Trouble for moms: Donald Trump’s proposed healthcare changes may make it more expensive and difficult to get maternity care in the United States, Elissa Strauss writes. For one thing, there will be ample damage done if pregnancy can once again be classified as a pre-existing condition, as it was in many instances before the Affordable Care Act.
Reverse effect: Dan Engber explains the science behind stereotype backlash, or the confounding way that people with racist beliefs seem to become still more racist when confronted with antiracism.
Who won in the middle: New data from researchers Konstantin Kilibarda and Daria Roithmayr shows that Trump didn’t turn Rust Belt voters to his side; rather, Hillary Clinton failed to get them to the polls.
Helping nobody: A new CNN documentary shows that self-help guru James Arthur Ray, who presided over an Arizona sweat-lodge ceremony that killed three people in 2009, is full of regret—for his own loss. Steve Salerno is having none of it.
He did it: On Wednesday, Norway’s Magnus Carlsen retained his title as world chess champion with a final move those in the know would write in shorthand like so: “50.Qh6+!!” The “!!” denotes excellence, explains an admiring Matt Gaffney, who breaks down the move’s significance.
For fun: Archival photos of a 1989 ACT UP! protest in front of Trump Tower.
Surrender Donald!
Rebecca
