A list of good reads
- Vox looks at the crumbling blue wall of a Democrat-loving Silicon Valley that has been broken by Donald Trump.
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) has everything you ever need to know about Usha Chilukuri Vance.
- BBC News lists ten iconic moments from past Olympics in pictures—including Hitler at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, and Usain Bolt’s record-breaking first sprint in 2008.
- Economic Times has a must-read on illegal migrants from Punjab trapped in modern slavery on farmlands in Italy.
- Business Insider looks at why Gen Z is no longer hot on tech jobs.
- Restaurant critic Pete Wells in New York Times (splainer gift link) pens an eye-opening farewell column. It’s not as fun as you think.
- Speaking of food, CNN offers a look inside the success of South Korean convenience stores that offer ready-to-eat kits like instant ramen and onigiri.
- The Guardian has a fascinating piece on the Norwegian style of parenting that treats kids like mini-adults.
- Kelly Stout in Esquire writes a deeply personal and relatable essay about her social experiment to make new friends as an adult.
- Speaking of friendships: Associated Press has a piece on the decline of workplace friendships, made worse by remote working trends.
