The fear of inflation has become a greater threat to the American economy than inflation itself… But we live in an era of anemic inflation, and changes in the economic landscape since the ’70s have significantly reduced the chances of a revival…

Only when inflation settles comfortably around 2% should policy makers think about withdrawing stimulus.

Something extraordinary is breaking out at the moment: a debate about inflation. The trigger is the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill President Biden and Capitol Hill Democrats intend to ram through on a party-line vote. The sum is so outlandish it’s making even veteran spendthrifts nervous.

The problem is Texas’s overreliance on wind power that has left the grid more vulnerable to bad weather. Half of wind turbines froze last week, causing wind’s share of electricity to plunge to 8% from 42%. Power prices in the wholesale market spiked, and grid regulators on Friday warned of rolling blackouts.

…the fundamental reason behind the blackout — the neglected, isolated Texas grid. It is easily possible to operate power infrastructure in extreme cold conditions, one just needs to prepare for it. For instance, wind turbines really can ice up, but this problem can be avoided with electric heating elements. (There have been wind turbines in Antarctica for years.)

All over the country, utilities and grid operators are confronting similar questions, as climate change threatens to intensify heat waves, floods, water shortages and other calamities, all of which could create novel risks for the nation’s electricity systems.

The Channel 12 survey of Israelis who have not vaccinated, which allowed them to give more than one answer, found that 41% said they fear possible side effects; 30% are not sure the vaccine is effective; 27% will vaccinate soon; 10% cited information on social media and 4% said the incentives are insufficient.

Israel is blaming online misinformation for a sudden slowdown in the campaign. Now, officials are fighting back. Israel’s Health Ministry, which is spearheading the vaccination efforts, is employing both warnings and incentives as it tries to persuade reluctant holdouts to get immunized.

For weeks, we have witnessed attempts to break down the public’s willingness to be vaccinated. News programs competed with each other over who could provide the bigger counter-point to experts, who would give anti-vaxxers a bigger stage, and who would hold absurd discussions about experiments on human beings and who would present the purchase agreements with the vaccine manufacturers in the most suspicious light.

Given that spotty precedent, it might be unfair to say that the 1980 Olympics proved the futility of an Olympic boycott. But it would still be fair to ask whether a mass walkout on the 2022 Olympics would have a real impact now.

Though there is bipartisan consensus in acknowledging this genocide, what else can we do to rein in the Communist Party’s atrocities in Xinjiang? Start with boycotting Xi Jinping’s crowning moment as the country’s leader… Rewarding the bad behavior of autocrats only emboldens them.

…given the modern realities of Chinese global economic integration, today we can expect much more resistance to the boycott idea. Washington could well find itself the majorette for a marching band that is going in an entirely different direction.

Nice Jewish professional chef, Jake Cohen, always had a love for cooking. Rushing home every day as a teenager to watch “Barefoot Contessa,” the Ashkenazi foodie eventually took his hobby and turned it into a profession… Then Cohen met his Persian-Iraqi husband, Alex Shapiro, whose traditions, family stories and recipes flipped everything Cohen knew about Jewish cooking on its head.

Shorba is the hearty soup you make when the weather outside is cold and grey. Shorba is the smooth creamy soup you make when someone is sick and you want to nurse them back to health. Shorba is the soup you make when you want simple home cooked goodness.

Elli Kriel, a sociologist by training who moved to Dubai in 2013 when her husband was transferred to the Emirates for work, began serving kosher food to Jewish tourists years ago out of her home kitchen. Now she has become the go-to kosher chef in the UAE at a time when Israeli tourists have begun streaming into the country.

This is an article for Gen Z. If you’re not Gen Z, just keep scrolling… Fashion is cyclical. Trends come and go ― and come, and go ― and though it pains me to say this, you might one day too be into the tight, constricting leg jail that is the skinny jean.

TikTok has become a core way for Gen Z to express its own ethos, aesthetic, and attitudes—sometimes resulting in outright hostility toward millennials and boomers (though rarely Gen Xers, forever the forgotten middle child).

…when skinny jeans first came around in the mid-‘00s, they were a revelation. They accentuated the butt without exposing it. Suddenly hemlines could remain clean and unchewed, and show off our boots rather than be destroyed by them. And while some — notably, moms — were scandalized by how tight skinny jeans were, I was just thrilled about not having my buttcrack out and my midsection on display.