'The pattern is similar across America'

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People kayak across Leigh Lake in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park in 2024.
People kayak across Leigh Lake in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park in 2024
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'Is this the beginning of the end of America's national parks?'

Ted Kerasote at The New York Times

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'The anti anti-feminist election'

Arash Azizi at The Atlantic

Opposition to "women's rights has helped fuel authoritarian movements in Russia, Hungary, Brazil, and the United States," says Arash Azizi. That the "same is true in South Korea" is "perhaps less well-known." South Korea's "role of anti-feminists is particularly stark, helping to put women's issues at the very center of the country's fraught contest." For "longer than it has had a democracy, South Korea has had a women's rights movement pressing to improve these conditions."

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'Corporations won't save LGBTQ+ people. Take their money for Pride anyway.'

Missy Spears at USA Today

Corporations are "not our friends," says Missy Spears. They "exist to sell us things. They exist to advertise their brand. They exist to maximize their profits." Every "dollar counts more than ever if we want to keep LGBTQ+ people informed, healthy and alive." It "would financially decimate" the LGBTQ+ community if they were "expected to take the already small amount of resources that we have and use them to replace hundreds of millions of dollars in lost sponsorships."

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'Assad and Iran are out of Syria. The U.S. should be too.'

Alex Madajian at The American Conservative

The "longer we keep American personnel in a rapidly changing part of the world where no vital U.S. interest is at stake, the more difficult it will be to prevent an unnecessary loss of life if the situation falls apart," says Alex Madajian. Whether Syria "prospers into a stable country or slides back into chaos, it is not worth American lives to guide Syria's fate." The U.S. "should focus on regions where core national interests are at stake."

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Justin Klawans has worked as a staff writer at The Week since 2022. He began his career covering local news before joining Newsweek as a breaking news reporter, where he wrote about politics, national and global affairs, business, crime, sports, film, television and other news. Justin has also freelanced for outlets including Collider and United Press International.