ar more rapidly than anticipated

Few

profound shock

Unfortunately, this dose of reality arrives more than 30 years after human-caused climate change became a mainstream issue.

The climate change panel seems finally to have caught up with the gravity of the climate crisis.

first 108 years

all

underestimate the severity of threats

For decades, most scientists saw climate change as a distant prospect.

Rather, have an upbeat sign inviting people to take part in a dog-walking club, a community garden or some other activity

handing out small grants to local gardening clubs, bird-watching groups and others so that they can spread the word and invite more people to join

I’m now persuaded that it’s a model for other countries.

Second, people who are alone are less likely to go to doctor appointments, to take medicine or to exercise and eat a healthy diet.

doctors are sometimes the only ones to witness a patient’s death, with no loved ones around

he saw families sometimes drop elderly family members off at a hospital for Thanksgiving or another long weekend in what sounds to me rather like the practice of a family leaving a dog at a kennel when they’re going away

Extended families have dissolved, and social institutions like churches, bowling leagues and neighborhood clubs have frayed

Public health experts in many countries are debating how to address a “loneliness epidemic”

Edvard Munch

lonely crowd

Her cultural power still threatens to overwhelm all of the realistic, funny writing and performance of Ms. Wong, Angela Garbes, Nefertiti Austin and Amy Schumer, who are expanding our narrow and confining definition of the “ideal mother.”

diaphanous

veneration

reduced to a state of melancholia

rickets

who was not only responsible for the moral development of her children but also on the hook for their psychological and physical health

I would — I was going to say — lie down & die

Rogers’s disappointment in her absent husband

colicky

ambivalence

I fear I am not very charitable towards babies

every irritable feeling should … be restrained

child-rearing manuals

In fact, they were often forced to leave their own babies to help raise wealthier children.

Working-class white women and women of color were excluded from the cult of true womanhood

there wasn’t widespread pressure to find pure joy in baby care.

Women in colonial-era America helped run family farms and small businesses,

They needed the strong moral guidance of their fathers to live a proper life — while mothers were praised for their fertility, they were considered too emotional to raise children

innately

propensity

women were supposed to feel fulfilled by their maternal role

since the 1800s

There are two diametrically opposed concepts of motherhood that dominate conversation in America today.

diametrically

looking for employment

What kinds of jobs are available to people without much education? By and large, the answer is: jobs that do not pay enough to live on.

working homeless,” a now-necessary phrase in today’s low-wage/high-rent society

But there were also wrinkled photos of her kids

Laughter burst from the room.

I wish we had a nice place like this.” Then her eye spotted a roach feeling its way over the stucco wall.

Vanessa placed her insulin in the minifridge

Vanessa’s children, Taliya, 17, Shamal, 14, and Tatiyana, 12. When things got too loud or one of her grandchildren gave her lip, she would ask Vanessa to take her children somewhere else.

My dad was a junkie, but he never left us.

ailing

fled their last place in June 2015, after a young man was shot and killed around the corner.

When they did, he sexually assaulted her

often in an elevator, staircase or doorway

H.R.A. took no action against the two officers named in the case

“If it wasn’t for her, I don’t know what he would have done to me,”

The number of formal complaints is small, given the millions of people served by the agency, but the behavior they describe is shocking. Victims and attorneys say abuse often goes unreported, since poor people are less likely to have legal representation.

It demands urgent, focused attention by the mayor to stop an alarming pattern of abuse against people living in poverty.

archipelago

the city agency that serves more than three million impoverished New Yorkers every year.

They were employees and contractors of the Human Resources Administration

“I can’t breathe!” Mr. Purnell heaved. “I need my oxygen!”

begging for help as officers kicked him and beat him with batons.

Her body was disabled, but thanks to the variety of devoted care she received, her life, though limited, retained its meaning.

Gross National Happiness Index

But our mental, emotional and spiritual needs are just as difficult to manage as we age, harder to expense and easier to ignore.

A handful of states offer some form of limited paid leave to workers to care for a family member, but for the rest of the country, the Family and Medical Leave Act, which applies only to immediate family members, allows for up to 12 work weeks of unpaid leave

But my grandmother’s life shrank

urban village configuration

my grandmother, divorced and in her 50s, retired early from her job as a garment worker to care for her at home.

may have little or no training

My family rallied to help her

found her clenched right hand no longer at her command

She went on with life, and then collapsed the next week.

Too many people have no choice but to reconfigure their lives around a loved one’s disability.

until we reach justice by whatever means necessary.”

helped pass 67 new gun laws in 2018.

Think of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, whose stone-faced protest outside the Swedish Parliament in 2018 inspired student strikes in more than a dozen countries and made her a global voice on climate change.

galvanized

memeify

concomitant

The mural is spectacular, at the intersection of the two major roads that carry drivers from fully gentrified central Seattle to quickly gentrifying south Seattle. Images of Black Panthers distributing food and registering black voters stretch 40 feet along the sidewalk outside the high school, which is 93 percent kids of color.

but primarily because I’d been taught that when ordinary people, especially young people, try to do activism, they look stupid.

bleeding-heart pandering to the dreaded “politically correct.”

deriding

cured

I want to be very clear that I’m not talking about kids of marginalized identities or communities who have never for one second had the luxury to choose whether to fight or not.

tedious, silly, self-important and, most damningly, ineffectual

innate

yearning to be one of those kids who isn’t scared of sincerity, of action, of authority

I was on the side of the hippies

Inasmuch

globalization

tanks and bricks and garbage fires and naked bicyclists and people dressed as turtles

How ’90s pop culture convinced a generation of would-be earnest activists that caring was uncool.

we could have

In Northern California, power was cut to more than a million people this week. Near Houston, houses that flooded only two years ago just succumbed again. The South endured record-shattering fall heat waves. In Miami, salt water bubbled through street drains yet again as the rising ocean mounted a fresh assault.

most urgent imperative now

Or we can be as brave as a schoolgirl and decide that now is the time to stand up and fight.

Republican Party lies about this issue while the Democratic Party hides from it.

laws with teeth

The most urgent imperative now is to turn our fear and frustration into votes.

Yes, in some sense it is.

public revolt over the climate crisis

heedlessly

But even the scientists did not quite foresee the way that bone-dry vegetation would turn into a firebomb waiting for a spark.

we act surprised

slithered

All of it was predicted, in general outline, decades ago.

By raising taxes on the wealthy, we could end the lead poisoning that afflicts half a million American kids, we could provide high-quality preschool for all, we could offer treatment for all people with addictions and we could ensure that virtually all kids graduate from a decent high school and at least get a crack at college.

Even if Trump disappeared tomorrow, we would still live in a country where the top 1 percent own more than the bottom 90 percent — and where on any given night more than 100,000 children are homeless.

highest audit rate

High marginal income tax rates, applied only to very high incomes, are a perfectly sensible way to limit the explosion of top wealth inequality

This tax holiday, which they knew of in advance, turned out to have no impact on how hard people worked,

One of the most consequential political debates in the coming years will be whether to raise taxes on the wealthy.

if we had the same income distribution today as we had in 1979, the bottom 80 percent would have about an extra $1 trillion each year and the top 1 percent would have about $1 trillion less.

roughly the same gap in life expectancy as exists between the U.S. and Nigeria.

factory closings and lack of job retraining, corporate greed and irresponsibility, assaults on labor unions, stingy social welfare, mass incarceration and so on

class warfare

this is America’s cancer.

Great wealth has translated into immense political power, which is then leveraged to multiply that wealth and power all over again

the 400 richest American households paid a lower average tax rate than any other income group

Right now, our fear about addressing race causes us to leave kids guessing,

War on Christmas

edginess or rebellion, the teenager softened his stances and even disabled his alt-right meme accounts.

proud of his efforts to develop opinions that weren’t spoon-fed to him and to promise to listen to their son’s perspective if he would listen to theirs.

internet

we want to keep them from becoming supporters of the racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and gender- or sexuality-based hatred that is on the rise.

killed 22 people

causes real-life devastation.

2016 to 2017

And anyway, I’m sure my friend shared it to be ironic.

He was shocked and embarrassed when I pointed out the actual message: that it would have been better if the Holocaust had continued.

a segment of the white supremacist movement consisting of a loose network of racists and anti-Semites who reject mainstream conservatism in favor of politics that embrace implicit or explicit racism, anti-Semitism and white supremacy.

triggered

innocuous

What I didn’t predict was that my sons’ adolescence would include being drawn to the kind of online content that right-wing extremists use to recruit so many young men.

squishy little babies

prey

there is no moral equivalence between the stress of a senior executive staying up late to polish a presentation for a client and the stress of a retail worker unsure if she will get the shift she needs to make rent.

If you don’t want to be stressed out, stop making decisions that will stress you out.

Maybe you will only be rich, as opposed to superrich. But you’ll be O.K.

Just stop

more resistant to paying the higher taxes that are necessary for redistribution or better public services because they feel under such financial pressure themselves

they have convinced themselves are unavoidable.

The first 18 years in the lives of the children of these parents have become an expensive, extended college preparation course.

“The way the world works these days is unbelievable.” But that is not the way the world works: It is the way he was working the world.

the best preschools, the best high schools and the best colleges.

The problems of the affluent are not systemic. They are self-inflicted.

This is not to say that successful people are immune to life’s difficulties and strains.

12 years longer

malaise

Perhaps sick of being cast as villains, some of the rich and successful have decided to declare themselves victims.

Their new complaint

The whining of the wealthy is getting louder.

money-rich, perhaps, but time-poor.

meritocracy

that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

these dead shall not have died in vain

brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this

can long endure

all men are created equal.

conceived in Liberty

The first polls since the start of the inquiry have found that public support for impeachment is growing.

218 votes,

Mr. Trump’s fixation on discovering and discussing the identity of the whistle-blower

But it is where we start. It is where our union grows stronger.

so Ashley convinced her mother that what she really liked and really wanted to eat more than anything else was mustard and relish sandwiches

This time we want to talk about

distraction

by investing in our schools and our communities; by enforcing our civil rights laws and ensuring fairness in our criminal justice system; by providing this generation with ladders of opportunity that were unavailable for previous generations.

requires a belief that society can change.

without becoming victims of our past.

imperfect

In fact, a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. Most working- and middle-class white Americans don’t feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race.

And the lack of basic services in so many urban black neighborhoods – parks for kids to play in, police walking the beat, regular garbage pick-up and building code enforcement – all helped create a cycle of violence, blight and neglect that continue to haunt us.

meant that black families could not amass any meaningful wealth to bequeath to future generations.

But we do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.

we’ve never really worked through

But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now.

I suppose the politically safe thing would be to move on from this episode and just hope that it fades into the woodwork.

The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America.

the stories and songs gave us a means to reclaim memories

But the truth is, that isn’t all that I know of the man.

elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America

Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely – just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.

that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation; that rightly offend white and black alike.

that it’s based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap

“too black” or “not black enough.”

I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.

I’ve gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world’s poorest nations

comes from my own American story.

but we all want to move in the same direction

through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk

to leave any final resolution to future generations.

It was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery

improbable experiment in democracy