Rachel Cohen Booth
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Vox reporter - covering housing, homelessness, family policy
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trying to prod productively
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Also, when you defy Trump, you’re kind of implicitly making fools of the elite law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress, which is fun.
January 17, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Also, when you defy Trump, you’re kind of implicitly making fools of the elite law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress, which is fun.
Reposted by Rachel Cohen Booth
They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.
January 17, 2026 at 2:07 PM
They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.
Aparna Raj is running on it in Ward 1
December 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Aparna Raj is running on it in Ward 1
ahh so cool! and thank you!
December 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
ahh so cool! and thank you!
I wrote about this risk back in the spring: www.vox.com/immigration/...
The immigration crackdown threatening to break America’s child care system
What happens if the people caring for American children get deported?
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December 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I wrote about this risk back in the spring: www.vox.com/immigration/...
And being in those kinds of relationships but not helping at home also decreases likelihood of kids
More housework≠ more children inherently, but in the modern world a *lack* of gender equality does seem to make the birth rate fall even faster. (See South Korea/ Japan/ Southern Europe)
More housework≠ more children inherently, but in the modern world a *lack* of gender equality does seem to make the birth rate fall even faster. (See South Korea/ Japan/ Southern Europe)
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
And being in those kinds of relationships but not helping at home also decreases likelihood of kids
More housework≠ more children inherently, but in the modern world a *lack* of gender equality does seem to make the birth rate fall even faster. (See South Korea/ Japan/ Southern Europe)
More housework≠ more children inherently, but in the modern world a *lack* of gender equality does seem to make the birth rate fall even faster. (See South Korea/ Japan/ Southern Europe)
most women do not live anymore in a world where they need to settle for selfish/demeaning partners to survive. the "reservation wage" of entering a relationship, as Patrick Brown puts it, has gone up. & not entering those types of partnerships decreases chance of having kids
December 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
most women do not live anymore in a world where they need to settle for selfish/demeaning partners to survive. the "reservation wage" of entering a relationship, as Patrick Brown puts it, has gone up. & not entering those types of partnerships decreases chance of having kids
I wanted to know...do men care if that makes fertility less likely? what responsibility, if any, do they think they have for all this? www.vox.com/policy/47078...
Traditional gender roles won’t get men what they want
Men’s search for meaning is everyone’s problem.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I wanted to know...do men care if that makes fertility less likely? what responsibility, if any, do they think they have for all this? www.vox.com/policy/47078...