The New Yorker: Getting Out Of Town Without a Patdown

The New Yorker: Getting Out Of Town Without a Patdown

By Sheila Marikar

    Getting out of town, especially these days, can be a hassle. Road trips need rest stops, and flights need to go through T.S.A. But there is a better way. JSX has a dozen planes with 30 passenger capacity that go between private hangars/airports. There is no line, so it certain beats taking off from, say, LAX.

    JSX is not a commercial airline, so there is no need for T.S.A security checks. There is a background check when one purchases a ticket, and a thermal sensor at the gate that alerts to anything over 100.4 degrees.

Time: The Four Year Plan For America

Time: The Four Year Plan For America

By Jeffrey Kluger

    President Trump has destroyed many environmental policies over just 4 years. He pulled the US out of the 2015 Paris Agreement, loosened emissions policies, and opened up protected land for drilling and mining. He has signed more than 100 deregulating policies, more than half of which have already gone into effect. If Biden gets elected, what could he do to reverse these policies?

    The biggest move would probably be recommitting to the Paris Agreement. It would make a global statement that the US is going to be at the forefront of climate control again. However, this wouldn’t necessarily be easy. He will have to negotiate a way back in, with a deal that would sound sweet to the 196 other nations involved. The easiest way would be to up the US’s commitment with higher percentages of cut emissions.

    Then, domestically, Biden would need to make sure he actually follows through. Luckily for him, Congress was divided during Trump’s term, meaning that most of his policies were fluid Executive Orders that Biden could easily undo with his own laws on Day 1. After that, he would most likely look to old laws for guidance in the way forward, and make them stricter. Passing those laws, though, would require both a Democratic hold in the House and a flip in the Senate. He could also attach environmental regulations to COVID economic recovery bills that would be more likely to pass.

    Biden will have a lot to cleanup from Trump’s four years. The environment may be the biggest mess.

See also: Time: The Defining Year

National Geographic: Our team climbed Everest to try to solve its greatest mystery

National Geographic: Our team climbed Everest to try to solve its greatest mystery

By Mark Synnott

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people to summit Everest and tell the story. But were they really the first to set foot there? A century ago, Andrew Irvine and George Mallory were descending the mountain when they suddenly went missing. Researchers now have evidence that Irvine have tumbled down to a ridge at about 27,700 feet, on the Chinese side. Irvine was recorded to have been carrying a Kodak camera, and since he was climbing 29 years before Hillary and Norgay, it could rewrite history.