Don’t worry, gen Z! A billionaire boomer says your lives are going to be great | Arwa Mahdawi
ceveryone. Things may seem tough at the moment, but that means that billionaires will hurry up and reassure everyone, especially the uneven young people, and everything will be fine. In fact, it’s better than OK. According to Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, despite the current economic and political instability, Gen Z should be grateful […]
The year in patriarchy: coconut trees, ‘childless cat ladies’ and crimes against humanity | Arwa Mahdawi
2024 was a very modest, very cautious, very dystopian year. I started my annual review of last year by saying that it was the hottest year on record. And… guess what? 2024 will exceed 2023. hottest year on record. Many of the same extreme themes from last year also continue. Anti-abortion activists are still trying […]
My daughter will be an only child – and I’m not going to feel guilty about it | Arwa Mahdawi
FOr a few years ago, I kept several vials of strangers' sperm on ice. Let me be clear: it's not just hanging out next to frozen peas in the freezer. They are stored in a fancy cryobank, and every six months a $285 charge appears on my credit card statement for the storage privilege. I've […]
Elon Musk is on track to be a trillionaire – if America doesn’t turn against him first | Arwa Mahdawi
CThank you to Elon Musk, a true galactic genius who recently made perhaps the smartest investment in the world. tech billionaire spending Over $277 million It supported Donald Trump along with many other Republican candidates in the election, and its $250 million investment paid off handsomely. Mr Musk's net worth has increased by 77% since […]
I moved to another city – and found an unexpected way to make new friends | Arwa Mahdawi
IIt started in my mid-30s. “A great start.” Gradually, then suddenly, my friends in New York began to disappear. Some people moved outside the city. Some have moved on to different stages of life. Some people have become more focused on their careers and have no free time. Or maybe you've had a child and […]
McDonald Trump had a shift serving fries. Will the stunt supersize his base? | Arwa Mahdawi
RRemember the creepy clown sightings that started in 2016? Scary clowns began appearing all over the world, scaring small children. The trend has even scared McDonald's executives, who have begun phasing out McDonald's due to the “current climate surrounding clown sightings in the community.” Eight years later, there was another creepy clown sighting at a […]
When will Israel free the Palestinians it is holding hostage? | Arwa Mahdawi
If we want to understand the complex situation in the Middle East, we need to start with two basic facts on which everything else is based. First, Israelis are civilized people just like Westerners. You should believe anything the Israeli government says, and they clearly have no intention of lying. Israeli soldiers and Settlers Even […]
What’s up with ChatGPT’s new sexy persona? | Arwa Mahdawi
“a“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” Arthur C. Clarke famously said. And this is certainly true of his impressive OpenAI update for ChatGPT called GPT-4o, which was released on Monday. Just to warn you, this magician felt like a newly born naughty 12-year-old boy. I watched the Spike Jonze movie “Her”. If you’re […]
Could you get by on a measly $43,000 a month? It seems Rudy Giuliani can’t | Arwa Mahdawi
‘B“Bankruptcy” is a surprisingly amorphous term. For poor people, it means no money.For corporations and the ultra-wealthy, it is Clever legal strategy It can protect their wealth from lawsuits. And for Rudy Giuliani, the disgraced former New York City mayor and Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, that means being forced to try to survive. Just $43,000 […]