#8217;ve taken in the San Francisco Bay Area are identified instantly. Within a few days of opening the app, I had memorized the most common plants in my neighborhood; after a few weeks, I could identify a fair share of the plants growing along Northern California&#8217;s Pacific coast. A once undifferentiated mess of trees and shrubs has magically resolved itself into hundreds of distinct species.</p>\n<p>I can now separate the wild radish from the more roguish sea radish. Delineate between the thimbleberry and the European dewberry. Identify a specimen based on the the hue of a petal or the serration of a leaf. At a glance, I can tell between three kinds of forget-me-nots (field, broadleaf, and woodland), or distinguish between a common yarrow and a high mallow. This winter, after weeks of rain watered a carpet of leeks and miner&#8217;s lettuce, I collected the ingredients for a wild pesto and salad in the local parks. Pl@ntNet is a tireless tutor, constantly adjusting and correcting my observations; it&#8217;s as exciting for me as learning a new language.</p>\n<p>Nor is it alone. Digital encounters with the wild world are multiplying. <a href=\"https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/19-apps-that-will-turn-you-into-a-wilderness-expert\">Plant- and animal-identification apps</a> are now all over the web, some of them for-profit. Cornell University&#8217;s <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/merlin-bird-id-by-cornell-lab/id773457673?mt=8\">Merlin Bird ID</a> can identify species from about 70 million bird photos in the <a href=\"https://ebird.org/home\">eBird database</a>. Even bigger databases are coming online, such as the <a href=\"http://gbif.org/\">Global Biodiversity Information Facility</a>, which has documented <a href=\"https://www.gbif.org/\">1.3 billion</a> observations of the world&#8217;s plant and animal species.</p>\n<p>Pl@ntNet was built on the premise that data shared by people can make all of us smarter, even though machines are taking on more of the teaching. Every year, Pl@ntNet runs <a href=\"https://www.imageclef.org/node/231\">a competition</a> for machine-learning models to identify all sorts of wildlife, from bird calls to flora. Last year, botanist Philippe Jauzein beat out the best algorithm by correctly identifying 96% of images (to the algorithm&#8217;s 84%).</p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s cold comfort for <em>homo sapiens</em>. Bonnet says an algorithm may never outwit a human in botanical specialty, but machines will soon possess the expertise of several experts, a breadth of knowledge against which humans have no chance. As recently as 2015, human experts were beating almost every algorithm in Pl@ntNet&#8217;s competition. In 2018, machines were outperforming more than half the human experts.</p>\n<p><iframe class=\"html2canvas-container\" style=\"visibility: hidden; position: fixed; left: -10000px; top: 0px; border: 0px;\" width=\"615\" height=\"653\" scrolling=\"no\" data-html2canvas-ignore=\"true\"></iframe></p>\n<p><iframe class=\"html2canvas-container\" style=\"visibility: hidden; position: fixed; left: -10000px; top: 0px; border: 0px;\" width=\"1414\" height=\"514\" scrolling=\"no\" data-html2canvas-ignore=\"true\"></iframe></p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1615237/plntnet-is-the-worlds-best-social-network/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:55', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(149, NULL, '“Sesame Street” was a radical experiment in challenging institutional racism', 'sesame-street-was-a-radical-experiment-in-challenging-institutional-racism', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Sesame-street-1-e1558633576785.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Elmo and Big Bird in the Macys parade\" /><p><span class=\"dropcap\">I</span><span class=\"bolded\">n the wake</span> of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, a newly formed group called the <a href=\"http://www.bpaincpsych.org/\">Black Psychiatrists of America</a> began to challenge their white colleagues to think about racism in a new way. Its members had been discussing for some time the possibility of creating an organization that would address their lack of representation within the key bodies of American psychiatry. But now, as one of these men, Dr. Chester Pierce, later put it &#8221;we anguished in our grief for a great moderate leader,” and it seemed that the time for moderation on their side was also over. In Pierce’s words: “As we listened to radio reports and called to various sections of the country for the on-the spot reports in inner cities, our moderation weakened and our alarm hardened.”</p>\n<p>Racism had led directly to King’s assassination, and not only had white psychiatry consistently failed to take racism seriously; it had, in ways both subtle and overt, enabled it.</p>\n<p>The decision was thus made to organize black psychiatrists into an independent body that would use tactics of the civil rights movement to force American psychiatry to acknowledge both its own racism and its professional responsibility to address the scourge of racism in the country.</p>\n<p>On May 8, 1969, representatives from the Black Psychiatrists of America interrupted the trustees of the American Psychiatric Association while they were eating breakfast, and presented them with a list of demands. These included a significant increase in African-American representation on APA committees, task forces, and other positions of leadership; a call for the APA to commit itself to desegregating mental health facilities; and a demand that any individual member of the society who was found to be guilty of racial discrimination be barred from practicing psychiatry.</p>\n<p>The most fundamental demand made that morning, however, was that the profession begin to think about racism differently than it had in the past. Racism did not just happen because some bad people had hateful beliefs. Unlike many of their liberal white colleagues, who were fascinated by the potential mental pathologies of individual racists, the Black Psychiatrists of America (drawing on new sociological work) insisted that racism was built into the systems and structures of American life, including psychiatry itself. For this reason, as some of them put it in 1973, “institutional change (as opposed to personality change) are needed to root out and eliminate racism.”</p>\n<p>Chester Pierce—the founding president of the Black Psychiatrists of America—was most concerned about the pernicious influence of one institution in particular: television. By 1969, virtually every American family home had at least one set. As one commentator at the time observed: “American homes have more television sets than bathtubs, refrigerators or telephones; 95 percent of American homes have television sets.”</p>\n<p>Small children of all ethnicities were growing up glued to TV screens. This worried Pierce, because he was not just a psychiatrist but also a professor of early childhood education. And from a public health standpoint, he believed, television was a prime “carrier” of demeaning messages that undermined the mental health of vulnerable young black children in particular. In fact, it was Pierce who first coined the now widely used term microaggression, in the course of a study in the 1970s that exposed the persistent presence of stigmatizing representations of black people in television commercials.</p>\n<p>It seemed to Pierce, though, that the same technology that risked creating another generation of psychically damaged black children could also be used as a radical therapeutic intervention. As he told his colleagues within the Black Psychiatrists of America in 1970: “Many of you know that for years I have been convinced that our ultimate enemies and deliverers are the education system and the mass media.” “We must,” he continued, “without theoretical squeamishness over correctness of our expertise, offer what fractions of truth we can to make education and mass media serve rather than to oppress the black people of this country.”</p>\n<p>Knowing how Pierce saw the matter explains why, shortly after the founding of the Black Psychiatrists of America, he became personally involved in helping to design a new kind of television show targeted at preschool children.</p>\n<p>The show had had originally been conceived as a novel way of bringing remedial education into the homes of disadvantaged children, especially children of color. Pierce, though, saw a different kind of potential for a show like this: one that could directly counter and counteract the racist messages prevalent in the media of his time. The issues for him were even more personal than they might otherwise have been: at the time, he had a 3-year-old daughter of his own. He thus agreed to serve as a senior advisor on the show, working especially closely with the public television producer Joan Ganz Cooney, one of its two creators (the other was the psychologist Lloyd Morrisett).</p>\n<p>In 1969, the show aired on public television stations across the country for the first time. It was called <em>Sesame Street</em>.</p>\n<p>It was not only the most imaginative educational show for preschoolers ever designed: it was also, quite deliberately, populated with the most racially diverse cast that public television had ever seen. All the multi-ethnic characters—adults, children, and puppets—lived, worked, and played together on a street in an inner-city neighborhood, similar (if in an idealized way) to the streets in which many minority children were growing up.</p>\n<p>Each show opened with scenes of children of different races playing together. Episodes featured a strong black male role model (Gordon, a school teacher), his supportive wife, Susan (who later is offered the opportunity to develop a profession of her own), a good-hearted white storekeeper (Mr. Hooper), and more.</p>\n<p>Within a few years, Hispanic characters moved into the neighborhood as well. As Loretta Moore Long (who played Susan) later reflected: <em>&#8220;Sesame Street</em> has incorporated a hidden curriculum&#8230;that seeks to bolster the Black and minority child&#8217;s self-respect and to portray the multi-ethnic, multi-cultural world into which both majority and minority child are growing.”</p>\n<p>The radical nature of this “hidden curriculum” did not go unnoticed. In May 1970, a state commission in Mississippi voted to not air the show on the state&#8217;s newly launched public TV network: the people of Mississippi, said some legislators, were not yet “ready” to see a show with such an interracial cast. The state commission reversed its decision after the originally secret vote made national news—though it took 22 days to decide to do so.</p>\n<p><em>Sesame Street</em> would go on to become the most successful children’s show of all time. Over time, though, the radical mental health agenda fueling its creation was largely forgotten. Later critics would instead increasingly suggest that the show, as a straightforward experiment in early education, benefited white middle-income children more than its primary target audience of disadvantaged minorities, and in that sense had arguably partly misfired.</p>\n<p>Chester Pierce, however, never lost sight of the hidden curriculum that, for him, had always been at the heart of <em>Sesame Street</em>. “Early childhood specialists,” he reflected in 1972, “have a staggering responsibility&#8230;in producing planetary citizens whose geographic and intellectual provinces are as limitless as their all-embracing humanity.”</p>\n<p>What mattered most about <em>Sesame Street</em> was not the alphabet songs, the counting games or the funny puppets. What mattered most was its vision of an integrated society where everyone was a friend and treated with respect.</p>\n<p>The program had originally been a radical experiment in the use of mass media to give the youngest generation of Americans their first experience of what Martin Luther King Jr. had famously called the Beloved Community: one based on justice, equal opportunity and positive regard for one&#8217;s fellow human beings, regardless of race, color, or creed.</p>\n<p><em>This article was originally published on <a href=\"https://undark.org\">Undark</a>. Read the <a href=\"https://undark.org/article/psychiatry-racism-sesame-street/\">original article</a>.</em></p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1626488/sesame-street-began-as-an-experiment-in-challenging-racism/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:55', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(150, NULL, 'The forgotten history of Memorial Day', 'the-forgotten-history-of-memorial-day', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTR4WKMZ-e1558693165350.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Former US President Abraham Lincoln&#039;s statue is seen at Lincoln Memorial in Washington\" /><p>In the years following the bitter Civil War, a former Union general took a holiday originated by former Confederates and helped spread it across the entire country. </p>\n<p>The holiday was Memorial Day, and this year’s commemoration on May 27 marks the 151st anniversary of its official nationwide observance. The annual commemoration was born in the former Confederate States in 1866 and adopted by the United States in 1868. It is a holiday in which the nation honors its military dead.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://armyhistory.org/general-john-a-logan-memorial-day-founder/\">Gen. John A. Logan</a>, who headed the largest Union veterans’ fraternity at that time, the <a href=\"https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/gar/garintro.html\">Grand Army of the Republic</a>, is usually credited as being the originator of the holiday.</p>\n<p>Yet when General Logan established the holiday, he acknowledged its genesis among the Union’s former enemies, saying, “It was not too late for the Union men of the nation to <a href=\"https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesas02logagoog\">follow the example</a> of the people of the South.”</p>\n<p>I’m a scholar who has written—with co-author Daniel Bellware—a <a href=\"https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Genesis_of_the_Memorial_Day_Holiday.html?id=jdIArgEACAAJ\">history of Memorial Day</a>. Cities and towns across America have for more than a century claimed to be the holiday’s birthplace, but we have sifted through the myths and half-truths and uncovered the authentic story of how this holiday came into being.</p>\n<h2>Generous acts bore fruit</h2>\n<p>During 1866, the first year of this annual observance in the South, a  feature of the holiday emerged that made awareness, admiration, and eventually imitation of it spread quickly to the North. </p>\n<p>During the inaugural Memorial Day observances which were conceived in <a href=\"https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/historyculture/flowersforjennie.htm\">Columbus, Georgia</a>, many Southern participants—especially women—decorated graves of Confederate soldiers as well as, unexpectedly, those of their former enemies who fought for the Union. </p>\n<p>Shortly after those first Memorial Day observances all across the South, newspaper coverage in the North was highly favorable to the ex-Confederates. </p>\n<p>“The action of the ladies on this occasion, in burying whatever animosities or ill-feeling may have been engendered in the late war towards those who fought against them, is worthy of all praise and commendation,” <a href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/gardinerphd/daily-national-intelligencer\">wrote one paper</a>. </p>\n<p>On May 9, 1866, the <a href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/image/71039330/\">Cleveland Daily Leader</a> lauded the Southern women during their first Memorial Day. </p>\n<p>“The act was as beautiful as it was unselfish, and will be appreciated in the North.”  </p>\n<p><a href=\"http://sites.google.com/site/gardinerphd/new-york-commercial-advertiser\">The New York Commercial Advertiser</a>, recognizing the magnanimous deeds of the women of Columbus, Georgia, echoed the sentiment. “Let this incident, touching and beautiful as it is, impart to our Washington authorities a lesson in conciliation.”</p>\n<h2>Power of a poem</h2>\n<p>To be sure, this sentiment was not unanimous. There were many in both parts of the US who had no interest in conciliation. </p>\n<p>But as a result of one of these news reports, <a href=\"http://www.nycourts.gov/history/legal-history-new-york/history-legal-bench-court-appeals.html?http://www.nycourts.gov/history/legal-history-new-york/luminaries-court-appeals/finch-francis.html\">Francis Miles Finch</a>, a Northern judge, academic, and poet, wrote a poem titled “<a href=\"http://www.civilwarhome.com/blueandgray.html\">The Blue and the Gray</a>.” Finch’s poem quickly became <a href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044097054316;view=1up;seq=5\">part of the American literary canon</a>. <a href=\"https://archive.org/details/historicalreadi00hanigoog\">He explained</a> what inspired him to write it: </p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“It struck me that the South was holding out a friendly hand, and that it was our duty, not only as conquerors, but as men and their fellow citizens of the nation, to grasp it.”  </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Finch’s poem seemed to extend a full pardon to the South: “They banish our anger forever when they laurel the graves of our dead” was one of the lines.  </p>\n<p>Almost immediately, the poem circulated across America in books, magazines, and newspapers. By the end of the 19th century, school children everywhere were required to memorize Finch’s poem. The <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/03/the-blue-and-the-gray/388511/\">ubiquitous publication of Finch’s rhyme</a> meant that by the end of 1867, the southern Memorial Day holiday was a familiar phenomenon throughout the entire, and recently reunited, country. </p>\n<p>General Logan was aware of the forgiving sentiments of people like Finch. When <a href=\"http://suvcw.org/logan.htm\">Logan’s order establishing Memorial Day</a> was published in various newspapers in May 1868, Finch’s poem was sometimes appended to the order. </p>\n<h2>‘The blue and the grey’</h2>\n<p>It was not long before Northerners decided that they would not only adopt the Southern custom of Memorial Day, but also the Southern custom of “burying the hatchet.” A group of Union veterans explained their intentions <a href=\"http://sites.google.com/site/gardinerphd/salem-register\">in a letter</a> to the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph on May 28, 1869:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“Wishing to bury forever the harsh feelings engendered by the war, Post 19 has decided not to pass by the graves of the Confederates sleeping in our lines, but divide each year between the blue and the grey the first floral offerings of a common country. We have no powerless foes. Post 19 thinks of the Southern dead only as brave men.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Other reports of reciprocal magnanimity circulated in the North, including the gesture of a 10-year-old who <a href=\"https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/historyculture/flowersforjennie.htm\">made a wreath of flowers</a> and sent it to the overseer of the holiday, Colonel Leaming, in Lafayette, Indiana, with the following note attached, published in The New Hampshire Patriot on July 15, 1868:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“Will you please put this wreath upon some rebel soldier’s grave? My dear papa is buried at Andersonville, (Georgia) and perhaps some little girl will be kind enough to put a few flowers upon his grave.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>President Abraham Lincoln’s wish that there be “malice toward none” and “charity for all” was visible in the magnanimous actions of participants on both sides, who extended an olive branch during the Memorial Day observances in those first three years. </p>\n<p>Although not known by many today, the early evolution of the Memorial Day holiday was a manifestation of Lincoln’s hope for reconciliation between North and South.</p>\n<p><em>This is an updated version of an article originally published on May 25, 2018.</em></p>\n<p><em>This article is republished from <a href=\"http://theconversation.com\">The Conversation</a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the <a href=\"https://theconversation.com/the-forgotten-history-of-memorial-day-97199\">original article</a>.</em></p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1627427/what-is-the-meaning-of-memorial-day/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:55', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL);
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(151, NULL, 'How “Made in Rwanda” is breathing life into Kigali’s fashion scene', 'how-made-in-rwanda-is-breathing-life-into-kigalis-fashion-scene', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-2-e1558434441431.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Moses Turahirwa Moshions\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-2-e1558434441431.jpg 2493w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-2-e1558434441431.jpg?resize=768,433 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-2-e1558434441431.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-2-e1558434441431.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-2-e1558434441431.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-2-e1558434441431.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-2-e1558434441431.jpg?resize=940,530 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-2-e1558434441431.jpg?resize=1600,902 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>At first glance, Matthew Rugamba’s big break was the result of pure serendipity.</p>\n<p>The Rwandan designer had long harbored dreams of designing for Hollywood’s biggest stars. Since 2011, he has built a loyal following for his House of Tayo brand, fusing African heritage with contemporary designs to create brightly colored, mixed-print items like <a href=\"http://www.houseoftayo.com/accessories\">bow ties and infinity scarves.</a> But he had struggled to break out from the local fashion scene.</p>\n<p>That changed in 2018, with the premiere of one of the most <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1211240/black-panther-review-by-quartz-africa-reporters/\">anticipated movies</a> of the year: <em>Black Panther</em>. Rugamba discovered that a mutual friend knew Peter Junior Nyong’o, the brother of Kenyan Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, who plays the powerful spy Nakia in the superhero movie. He convinced his friend to ask Nyong’o if he was accompanying his sister to the film&#8217;s premiere, and if so, whether he had anything to wear.</p>\n<p>He was going, he replied, and he didn&#8217;t yet have a suit. Rugamba immediately sent sketches to Nyong’o, who agreed to wear a three-piece design. Using measurements supplied by Nyong’o and photos as his guide, the suit was tailored in two-and-a-half days and hastily shipped to the US from Kigali. It arrived in LA a few hours before the premiere.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1626145\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1626145\" class=\"size-hero-m wp-image-1626145\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/houseoftayo-1558566752737.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=640\" alt=\"House of Tayo\" width=\"640\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/houseoftayo-1558566752737.jpg 1009w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/houseoftayo-1558566752737.jpg?resize=768,959 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/houseoftayo-1558566752737.jpg?resize=50,62 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/houseoftayo-1558566752737.jpg?resize=160,200 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/houseoftayo-1558566752737.jpg?resize=320,400 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/houseoftayo-1558566752737.jpg?resize=640,799 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/houseoftayo-1558566752737.jpg?resize=940,1174 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1626145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><!-- caption placeholder --></p></div>\n<p>After Lupita posted a photo of her brother wearing the suit to her 7.8 million Instagram followers, tagging House of Tayo and using the hashtag #FromRwandatoWakanda, thousands flocked to the brand&#8217;s social media accounts. “It was huge,” Rugamba remembers. “It was great for credibility.”</p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BevpsRVjGWH/\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" style=\" background:#FFF; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;\"> View this post on Instagram</div>\n</div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"></div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"></div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"></div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"></div>\n</div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"></div>\n<div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)\"></div>\n</div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"></div>\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"></div>\n<div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"></div>\n</div>\n</div>\n<p></a> </p>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BevpsRVjGWH/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">My brother&#39;s \"Wakanda Secret Service\" three-piece suit for the @blackpanther premiere was custom made by Kigali&#39;s @HouseOfTayo. No fittings. Just precise measurements sent and his photos studied. Turned around and delivered in 2 weeks: That&#39;s some SKILL! From #RwandaToWakanda @blackpanther (I mean, peep the panther patches tho!) #MatthewRugamba</a></p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lupitanyongo/\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\"> Lupita Nyong&#39;o</a> (@lupitanyongo) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2018-02-03T18:26:41+00:00\">Feb 3, 2018 at 10:26am PST</time></p>\n</div>\n</blockquote>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https://www.facebook.com/LupitaNyongo/photos/a.1600805100001384/1600806306667930/?type=3&theater\" data-width=\"500\"></div>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t just luck, hustle, and connections that propelled Rugamba to the Hollywood red carpet. Rwanda, a small nation of 12 million people, has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, with aspirations of becoming a middle-income nation by 2035. And Rugamba is the beneficiary of one of a series of homegrown initiatives aimed at sustaining high and inclusive growth in different industries—including the country&#8217;s nascent fashion scene.</p>\n<p>One of those initiatives is “Made in Rwanda,&#8221; launched in 2015, which aims to recapture parts of the Rwandan market from imports while improving the competitiveness of Rwandan exports globally. How? By <a href=\"http://www.minicom.gov.rw/fileadmin/minicom_publications/documents/Made_in_Rwanda_Policy_-_Website_Version.pdf\">boosting</a> (pdf) private businesses and the manufacturing sector, augmenting garment and leather production, reducing operation costs, and helping small businesses, like Rugamba&#8217;s, get finance from the government or commercial banks.</p>\n<p>As part of this strategy, Rwanda this year will totally ban imports of Western hand-me-downs after years of raising tariffs on such goods in a bid to boost its own domestic textiles industry. Second-hand clothing is <a href=\"https://www.theatlas.com/charts/B1lOVPfiG\">a multimillion-dollar industry</a> in Rwanda that <a href=\"https://www.theatlas.com/charts/HJ5ZwwMiz\">employed</a> up to 22,000 people as of 2016, according to a study by USAID. Rwanda’s protectionist move drew the ire of the Trump administration, which last year <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1245015/trump-trade-war-us-suspends-rwanda-agoa-eligibility-over-secondhand-clothes-ban/\">suspended</a> the country’s own clothing from duty-free access to American markets.</p>\n<p>Underpinning all this is also Kigali’s turn to Chinese manufacturers to help establish factories and <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/661463/a-chinese-garment-factory-is-helping-rwanda-wean-itself-from-western-hand-me-downs/\">train locals in garment production</a>. It&#8217;s also been helped by a <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1120730/africa-will-be-the-next-factory-of-the-world/\">burst of manufacturing across Africa</a>, spurred by global interest in contemporary and <a href=\"https://https:/qz.com/africa/1589526/kenyas-green-nettle-textile-wins-global-change-fashion-award\">sustainable African designs</a>.</p>\n<p>The government’s playbook for the fashion industry is visible in Kigali&#8217;s up-and-coming fashion houses and accessory brands, from jewelry retailers like <a href=\"https://inzuki.com/\">Inzuki Designs,</a> to clothing lines like <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/soniamugabo/\">Sonia Mugabo</a>, Inkanda House, and <a href=\"https://rwandaclothing.com/\">Rwanda Clothing</a>.</p>\n<h2><strong>Rooted in culture</strong></h2>\n<p>Rwandan designers say they are not just interested in sartorial elegance but in delivering designs steeped in heritage and storytelling.</p>\n<p>Growing up in the Nyamasheke district in the country&#8217;s west, Moses Turahirwa saw women weaving baskets and making incredible artwork and decoration from beads. Looking to “recreate something unique reflecting the culture,” Turahirwa sought inspiration from <em>imigongo</em>, a once-dying 18th-century traditional art form featuring geometric designs like zigzags and squares. The array of black and white patterns became the signature look for his first <a href=\"http://moshions.rw/\">Moshions</a> collections, launched in 2015.</p>\n<p>Turahairwa&#8217;s designs have even graced non-humans. When Hanson Robotics brought its humanoid robot Sophia to Rwanda to address this month&#8217;s Transform Africa Summit, she <a href=\"https://twitter.com/RealSophiaRobot/status/1128780097819947008\">donned</a> a custom-made traditional <em>umushanana</em> Moshions dress with the <em>imigongo</em> beading.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1624516\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1624516\" class=\"wp-image-1624516 size-hero-l\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-1.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=940\" alt=\"Moses Turahirwa Moshions\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-1.jpg 2500w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-1.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-1.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-1.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-1.jpg?resize=320,214 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-1.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-1.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-1.jpg?resize=1600,1068 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1624516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moshions founder Moses Turahirwa with one of his tailors.</p></div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1624515\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1624515\" class=\"wp-image-1624515 size-hero-l\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-3.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=940\" alt=\"Moshions Rwanda \" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-3.jpg 3680w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-3.jpg?resize=768,513 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-3.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-3.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-3.jpg?resize=320,214 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-3.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-3.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Moshions-3.jpg?resize=1600,1068 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1624515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The &#8220;imigongo&#8221; pattern on a sandal by Moshions label.</p></div>\n<p>Staying local is a central principle for many of these brands. When Priscilla Ruzibuka launched her children’s clothing line <a href=\"https://shop.ki-pepeokids.rw/\">Ki-pepeo Kids</a> in 2016, she chose to work with maids affected by the 1994 genocide, in which 800,000 people, mainly from the ethnic Tutsi minority, were murdered in just 100 days.</p>\n<p>The designer set about training the women to sketch pieces, cut fabric, make patterns and use sewing machines. Ki-pepeo now employs nine women to make rompers, dresses, jackets, and jumpsuits with animal prints.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.hautebaso.com/index\">Haute Baso</a> (HB), a casual clothing, décor, and jewelry brand, has trained also 300 local artisans across Rwanda on the entire production chain. “The whole point is to build a team that even if they went independent, they can start another label,” says HB’s founder and creative director Linda Mukangoga. “For me, success is seeing a thousand models like ours.”</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1624511\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1624511\" class=\"wp-image-1624511 size-hero-l\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=940\" alt=\"Ki-pepeo Kids Priscilla Ruzibuka\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1.jpg 5760w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1.jpg?resize=1600,1067 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1624511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ki-pepeo Kids founder Priscilla Ruzibuka with one of her tailors.</p></div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1624519\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1624519\" class=\"wp-image-1624519 size-hero-l\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Tayo-1.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=940\" alt=\"House of Tayo 2018 designs\" width=\"940\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Tayo-1.jpg 5760w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Tayo-1.jpg?resize=768,465 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Tayo-1.jpg?resize=50,30 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Tayo-1.jpg?resize=160,97 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Tayo-1.jpg?resize=320,194 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Tayo-1.jpg?resize=640,388 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Tayo-1.jpg?resize=940,570 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Tayo-1.jpg?resize=1600,969 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1624519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">House of Tayo 2018 collection.</p></div>\n<h2><strong>Persistent challenges</strong></h2>\n<p>Despite the enthusiasm, manifold challenges hinder Rwanda’s fashion industry from floating away on a nimbus of success just yet. Designers are particularly concerned with the prohibitive requirements set for them to obtain financing. Rugamba, for instance, says he initially couldn’t get a bank to issue him a point of sale gadget because they didn’t think his business would make money.</p>\n<p>For now, incentives through the government’s Export Growth Fund Facility, which Rugamba was able to access, are helping ease the financial strain. The East Africa-focused HEVA Fund has also <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1537836/heva-fund-bets-on-african-fashion-arts-in-kenya-tanzania-uganda/\">provided training</a> and facilitated pop-up stores for Rwandan brands in Nairobi.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1624513\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1624513\" class=\" wp-image-1624513\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_6101.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=640\" alt=\"Haute Baso\" width=\"277\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_6101.jpg 3814w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_6101.jpg?resize=768,1150 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_6101.jpg?resize=50,75 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_6101.jpg?resize=160,240 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_6101.jpg?resize=320,479 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_6101.jpg?resize=640,959 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_6101.jpg?resize=940,1408 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_6101.jpg?resize=1600,2397 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1624513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haute Baso design.</p></div>\n<p>Gaps also exist in the supply chain, with many fashion houses still importing synthetic fibers and fabric from China, Turkey, Egypt, and India. Buttons, zips, and dyes are often sourced from abroad, complicated by the logistics and time involved in getting materials to the landlocked state. And while factories like Utexrwa make textiles for the domestic market, they mostly specialize in making uniforms for police and immigration. The Chinese company C&H Garments, which operates in Kigali’s special economic zone, produces mostly for export.</p>\n<p>Because of these limitations, Ruzibuka says couturiers make do with whatever quality materials they can get at any given time—restraining how much they can work with a favored print or replicate a product.</p>\n<p>Many also struggle to set up successful e-commerce and shipping operations, crucial at a time when African fashion boutiques are <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1333147/instagram-whatsapp-are-african-fashions-global-retail-window/\">shifting to selling</a> on popular platforms like WhatsApp.</p>\n<p>The buzz around the fashion sector also masks that the majority of locally-made products are still out of reach for many Rwandans, where the gross domestic product per capita stands at $750. Some clothing traders have even <a href=\"https://www.news24.com/Africa/News/locals-lose-out-in-rwandas-second-hand-clothes-war-20180701\">switched to importing</a> low-cost Chinese ready-made clothes in order to gain income and target the majority of people who can&#8217;t afford new clothing.</p>\n<p>The influx of cheap imports from China, including in the <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1474039/wax-print-african-fashion-and-chinese-importers/\">African wax print trade</a>, also <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1127450/chinas-role-in-dr-congos-textile-industry-collapse/\">hasn&#8217;t helped</a>.</p>\n<h2><strong>Crafting a story</strong></h2>\n<p>But Rugamba says that beyond logistical challenges, the biggest hurdle for &#8220;Made in Rwanda&#8221; products is overcoming negative perceptions. Buyers have the “perception that something local can&#8217;t be luxury. Or something local has to be cheap.”</p>\n<p>To induce repeat buyers, Haute Baso&#8217;s Mukangoga says the sector should not only be producing versatile and quality designs but also ensure they are making a “well-made clothing that has a story.”</p>\n<p>In the first two years since the launch of &#8220;Made in Rwanda,&#8221; the government said total export receipts <a href=\"http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-10/26/c_137558563.htm\">increased</a> from $559 million in 2015 to $944 million in 2017. To build momentum, Rwanda could learn from challenges facing countries like Ethiopia. As the Horn of Africa nation champions its own “Made in Ethiopia” shoe and garment-making sector, its workers have complained of <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1614752/ethiopia-garment-workers-for-gap-hm-lowest-paid-in-world/\">low wages</a>, inhospitable working environments, and inadequate training at factories.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1624517\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1624517\" class=\"wp-image-1624517 size-hero-l\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_9230.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=940\" alt=\"good fabric rwanda\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_9230.jpg 2500w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_9230.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_9230.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_9230.jpg?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_9230.jpg?resize=320,214 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_9230.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_9230.jpg?resize=940,627 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_9230.jpg?resize=1600,1068 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1624517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Accessing good fabric consistently is a problem for many Rwandan designers.</p></div>\n<p>Fashion designers are so far trying to promote the industry’s dynamism through collaborations like <a href=\"https://www.collectiverw.com/\">Collective RW</a> and the annual <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KGLfashionweek/\">Kigali Fashion Week</a>. The government also encourages civil servants to <a href=\"http://www.minicom.gov.rw/fileadmin/minicom_publications/documents/Made_in_Rwanda_Policy_-_Website_Version.pdf#page=69\">wear Rwandan designers</a> on the last Friday of every month. Yet Mukangoga says the industry’s ambitions need to be more than just a policy statement.</p>\n<p>“If it becomes natural, you are more likely to keep doing it,” she argues. “If it becomes a way of life, it is easy to sustain.”</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/africa/1624510/the-made-in-rwanda-policy-is-boosting-kigalis-fashion-sector/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:55', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(152, NULL, 'A cultural history of the word bollocks, from punk rock to politics', 'a-cultural-history-of-the-word-bollocks-from-punk-rock-to-politics', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6V11I-e1558715065440.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" /><p>A small UK political party is benefitting from anchoring its campaign around a big, brash British word: &#8220;bollocks.&#8221;</p>\n<p>The distinctive <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">word isn&#8217;t just colorful or crass. It has a long political history as a bold statement. And the </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liberal Democrats, a pro-EU c</span>entrist party, is hoping that history, wrapped up in its campaign slogan &#8220;Bollocks to Brexit,&#8221; could help it win over frustrated voters.</p>\n<p>Indeed, the Lib Dems are polling in the <a href=\"https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/05/22/european-parliament-voting-intention-brex-37-lab-1\">number two spot</a> among UK parties in the European Parliament elections, ahead of both the ruling Conservatives and the opposition Labour party. The UK voted on Thursday, while other EU members will wrap up <a href=\"https://qz.com/1619852/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-european-parliament-elections/\">their elections</a> by Sunday.</p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word choice is certainly getting attention. Last week, BBC presenter Andrew Marr <a href=\"https://twitter.com/LibDems/status/1130052215857659904\">refused to say the slogan</a> on live television, calling it &#8220;coarse&#8221; and &#8220;a profanity that we don&#8217;t normally use in political discourse.&#8221; It&#8217;s a word with a &#8220;long and distinguished history,&#8221; Lib Dem leader Vince Cable said in its defense. </span></p>\n<h2>What does “Bollocks” even mean?</h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word bollocks is likely of Germanic origin, according to the Oxford Dictionary, and was first used to refer to &#8220;testicles.&#8221; Some reports say its usage dates back about a thousand years, and it has appeared in English-language medieval bibles.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its use as a slang term first emerged in the 18th century, when it was used to <a href=\"https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/English/News/University-helps-Virgin-out-of-a-Branson-pickle.aspx\">refer to nonsense-spouting clergymen</a>. That usage persists today, with &#8220;bollocks&#8221; <a href=\"https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/bollocks\">defined as</a> &#8220;nonsense; rubbish,&#8221; and &#8220;used to express contempt or disagreement, or as an exclamation of annoyance.&#8221; Which is exactly what the </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lib Dems think of Brexit. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;It is also in a slightly coarser context a synonym for parts of the male anatomy,&#8221; explained Sam Barratt, the director of communications for the Lib Dems. &#8220;Which is not the context which we are using it in of course.&#8221; </span></p>\n<h2>The punk rock connection</h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word became forever tied to the punk rock movement when the Sex Pistols named their first and only studio album in 1977 <em><a href=\"https://www.discogs.com/Sex-Pistols-Never-Mind-The-Bollocks-Heres-The-Sex-Pistols/master/30445\">Never Mind the Bollocks, Here&#8217;s the Sex Pistols</a></em>. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The album title generated much controversy at the time, and the band was <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-38165091\">prohibited from playing gigs</a> at many venues across England. Record stores refused to stock the album; others were penalized for doing so. The manager of one Virgin shop, Chris Seale, found himself <a href=\"https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/English/News/University-helps-Virgin-out-of-a-Branson-pickle.aspx\">arrested and in court</a> for displaying posters about the album in his Nottingham store window. </span></p>\n<p>Founder Richard Branson called up a linguist at Nottingham University, who used historical research to argue that &#8220;bollocks&#8221; was an innocuous word, citing its colloquial use as a nickname for a clergyman, and thus didn&#8217;t ran afoul of the 1899 Indecent Advertisement Act. The professor, who happened to also be a priest, reportedly <a href=\"https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/i-found-policeman-who-arrested-us-selling-never-mind-bollocks\">donned his clerical collar</a> in court and said the album could be translated as <em>Never Mind the Priests, Here’s the Sex Pistols. </em></p>\n<p>The defendants were later acquitted, rather reluctantly.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Much as my colleagues and I wholeheartedly deplore the vulgar exploitation of the worst instincts of human nature for the purchases of commercial profits by both you and your company, we must reluctantly find you not guilty of each of the four charges,&#8221; the chairman of the committee proceedings <a href=\"https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/English/News/University-helps-Virgin-out-of-a-Branson-pickle.aspx\">reportedly said</a> at the time. </span></p>\n<h2>What about the Lib Dems?</h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slogans that are forceful and punchy tend to do well in elections, and this one has all those ingredients. In his BBC interview, party leader Cable told Marr the group was “not the least bit embarrassed&#8221; by the word. &#8220;It means that we’re absolutely clear about stopping Brexit. That’s what we are. Unambiguous and honest and I think that conveys it as well as anything else,” he said. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The phrase was co-opted by the Lib Dems from a pre-existing movement, begun after the 2016 referendum,  </span>by a group called the &#8220;<a href=\"https://www.euflagmafia.com/100_Bollocks_To_Brexit_Stickers\">EU flag MAFIA</a>.&#8221; They put the expression on<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> bright yellow stickers—of which they&#8217;ve sold <a href=\"https://www.euflagmafia.com/100_Bollocks_To_Brexit_Stickers\">around 700,000</a>—adding “It’s Not a Done Deal.&#8221; They are regularly sported at anti-Brexit marches around the UK. </span></p>\n<p>&#8220;There is literally NO SENSE to Brexit and in this context it is quite clear and apparent that our use of the word &#8216;bollocks&#8217; is entirely appropriate and fixates itself to mean &#8216;nonsense,\'&#8221; the group <a href=\"https://www.bollockstobrexit.com/censoring-the-bollocks/\">has argued</a>. &#8220;The word cannot be offensive as it is not being used in an offensive context.&#8221;</p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The phrase is &#8220;a homage&#8221; to the movement, Barratt says. </span>&#8220;It started in the grassroots, and we are happy to stand with them.&#8221;</p>\n<h2>Is the slogan working?</h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While bold posters and smart slogans help, smaller parties have found an electoral opening since the UK narrowly voted to depart the EU in 2016. </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The minority Conservative government, propped up by the Northern Irish DUP, has been unable to find agreement on a way forward to deliver Brexit, ultimately leading to <a href=\"https://qz.com/1627405/theresa-mays-resignation-ends-the-pounds-record-losing-streak/\">prime minister Theresa May&#8217;s resignation</a> on Friday (May 24). The opposition Labour party, meanwhile, has been criticized for its mixed Brexit messaging. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local UK elections <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48091592\">earlier this month</a> saw the Conservatives pummeled, losing 1,330 council seats. The Lib Dems picked up 705, their best showing in party history. </span></p>\n<p>The Lib Dems have overtaken both the Conservative and Labour parties in European election polling, but are behind the newly-created, anti-EU Brexit party. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That the two top parties have clear-cut positions on Brexit might be one reason behind their success. &#8220;The contrast with the less distinct and at times rather confused-sounding interventions of [other parties] is stark. In addition, the slogan has the virtue of sincerity,&#8221; writes Stefan Stern <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/09/liberal-democrats-bollocks-to-brexit-party-slogan\">for the Guardian</a>.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or, as </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barratt puts it: &#8220;If you try and sit&#8230; in the middle of the road, you get run over.&#8221; </span></p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1626372/bollocks-to-brexit-a-cultural-history-of-a-very-british-word/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:55', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(153, NULL, 'Indian liberals’ meltdown is more dangerous than Modi devotees’ euphoria', 'indian-liberals-meltdown-is-more-dangerous-than-modi-devotees-euphoria', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Election2-1.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Election2-1.jpg 1440w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Election2-1.jpg?resize=768,480 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Election2-1.jpg?resize=50,31 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Election2-1.jpg?resize=160,100 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Election2-1.jpg?resize=320,200 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Election2-1.jpg?resize=640,400 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Election2-1.jpg?resize=940,588 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>If you are an Indian liberal today, first get over yourself. Get over your self-involved grief and your indictment of an entire electorate as bigoted. You might still know better than them—but for starters, accept their decision.</p>\n<p>The new government isn&#8217;t a result of a coup or an unconstitutional takeover, but that of a popular election and free will. Begin by acknowledging that this is democracy at work. It may be flawed and damaged, but it is our democracy and it is free choice. Which means you also have the choice to dissent and disagree with the choice, but begin by respecting it.</p>\n<p>There is very little grace or sense of proportion in this general bleakness. References from Harry Potter and <em>Avengers: Infinity Wars</em> about fighting the forces of evil that are upon us are cute, but grow up now.</p>\n<p>https://twitter.com/BakwasRadio/status/1131451126073528320/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1131451126073528320&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.exchange4media.com%2Fdigital-news%2Felection-2019-from-game-of-thrones-to-avengers-memes-take-over-social-media-96957.html</p>\n<p>Being woke on social media gets you a few RTs; it doesn’t put you in touch with ground realities. Ask Rahul Gandhi; his twitter game was on point. But only that.</p>\n<h2>Stop brooding, start listening</h2>\n<p>If the bhakt is a blinkered bigot, the liberal is a sulky space cadet without a plan.</p>\n<p>In the run up to the election, Rahul Gandhi’s affable ineffectualness was passed off as innate nobility, the dynasty sentimentalised and cloyingly romanticised. Not having any kind of strategy to take on a super savvy and smart opponent masqueraded as an adherence to higher romantic ideals. This was la la land where &#8220;<em>pyar kabhi haarta nahin hain</em>&#8221; (love never loses)—sweet but wishy washy. It doesn’t give you a shot at running the country. Try Mr Congeniality instead.</p>\n<p>And now the aftermath.</p>\n<p>The liberal has decided that everyone who didn’t buy into the rudderless vision of the opposition is a bigot. It is dangerous. Hardliner, absolute views put you firmly in &#8220;bhakt&#8221; territory. That means you have cut off yourself <span class=\"pull-quote\"><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span><span>The liberal has decided that everyone who didn’t buy into the rudderless vision of the opposition is a bigot.</span><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span></span>from a significant number of people who opted for this government for reasons other than religion.</p>\n<p>It also means you are operating in your own echo chamber—the bhakts have the numbers, you don’t have that luxury. You need to engage, you need to listen and accept that there might be alternatives to your absolute reality. The moral high ground is a good ego kick, but some pragmatism would work wonders, too. Start with listening.</p>\n<p>Reality, like they tell you in your favourite pop culture references, has many realms to it.</p>\n<p>There are people who are not bigots or bhakts but wanted a National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government back in 2019. Call them cop outs, but they hoped the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would struggle to make the numbers, yet manage to form a government. A reduced majority would be a slap on the wrist—make them rethink their politics of divisiveness and polarisation, get them to rid themselves of the loonies and focus on good, stable governance. This is a compromised version of la la land and mildly delusional, but then, it is a world of limited options, and you&#8217;ve go to choose.</p>\n<p>Then there were those who didn’t want an unstable coalition with temperamental regional leaders and a clueless Rahul Gandhi presiding.</p>\n<p>There were still others who believed in the BJP’s notions of hyper nationhood.</p>\n<p>As a &#8220;liberal,&#8221; you must acknowledge multiple rationales and avoid indiscriminate demonisation of people who didn’t buy into your reality. For it is not them you are pushing into a corner, it is yourself. The more inflexible and hardliner you are, the more the chances the bhakt filter will be applied to you. It is called mute. Keep talking about the imminent apocalypse and blow that as well.</p>\n<p>Your best chance is constant engagement with those who don’t share your reality. Get rid of those Harry Potter quotes and Avenger memes. The real world is a different ball game.</p>\n<p>And now that you are done licking your wounds, come back with a strategy—a winning one.</p>\n<p><em>We welcome your comments at <a href=\"mailto:ideas.india@qz.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ideas.india@qz.com</a>.</em></p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/india/1628320/avengers-harry-potter-memes-wont-help-liberals-handle-modi-win/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:55', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL);
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(154, NULL, 'India’s blowout election is a lesson for US Democrats', 'indias-blowout-election-is-a-lesson-for-us-democrats', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W65Q-e1558706488382.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W65Q-e1558706488382.jpg 3009w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W65Q-e1558706488382.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W65Q-e1558706488382.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W65Q-e1558706488382.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W65Q-e1558706488382.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W65Q-e1558706488382.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W65Q-e1558706488382.jpg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6W65Q-e1558706488382.jpg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>Narendra Modi, India&#8217;s Hindu nationalist prime minister, defied expectations when he won his second election in an even bigger landslide than the first one. He did so at the expense of India&#8217;s Congress party, which campaigned on a secular and pluralist platform.</p>\n<p>Turns out the nationalist message of Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is <a href=\"https://qz.com/india/1625366/modi-election-result-2019-junks-times-divider-in-chief-tag/\">hugely popular</a> with voters. It was a massive defeat—the second in a row—for India&#8217;s more liberal Congress party. It&#8217;s a bitter loss that came with many lessons, ones that Democrats in the United States would be wise to heed.</p>\n<p>The party of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, Congress was founded in 1885. It played a key role in the fight for India&#8217;s independence. It led the government all but four times until 2014, and in that same time never won fewer than 114 seats. Then, five years ago, voters reduced its power to a previously unimaginable 40 seats. This time around, it won just 52 seats. That doesn&#8217;t even meet the minimum required to lead the opposition.</p>\n<p>Politics in India have traditionally been about the economy. This time, however, Modi and the BJP&#8217;s <a href=\"https://qz.com/india/1591557/bjp-threat-to-restrict-indian-citizenship-targets-muslims/\">support of Hindu nationalism</a> took a more prominent position than it had in past campaigns, exploiting tension with Pakistan to redirect the debate toward national security and anti-Muslim sectarianism. As Modi&#8217;s message grew stronger, Congress failed to really fight for India&#8217;s long-established secular ideals.</p>\n<p>In a clear sign the party is in real trouble, its own leader, Rahul Gandhi, was defeated in his family&#8217;s traditional seat of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh. He <a href=\"https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/election-results-2019-rahul-gandhi-congratulates-narendra-modi-says-he-respects-peoples-mandate/videoshow/69466606.cms\">wasn&#8217;t interested in discussing</a> what went wrong in the press conference that followed the results. But it isn&#8217;t hard for observers to point to the mistakes his party made. For one, the party structure verges on nepotism, retaining power within the Gandhi family tree. Gandhi&#8217;s great-grandfather, grandmother, father, uncle, mother and sister have all held high-profile political positions within the party.</p>\n<p>The Congress isn&#8217;t known for its ability to learn lessons, but there are some more to note. And given that a left-leaning party promoting pluralism just lost to a right-leaning party promoting nationalism, the Democratic Party in the United States should probably read a long as it prepares for its own election season.</p>\n<h2>Don&#8217;t make it about the candidate</h2>\n<p>Modi&#8217;s leadership of the BJP is strong, and there is no separating his party or government&#8217;s success and work from his own. His party <a href=\"https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/23/asia/india-modi-referendum-leadership-intl/index.html\">capitalized on this</a>, turning the election into a referendum on him—rather than his government&#8217;s record. Polarizing figures like Modi tend to benefit from these kinds of politics. His party understood this. His adversaries did not.</p>\n<p>Turning the campaign into a vote for or against Modi prevented the opposition from asserting its own ideas. Even when the Congress proposed policies that could have appealed to a broad electorate—for instance, guaranteed minimum income of Rs 72,000 ($1,035) a year—they received little attention. As George Lakoff explained in <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCd1DgumdP8\">his 2004 book,</a> <em>Don&#8217;t Think of an Elephant,</em> obsessing over a candidate&#8217;s flaws only makes him or her more popular.</p>\n<p>Democrats in the United States made <a href=\"https://qz.com/1513103/elizabeth-warrens-best-hope-for-2020-is-that-trump-keeps-making-it-personal/\">this mistake</a> in the 2016 election, running a campaign <em>against</em> Donald Trump instead of <em>for</em> their own policies.</p>\n<h2>Dare to be different</h2>\n<p>The Indian election essentially pitted Modi against Gandhi. That means that on the one hand, Indians had the prime minister&#8217;s popular narrative of a former, indefatigable, chai seller who rose to power thanks to his hard work. On the other hand, voters had the heir of a long-running political dynasty marred by corruption scandals.</p>\n<p>Modi&#8217;s myth is centered around his humble roots, and his common man appeal. He doesn&#8217;t speak much English, for instance. Gandhi, meanwhile, studied at Harvard and Cambridge—it just doesn&#8217;t get more establishment than him.</p>\n<p>For many voters, the Congress party is associated with old-school elitist politics, corruption, and a perceived inability to bring change to India. Gandhi&#8217;s candidacy didn&#8217;t do much to change anyone&#8217;s minds.</p>\n<h2>Make friends</h2>\n<p>Congress also failed to make strong alliances with other, smaller political parties. In Delhi, it fielded its own candidates against the BJP-opposed Aam Aadmi Party, which had won local elections there in 2018, splitting the opposition vote. Competing this time with Congress, Aam Aadmi failed to defeat the BJP, which won all of Delhi&#8217;s seats. In Wayanad, Kerala, Gandhi himself took a seat from the <a href=\"https://qz.com/india/1600728/rahul-gandhi-faces-the-ldf-and-communists-in-wayanad-kerala/\">Left Democratic Front (LDF)</a>. In West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, as well, Congress didn&#8217;t side with the local parties, once again splitting the non-BJP vote.</p>\n<p>Progressives seem to make this mistake a lot. While conservatives often stick together (the Republican Party&#8217;s support of Trump during the campaign is a textbook example), liberals often fail to find common ground. In the last presidential campaign, the Democratic primaries went on long after Trump was the presumed nominee. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton spent more time tearing each other apart than focusing on the bigger fight.</p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https://qz.com/1536793/your-guide-to-the-2020-democratic-presidential-candidates/\">extremely crowded field</a> of potential democratic candidates suggests the same thing could happen again.</p>\n<h2>Focus the narrative</h2>\n<p>Modi&#8217;s narrative of a new, strong, corruption-free India—one with international power, credibility and gravitas—appealed to many voters. It delivered a clear vision of what he was promising, and one that Indians were fast to embrace. Congress never presented a clear vision of its own.</p>\n<p>The party decried the threat to secular values the BJP posed, and held itself up as its defender. But rather than communicating how those values could help India succeed, the party focused more on what would happen if protections further deteriorated.</p>\n<p>This is not unlike what happened during the 2016 election in the United States. Just look at the campaign slogans: Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; had a clear if suspect mission. Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;Stronger Together&#8221; described a status, not an intention. Democrats could face the same problem they did in 2016—and the same problem India&#8217;s Congress party faced this week—unless they forget about the opposition, stop playing defense, and promote their own, clear vision.</p>\n<p><strong>Correction:</strong> Hillary Clinton&#8217;s 2016 campaign slogan was &#8220;Stronger Together,&#8221; not &#8220;Better Together.&#8221;</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1626323/indian-elections-2019-what-can-democrats-learn-from-congresss-failure/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:55', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(155, NULL, 'SpaceX’s new satellites will dodge collisions autonomously (and they’d better)', 'spacexs-new-satellites-will-dodge-collisions-autonomously-and-theyd-better', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Starlink-SpaceX-Elon-Musk-autonomous-satellites-space-debris-conjunction-CSPOC.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Starlink-SpaceX-Elon-Musk-autonomous-satellites-space-debris-conjunction-CSPOC.jpg 3335w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Starlink-SpaceX-Elon-Musk-autonomous-satellites-space-debris-conjunction-CSPOC.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Starlink-SpaceX-Elon-Musk-autonomous-satellites-space-debris-conjunction-CSPOC.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Starlink-SpaceX-Elon-Musk-autonomous-satellites-space-debris-conjunction-CSPOC.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Starlink-SpaceX-Elon-Musk-autonomous-satellites-space-debris-conjunction-CSPOC.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Starlink-SpaceX-Elon-Musk-autonomous-satellites-space-debris-conjunction-CSPOC.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Starlink-SpaceX-Elon-Musk-autonomous-satellites-space-debris-conjunction-CSPOC.jpg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Starlink-SpaceX-Elon-Musk-autonomous-satellites-space-debris-conjunction-CSPOC.jpg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>&#8220;Within a year and a half, maybe two years, if things go well, SpaceX will probably have more satellites in orbit than all other satellites combined,&#8221; Elon Musk said last week.</p>\n<p>This is an exaggeration. There are almost 2,000 operational satellites in space right now. But Thursday night&#8217;s launch of 60 satellites <a href=\"https://qz.com/1618386/spacex-launches-first-starlink-internet-satellites/\">for a new internet network called Starlink</a> is the first step towards that goal. Today, Musk&#8217;s space company said it expects to launch six more times in 2019, with the goal of operating 720 satellites by the end of the 2020, and eventually more than 4,000.</p>\n<p>The Federal Communications Commission—the lead regulator for American satellites—approved these satellite, among 13,000 new satellites okayed in the last year. That huge number has <a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/28/17906158/nasa-spacex-oneweb-satellite-large-constellations-orbital-debris\">many in the space community nervous</a> about the <a href=\"https://qz.com/1170077/chinas-plummeting-space-station-is-just-a-taste-of-the-worlds-space-junk-problem/\">potential for collisions with other satellites</a> or <a href=\"https://qz.com/773511/photos-this-is-the-damage-that-tiny-space-debris-traveling-at-incredible-speeds-can-do/\">with space debris</a>.</p>\n<p>Neither the United States nor the world has a reliable system for managing traffic in space, and policymakers are struggling to keep up with the private sector&#8217;s growing ability to hurl computers into the cosmos at faster and faster rates.</p>\n<p>Musk said the satellites his company launches will avoid potential collisions on their own. And Mark Juncosa, the SpaceX executive in charge of developing the Starlink satellites, downplayed concerns when answering press inquiries on the matter last week. &#8220;It might be worth mentioning for people that are not in the space industry &#8230; space is really big,&#8221; he said.</p>\n<p>It was experts focused on pinning down what&#8217;s going on in orbit <a href=\"https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/satellites/spacex-preps-selfdriving-satellites-for-launch\">who questioned</a> whether the autonomous systems would have sufficient data to safely maneuver. Musk&#8217;s electric cars at Tesla often face similar questions. However advanced their AI, what&#8217;s more important is <a href=\"https://qz.com/779866/tesla-tsla-thinks-it-can-prevent-the-next-auto-death-by-seeing-the-world-with-radar-instead-of-cameras-for-its-next-generation-of-model-3-and-model-s-self-driving-autonomous-vehicles-in-2016-an-opp/\">how well the car can see</a>.</p>\n<p>The ultimate source for space situational awareness is the US Air Force&#8217;s Combined Space Operations Center, or CSpOC, which tracks orbital objects 10 centimeters in diameter or larger with a worldwide radar network.</p>\n<p>Most satellite companies, especially those with large fleets, automate the communications and &#8220;station keeping&#8221; maneuvers. But when they receive a warning from CSpOC that there is a risk of collision with another spacecraft or with space debris, their team consults with the Air Force to make a decision about how to move.</p>\n<p>Planet, which operates more than 150 spacecraft, automates its communications with CSpOC and has software that calculates the probability of potential conjunctions when they receive a warning. But, when the probability of conjunction reaches about 1 in 10,000, their flight operations team steps in to plan a maneuver to keep their satellites out of trouble.</p>\n<p>SpaceX says there will be no human in the loop when it comes to its satellites. When notified of a potential conjunction with another object in space, their software will decide whether and how to maneuver, and communicate that information back to CSpOC. It&#8217;s not clear what their threshold will be for taking action, or how much warning they will give to the US Air Force. CSpOC did not respond to questions about this communications system.</p>\n<p>Satellite experts are happy to see efforts at automation, because conjunction reports are only going to increase as more satellites fly. But they worry about an automated system responding to imperfect data, and emphasize the need for the widest possible transparency.</p>\n<p>Though orbital mechanics are extremely predictable, space sensing is imperfect and the margin of error around where exactly a satellite can be is quite large. Many spacecraft operators join <a href=\"http://www.space-data.org/sda/\">the Space Data Association</a>, a trade association for exchanging space traffic data, and others partner with new space surveillance companies like LeoLabs to obtain more data about what&#8217;s happening in orbit.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Because we look at many hundreds of satellites every single day, we find that there are issues with the data,&#8221; Dr. T.S. Kelso, a former Air Force officer who works for the Space Data Association, told Quartz. His operation generates about 2,000 conjunction reports every four days. &#8220;We can go from something that looks very serious one day to all of the sudden there is nothing in the data. &#8230; if you are maneuvering because it is a 1 in 10,000 chance, if you had done nothing, you still had a pretty good chance nothing was going to happen.&#8221;</p>\n<p>SpaceX isn&#8217;t responsible for the lack of a real space traffic management system, but as a first mover among companies preparing ambitious satellite networks that far outstrip anything that came before, it is likely to set the tone for how operators and regulators interact. The company chose to fly the satellites at a low enough altitude that if they fail, they will safely burn up in the atmosphere within a year, rather than remaining space junk.</p>\n<p>&#8220;The space junk thing, we don&#8217;t want to trivialize it or not take it seriously,&#8221; Musk said. &#8220;[But] it&#8217;s not crowded up there. It&#8217;s extremely sparse. If your goal was to hit something, it wouldn&#8217;t be easy.&#8221;</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1627570/how-autonomous-are-spacexs-starlink-satellites/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:55', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(156, NULL, 'What is lunch with Warren Buffett worth? $3,300,100', 'what-is-lunch-with-warren-buffett-worth-3-300-100', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_080701013528-e1556987527456-1.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_080701013528-e1556987527456-1.jpg 2213w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_080701013528-e1556987527456-1.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_080701013528-e1556987527456-1.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_080701013528-e1556987527456-1.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_080701013528-e1556987527456-1.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_080701013528-e1556987527456-1.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_080701013528-e1556987527456-1.jpg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_080701013528-e1556987527456-1.jpg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>It&#8217;s not cheap to have lunch with the world&#8217;s third richest man, but it is for a good cause. Every year, Warren Buffett, who has an <a href=\"https://www.forbes.com/profile/warren-buffett/#3d5106ab4639\">estimated net worth</a> of $83.3 billion, auctions off the chance to have a personal meal with the Oracle of Omaha. Since 2000, the investor has donated the proceeds to <a href=\"https://www.glide.org/\">GLIDE Memorial foundation</a>, a San Francisco institution that helps the poor, homeless, and most vulnerable.</p>\n<p>Since its inception, the <a href=\"https://www.ebay.com/rpp/glide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ebay.com/rpp/glide&source=gmail&ust=1558798412898000&usg=AFQjCNGnWlIopLuCHjH0-pqeyNQYup93cQ\">Power Lunch with Warren Buffett auction</a> has raised more than $30 million. Initially, bids for Buffett&#8217;s time, auctioned off at a local San Francisco event, were relatively low. Wayne Heldt and Diane Lee snagged the honor in 2001 for a meager $18,600. But that was before eBay got involved. Once the auction site presented the opportunity to the world&#8217;s 1%, prices quickly rose and now regularly exceed $3 million.</p>\n<div class=\"atlas-chart\" data-id=\"oIj7WIe95\" data-width=\"640\" data-height=\"449\"><img src=\"https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/qz-production-atlas-assets/charts/atlas_oIj7WIe95.png\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width:100%;\"></div>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, the winner of this year&#8217;s Power Lunch with <a href=\"https://www.ebay.com/rpp/glide\">Warren Buffett</a> will dine with him at the New York high-end steakhouse <a href=\"https://www.smithandwollensky.com/menus/\">Smith & Wollensky</a>.</p>\n<p>Buffett started the tradition at his wife&#8217;s suggestion, reports GLIDE. “It makes a difference, and it translates into human beings finding that there is hope in life and that something better is there,” Buffett said, according to a statement. “The rest of the society may have given up on them, but GLIDE is going to give them a chance to find out what their real potential is.  And the people that buy lunch feel good about that, I feel good about that. The most important thing, though, is what it does to resurrect many thousands of people from hopelessness.”</p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s opening bid is $25,000. You have until May 31.</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1627772/what-is-lunch-with-warren-buffett-worth-3300100/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:55', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(157, NULL, 'Microsoft is designing tools for a world beyond offices', 'microsoft-is-designing-tools-for-a-world-beyond-offices', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/A09B0AC6-2812-47FA-93CB-74621467E525.png?w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/A09B0AC6-2812-47FA-93CB-74621467E525.png 1688w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/A09B0AC6-2812-47FA-93CB-74621467E525.png?resize=768,512 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/A09B0AC6-2812-47FA-93CB-74621467E525.png?resize=50,33 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/A09B0AC6-2812-47FA-93CB-74621467E525.png?resize=160,107 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/A09B0AC6-2812-47FA-93CB-74621467E525.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/A09B0AC6-2812-47FA-93CB-74621467E525.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/A09B0AC6-2812-47FA-93CB-74621467E525.png?resize=940,626 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/A09B0AC6-2812-47FA-93CB-74621467E525.png?resize=1600,1066 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>The shift to remote work has not been kind to Microsoft—its productivity software is literally named Office. While the 44-year-old tech giant once had a stranglehold on the at-work productivity business, Google now commands a <a href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/r-googles-g-suite-is-no-microsoft-killer-but-still-winning-converts-2018-2\">small but growing share</a> of that market. Indeed, when you think about working on documents collaboratively, the idea of track changes, which was pioneered by Microsoft Word, has taken a backseat to the easier experience of Google Docs.</p>\n<p>Microsoft is hoping to change that. At its Build conference earlier this month, the company announced two tools, Fluid Framework and an update to its HoloLens 2 software, that could better enable remote work and AI-powered businesses.</p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that we can bring the next generation of real-time collab to the web,&#8221; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said as he introduced Fluid Framework. &#8220;I think the world is ready for another choice when it comes to web and innovation.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Fluid Framework, at is core, is technology that transmits data from one computer to other computers nearly instantaneously. Microsoft product manager Mike Morton demonstrated the technology during the Build keynote, typing into one of nine separate windows displaying a single text document. Fluid Framework was so fast that it was tough to tell which of the nine was the original.</p>\n<p>Speed isn’t all: The technology also allows content to be linked across multiple documents and document types. For example, you can import a table from Excel into a Word document, make updates to the table in Word, and see those changes automatically reflect back in Excel. Morton also explained that Fluid Framework allows bots to live in documents, adding capabilities like real-time translation depending on a viewer’s preferred language. Ostensibly, this software could be integrated into other programs as well.</p>\n<p>The promise of this technology, which Microsoft is also releasing for developers to use and integrate into their own products, is an expansion of workers&#8217; ability to collaborate over the internet from local or remote locations. It reflects a major shift in the way modern offices operate: Collaboration needs to be in real time, make remote workers as productive as those in the office, and make anything needed for work immediately accessible on every device.</p>\n<p>Microsoft is also trying to capture the market for supporting workers who don&#8217;t necessarily sit at a desk, like machinists or technicians. After announcing the HoloLens 2 for enterprise use earlier this year at Mobile World Congress, the company has now started to roll out applications for the device. That includes <a href=\"https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/mixed-reality/guides/\">Guides</a>, a step-by-step walkthrough in augmented reality that shows a worker how to do a specific task, as well as AR video calls between a HoloLens-wearer and a central office.</p>\n<p>At Microsoft’s Envisioning Center in Bellevue, Washington, two employees demonstrated the HoloLens video-calling capabilities for reporters by &#8220;fixing&#8221; a circuit breaker. The technician called the remote expert at the &#8220;site,&#8221; who was able to see a first-person view of the scene and add augmented-reality markers to point out where action needed to be taken. The employee in the frontline worker role was also able to see schematics in AR, meaning they didn’t need to take any physical plans with them, and could float the plans in the air right next to the machine they were working on.</p>\n<p>That highly choreographed demonstration went off without a hitch, but it&#8217;s unclear how the technology would perform in conditions with limited connectivity, poorer lighting, or a circuit breaker that wasn’t meticulously clean.</p>\n<p>The Guides feature promises similar expertise, even without another human on the line. Microsoft says customers will be able to train workers using the device, but also have that AR experience available at all times, in the event someone is unsure or wants to refresh their knowledge.</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1627689/microsoft-is-updating-office-for-a-world-beyond-the-office/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:55', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(158, NULL, 'Why Boris Johnson is the bookies’ favorite to be Britain’s next prime minister', 'why-boris-johnson-is-the-bookies-favorite-to-be-britains-next-prime-minister', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_18121326409540-e1558716244845.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" /><p>There is something of the circus to Boris Johnson. The bombastic, tow-haired British Conservative MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, who served as London&#8217;s mayor until 2016, is the current favorite to be Britain&#8217;s next prime minister. He loves a photo op, grinning like a schoolboy on a bike; <a href=\"http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/i/newscms/2016_28/1593636/160624-boris-johnson-zipline-mdl_2e8a6404fc3fb9b177bb3832f2b1fcab.jpg\">suspended in mid-air</a> clutching Union Jack flags; <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzqe5z1Jy_M\">playing rugby in a tie</a>. He&#8217;s as colorfully British as his choice of vocabulary: piffle, mugwump, ker-splonked.</p>\n<p>Short of shooting water out of a flower, Johnson is unafraid of looking silly. But the man who once suggested his &#8220;chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive,&#8221; now seems to be making an entirely serious bid for the position. And now <a href=\"https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/next-prime-minister\">bookmakers say</a> Johnson is actually the favorite, streets ahead of his rivals. But what&#8217;s informing their confidence?</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>He&#8217;s way ahead in the polls<br />\n</strong>The odds are good. Johnson is the <a href=\"https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Boris_Johnson\">most popular Conservative politician</a>, according to pollster YouGov. He&#8217;s polarizing—but that also means he can count on his fans&#8217; support.</li>\n<li><strong>He&#8217;s an avowed Brexiteer</strong><br />\nTheresa May&#8217;s failure to deliver a Brexit deal that could unite her warring party may have doomed her from the start. Despite her best efforts, she was unable to escape the scourge of being labeled a &#8220;Remainer&#8221;—someone who, whatever claims to the contrary, didn&#8217;t really want to leave the European Union. Johnson was a Eurosceptic long before it was in vogue and indeed popularized these views between 1989 and 1994 as The Telegraph&#8217;s Brussels correspondent. (As a journalist, he <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/15/brexit-boris-johnson-euromyths-telegraph-brussels\">was not known</a> for his strict regard for truth.) For the large number of Tory voters who want to leave, and soon, he&#8217;s a breath of fresh air. His promises for No Deal, if necessary, would be a welcome change.</li>\n<li><strong>He&#8217;s got fantastic name recognition<br />\n</strong>Dominic Raab, Rory Stewart, even Sajid Javid—the other frontrunners for prime minister—just aren&#8217;t quite as famous as Johnson, and that matters. Johnson courts attention wherever he goes. Journalists like to write about him (evidently), people like to read about him, everyone knows who he is and what he&#8217;s about, and he&#8217;s good at remaining relevant. When it comes to establishing a shortlist, that alone might win him the plurality he needs.</li>\n<li><strong>He has distanced himself from May&#8217;s disastrous efforts</strong><br />\nAfter opting out of <a href=\"https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-06-30/boris-johnson-surprises-many-opts-out-of-prime-minister-race\">Tory party leadership in 2016</a>, Johnson has made a point to lay low, sticking his head above the parapet only to criticize the current state of affairs. This puts him in a good place to promise an all-singing, all-dancing Brexit, with little resemblance to the present mess. After all, he&#8217;s not the one who made it.</li>\n<li><strong>He made a success of the London mayoralty</strong><br />\nIn a city that leans Labour, London voters still elected Johnson their mayor twice. He in turn made a name for himself as a liberal, One Nation Tory, who welcomed refugees and improved the city&#8217;s standing internationally. Though some of his decisions fail to <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/30/has-boris-johnson-been-a-good-mayor-of-london\">stand up to scrutiny</a>, the optics are good: he invested heavily in transportation, delivered a stellar 2012 Olympics, and increased the strength of the institution of the mayoralty. People think of him as a winner—he&#8217;s yet to lose an election—and one who can get things done.</li>\n<li><strong>He&#8217;s a strong alternative to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn<br />\n</strong>As <a href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/1dcc6f94-7d63-11e9-81d2-f785092ab560\">the Financial Times</a> notes, &#8220;many voters and Labour and Conservative MPs think he is the candidate most likely to beat Mr. Corbyn&#8221; in a general election. Johnson offers a bombastic, Brexit-happy alternative to Corbyn&#8217;s brand of principled Marxism-lite. (Whether he&#8217;d make a good prime minister is a separate question.)</li>\n<li><strong>He appeals to the rising populist right<br />\n</strong>In 2012, Johnson was the most popular politician in the country. His star has fallen somewhat among centrists, but he&#8217;s well-liked among populists, who enjoy his Etonian charm. He&#8217;s remembered for bringing a bit of vim to the Leave movement. Now supporters will hope he can bring the same positivity and can-do attitude to the Gordian knot that trounced his predecessor. For Tories concerned about the rise of the Brexit party, he&#8217;s a good way to bring hardliners back into the fold and <a href=\"https://qz.com/1610210/could-brexit-kill-the-conservative-party/\">stave off a potential party split</a>.</li>\n</ul>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1627532/boris-johnson-is-the-bookmakers-favorite-for-britains-next-pm/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:55', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(159, NULL, 'Trump’s Supreme Court appointees so far don’t actually agree on much', 'trumps-supreme-court-appointees-so-far-dont-actually-agree-on-much', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gorsuch.Kavanaugh.jpeg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gorsuch.Kavanaugh.jpeg 5068w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gorsuch.Kavanaugh.jpeg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gorsuch.Kavanaugh.jpeg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gorsuch.Kavanaugh.jpeg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gorsuch.Kavanaugh.jpeg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gorsuch.Kavanaugh.jpeg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gorsuch.Kavanaugh.jpeg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gorsuch.Kavanaugh.jpeg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>When US president Donald Trump got the opportunity to appoint two Supreme Court justices in less than two years in office, many commentators predicted that the bench&#8217;s conservative majority would start voting as a unified bloc, all in ideological lockstep.</p>\n<p>It hasn&#8217;t happened.</p>\n<p>The current stats show that Trump&#8217;s chosen judges, <a href=\"https://qz.com/899622/trumps-us-supreme-court-nominee-neil-gorsuch-is-a-lot-like-scalia-with-one-key-difference/\">Neil Gorsuch</a> and <a href=\"https://qz.com/1410253/was-brett-kavanaugh-ranked-number-one-at-yale/\">Brett Kavanaugh</a>, agree far less than expected. And if their track record so far is any indication, by the time they complete their first full term term together in June they <a href=\"https://empiricalscotus.com/2019/05/22/so-happy-together/\">will have agreed on fewer decisions</a> than any other two justices appointed by the same president since John F. Kennedy was in office in the early 1960s.</p>\n<p>Kavanaugh and Gorsuch have a 72.73% agreement rate right now. That is almost five percentage points lower than conservatives David Souter and Clarence Thomas, two George H.W. Bush appointees who had the next lowest rate of agreement in their first term and only grew further apart over time. By the time Souter retired in 2009, he and Thomas had become ideological opposites. Souter became known to conservatives as the &#8220;<a href=\"https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/09/david-souter-the-supreme-court-justice-who-built-the-trump-court-218953\">stealth justice</a>,&#8221; a liberal in conservative robes who voted with left-leaning judges <a href=\"https://qz.com/1325513/dont-panic-about-change-on-the-us-supreme-court-justices-hate-overruling-cases/\">on abortion</a> and much more.</p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean that we can expect either Gorsuch or Kavanaugh to turn into Souter. &#8220;No more Souters&#8221; became a conservative rallying cry and, <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/09/david-souter-the-supreme-court-justice-who-built-the-trump-court-218953\">according to Politico Magazine</a> (paywall), the reason why filling the high court with reliably right-wing judges became a Republican obsession. As a result, Trump&#8217;s appointees were <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/leonard-leo-federalists-society-courts/?utm_term=.9eaa80b38cf2\">handpicked by Leonard Leo</a> (paywall), head of the Federalist Society and a man who has campaigned hard to reshape the court to his strict <a href=\"https://qz.com/1323253/what-is-originalism-why-trump-wants-an-originalist-on-the-supreme-court/\">originalist vision.</a> He supplied lists of appropriate appointees who would meet this need (no other lawyer in the United States is known to have had such a direct influence on a president&#8217;s high court picks).</p>\n<p>The differences in opinion between Kavanaugh and Gorsuch now undermine the popular notion that onlookers can predict the court&#8217;s decisions based on which president appointed the justices.</p>\n<p>Kavanaugh replaced <a href=\"https://qz.com/1316183/supreme-court-justice-anthony-kennedys-retirement-letter-to-donald-trump/\">Justice Anthony Kennedy</a>, who retired last year with a reputation as a &#8220;swing voter,&#8221; someone who just might fall on the ideological left or right, depending on the case. Kennedy ended up writing the majority opinion in <em>Obergefell v. Hodges </em>in 2015, the landmark case that legalized same-sex marriage. He had been appointed by conservative darling Ronald Reagan in 1988 and, like Souter, wasn&#8217;t expected to be a friend to liberals.</p>\n<p>When Kennedy retired, some predicted that chief justice <a href=\"https://qz.com/1506186/chief-justice-roberts-the-new-swing-vote-on-supreme-court/\">John Roberts could become the next swing voter</a>, while Kavanaugh and Gorsuch maintained staunch conservative positions. But this month Gorsuch sided with liberals on the bench—who tend to agree with each other more often—providing the majority vote in <em>Herrera v. Wyoming</em>, a decision written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor that found a treaty from 1868 allowing Native Americans to hunt in “unoccupied lands” still applies today. Meanwhile, on May 13, Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion, joined by four liberals, <a href=\"https://qz.com/1618127/apples-app-stores-revenue-is-under-threat-from-supreme-court/\">allowing iPhone owners to sue</a> Apple over <a href=\"https://qz.com/1474648/the-us-supreme-court-will-decide-if-apple-can-be-sued-for-monopolizing-the-iphone-app-market/\">App Store pricing</a>, which his conservative colleagues opposed.</p>\n<p>Many observers on both the left and the right will see this development—that ideological independence appears to be still possible—as an encouraging sign. <a href=\"https://qz.com/1593989/us-supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts-has-always-wanted-to-stay-ahead-of-the-crowd/\">Roberts has said</a> often, most notably in response to Trump&#8217;s November statements deriding a Ninth Circuit &#8220;Obama judge&#8221;) that the courts aren&#8217;t political. &#8220;We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them,” <a href=\"https://qz.com/1472500/supreme-court-chief-justice-roberts-reminds-trump-what-makes-america-great/\">Roberts said</a>.</p>\n<p>While that fact may not always be obvious to court onlookers, the evidence so far— based on Trump&#8217;s appointees to the high court and their recent decisions— indicates that it&#8217;s more than just wishful thinking.</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1626877/kavanaugh-and-gorsuch-trumps-supreme-court-appointees-so-far-dont-agree-on-much/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:55', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(160, NULL, 'Kenya’s high court has upheld its colonial-era law banning gay sex', 'kenyas-high-court-has-upheld-its-colonial-era-law-banning-gay-sex', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AP_19052599346330-e1558705382562.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kenya Gay Rights\" /><p>Kenya’s high court has declined to strike down a colonial-era law that criminalizes consensual gay sex, ruling that petitioners failed to provide “credible evidence” the law infringed on their rights.</p>\n<p>It’s a verdict that deals a blow to activists and rights groups who packed a tiny courtroom in downtown Nairobi in the hopes the law would be repealed—a groundbreaking decision that could have had a far-reaching impact beyond Kenya and East Africa where gay people face widespread discrimination.</p>\n<p>The three-judge bench said the plaintiffs failed to place evidence to demonstrate that they were marginalized whether in public or private. The Court made its decision despite considering foreign jurisprudence cases from nations including India, the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, United States, Australia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. The pro-repeal campaign was energized last year after India’s top court scrapped a law that punished gay sex with up to 10 years in jail.</p>\n<p>But in considering the case of India, judge Roselyne Aburili said that while they found it persuasive, “the court should exercise caution and develop jurisprudence that is unique to Kenya. They must observe the values set out in the constitution of Kenya.” Aburili also noted that courts across the world were divided on the issue, noting &#8220;Even where it has been allowed, it has not been unanimous.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Decriminalizing gay sex, the court said, would also &#8220;open a door to same sex unions which would go directly against the spirit of Article 45 of the Constitution on marriage&#8221; which only recognizes union between opposite sexes.</p>\n<p>The decision comes after the high court postponed the ruling from late February, with the judges saying they weren’t ready to deliver a verdict because they had been busy.</p>\n<p>The landmark ruling falls short of removing one of the most glaring vestiges of Kenya’s colonial past. While it’s not illegal to identify as homosexual, the country’s <a href=\"http://www.kenyalaw.org/lex/actview.xql?actid=CAP.%2063\">penal code</a> outlaws sexual acts deemed “against the order of nature.” If caught, one could be imprisoned for up to 14 years. Another provision provides for a five-year imprisonment term for “indecent practices between males.”</p>\n<p>And while convictions under the anachronistic law are rare, rights groups argue it stokes up victimization, blackmail and homophobic maltreatment of gay people. They also say the law breaches the spirit and letter of Kenya’s 2010 constitution that guaranteed basic rights and equality for all Kenyan citizens. Open for Business, a coalition of global companies making the case for inclusive and diverse societies, also say LGBTQI discrimination cost the East African nation’s economy between $181 million to $1.3 billion annually.</p>\n<p>The latest decision undermines years of piecemeal wins led by organizations like the National Gay and Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC). In 2015, a three-judge bench <a href=\"http://kenyalaw.org/caselaw/cases/view/108412/\">ordered the registration</a> of NGLHRC as a non-profit after the state body responsible for registering non-governmental organizations refused to do so. In March 2018, NGLHRC <a href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/581a19852994ca08211faca4/t/5b3bcdbef950b7a92bca4db5/1530645994570/COI+Judgment.pdf\">won a case</a> stopping the government from using forced anal examinations on men suspected of being gay.</p>\n<p>When <em>Rafiki</em>, Kenya’s first feature film to be screened in Cannes, <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1265185/cannes-film-debut-for-kenyan-film-rafiki-censored-over-over-lesbian-love-scenes/\">was banned</a> last April, the courts <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1398710/rafiki-film-kenyan-court-unbans-lesbian-love-story/\">stepped in</a> again, allowing the movie to play for seven days in order to qualify for an Oscars submission.</p>\n<p>But as the fight for gay rights has strengthened across the continent, attitudes towards gay people are yet to become mainstream.</p>\n<p>African leaders often cite culture and religion as the reason for banning homosexuality. Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni has <a href=\"http://time.com/9592/uganda-president-museveni-homosexuality-disgusting/\">called gays</a> “disgusting” and has <a href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26320102\">signed laws</a> toughening penalties for gay sex and same-sex marriage. Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta has in the past <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwTgU-RZLHQ\">called</a> gay rights a subject that is not of “major importance.” Under president John Magufuli, Tanzania has also <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1460914/freddie-mercury-film-ups-tanzanian-roots-amid-anti-gay-push/\">cracked down on gays</a>, with a government official once announcing—and then backtracking on—the formation of a task force <a href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/11/tanzania-10-men-arrested-in-zanzibar-for-being-gay/\">that would hunt down</a> those believed to be gay.</p>\n<p>A number of African nations have however relaxed anti-gay laws in the past few years. In January, Angola’s parliament <a href=\"https://qz.com/africa/1532906/angola-decriminalizes-same-gay-sex/\">voted to drop</a> anti-homosexual colonial era provisions in its penal code. Same-sex acts are <a href=\"https://www.news24.com/Africa/News/seychelles-parliament-decriminalises-gay-sex-20160519-4\">no longer illegal</a> in the Republic of Seychelles as of 2016, while Mozambique <a href=\"https://attitude.co.uk/article/mozambique-decriminalises-gay-and-lesbian-relationships/7210/\">decriminalized gay relationships</a> in 2015.</p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/africa/1627535/kenya-court-declines-to-repeal-law-criminalizing-gay-sex/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:55', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL);
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(161, NULL, 'Women teaming up as work wives are transforming the nature of work', 'women-teaming-up-as-work-wives-are-transforming-the-nature-of-work', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/TinaFeyAmyPoehler-e1557237151306.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"tina fey and amy poehler\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/TinaFeyAmyPoehler-e1557237151306.jpg 3000w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/TinaFeyAmyPoehler-e1557237151306.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/TinaFeyAmyPoehler-e1557237151306.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/TinaFeyAmyPoehler-e1557237151306.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/TinaFeyAmyPoehler-e1557237151306.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/TinaFeyAmyPoehler-e1557237151306.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/TinaFeyAmyPoehler-e1557237151306.jpg?resize=940,529 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/TinaFeyAmyPoehler-e1557237151306.jpg?resize=1600,900 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>I am not married, but I do have a <a href=\"https://qz.com/887413/how-do-you-make-new-friends-as-an-adult-be-like-the-golden-retriever/\">work wife</a>. Neither of us ever proposed. As with so many great romances, things just unfolded naturally. One minute Meredith and I were proofreading each other&#8217;s work, the next we were riffing on one another&#8217;s jokes, swapping stories about our childhoods, and live-blogging our work days to one another over Slack.</p>\n<p>From the outside, we might seem like an odd couple. Meredith is a proud advocate for the <a href=\"https://qz.com/929348/why-being-grumpy-at-work-is-good-for-you/\">benefits of being grumpy at work</a>, while I might easily be mistaken for a singing-telegram delivery person. And yet, over the course of several years, we&#8217;ve formed a true partnership—one that&#8217;s opened my eyes to the creative possibilities that emerge when women channel their emotional and professional energy toward one another in the workplace.</p>\n<p>When we talk about <a href=\"http://the-toast.net/2015/07/13/emotional-labor/\">emotional labor</a> these days, we typically think of it in terms of the unfair expectation that women will expend inordinate amounts of time and mental energy supporting others, both at work and at home, while receiving little in the way of support themselves. Historically, the fact that <a href=\"https://qz.com/599999/at-work-as-at-home-men-reap-the-benefits-of-womens-invisible-labor/\">women get drafted into serving as part-time therapists, career coaches, and party planners for their workplaces</a> has served to advance men&#8217;s careers. Not only does the unequal division of labor free men up to focus on performing the tasks that will actually win them raises and promotions, men also directly benefit from women&#8217;s support work.</p>\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s nothing inherently wrong with being an empathetic, resourceful person who bounces around ideas with colleagues, offers them advice, and takes them out for coffee when they&#8217;re having a bad day. The problems only arise when women give disproportionately and get nothing in return.</p>\n<p>It is here that the rise of work wives may have truly revolutionary potential.</p>\n<p>In their new book <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CKQ453W/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1&tag=quartz07-20\"><em>Work Wife: The Power of Female Friendship to Drive Successful Businesses</em></a>, Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur, co-founders of the limited-edition fashion design site <a href=\"https://www.ofakind.com/\">Of a Kind</a>, suggest that the recent visibility of female work duos—“Oprah and Gayle, Abbi and Ilana, Kathie Lee and Hoda, and Tina and Amy”—heralds a new chapter in the push for gender equality. With women increasingly liberated from <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/the-queen-bee-in-the-corner-office/534213/\">the idea that they need to compete with one another</a> in order to succeed, there is space for women colleagues, in any industry, to forge collaborative, mutually beneficial relationships.</p>\n<p>Among work wives, one woman’s ability to provide others with invaluable emotional and professional support is not a weakness or a trait to be exploited, but a quality that is met with equal support in kind.</p>\n<h2>What is a work wife?</h2>\n<p>I checked with Meredith, naturally, and she says there are three basic metrics you can use to identify your work spouse: “Who’s the first person you’re going to go to complain you’re tired, to complain you’re having an actual work problem, to ask if they want to get drinks after work?” she says. “If one person is hitting all those boxes, they’re a work wife.” In this formula, a work wife is a sympathetic ear, a trusted counsel, and someone whose company you enjoy to boot—and you reciprocate all of this for her. But work-wife relationships weren&#8217;t always this equitable.</p>\n<p>As Cerulo and Mazur note, the concept of a work wife “dates back to the 1930s, when it was used by men to describe an especially high-functioning secretary.” A secretary-slash-office-wife provided both personal and professional support for her boss, remembering birthdays and anniversaries all while meticulously organizing his work schedule, handling his administrative work, and anticipating his every emotional and practical need.</p>\n<p>In keeping with the uneven balance of household labor in real-life marriages, the office wife typically received little in the way of emotional support from her office husband. As <em>Mad Men</em>’s Don Draper tells Peggy Olson, his junior colleague and former secretary, when she complains that she <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Y6CIyyBcI\">receives neither credit nor gratitude</a> for giving him her ideas: “That’s what the money is for!”</p>\n<p>Historically, a good number of women have functioned as work wives in unequal marriages. Their generosity earns no returns because, as Rosenbury writes, their support work is framed as “natural and effortless, more akin to love than to work.” It’s a pretty sweet deal for the patriarchy. As Judy Brady writes in her seminal 1971 <a href=\"http://www.columbia.edu/~sss31/rainbow/wife.html\">satirical essay</a> “I Want a Wife,” laying out the myriad ways in which women are expected to anticipate and care for their husband’s needs while demanding nothing for themselves: “My god, who wouldn’t want a wife?”</p>\n<h2>Give and take</h2>\n<p>Giving relationships can exist in the workplace between people of any gender, of course. Think of the close-knit friendship between Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, <a href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge\">two early Google engineers</a> (both men) who work together at the same keyboard, or the <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/business/03face.html\">intimate</a>, if <a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-facebook-at-war-zuckerberg-adopts-more-aggressive-style-1542577980\">reportedly rocky</a>, partnership between Facebook’s <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/15/sheryl-sandberg-credits-mark-zuckerberg-with-saving-her-life\">Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg</a>, the latter of whom provided crucial support for Sandberg after her husband’s death.</p>\n<p>But broadly speaking, both men and women tend seek emotional support from women. In the professional sphere, women have long been not just outnumbered by men but placed in roles in which they were implicitly or explicitly tasked with providing support to men. And so it&#8217;s been men—rather than other women—who reap the most benefits from women&#8217;s socialization as caretakers, whether in heterosexual marriage and in the faux marriages that exist at the office.</p>\n<p>None of this is to say that women should try harder to avoid helping others. In his book <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AFPTSI0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1&tag=quartz07-20\"><em>Give and Take</em></a>, organizational psychologist and Wharton professor Adam Grant explains that being of service to others is an enormous source of motivation. What&#8217;s more, his research shows that <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/magazine/is-giving-the-secret-to-getting-ahead.html\">giving is closely associated with success</a>—provided that it&#8217;s reciprocated.</p>\n<p>Grant says that successful givers take steps to ensure that their generosity isn&#8217;t exploited. But because many women have been socialized to prioritize others&#8217; needs above their own, and because contemporary work culture has been shaped by men who have been raised to expect selflessness from women, women often find themselves in positions where they provide vast amounts of support without receiving recognition, compensation, or reciprocation. It&#8217;s no surprise that while Grant finds that while givers are often among the world&#8217;s most successful leaders, they&#8217;re often ranked among companies&#8217; worst performers, too. &#8220;G<a class=\"t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">ivers spend a lot of time trying to help other people</a> and improve the team,&#8221; Grant explains in a <a href=\"https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_are_you_a_giver_or_a_taker?language=en\">2016 TED talk</a>, &#8220;<a class=\"t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">and then, unfortunately, they suffer along the way.&#8221;</a></p>\n<p>This longstanding issue is what gives the rise of work wives such revolutionary potential. It&#8217;s clear that women benefit from forging professional bonds with one another: <a href=\"https://www.gallup.com/workplace/236213/why-need-best-friends-work.aspx\">Gallup research shows</a> that women who say they have a best friend at their jobs are more engaged with their work, more likely to take risks, more connected with their coworkers as a whole, and more likely to have positive experiences throughout their day, from receiving recognition for their work to making progress on projects. In other words, when women work together as equals, both their attitude and their performance change for the better—perhaps because they know they&#8217;ve got emotional backup whenever they need it.</p>\n<p>How does the work-wife dynamic benefit individual women in practice? A panel discussion at New York Magazine’s “How I Get It Done” conference in Brooklyn this March offers one glimpse. Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine, the creators and co-stars of the Hulu series <em>Pen15</em>, described the way that their mutually supportive relationship encourages them to stand up for themselves and one another at work.</p>\n<p>“I feel like when we’re in a meeting, basically I feel more able to be vocal or strong about something when it’s in the context of something we’re doing,” Konkle told Erskine. “When it’s just me, I’m noticing that I’m more apt to apologize for something. It’s far easier to say, <em>This is our point of view</em>.” Core to their relationship, in other words, is what Rosenbury describes as a sense of interdependence. As self-identified work wives, Konkle and Erskine are aware that their success is contingent upon one another. To them, that’s not a drawback, but an added source of motivation.</p>\n<h2>A culture of collaboration</h2>\n<p>The possibilities raised by work wifedom go beyond individual benefits. In leading by example, Cerulo and Mazur suggest, pairs of work wives can also help bring about cultures that value cooperation over competition, an environment in which women are more likely to succeed. “Numerous studies suggest that this inclination is in line with how we’re socialized,” they write. “Men are brought up to be more competitive, independent, and unemotional, while women are raised to be more supportive, cooperative, and emotionally sensitive.”  While professional advice for women <a href=\"https://qz.com/work/1363399/all-career-advice-for-women-is-a-form-of-gaslighting/\">often suggests that they should attempt to change themselves</a> to conform to standards set mainly by men, Cerulo and Mazur are more invested in the question of how work wives can transform office norms so that women can work the way they want to.</p>\n<p>They cite the way women in the Obama-era White House <a href=\"https://qz.com/781404/women-at-the-white-house-have-started-using-the-simple-trick-of-amplification-to-get-heard-not-interrupted/\">teamed up to ensure their voices got heard</a> in meetings, repeating one another&#8217;s points and naming the person who had originated the idea. &#8220;This simple behavioral change led to real progress,&#8221; Cerulo and Mazur write. &#8220;During the second term, there was gender parity among those with close proximity to POTUS.&#8221; In this and other ways, women’s partnerships with one another can usher in greater female representation across the board. &#8220;If you develop strong social networks of women, you&#8217;re starting to create a culture shift where women support women and maybe start to disrupt that male-dominated hierarchy,&#8221; Emma Seppala, author of the book <em>The Happiness Track</em> and faculty director of the Yale School of Management’s Women Leadership Program, tells <a href=\"https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/08/pf/women-work-wives/index.html\">CNN Money</a>.</p>\n<p>The rise of work wives could also usher in workplace cultures that make room for employees’ emotions and other displays of humanity. “In the traditional corporate culture created by men, there’s a strong separation between the personal and professional,” Mazur says. “You leave your personal life at home when you walk into the office.”</p>\n<p>But in a mutually supportive relationship modeled by work wives, wherein women are openly invested in one another’s personal and professional lives, there’s no need for such pretense. After all, the idea that work and life are separate things—and that it’s <a href=\"https://qz.com/work/1373353/work-life-balance-is-an-unhealthy-myth/\">ever truly possible to balance the two</a>—is a harmful myth, and one that encourages women in particular to feel like guilt-ridden failures, <a href=\"https://qz.com/506893/there-is-no-such-thing-as-having-it-all-and-no-workplace-can-change-that/\">forever falling behind</a> in one area or another.</p>\n<p>“Instead of trying to fight for this balance, which isn’t achievable,” Cerulo says, her partnership with Mazur has helped make Of a Kind a place where you can “bring more life to your work.” That means there&#8217;s no need to feel guilty when family responsibilities coincide with traditional work hours, and that it&#8217;s perfectly acceptable to tell colleagues that a stressful situation back home has got you rattled on a particular day. In a work culture shaped by work wives, Cerulo says, it’s okay to “be your authentic self at your job.”</p>\n<p>Speaking personally, the freedom to be my authentic self at work has been one of the most unexpected benefits of becoming Meredith’s work wife. Because I know she’s got my back, I feel free to tell her when I&#8217;m struggling with a project or caught up in a frenzy of professional neurosis. (&#8220;You&#8217;re acting crazy,&#8221; she once told me darkly on a walk, which was the most reassuring thing she could have possibly said.) And because I trust her judgment, I believe her when she gives me a new perspective on a problem or simply tells me to stop worrying and chill.</p>\n<p>In this respect and innumerable other ways, having a work wife has made me not just happier at my job, but better at it. I think it&#8217;s safe to say that Meredith feels the same way. Although to be fair, when I asked her, for the purely journalistic purposes of this story, to rate me as a work wife on a scale of 1 to 10, she just laughed and said, “That’s a silly question.” As with any healthy relationship, it’s important for work wives to know where to draw boundaries, too.</p>\n<p><em>This story is part of How We’ll Win 2019, a year-long exploration of the fight for gender equality. <a href=\"http://qz.com/is/how-well-win-2019\">Read more stories here</a>. </em></p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/work/1613386/how-women-teaming-up-as-work-wives-are-changing-office-culture/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:55', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(162, NULL, 'The exec behind *that* Gillette ad says brands have a responsibility to challenge toxic masculinity', 'the-exec-behind-that-gillette-ad-says-brands-have-a-responsibility-to-challenge-toxic-masculinity', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"1002\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Carolyn_Tastad_Bio_Photo_2019-e1558629162811.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Carolyn_Tastad_Bio_Photo_2019-e1558629162811.jpg 1475w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Carolyn_Tastad_Bio_Photo_2019-e1558629162811.jpg?resize=768,751 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Carolyn_Tastad_Bio_Photo_2019-e1558629162811.jpg?resize=50,50 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Carolyn_Tastad_Bio_Photo_2019-e1558629162811.jpg?resize=160,157 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Carolyn_Tastad_Bio_Photo_2019-e1558629162811.jpg?resize=320,313 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Carolyn_Tastad_Bio_Photo_2019-e1558629162811.jpg?resize=640,626 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Carolyn_Tastad_Bio_Photo_2019-e1558629162811.jpg?resize=940,920 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Carolyn_Tastad_Bio_Photo_2019-e1558629162811.jpg?resize=32,32 32w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Carolyn_Tastad_Bio_Photo_2019-e1558629162811.jpg?resize=64,64 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /><p>“Bullying,” “Me Too movement,” and “toxic masculinity” are the first few audible phrases in a <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koPmuEyP3a0\">Gillette ad</a> from January this year. Troubling images flash by: A boy running from a mob of bullies, workplace sexual harassment, a male executive patronizing a female colleague. “But something finally changed,” the ad’s narrator says, as press coverage of the Me Too movement fills up the screen. Then the scenes start to shift—men call out other men on inappropriate behavior, they step in when necessary—and the resounding message is that men must hold each other accountable. The video, less than two minutes long, had over 4 million views in 48 hours and has more than 30 million today.</p>\n<div class=\"inline-video\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/VideoObject\"><iframe class=\'youtube-player\' type=\'text/html\' width=\'640\' height=\'360\' src=\'https://www.youtube.com/embed/koPmuEyP3a0?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent\' allowfullscreen=\'true\' style=\'border:0;\'></iframe></div>\n<p>Gillette’s ad garnered both immense praise and intense criticism. Some people took to social media and vowed to <a href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/men-are-threatening-boycott-gillette-over-metoo-ad-calling-them-be-their-best-1291857\">boycott Gillette</a>, or argued it was a “<a href=\"https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1084891133757587456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1084891133757587456&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cincinnati.com%2Fstory%2Fmoney%2F2019%2F01%2F15%2Fmillions-view-new-gillettes-best-ad-many-hate%2F2580195002%2F\">global assault on </a><a href=\"https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1084891133757587456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1084891133757587456&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cincinnati.com%2Fstory%2Fmoney%2F2019%2F01%2F15%2Fmillions-view-new-gillettes-best-ad-many-hate%2F2580195002%2F\">masculinity</a>.” Others <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ava/status/1085409800488435713\">applauded</a> the brand’s new messaging, or <a href=\"https://twitter.com/AndrewPStreet/status/1084991818029137921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1084991818029137921&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2019%2Fjan%2F15%2Fgillette-metoo-ad-on-toxic-masculinity-cuts-deep-with-mens-rights-activists\">pointed out </a>that the backlash only signals the dire need to discuss toxic masculinity.</p>\n<p>Undeniably, the controversial ad was a bold commentary on negative masculine stereotypes and, <a href=\"https://qz.com/quartzy/1524279/gillette-says-cleaning-up-toxic-masculinity-is-a-mans-job/\">importantly</a>, offers a different model of masculinity. Before, popular media portrayed problematic behaviors like sexism and aggression for men, which helped normalize such “hyper masculine” behavior in real life, but Gillette’s campaign urges men to challenge the stereotype and provide a better example for the next generation. The ensuing discussion from Gillette’s ad also showed that brands could have a significant impact on conversations around masculinity and gender equality.</p>\n<p>Gillette, which is owned by US consumer goods corporation Procter & Gamble, is not the only brand using its market reach to spark dialogue about traditional gender roles. Other P&G brands have done so—feminine hygiene brand Always’ <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs\">#LikeAGirl campaign</a> challenges what it means to act like a girl, while diapers brand <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=S9A9Uw9e2p8\">Pampers’ ads</a> that show fathers taking an equal role in parenting. Elsewhere, men’s fashion brand Bonobos has a campaign titled <a href=\"https://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/07/18/ads-we-bonobos-redefines-what-it-means-be-masculine\">#EvolveTheDefinition</a> in which men, including trans men and men of color, talk about how multifaceted masculinity can be. Men’s grooming brand Axe, which is owned by Unilever, also <a href=\"https://www.racked.com/2017/6/28/15874802/axe-rebranding-toxic-masculinity\">shifted its advertising direction</a> from emphasizing a man’s sexual prowess to showing that masculinity can be about celebrating individuality and caring about a woman’s pleasure, as opposed to hyper masculine stereotypes.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1626705\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1626705\" class=\"size-hero-m wp-image-1626705\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Always_LikeAGirl_Dakota.png?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Always_LikeAGirl_Dakota.png 1080w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Always_LikeAGirl_Dakota.png?resize=768,768 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Always_LikeAGirl_Dakota.png?resize=50,50 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Always_LikeAGirl_Dakota.png?resize=160,160 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Always_LikeAGirl_Dakota.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Always_LikeAGirl_Dakota.png?resize=640,640 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Always_LikeAGirl_Dakota.png?resize=940,940 940w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Always_LikeAGirl_Dakota.png?resize=32,32 32w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Always_LikeAGirl_Dakota.png?resize=64,64 64w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Always_LikeAGirl_Dakota.png?resize=96,96 96w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Always_LikeAGirl_Dakota.png?resize=128,128 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1626705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Always&#8217; &#8220;Like A Girl&#8221; campaign</p></div>\n<p>Carolyn Tastad helps some of these ads get made. As the group president of P&G’s <a href=\"http://fortune.com/most-powerful-women/carolyn-tastad-44/\">$30 billion</a> North American business, Tastad oversees some of the world’s largest brands with ads exploring gender equality, and her role includes shaping  the marketing direction these brands take. She has been consistently <a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/companies-can-close-gender-gap-001518159.html\">outspoken </a>about how corporate America must up its efforts to achieve gender equality, which includes dismantling stereotypes and bias. Tastad recently spoke to Quartz about the contentious Gillette ad, why advertising must tackle concepts of masculinity, and what companies and brands can do beyond marketing to put plans for gender equality into practice.</p>\n<p><em>This interview has been edited for clarity and length. </em></p>\n<p><strong>Quartz: In recent years, numerous brands have started approaching conversations about masculinity, or what masculinity means, in their marketing. Is it important for brands to do this? And if so, why?</strong><strong> </strong></p>\n<p>Carolyn Tastad: We believe that advertising has the power to change mindsets. In many cases, it really influences popular culture because it&#8217;s seen so many times and with such frequency. And so a very big part of our gender equality effort is really focused on leveraging our voice in advertising and media. The Gillette campaign, which I&#8217;m so proud of, takes on this other important conversation about modern masculinity. This campaign puts the spotlight on great men holding other men to the highest standards and really being role models for the next generation. We believe we can spark dialogue that can really motivate change.</p>\n<p><strong>Tell us more about the thinking behind the Gillette ad. What was really the impetus behind it? </strong></p>\n<p>I think there are a couple of things. Certainly, we encourage all of our brands to find their authentic voice in how they want to communicate with consumers and stakeholders. So while it can be motivated by current events and current conversations that are happening, it still has to be what&#8217;s right for the business, for the brands, and for the consumers they serve. Otherwise it&#8217;s unsustainable, or even worse, it shows up as artificial. But when [brands do it successfully], it can really be a force for good and a force for growth.</p>\n<p><span class=\"pull-quote\"><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span><span>[Stakeholders] expect more from brands than just selling products. They want to know what they believe in. </span><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span></span>The reality is today, stakeholders of all kinds, whether it&#8217;s consumers, investors, or employees, they expect more from brands than just selling products. They want to know what they believe in. They want to know their values. They want to know the people behind them and the actions they&#8217;re taking on important issues. And that was the impetus for Gillette. They were saying, ‘We are a brand that for many years has shaped perceptions of masculinity and we&#8217;ve helped create what it means to be the best a man can get.’ And the shift that the brand team made is going from ‘the best a man can get’ to ‘the best a man can be.’</p>\n<p><strong>The Gillette ad caused quite a stir. What do you think about the public’s reaction to the ad, both the good and bad?</strong></p>\n<p>Honestly, it goes to a couple of things. It goes to my first point that says the brand has to have an authentic voice, right? You can&#8217;t jump onto something because you think it&#8217;s popular or in any way that&#8217;s not congruent and consistent with what the brand believes. And so the Gillette team knew very well that this campaign would spark dialogue, and it certainly did.  But importantly, as we went through the campaign, the sentiment became much more positive than negative.</p>\n<p>And we got tremendous kudos. If you think about Generation Z, millennials under 30—those consumers expect brands not to be silent on important issues. They expect brands to take these on. And so we got very positive comments. I mean, the role of men matters in this space, right? Men need to play an equally important role as women in eliminating bias, promoting equality, demonstrating positive social and cultural behavior. You know, all too often we talk about gender inequality as a woman&#8217;s problem. But it has to be something that is an issue for all of us, it’s about men and women advocating for a more equal world. That&#8217;s a better role for all of us. And so we created the film knowing very well it would spark a conversation, but it was so congruent with what the brand stood for, what the brand voice was, that we stood by that 100%.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1626747\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1626747\" class=\"size-hero-m wp-image-1626747\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Pampers_Stinky_Booty.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Pampers_Stinky_Booty.jpg 1280w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Pampers_Stinky_Booty.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Pampers_Stinky_Booty.jpg?resize=50,28 50w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Pampers_Stinky_Booty.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Pampers_Stinky_Booty.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Pampers_Stinky_Booty.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Pampers_Stinky_Booty.jpg?resize=940,529 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" /><p id=\"caption-attachment-1626747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dads changing diapers. (Actually) groundbreaking.</p></div>\n<p><strong>You’ve spoken a couple of times about authenticity. Do you think that’s the biggest challenge for brands approaching these conversations about masculinity in their marketing? </strong></p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for brands to find the unique authentic voice in the space. That insight becomes the root of what we build the story around, and these become some of our most effective brand campaigns in terms of building the business and creating equity for the brand. <a href=\"https://www.wefirstbranding.com/consumers/2017-cone-communications-csr-study-consumers-want-brands-share-values-beliefs/\">Nine out of 10 consumers</a> say they have a more positive view of a brand when it supports a social cause. And more than half of consumers say that a brand that has shared beliefs with them influences their purchase decisions. So we know finding voice is important, and to my point on authenticity, it&#8217;s got to be done in a way that connects with the brand origin or it doesn&#8217;t have the same impact.</p>\n<p><strong>I’m sure you’re thinking about these issues a lot because you’re also the gender equality executive sponsor for P&G. Can you tell me a little more about P&G’s efforts around gender equality? </strong></p>\n<p>P&G picked three areas. Firstly, as the world&#8217;s largest advertiser, we should use our voice in advertising and media to tackle bias. Second, we want to use our corporate voice to tackle bias, which includes improving access to STEM education for girls, or working with governments in developing countries to change legislation so women have access to work. The things we’re working on are very education and economic opportunity-based. Third, it’s the work we’re doing inside to get to 50:50 representation.</p>\n<p><strong>How close is P&G to achieving that?</strong></p>\n<p>More than 47% of our managers globally are women. At the more junior levels we are 50:50 and making very consistent progress all the way to the top of the house. In terms of our global leadership council, 40% of our company leaders are women. We&#8217;ve been really intentional and stepping that up. So we&#8217;re very committed to achieving equal representation at all levels and we’re very transparent.</p>\n<p><strong>Speaking about representation at different levels, women are usually underrepresented in senior executive roles. Do you feel pressure to change that, and what has your experience been in ascending the corporate ladder? </strong></p>\n<p>We think about representation of women from every angle and every vector of intersectionality—women of color, LGBTQI, people with disabilities. We’re very intentional about this and this is something our company believes in deeply. From my personal experience, I’ve worked [over 30 years] for a company with great values.</p>\n<p>I also grew up in a very equal household. My dad was a farmer, my mom was a school teacher. My dad did things at home in the winter when he was not in the field, and my mom did more of it in the summer—that’s just how it was. And then I went to Toronto to work for P&G. It was the most diverse city in the world, I always had women around me. In 1993, I moved to Hunt Valley, Maryland and joined my first all-male <span class=\"pull-quote\"><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span><span>‘You&#8217;re going to add diversity to our team.&#8217; &#8216;Is that because I&#8217;m Canadian?&#8217;</span><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span></span>lead team. My manager at the time said, ‘We&#8217;re so happy to have you on our team because you&#8217;re going to add diversity to our team.’ And I kind of stopped. I know I had this quizzical look on my face, and I said, ‘Is that because I&#8217;m Canadian?’ It was only two weeks later when I realized he was referring to me being a woman. So equality is a core value for me, and P&G has the opportunity and influence to impact it. Women are important to our business.</p>\n<p><strong>How can high-level male executives, or male employees in general, contribute to these conversations about masculinity and equality within a company?</strong></p>\n<p>It can&#8217;t just be about women in order for us to get to an equal environment. What we have to do is make sure that all of us are understanding why it&#8217;s important to build a more equal world because it&#8217;s better for businesses, better for economies, it&#8217;s better for the communities we live in. It&#8217;s just a better place for all of us. But it does take men and women. When I took on the corporate women&#8217;s leadership team, which is an executive level team from different disciplines and regions and business units, I looked around the table and I was like, ‘Where are the guys? We have to have men at the table.’ And so we have men on our corporate women&#8217;s leadership team. I feel really good about that.</p>\n<p><span class=\"pull-quote\"><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span><span>Build[ing] a more equal world&#8230; it&#8217;s just better for all of us.</span><span class=\"quote-line\">&nbsp;</span></span>We are also working in partnership with <a href=\"https://www.catalyst.org/marc/\">Catalyst</a> [a nonprofit that helps companies build inclusive and equal workplaces], and we have a program focused on the role men can play within our organization. Catalyst’s Men Advocating Real Change (MARC) program is an experiential workshop which is really about driving deeper understanding of privilege and power bias. In order for us to make progress, we have to understand how power and bias show up everyday and we have to know how to deal with them. So that&#8217;s been one example of training that we&#8217;ve done so that we can have the necessary conversations and go deep enough. You’ve got to go deep on this stuff. You can&#8217;t leave it at the surface if you want to make progress.</p>\n<p><strong>What is your advice to other companies and brands who are trying to approach conversations about masculinity and conversations about gender equality, whether that&#8217;s internally at the company or through marketing?</strong></p>\n<p>One of the biggest issues that we continue to have to address, whether it&#8217;s inside of companies in the workplace or whether it&#8217;s in the world around us, is this notion of bias. The bias that perpetuates a lack of progress, or the bias that becomes a narrative that becomes an excuse for not making progress. For example, &#8216;there&#8217;s not enough women in the pipeline.&#8217; That’s false. So there are many things that get perpetuated through biases. The biggest issue is we have to deal with the insidiousness of that.</p>\n<p>My biggest piece of advice to other business leaders and other companies is, you must be intentional. [Approaching conversations about masculinity and gender equality] has got to be aligned to your values and you&#8217;ve got to believe it deeply. And it has to be driven from the top all the way through the organization. Everybody talks about inclusive environments and all the rest of it, but it&#8217;s insufficient to talk about it. You must be very intentional in the work that you do everyday to bring this to life, whether it&#8217;s in your business strategy, whether it&#8217;s in a more disciplined and deliberate approach to talent management and talent systems, to driving equality-based policies and practices, and frankly, to broadening our definition of what a leader looks like. Because too often we just default to this dated stereotype [of what a leader looks like]. We’ve got to have targets and quotas with intentional actions underneath, and that&#8217;s got to be led at the top of the company. So there’s my one important word for you: intentionality.</p>\n<p><em>This story is part of How We’ll Win in 2019, a year-long exploration of workplace gender equality. </em><a href=\"http://qz.com/is/how-well-win-2019\"><em>Read more stories here</em></a><em>.</em></p>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/quartzy/1626698/pg-exec-behind-viral-gillette-ad-talks-toxic-masculinity/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:55', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL),
(163, NULL, 'Theresa May’s resignation ends the British pound’s record losing streak—for now', 'theresa-mays-resignation-ends-the-british-pounds-record-losing-streak-for-now', '<img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RTX6WB2K-e1558691416444.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_10 size-medium_10 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Theresa May resigns\" /><p>After less than three years of trying—and failing—to make Brexit happen, British prime minister Theresa May <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48395905\">announced her resignation</a>. She will step down as Conservative party leader on June 7, and prime minister when a replacement is chosen by party members.</p>\n<p>Pressure had mounted on May to step down even sooner, after she announced a new plan earlier this month to put her EU withdrawal agreement to a vote in Parliament for a fourth time. She&#8217;s faced a backlash from her own party, with a record number of cabinet resignations during her tenure; from the opposition Labour party who broke off Brexit talks with her; and from pro- and anti-Brexit voters alike. Her Conservative party has suffered at elections since her premiership began, when she took over from David Cameron. Crucially, she failed to secure a Brexit deal before the original deadline of March 29.</p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll resign just after Donald Trump&#8217;s state visit to the UK. A contest for the new Conservative party leader, and prime minister, will begin the week of June 10; May will stay on in a caretaker position until that person is selected.</p>\n<p>The pound rose on news of May&#8217;s departure. As a result the British currency ended <a href=\"https://qz.com/1626291/the-british-pound-is-on-a-record-losing-streak-against-the-euro/\">a record losing streak</a> against the euro, at least at the time of writing.</p>\n<div class=\"atlas-chart\" data-id=\"RqYHxizZf\" data-width=\"640\" data-height=\"449\"><img src=\"https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/qz-production-atlas-assets/charts/atlas_RqYHxizZf.png\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width:100%;\"></div>\n<p>But any gains are likely to be small and short lived. If a more staunch Brexit supporter becomes prime minister, it&#8217;s possible the UK could leave the European Union without a close trading relationship or any transition arrangements. Such an outcome would <a href=\"https://qz.com/1477680/brexit-is-a-bad-idea-whichever-way-you-look-at-it-economically-speaking/\">dent the UK economy</a> and lead to more weakness in the currency. The UK currently has until the end of October to finalize an exit deal from the EU.</p>\n<p>After her short statement, May walked back into Downing Street, after nearly breaking down into tears, saying she had &#8220;enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love.&#8221;</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"  data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PM <a href=\"https://twitter.com/theresa_may?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Theresa_May</a> makes a statement in Downing Street <a href=\"https://t.co/eg4ElQMXVR\">https://t.co/eg4ElQMXVR</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1131848450411077632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2019</a></p></blockquote>', 'external', NULL, 'https://qz.com/1627405/theresa-mays-resignation-ends-the-pounds-record-losing-streak/', 0, 0, 0, 0, '2019-05-27 15:26:55', '2019-05-27 15:26:55', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL);
