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"The president’s focus on the health of America’s children is welcome, especially if it draws added attention to the need for more school time devoted to physical activity," the Editorial Board writes. wapo.st/4lhhDb4
Kids need recess and gym. Exercise and diet are required to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.
"Whenever Big Tech has waded into the political speech wars, it has not ended well."
The latest from @patrickruffini.bsky.social:
An iPhone update threatens to upend public opinion research.
An excerpt from my new book THE DEVIL REACHED TOWARD THE SKY: amzn.to/3HpQHbg
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"On Aug. 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay took off from Tinian Island, in the Northern Mariana Islands, for a mission that its flight crew knew would make history," @vermontgmg.bsky.social writes. wapo.st/456ax4H
Eighty years ago, a group of B-29 bombers flew a world-altering mission. Here are memories of the crew.
"The American Dream can’t live up to its name when only a tenth of the population has a shot at it," @rahmemanuel.bsky.social writes. wapo.st/4m6LYL1
The U.S. has two overlapping problems: the housing crisis and despondency in young men.
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Reader feedback to The Washington Post.
"I am a registered Republican. And like many others, I didn’t vote for Donald Trump," a reader writes.
"In hindsight, much of what Trump has done, particularly in his foreign policy, has turned out to be effective. Realizing my mistake set me thinking about a question I’ve pondered my whole life."
Plus: Readers on sharks, the Federal Reserve and difficult decisions facing police officers.
"Far from deliberate starvation in Gaza, Israel is doing something no nation has ever done, or even been expected to do."
The latest from @marcthiessen.bsky.social:
Israel is doing something no nation has ever done: Feed the population of the force that attacked it.
"The truth is that voluntary trade makes both sides better off, and the balance of trade is an accounting convention that is irrelevant to overall economic health."
The latest from Dominic Pino:
Trump says tariffs are needed to close trade deficits. He should be careful what he wishes for.
Like I said, China is winning the trade war that Trump started.
On many fronts, Trump is inadvertently aiding China’s anti-American dictatorship.
China has shown once again that it’s weathering the storm of President Donald Trump’s tariff pressures, with its exports climbing at a higher-than-expected annual rate of 7.2 percent in July, according to government statistics released Thursday. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
With their 90-day truce set to expire on Tuesday, the new data is likely to stiffen China’s resolve to stand tough in negotiations with the Trump administration.
My latest: I wrote about my journey to put on 20 pounds of muscle as a woman.
And how my life changed because of strength training/bodybuilding.
Three years and 20 pounds of muscle later, I’ve learned that everything — and nothing — changes.
