Boys don’t cry… A name to motion… The struggle social gathering… Touring to Cuba… Invoice vs. Hill… Burning questions… The most effective medication… Correction…
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Boys Don’t Cry
Re “Are Males OK?,” by Eamon Whalen (April 2025): I used to be taken with Richard Reeves’s concept that some boys and males would possibly profit from a boys’ and males’s assist tradition that’s not constructed round poisonous fashions of manhood however as a substitute acknowledges that some boys and males want extra assist with adapting to cultural adjustments or studying so-called “smooth expertise” than others. I take difficulty, nonetheless, together with his conclusion that each one boys must be held again a 12 months earlier than beginning college. Placing apart the earnings, transportation, housing, healthcare, childcare, and employment challenges dealing with most mother and father right now, there’s nonetheless the important thing matter of particular person improvement. We can not have only one blanket coverage for all boys, particularly when it’s based mostly on a class like organic intercourse. There are delicate, eloquent boys and rough-and-tumble women, and most of us have a number of traits which are related to each genders. We additionally stay in a society that tries to delineate character, well being, and performance based mostly on extra-slim, outmoded beliefs of intercourse and gender that trigger actual hurt to us each individually and collectively, by perpetuating stereotypes and guidelines of conduct that don’t consider our diverse lived experiences as human beings who can not match neatly into single-silo, both/or classes.
Holly L. McEntyre
sanibel, fl
Give us half the seats within the authorities, give us sovereignty over our personal our bodies, give us equal pay, after which we’ll speak about whether or not males are OK.
Susan Connell
emmet, nd
A Name to Motion
Present Problem
I agree with Kate Wagner’s assertion that the California housing disaster is now not simply a problem of provide and demand (“We’re Not Ready,” April 2025). Her article brilliantly highlights how the commodification of housing and the relentless development of wealth inequality have led to a disaster wherein the poor and dealing lessons are those that suffer essentially the most throughout catastrophic occasions. As she factors out, local weather change has uncovered the unsustainability of continued overdevelopment in high-risk areas, but the system continues to cater to the wealthy. The truth that households displaced by the Los Angeles County fires are being surveilled and price-gouged relatively than supported exemplifies these systemic flaws. The shift away from homeownership as the top of prosperity towards a extra equitable, resilient system is lengthy overdue. Wagner’s article is a name to motion to rethink our housing insurance policies and create a system that may stand up to each local weather crises and market shocks.
Sunny Garcia
Good Park, ca
The Conflict Social gathering
Re “A New Technique” (April 2025): Whereas Jee Kim and Waleed Shahid’s article rightly highlights the Democratic Social gathering’s disconnect from the working class, it overlooks one essential issue: the Democrats’ energetic promotion and funding of—and advantages from—struggle. The social gathering doesn’t simply assist army interventions overseas; it actively promotes and funds them, diverting taxpayer cash from pressing home must limitless wars that profit the military-industrial complicated. This has left many citizens feeling betrayed, as they see the Democrats extra invested in world energy than in addressing the rising prices of healthcare, housing, and childcare. Voters are starting to understand that each main events are a part of the identical system, detached to the struggles of on a regular basis People. Till the Democratic Social gathering confronts its position in perpetuating the struggle machine and refocuses on the wants of working folks, it can proceed to lose their belief.
Layle-Stav Kashi
skinnyn, or
Touring to Cuba
I learn David Montgomery’s article about Cuba with nice curiosity, since I had not too long ago returned from my first tour of Cuba (“Life Beneath Sanctions,” April 2025). I used to be astounded by the fantastic thing about the nation and the resilience of the Cuban folks, how they make do with what they’ve and nonetheless create nice artwork, music, and dance. I inform everybody that it’s attainable for People to go to the nation, and I urge those that can to take action. Beneath this present administration, maybe that is what’s left for us to assist the Cuban folks, and maybe such tourism will change our attitudes about Cuba and create the momentum wanted to alter this pointless sanctions regime. We will be taught from the Cubans how they’ve coped underneath a troublesome financial and political system as we enter into our personal evolving repressive regime.
Noelle Gillies
SAN JOSE, CA
The Finest Drugs
I get pleasure from most of The Nation, however I’ve to confess I subscribe for Elie Mystal. His piece on airline deregulation was not solely informative however spew-my-lunch, laugh-out-loud humorous (“Who Gave Away the Skies to the Airways?,” April 2025). And don’t all of us want causes to snicker these days.
George Kramer
ashland, or
Invoice vs. Hill
Invoice Clinton is definitely no hero of mine, however I’m afraid he will get a little bit of a bum rap in Lily Geismer’s article “The Lifeless Hand of Clintonism” (March 2025). In 1981, when Tony Coelho grew to become chair of the DCCC, he made a deliberate resolution to compete with the GOP for company money, evidently on the belief that the working class may very well be taken as a right since they’d nowhere else to go. Clinton, nonetheless, started his presidency as an actual progressive, with Robert Reich in his cupboard, Joe Stiglitz as financial adviser, and Les Aspin, a former congressman considerably vital of the Pentagon, as his first secretary of protection. Hillary Clinton, however, was the very personification of the company Democrat.
J Rank
San Diego, ca
Burning Questions
A phrase of thanks for Lazo Gitchos’s article about the necessity to rethink the connection between nature and the constructed surroundings (“Rethinking Hearth,” March 2025). What are the options? Wouldn’t it assist to maintain our firefighting equipment operational year-round? Do we’d like a nationwide plan, with methods and techniques that may be tailored domestically? Mr. Gitchos’s highly effective essay leaves me fascinated by concepts that may convey extra steadiness to that relationship.
Peter Macy
andover, ma
Correction
The title of the French socialist chief and activist Jean Jaurès was misspelled in John Banville’s assessment “All Is Unfinished,” within the March 2025 difficulty.
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