If This Many Cross the Border in February, How Many Will Come in June? Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. A crisis is coming: The surge of refugees will only grow larger
“The truth is that much of our vaunted tolerance is the result of our circumstances: thousands of miles from anywhere, protected on three sides by oceans, with a climate cold enough to put off all but the most persevering and, crucially, a stable, prosperous, immigrant-welcoming country to our south. As such, we have been in the enviable position of being able to decide both how many immigrants and refugees to let in, and which ones.”
2. Inside the brutal transformation of Tim Hortons
“Since taking over the iconic chain in 2014, its new Brazilian owner, 3G Capital, has purged head office, slashed costs and squeezed suppliers. Shareholders are happy, but is 3G tearing the heart out of Timmy’s?”
3.France’s far-right leader climbs in polls despite arrests of two aides
“Just as new opinion polls show an improving chance for Marine Le Pen to win the first round of the upcoming French presidential election, the far-right candidate is facing scandal, with two of her aides taken in Wednesday for police questioning. The authorities are investigating whether the National Front leader improperly used European Parliamentary money to pay their salaries.”
4. The meaning of Milo
“From Dubya’s evangelical conservatism to Milo’s Rimbaudian new right, from “marriage is between a man and a woman” to “well, we draw the line at ephebophilia” is a rather dizzying trajectory. But if you understand what’s happened to cultural conservatism over the last decade, the strange career of Yiannopoulos makes a striking sort of sense.”
5. You’re a completely different person at 14 and 77, the longest-running personality study ever has found
“If your patterns of thought, emotions, and behavior so drastically alter over the decades, can you truly be considered the same person in old age as you were as a teenager? This question ties in with broader theories about the nature of the self. For example, there is growing neuroscience research that supports the ancient Buddhist belief that our notion of a stable ‘self’ is nothing more than an illusion.”
– Quartz
