Elizabeth Warren as vice president? Jim Newell is starting to see why it might work for Hillary Clinton. “[The move] would show voters that she’s capable of taking it to Wall Street, because she would be taking it to Wall Street, at a nonmetaphorical cost to her campaign,” Newell writes. “It would be action, not words, and it would show a side of Hillary Clinton that we can see on paper but aren’t sure exists in person.”
President Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said on Wednesday that they would commit to a mutual goal: deriving half of the energy that their countries use from “clean sources” by 2025. For a number of reasons, that should actually be easy, writes Daniel Gross. “Even if there is less appetite for having people move freely across the NAFTA borders, the incentives and opportunities for electrons to do so are growing,” Gross points out. “At least one part of the world is coming closer together.”
A big, fancy movie version of Roald Dahl’s beloved children’s novel The BFG? Hmmm, muses Dana Stevens. It doesn’t feel like it should work: “The BFG seems perfectly self-sufficient in its bookness, in no need of the lavishly cinematic bear hug Steven Spielberg bestows upon it here.” But the movie has its charms, not least the performance of Mark Rylance as the Giant, and Stevens found herself won over in the end.
L.V. Anderson tells the story of how she moved from counting every calorie to tallying every small expenditure—two activities, she argues, that have more in common than you might think. “Dieting and budgeting can both devolve into fixations that may or may not be detrimental to one’s mental health,” Anderson writes. “That’s because they’re both a way of trying to exert control over something you’re not actually fully in control of.”
Nobody should be able to shame you into inviting kids to your Pinterest-perfect wedding, Elissa Strauss writes. But you should consider doing so, anyway, because kids add a nice, messy human touch back into “magazine-worthy events” that are increasingly curated.
For fun: The Three Amigos slay the Internet.
For more fun: Katy Waldman sings the praises of emoji as conversation cappers.
What did we ever do before :thumbs-up:?
Rebecca
