LITERARY INSIGHT from PRESENT & PAST " WHATWE’RE READING Tuesday’s election results were a mixed bag for partisans: Democrats regained control of the House, while Republicans extended their Senate majority. But one clear winner in the midterm elections was marijuana... Marijuana Won the Midterm Elections Forbes
Preppers are often portrayed as doomsday- obsessed, right-wing, anti-government extremists who want nothing more than to wade into an apocalypse with guns blazing... but this image only describes a tiny portion of the prepper movement. From my fieldwork, I found that most individuals are simply normal people preparing for adverse events— whether that be a power outage, a flood, or, on the outside chance, a terrorist attack. For Preppers, the Apocalypse Is Just Another Disaster Sapiens Magazine The mouth to the cavern would close slowly over time, at about the rate a fingernail grows, until it was entirely sealed, which would give himmaybe 40 years to complete the project—and because it was a salt mine, chances were that things would stay dry, as the archive rose on a pillow of salt over hundreds of thousands of years to the surface. The Time Capsule That’s as Big as Human History GQ David Bookbinder remembers the good old days of Black Friday, before the overnight lines, the mad dashes, and all the shoving. Back at the turn of the century, he would wake up at 3 a.m. and listen to the “A Charlie Brown Christmas” album in his car while waiting for the doors to open at Saugus’s Square One Mall, where he would load up on Christmas presents for bargain prices. Black Friday Is Dead. Welcome to Black November Boston Globe
The promises from 2020 candidates are going to get more and more extreme... This 43-year-old running for president in 2020 wants to give everyone $1,000 a month in free cash CNBC
From household names like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to lesser- known progressives such as Jeff Merkley, Democratic senators eyeing the White House will spend the next two years doing everything they can to market themselves as the party’s best hope for salvation from Donald Trump. Coming soon to the Senate: A 2020 Democratic brawl, Politico
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