Israel's leaders have been eternally judged. What are they thinking now?
Rogel Alpher in Haaretz
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Starmer's Labour is leaving my generation feeling politically homeless
Fran Boait in The Guardian
For people who "entered the world of work at around the time of the financial crash", the next election may present "the first opportunity in our working lives to not be living under Tory rule", writes banking campaigner Fran Boait for The Guardian. Yet on issues from "economic breakdown to the climate crisis and racial injustice", Keir Starmer has "little to say", leaving many "politically homeless" and "unsure about the route towards a progressive UK".
Most Americans yearn for a third party. Don't hold your breath
Paul Waldman in The Washington Post
That most Americans want to see a third party "should be unsurprising", says Paul Waldman in The Washington Post, as the country braces for a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024. But the polarised political system means those hoping for an alternative "won't be getting what you want anytime soon". While third parties are "too often seduced by the siren song of the presidential race", they can only function as spoilers, which "wins them nothing but resentment".
Ozempic can't fix what our culture has broken
Tressie McMillan Cottom in The New York Times
Weight-loss jab Ozempic has become "shorthand for our coded language of shame, stigma, status and bias around fatness", says sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom in The New York Times. Recent supply problems revealed a "grim picture of inequality", with wealthy slimmers buying up the drug "while people who needed it struggled to fill their prescriptions". Solving obesity "will require more than drugs". We must also address "the conditions for making some people undesirable" that are still "lurking in the shadows".
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