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‘These accounts clearly are designed as a capitalist alternative’
‘“Trump Accounts” give babies a boost — but do nothing to help parents with today’s costs’
Chicago Tribune editorial board
Parents have “another option in the form of the newly created so-called Trump Accounts,” which allows a “$1,000 taxpayer-funded deposit for every child born in 2025 through 2028,” says the Chicago Tribune editorial board. But “Trump Accounts will do nothing to address the real affordability crisis plaguing American families.” A “$1,000 ‘thank you’ from the government for procreating, accessible 18 years down the line, doesn’t put food on the table now or purchase clothes for ever-growing kids.”
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The “recent war over the use of critical race theory in schools was really about whether teachers were imposing a radical and harmful curriculum designed by out-of-touch, highly educated elites,” says Idrees Kahloon. The “suspicion that Americans are becoming more illiterate has long been irresistible to the educated class.” But “across time and cultures, we hear the alarm of declinism.” Perhaps the “kids have simply never been all right in the eyes of their elders.”
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) has “recently emerged as a fierce moral counterweight to this administration,” says Renée Graham. As the “White House looks for goats to scape, Kelly is excoriating this administration with passion and precision.” If “Kelly, 61, has presidential aspirations, he’s unlikely to announce them anytime soon. But whatever he is called to do, his voice is welcome and right on time in this fearsome moment.” Believe “Kelly when he says he won’t be cowed or silenced.”
Salma Al-Shami and Michael Robbins at Foreign Affairs
A “year after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Syria remains a country very much in transition,” say Salma Al-Shami and Michael Robbins. To “figure out how Syria can best rebuild, its leaders and international supporters must understand the wants and needs of the country’s citizens.” New survey results “provide reasons to be optimistic about Syria’s future.” The “new government has bought itself time to transform the country,” but “eventually, the honeymoon will end.”
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.
