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3 weeks ago | 
embedded.substack.com | Nick Catucci |Noah Smith |Matthew Yglesias |Alice Evans
Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. Some weeks, we quiz a “very online” person for their essential guide to what’s good on the internet. Today we welcome Derek Thompson, a staff writer at The Atlantic and host of the news podcast Plain English. He is also the co-author, with Ezra Klein, of Abundance, a new book that has engendered a torrent of discourse about YIMBYism and the pathforward for the Democratic party.
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1 month ago | 
cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz |Alice Evans |Jake Adelstein
I just spent nine days in Tokyo. I was in the neighborhood because my friend just got done with an 11-month fundraise and needed a vacation something fierce and wanted to see Taiwan while we still can. Trip photos from Taipei:Airport, bus, and Main StationXinsheng VillageChiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall & stuffTapei Botanical Garden and Longshan TempleWalk to the Grand Hotel TaipeiNational Palace MuseumTaipei 101Jioufen (best pix imo)White Terror museum and other stuffTokyo photos to come.
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2 months ago | 
slowboring.com | Alice Evans |Matthew Yglesias
Before we get to today’s mailbag, a quick reminder that you can now order Slow Boring merch. We’ve currently got hats and quarter zips. On a more serious note, it’s challenging to cover the frenetic pace of Trump-related events on this newsletter’s timescale, but we don’t want to ignore all the awful things that are happening.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
frontporchrepublic.com | Alice Evans
Spring, 1969. My father finished feeding the cattle and hogs as the sun dropped in the western skyline. In the house, my mother supervised us kids as we donned our Sunday-best clothes. We ate a light supper in silence as the crimson sunset saturated the horizon outside the kitchen windows, a curtain of red bathing us in its reflective light. Dad changed from overalls into his grey suit and tie, starched white shirt, and a felt Fedora hat.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
ggd.world | Alice Evans
“My struggle my Mary has been to provide for you and your little cherub and my pleasure and pride will be to see you enjoy what I can afford to give which shall be all I have... I pledged my soul to love honor and serve you”, wrote James Blair to his wife. Victorian men’s private letters reveal a surprising truth: in an era of patriarchal dominance, romantic love became a subtle but revolutionary force for equality.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Alice Evans
Alice EvansUpdated: Dec 7, 2024, 18:31 IST ISTHindu women's employment in the UK has soared to 58%, but employment numbers are dismal in most Indian states. Part of the reason for this is the drive for upward mobility rooted in caste, a much stronger force in India than abroadIn Britain today, Hindu women’s employment has soared to 58%, while their Muslim counterparts lag behind.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
ggd.world | Alice Evans
Not all cancer treatments work. Likewise, not all feminist activism is effective. So, we can ask,What’s the best way to promote gender equality, without triggering backlash? In 1960s Cairo, young women walked freely through university campuses in miniskirts. But this pushed too far, triggering backlash. Over in the U.S., progressive legislation has also proved antagonistic, heightening men’s sexism. Today in South Korea and Madhya Pradesh, feminist incursions spark violent hostility.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Alice Evans
The 2024 US election crystallised a stark gender divide, with Harris and Swift as feminist standard-bearers for the Democrats, while Trump and Musk rallied working-class male support for the Republicans, decrying ‘childless cat ladies’. But what drives this patriarchal backlash? Is it an inevitable function of women’s economic rise, or was it deliberately manufactured for political gain?
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
ggd.world | Alice Evans
In rural Bihar, the meaning of a ‘good girl’ is being quietly rewritten - in JavaScript and Python. Historically, families have tightly restrict women’s mobility to protect their status and social inclusion. But when a daughter’s monthly salary soars, even the staunchest critics begin to reconsider. After I explored this cultural shift, Print journalist Nootan Sharma headed straight to Bihar’s villages to capture these transformations in real time.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
ggd.world | Alice Evans
In India’s cities, something remarkable is unfolding. Urban female labor force participation has climbed from 20% to 25%. This rise, from an initial low, stems from what I call “the Honour-Income Trade-Off”: male honour is intrinsically tied to female seclusion, but when urban growth creates high-paying jobs, rising salaries begin to compensate for men's perceived loss of honour. Moreover, as more women work in prospering cities, what was once stigmatised becomes normalised.
