The Biden administration has no control over the World Health Organization. It's a UN organization, not a US one.

I mean, there have been plenty of alarms from President Biden, the January 6th committee, former President Obama, and others.

The issue is that, within democratic norms, what can they do besides speak on the issue and hope voters respond? They don't have a sufficient number willing to act on voting rights reform in the Senate or roll back the filibuster to allow them to act. They can't act unilaterally lest they violate the very norms they seek to protect.

I assume it's because arrest records provide more consistent demographic information than reported crimes, which may or may not have full suspect info.

Vendetta level: grandmother angry because you're living with your boyfriend or girlfriend without getting married.

"Company offers chance to be buried in debt for €58,000."

Seven were arrested in one county; six of them are visible in the image in the thumbnail. Two were arrested by sheriffs from another county, including one juvenile.

I suggest pushing on (with frequent small breaks as you need) or setting it aside for a while.

I had to read The Road for class and we were discussing it during one of my most anxious moments during undergrad; I was applying to graduate school and despairing about the options. I couldn't read more than 20 pages at a time before I had to go for a long walk and shake the shroud of apocalypticism off me for a bit. It was a good book, and I don't regret finishing it, but wow, was that miserable.

So just decide for yourself if you want to push on. (No shame if you don't; The Bell Jar is amazing, but it'll be around even if you wait a year.) If you do go forward with reading, try to build a routine out of it: read what you can and then do a self-affirming activity, as simple as walking outside in the fresh air or drinking your favorite tea.

You know, The Hobbit films are no Lord of the Rings, but they are good popcorn flicks, and what the films get right (Bilbo, Smaug, Gollum, some of the setpiece scenes like the dwarven singing and Beorn) they get very right. If those films pass your violence check for your daughter (I mean, at 6 I watched and loved Raiders of the Lost Ark), they'd be fine to watch.

>Does 1984 ever dive into how the party rose to power? If it does, a simple “yeah keep reading” would work.

>comments like “just read the book” aren’t helpful.

I really don't know what you want.

He will be missed. Latour's book We Have Never Been Modern was enormously influential to me in graduate school, as someone interested in questions of periodization and how inconsistently "modern" has been defined.

I want to highlight one of the replies here that distinguishes how the First Crusade was more noble-driven than royal-driven (see the label "Princes' Crusade"). Indeed, one misrepresentation here is that 11th century kingdoms worked like modern states (France, HRE), centralized institutions that raised armies and sent them out. It's not just that feudalism means kings have less power, but that the state apparatuses for raising an army are quite different and distributed to local figures (like lords). So if we're looking at capacities for conflict, "France and HRE's ability to raise armies" (as if the state is doing the action) should be clarified as the monarch's ability to organize armies and perhaps expanded to regional and local leaders' ability to raise armies and engage in conflict, since in the absence of strong state apparatuses conflict comes from leaders creating coalitions of followers and raising people loyal to them.

But the short answer to the first question is "no." For instance, Robert II (Normandy) returns from the Crusades and almost immediately tries to take the throne of England from King Henry I. They settle the dispute diplomatically after Robert lands in England (the Treaty of Alton, 1101), but the reasons for Robert settling are more likely related to Henry's popularity among the English nobles and the church than any shortage of troops. Indeed, they end up fighting anyway in 1105-6, only a few years later, culminating in the Battle of Tinchebray. Robert lost, but he wasn't necessarily short-handed. So whatever the exact numbers would've been, leaders of the time maintained their capacity to wage war almost immediately after the First Crusade.

It could be a factor. The birth rate was continuously dropping in the late 1960s though, and the death rate was at a high in 1968, which may have also cut into the median. Reductions in death rate in the 1970s, along with reductions in birth rate, may have meant an older median.

>I think you should eliminate minors

Well, that escalated quickly. /s