You grew up with your siblings. Do you need to be friends, too?
In this piece, Vox senior reporter Allie Volpe digs into the intricacies of sibling relationships and how they evolve through the span of one's life. As Allie writes, siblings are your first friends and playmates in childhood. As you mature and start to develop other important relationships, sibling paths can diverge and maintaining close ties becomes far more voluntary. Surprisingly enough, one survey showed 45 percent of respondents nevertheless considered a sibling their best friend.
Trump is losing
Oh man, has a single declarative sentence in a headline ever soothed me so much? As Vox senior correspondent Zack Beauchamp writes, President Donald Trump has managed to wreak havoc and destruction on the federal government, the economy, and essential lifesaving foreign aid in his first 100 days. But he has been far less successful at destroying democracy. On numerous fronts — cowing the courts, silencing the press, and bringing elite institutions to heel — Trump is facing sustained pushback. That's some comfort, for the time being.
Drug overdose deaths are in a free fall — for now
In more tempered good news, senior correspondent Dylan Scott reports that drug overdose deaths dramatically fell over the course of 2024, in what appears to be a sustained decline. Experts aren't sure what's causing the dramatic turnaround in the opioid crisis — it could be the end of the pandemic and its attendant isolation and strain on health care providers, the public education campaign around opioids, the wide availability of naloxone, or some combination of factors. This victory, however, is still fragile. Trump's health department is currently working on plans to reduce federal spending on opioid treatments by millions of dollars.
🎧 Retire? In this economy?!
I had to laugh when I heard that, like me, Explain It to Me host Jonquilyn Hill couldn't resist peeking into her 401(k) (like all the advice tells you not to do). Not cute, as she says (mine, either). But you know who things are getting really real for? Baby boomers rapidly approaching retirement who are having to take a good hard look at their finances. In particular, Hill chats with Michelle Singletary, a personal finance columnist at the Washington Post, about what steps near-retirees can take right now to ensure their future. She also has great tips for having that delicate conversation with your boomer parents. Pro tip: Don't start off with, "Hey you got any money?"
Can you do 11 push-ups? Should you?
Despite the fact that I am currently watching TikToks in black and white, I too have come across the viral fitness advice that all women should be able to do 11 push-ups (which, naturally, made me feel a little bad about myself). Writer Kyndall Cunningham reports that while wellness has been largely feminized in the last decade — associated with relaxation and self-care — we're seeing a turn toward a far bro-ier sensibility. Health and fitness culture is all about optimizing performance these days and one-size-fits-all advice that's not necessarily grounded in good data or science.
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