Amid a national outcry in Britain over gender-based crimes including the murder of Sarah Everard by a London police officer, the public discourse has turned to a new question: Should misogyny be considered as a hate crime? Activists, opposition lawyers and criminal justice experts say the definition of hate crime should be expanded to ensure greater punishment for crimes like harassment, domestic abuse and stalking, and to signal the seriousness of these offenses. The government has ruled this out so far, but not yet ruled out. Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, said that the legislation currently in place was abundant but not being properly enforced. The extension of the scope would increase the burden on the police, he said. Already activists pushed back. When did we take the scale of a problem as a reason not to act on it? Ruth Davison, executive director of Refuge, asked the charity Refuge. One in four women have experienced sexual assault in the UK, according to the government statistics. Almost one in three women will face domestic violence in their lifetime. In the country, on average a woman is killed every three days by a man, with many cases of domestic violence.
Biden hopes to protect the U.S. against extreme weather and cut carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 from 50 percent below 2005 levels. But his plan is embedded in two pieces of legislation pending on Capitol Hill. The future of both bills remains in question, with tension among Democrats over the size and scope of many details. Together, the bills contain what would be the broadest climate action ever taken by the U.S. intersecting a wide cross-section of American life. Because Democrats could lose control of Congress after 2022 and Republicans have shown little interest in climate legislation, it would be years before another opportunity arises — a delay that scientists say the planet cannot afford.
Biden's ambitions to reduce U.S. emissions are demolished by razor-thin Democratic majorityttes. The first piece of legislation, a $3.5 billion budget package, has been a focal point for debate because it is filled with social programs across health care, education and family leave. The second, a $1 trillion infrastructure plan, has bipartisan support and will help prepare communities for extreme weather fueled by climate change that is already underway. Every time you let these opportunities slip through your fingers, you re passing a much harder problem on to the next generation, said Kim Cobb, a climate scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I t s a very dangerous thing to swallow that we are relegating children born today and not yet born to a future of toxic climate impacts. Details: The Climate provisions are designed to rapidly transform energy and transportation, the country s two largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, from systems that burn mostly gas, oil and coal to sectors which are increasingly reliant on clean energy from the sun, wind and nuclear power.
In the decade since Tunisians toppled dictator, the revolution s highest hopes have curbed into political chaos and economic failure. On July 25, Kais Saied, Tunisia democratically elected president, froze Parliament and fired the Prime Minister, vowing to attack corruption and return power to the people. It was a power grab that an overwhelming majority of the Egyptians met with joy and relief, though it has made it harder than ever to tell a hopeful story about the Arab Spring. Held up as a temporary proof that democracy could bloom in the Middle East, Tunisia seems now a final confirmation of the Uprisings failed promise. The wars that followed the rising uprisings have also damaged Syria, Libya and Yemen, and autocrats smothered protest in the Gulf.
Tunisians recently flooded the streets again to demonstrate for Saied and against democracy. The Arab Spring will continue, predicted Tarek Megerisi, a North Africa expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations. No matter how much you try to conquer it or how much the environment around it changes, desperate people will still try to protect their rights. If a single Tunisian ruler was elected, then how can one transform his country from dictator to dictator? According to Ali Bousselmi, the co-founder of a gay rights group, he cited persistent problems with poverty and corruption.
For the past few months, Dorie Greenspan's notebooks have all been collected in her basement by a huge worktop set up by Food Writer. Some books have stories that go on for pages; others have one word, and then a stretch of silence, she writes. They re fragments from every part of my adult life, not journals — they re too disjointed to be called that, but moments that often spark a memory and sometimes don't. In some instances what if notes and mutterings had spawned something delicious — baking flavored with gin inspired by a Bee s Knees cocktail, say, or waking from dream of a cookie topped with jam and streusel. More recently, a dinner of salmon with a miso-maple syrup glaze begot a loaf cake both warm and sweet enough to be called cake, but savory enough to be equally good with Cheddar or warm jam. The Miso and maple syrup mellowed when they were mixed with other ingredients and given an extended time in the oven, just as I hoped they would, writes Dorie. The salmon dinner didn t make it into the notebook, but the cake did: If I owned a bed-and-breakfast, I would make this my signature. Read about the development of a very special loaf.