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AlanaSemuels
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AlanaSemuels
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Staff writer at The Atlantic. I write about people doing stuff. LA Times alum. [email protected] theatlantic.com/author/alana-s…
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AlanaSemuels
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19 сати |
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Though Amazon has banned the sale of 18650 lithium ion batteries since August, it's still easy to find them on the site. In March, I bought 8, even though the reviews suggested they were faulty.
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AlanaSemuels
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19 сати |
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Here's a story I did while still at @TheAtlantic, about people who buy things from Amazon that ended up exploding and/or burning their houses down, and why Amazon isn't culpable.
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
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Rob Maxim
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29. апр |
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This is a big win for platforms, and could create roadblocks to getting benefits and protections for gig workers
@MarkMuro1 @lydiadepillis @AlanaSemuels
nytimes.com/2019/04/29/bus…
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AlanaSemuels
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29. апр |
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And I'm back!
Some books to recommend from my break: This is How It Always Is by @Laurie_Frankel, The Power by @NaomiAllthenews, The Earth is Weeping by Peter Cozzens, and yes, I will admit to reading 2/3 of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy on various airplanes.
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AlanaSemuels
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12. апр |
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Always a creepy email to get from HR: pic.twitter.com/SG91BXaUvJ
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AlanaSemuels
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12. апр |
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Today is my last day at @TheAtlantic! I still have a few stories that should run in the next few weeks, but I'm going on vacation and turning off the devices.
When I resurface on social media, I'll be a senior economics correspondent at @TIME, based in San Francisco. (!)
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AlanaSemuels
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11. апр |
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7/ METCO changed my life and that of many of my classmates, black and white. My hope, in writing this story, is that liberal communities will rethink what they're willing to sacrifice for the greater good of integration.
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AlanaSemuels
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11. апр |
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6/ One professor summed it up well: "To actually produce more integrated outcomes would require a different reallocation of resources -- it would require people to give up something among white families, which is always a difficult proposition."
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AlanaSemuels
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11. апр |
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5/ As the federal government discontinues funding for integration and the courts make it harder to use race to boost diversity, states like Massachusetts and districts like Belmont could put MORE money towards increasing diversity. But that's unlikely.
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AlanaSemuels
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11. апр |
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4/ The casual wealth on display in the suburbs was jarring. "It seemed normal that if you were white, that's how you lived," one said. "My thing was always, 'Damn, it sucks not to be white.'"
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AlanaSemuels
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11. апр |
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3/ Black students spent long days in a foreign place. Eddie, my best friend in kindergarten, was one of the best-behaved kids in the class, but his parents still worried. "It would be, 'Let's make sure you're not the reason Belmont stops accepting METCO students.'"
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AlanaSemuels
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11. апр |
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2/ For decades, it has bused around 3,000 black and Latino students to white Boston-area suburbs. It benefited white students like me tremendously, but white families and taxpayers have had to sacrifice very little for it. It's almost entirely state-funded.
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AlanaSemuels
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11. апр |
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A thread: METCO was started in 1966 after the Boston School Committee refused to integrate city schools; it bused black students from Boston into white under-enrolled suburbs. Its founders assumed it wouldn't be necessary for long and that housing segregation would dissipate.
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The Atlantic
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11. апр |
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As political pressure has faded away and funding for desegregation programs has stagnated, Boston-area schools have resegregated, writes @alanasemuels: on.theatln.tc/0pzj5dD
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AlanaSemuels
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11. апр |
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Come for the piece about the state of school integration in America, stay for the vintage shot of me and Eddie at a pizza party in the 1980s pic.twitter.com/Jl4r0WSqBw
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AlanaSemuels
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11. апр |
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Here’s a more personal story: Boston’s METCO program, one of the few voluntary integration programs left in the country, helped integrate schools like the suburban one I attended.
But support for it – and integration – may be waning.
theatlantic.com/education/arch…
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AlanaSemuels
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10. апр |
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Thrilled to announce I'll be joining @TIME as Senior Economics Correspondent beginning April 29.
I'm sad to leave the wonderful people at @TheAtlantic after 4.5 years, but am also excited for a new challenge.
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Jim Roberts
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9. апр |
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Bank of America is raising its minimum wage for employees to $20 an hour. cnb.cx/2Z08Mlh
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Derek Thompson
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7. апр |
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Not to be dramatic, but this research finding should rattle US social policy to its core.
"Adults who originated from disadvantaged backgrounds and achieved economic success founds themselves in worse health than their childhood peers."
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29553759 pic.twitter.com/LmCX4FkhV1
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AlanaSemuels
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8. апр |
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Absolutely heartbreaking story by @AdamHSays about the impossible life -- and death -- of an adjunct professor trying to make it in academia. She had a PhD from Columbia and, ironically, studied slavery. theatlantic.com/education/arch…
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