Reading archive 2016-11-21

Michael Flynn, Trump’s national security adviser, believes fake news and partisan conspiracy theories And now his job is telling Donald Trump what to believe.

Gays can be reformed, just like arsonists, Trump’s new domestic policy adviser has said

Alt-right leaders praise Sessions as attorney general pick

As American as Apple Pie? The Rural Vote’s Disproportionate Slice of Power

Pentagon and intelligence community chiefs have urged Obama to remove the head of the NSA

Even Israel says this Jewish settlement is illegal. Now comes the showdown.

If the U.S. withdraws, China wonders whether it is ready to lead the world

Reading archive 2016-11-20

Tanzanian rats will train to sniff out trafficked pangolins

Donald Trump Is the Result of White Rage, Not Economic Anxiety

Teaching 1984 in 2016: Every year, one high-school educator converts his classroom into a totalitarian state to teach George Orwell’s book. This year, the lesson feels different.

Reading archive 2016-11-19

Shattered: Hillary Clinton aimed at the highest glass ceiling. What broke instead was the coalition she thought would pierce it — and faith that it will happen. - There has been a lot of talk in this election about Hillary Clinton’s failure to adequately appeal to America’s working-class white men, who are suffering from the collapse of manufacturing and coal industries and plagued by a heroin epidemic. But maybe a woman trying to build a coalition of marginalized groups, and espousing policies that would help those groups, simply could never have appealed to Trump’s base — even though those policies would also have helped that base. Yes, Clinton was weak on trade. Yes, she made money giving speeches to Wall Street. Yes, she was an Establishment candidate in a populist era. But Occam’s razor suggests that a wave of white men and women, low-income to college-educated, who came out in unanticipated numbers to vote against the female successor to a black president, and for a candidate whose supporters openly proposed imprisoning and killing both of them, were not acting wholly in response to Clinton’s waffling on TPP. Even suggesting that, critics are told, is exacerbating the problem: Alienating white men (and women) by noting that they responded to racism, sexism, and xenophobia is apparently more grievous a political miscalculation than giving voice to racism, sexism, and xenophobia.

SURJ Thanksgiving Toolkit:Bringing Justice Home

U.S. Companies to Trump: Don’t Abandon Global Climate Deal

The End of Identity Liberalism

The US government is finally telling people that homeopathy is a sham

Israel minister under fire for drone gift to Russian PM: The drone gifted to Dmitry Medvedev by Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel is believed to contain confidential US technology.

Israel's Drone Gift to Medvedev Could Lead to Trouble With U.S. - and Russia: Israeli agriculture minister's present to Russian PM may have been equipped with U.S. technology, not approved for export to Russia. Israel may not be in the clear with Russia, either - they want the remote control.

Democrats on the brink: The American left is in danger of learning precisely the wrong lesson from defeat

‘Hamilton’ Had Some Unscripted Lines for Pence. Trump Wasn’t Happy.

For foreign diplomats, Trump hotel is place to be

Why Trump gets theater completely and utterly wrong

Obama loyalists plot Trump resistance: Alumni of the Obama White House spent days mourning Trump's win. Now they're ready to fight

Reading archive 2016-11-18

Automated Pro-Trump Bots Overwhelmed Pro-Clinton Messages, Researchers Say

Donald Trump’s victory is a disaster for modern masculinity

Spokesman claims Donald Trump never called for Muslim registry despite video evidence

Pangolins are the world's most trafficked animal: The world's most trafficked mammal is finally receiving some protection. One photographer has captured their plight in the images below

Bankers celebrate dawn of Trump era: A populist candidate who railed against shady financial interests on the trail is putting together an administration that looks like an investment banker's dream.

Harry Potter and the Death of the West

Madam President: The enormous challenge facing ‘Saturday Night Live’ in Trump’s America — and the woman best equipped to satirize without softening - Figuring out how to tackle Trump must feel like a particularly fraught decision for SNL. He ran a campaign that was simultaneously rife with comedic material — never forget that he brought up a years-old beef with Rosie O’Donnell unsolicited in the closing minutes of a presidential debate — and deadly fucking unfunny. For the better part of two years, Trump cynically and deliberately riled up his supporters with messages of belittlement and bigotry. He is currently cobbling together a frightening assemblage of ghoulish, paranoid cast-offs to run the country in his stead.

Donald Trump Prepares for White House Move, but His Tower May Still Beckon

Donald Trump Takes Credit for Helping to Save a Ford Plant That Wasn’t Closing

Donald Trump Chooses Mike Pompeo as C.I.A. Director

Donald Trump Selects Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General

Donald Trump’s Parade of Cabinet Prospects Looks Like His Old Enemies List

Why Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump Impression Rankles Trump More Than Other SNL Impersonations of Him

God Bless Hillary Clinton for Not Wearing Makeup During Her Children’s Defense Fund Speech

Fake news on Facebook is a real problem. These college students came up with a fix in 36 hours.

The Right Way to Resist Trump

I Know Trump's New Campaign Chairman, Steve Bannon. Here's What You Need To Know.

When you elect a white nationalist president, you get a white nationalist presidency

This Isn't About Partisan Bickering. This Is About Protecting Civil Rights. Donald Trump's nomination of Jeff Sessions is a national disgrace.

Can Aaron Rodgers Be the Type of Leader the Packers Need?

‘White Working Class’ Narrative Is Nothing but a Racist Dog Whistle: Yes, they are angry. But they aren’t angry because they’re poor; they’re angry because they are white and poor—and that's not the American dream. - This is what we are seeing with “white working class” Trump voters. They hope that by voting against justice—by denying the urgency of racial equity in education and health care and housing and employment needed to shatter the framework of a country built on the subjugation and murders of black, Latinx and indigenous people—that they will be more closely aligned with the wealthy white people they yearn to be. They hope that by deporting immigrants from this country—something that Democrats know a thing or two about as well—they won’t have to face job competition and their own mediocrity.

Reading archive 2016-11-17

The Democrats Are Screwing Up the Resistance to Donald Trump: Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren misread the election: You can’t untangle Trump’s populism from his racism.

On Fox, Trump Supporter Carl Higbie Cites Japanese Internment Camps As "Precedent" For Muslim Registry

Senate Democrats’ Surprising Strategy: Trying to Align With Trump

From despair to resolve, how people who did not vote for Trump are coping with the loss

Intraparty fratricide looms over the GOP

Trump’s secretary-of-state debacle in the making

‘Can you name one white nationalist article at Breitbart?’ Challenge accepted!

In Wayne County, N.C., Trump’s America Is Angry

Trump Meeting Japan’s Leader as Transition Is Stepped Up

Guess Who’s Coming to Trump Tower

From Iran to Syria, Trump’s ‘America First’ Approach Faces Its First Tests

Trump Team Sets Broader Limits on Lobbying by Former Staff

NFL doctors should not report to teams, Harvard study recommends

Thanks to a bad map and bizarre math, Breitbart can report that Trump won the REAL popular vote

Welcome to the Trump kleptocracy

DONALD TRUMP’S FIRST, ALARMING WEEK AS PRESIDENT-ELECT

Empathy isn’t a favor I owe white Trump voters. It has to go both ways.

Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’

As Obama Exits World Stage, Angela Merkel May Be the Liberal West’s Last Defender

Reading archive 2016-11-16

There’s No Such Thing as a Good Trump Voter: People voted for a racist who promised racist outcomes. They don’t deserve your empathy.

GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham wants Congress to investigate Russian cyberattack on DNC, election

Firings and Discord Put Trump Transition Team in a State of Disarray

Rudolph Giuliani’s Business Ties Viewed as Red Flag for Secretary of State Job

Trump can now loot millions of dollars from the Secret Service with no disclosure It’s thanks to the plane, oddly.

Donald Trump's team 'discussing plans for Muslim registration system': Immigration hardliner says plans underway for programme to force Muslims register on database

Reading archive 2016-11-15

Why Hiring Steve Bannon Is the Same as Hiring David Duke: No white hoods required.

Trump voters: We did hear you; we just thought better of you

Better Off Before Obamacare?: Before the law, which Trump has said he would repeal, health insurance was cheaper for a few, but outright unattainable for many.

‘Ape in heels’: W.Va. officials under fire after racist comments about Michelle Obama

We live in crazy times: Neo-Nazis have declared New Balance the ‘Official Shoes of White People’

Safety pins: Solidarity symbol or emblem of ‘white guilt’?

One of Trump’s SCOTUS Picks Supported a Revolutionary Pro-Trans Constitutional Ruling

Trump Supreme Court Pick William Pryor Thinks Gays Should Be Jailed For Having Sex In Their Homes

White nationalists see advocate in Steve Bannon who will hold Trump to his campaign promises

Is Steve Bannon really as bad as all that?

I told conservatives to work for Trump. One talk with his team changed my mind.

Glenn Beck: Bannon has ‘clear tie’ to white nationalism

Key figures purged from Trump transition team

Why Mike Rogers’s departure from the Trump team is alarming

The triumphant GOP is mired in crisis after crisis

The Trump administration hasn’t even started yet, and it’s already a fiasco

Trump faces growing tension with key Republicans over national security issues

Reading archive 2016-11-11 through 2016-11-14

Autocracy: Rules for Survival

I’m a Coastal Elite From the Midwest: The Real Bubble is Rural America

If you voted for Trump because he’s ‘anti-establishment,’ guess what: You got conned

The Underground Neo-Nazi Promo Campaign Behind Adult Swim’s Alt-Right Comedy Show

Hillary Clinton Blames F.B.I. Director for Election Loss

Reading archive 2016-11-10

White Women Sold Out the Sisterhood and the World by Voting for Trump

A Time to Keep Fighting

Absorbing the Impossible

It Appears As Though Hillary Clinton Was Ultimately Done In By Low Democratic Voter Turnout

America Elects a Bigot

By neglecting to vote, Colin Kaepernick undermines his own movement

Don't Panic

Dear White Friends: Stop Saying Everything Is Going To Be Ok

Fuck Everything And Blame Everyone

People Runs Celebratory Trump Cover, Fails To Mention Their Writer Accused Him of Sexual Assault

Steve Kerr goes on pregame rant about presidential election: ‘I thought we were better than this'

Read the Letter Aaron Sorkin Wrote His Daughter After Donald Trump Was Elected President: The Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Social Network and mastermind behind The West Wing reacts to Donald Trump being elected the 45th president of the United States in a moving letter written to his 15-year-old daughter Roxy and her mother Julia Sorkin.

Day 1 in Trump’s America

The frightening effect of ‘Trump Talk’ on America’s schools

Being American in the Trump Years

Journalists fear for their profession under Trump – and some, for their safety

President-elect Trump due to appear in court at trial starting later this month: The Republican nominee will have to juggle his legal headaches as he prepares for the White House.

Obama reeling from gut punch of Trump win: America's decision to embrace Trump and reject Obama's third term shocked the White House.

Clinton Couldn’t Win Over White Women But they split along educational lines.

Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook

Don't Despair, Liberals: Fight - So do not give in to attempts, from left and right, to legitimize an ethno-nationalist "take our country back" sentiment as a product of economics instead. Do not revisit the truths you have learned about progress. Trade and globalization have delivered long years of growth and cheap goods to the U.S., new jobs and a new way of living, just as economic liberalization in India has lifted millions out of abject poverty.

Revisit instead the assumption that people themselves are inevitably becoming more inclusive and tolerant. Do not deny that some of your fellow citizens feel the stress of dislocation and of dispossession; after all, working to address that is why you are a liberal. But do not for a moment deny they have freely chosen to blame that stress on those who have not caused it -- Muslims, foreigners, immigrants, women, those even poorer. To deny that choice would be condescending. To ignore that choice would be fatal. The choice needs to be fought, not wished away; the error corrected, not accepted.

Moscow had contacts with Trump team during campaign, Russian diplomat says

Intelligence community is already feeling a sense of dread about Trump

Islamist extremists celebrate Trump’s election win

Reading archive 2016-11-09

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

Kristallnacht and Germany will always haunt my memories

Hillary Clinton failed to win over black, Hispanic and female voters - the charts that show why she lost the presidential election

White Won: We are still the country that produced George Wallace. We are still the country that killed Emmett Till.

The Democratic Party Establishment Is Finished: What a joke.

Here is what President Trump means for LGBT rights

This Is How Much America Hates Women This election ratified our nation’s tolerance of racism, bigotry, xenophobia — and abject disrespect for women.

How you lost the world

Donald Trump’s Revolt

For Stephen Colbert, a Very Uncomfortable Election Night

The Voters Abandoned by the Court

To All the Little Girls Who Are Watching This: On the disappointment of Hillary Clinton’s loss — and the urgent, necessary hope for the next generation

At Trump’s victory party, hints of vengeance to come

Let's Talk About the Constitution – After Trump's Win, We're Going to Need It: Liberals have ceded too much ground to the constitutional interpretations of white men longing for the good ol' days

'Sieg Heil,' swastikas, racist Trump graffiti appear in South Philly

Here’s Why We Grieve Today

The way ahead: America’s president writes for us about four crucial areas of unfinished business in economic policy that his successor will have to tackle

Here Is What Donald Trump Wants To Do In His First 100 Days

Reading archive 2016-11-08

Anti-Semitism is no longer an undertone of Trump’s campaign. It’s the melody.

Don’t Cry For Ivanka — Fear Her: Ivanka’s poise and polish artfully mask just how closely her ideologies align with her father’s.

GLENN BECK TRIES OUT DECENCY: After the pundit watched Michelle Obama’s speech about Trump’s treatment of women, he rethought some things.

Hillary Clinton has to be gracious to Donald Trump. The rest of us don’t.

Give it a rest, Republicans

“STEALING” AN ELECTION: Trump voters keep committing fraud at the polls

Reading archive 2016-11-07

Yes, Donald Trump, the FBI Can Vet 650,000 Emails in Eight Days

Inside Donald Trump’s Last Stand: An Anxious Nominee Seeks Assurance

Jewish Voters, Prized in Swing State Florida, Tell What Drives Them

On Election Day, the Hillary Clinton White Suit Effect

You May Need a Strong Stomach for the Pitfalls of Real-Time Election Projections

Real-Time Election Day Projections May Upend News Tradition

Trump And Clinton Both Want To Fix Infrastructure. But That Doesn’t Mean They’ll Succeed.

All Politics Is National How state politicians went from solving the problems in their own backyards to mimicking the gridlock in Washington.

The New Evangelical Woman Vs. Trump: In recent weeks, several prominent female Christian authors, bloggers, and musicians have denounced Trump — one part of a larger renovation and rejuvenation of old-fashioned ideas of evangelical Christianity. But that doesn’t mean these women, or their followers, are voting for Hillary.

How Moscow Uses Interpol to Pursue Its Enemies

Europeans View Obama’s Exit With a Mix of Admiration and Regret

Ana Navarro: I'm voting for Hillary Clinton -- and against Donald Trump

‘Jew-S-A!’ chant is latest reminder of white supremacist support for Trump

Donald Trump Cannot Be President of the United States: The time has come for voters to decide what it truly means to be an American

After This Election, Turn It Off: Let's never follow politics again

Reading archive 2016-11-06

Forget the Cost to the Candidates. This Campaign’s Cost America More.

The pyramid at the end of the world: In rural North Dakota, a small county and an insular religious sect are caught in a stand-off over a decaying piece of America’s atomic history. The long shadow cast by nuclear weapons and the Cold War is not as far in the past as we might like to think…

Go home: Brexit, racism, and the fantasy of white working class ignorance

Emails Warrant No New Action Against Hillary Clinton, F.B.I. Director Says

The anti-Clinton insurgency at the FBI, explained

Reading archive 2016-11-05

Ruling Preserves Voting Rights for Thousands in North Carolina

The Conservative Case Against Donald Trump: Six reasons Republicans should not vote for Trump in November

How Teens In The Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake News: BuzzFeed News identified more than 100 pro-Trump websites being run from a single town in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Trump's allies trip him up: The indictment of Chris Christie's former aides and Rudy Giuliani's claim of insider FBI knowledge distract from Trump's closing message.

What if everyone’s wrong?: Trump has a path, and if the polls are wrong, it’s wider than thought.

Democratic insiders: Clinton's ground game will sink Trump: 'Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure. HRC and the Dems have that cornered and are pounding the pavement to get out the vote,' said a Colorado Democrat.

Daylight saving time ends Sunday. It ought to go on forever.

Reading archive 2016-11-04

Hillary Clinton’s quiet revolution: Nobody's noticed, but she's running on an ambitious plan to remake the American social compact.

Third-party voters are “trading votes” with Clinton voters to defeat Trump

At African-American History Museum, Visitor 'Dwell Time' Is Off The Charts

Mae Reeves' Hats Hang At National Museum Of African American History And Culture

FBI Director James Comey Feared Leaks In Deciding To Disclose New Emails Linked To Clinton: Comey’s bombshell just days before the election raised questions about his motives and drew criticism from some over his timing.

White Feminists Gotta Go: Amy Schumer’s White Woman Foolishness: By attempting to replicate Beyoncé’s “Formation,” Schumer is firmly placing herself, as a white woman, at the center of a story where she has no place: black women’s self-love and sexual freedom.

Video Shows Donald Trump With Alleged Mobster He Denied Knowing Robert LiButti was a preferred patron at Trump’s casino, which got fined $200,000 for accommodating his racist and sexist requests.

The real Clinton email scandal is that a bullshit story has dominated the campaign If you agree with her on policy, vote with a clear conscience about the server.

The myth of self-control Psychologists say using willpower to achieve goals is overhyped. Here’s what actually works.

What psychology’s crisis means for the future of science: The field is currently undergoing a painful period of introspection. It will emerge stronger than before.

Why planting more trees is one of the best things a hot, polluted city can do

The Official Coming-Out Party: For two decades, NBA ref Bill Kennedy was hiding in plain sight -- watched by millions but never truly seen. Then came the biggest game-changer of his life, the call he had to make.

Trump Is an Existential Threat

'The FBI is Trumpland': anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaking, sources say

Rudy Giuliani Confirms FBI Insiders Leaked Information To The Trump Campaign: “Did I hear about it? You’re darn right I heard about it.”

WHY VLADIMIR PUTIN’S RUSSIA IS BACKING DONALD TRUMP

VLADIMIR PUTIN: WHY HE FEARS A HILLARY CLINTON WHITE HOUSE

Vladimir Putin Won’t Be Sweating the Election Result on Tuesday: Moscow insiders say it doesn’t matter who wins on November 8. Putin has America right where he wants it.

One final election plea, on the behalf of U.S. ideals

‘It Really Does Get Into Your Head.’ The Election, Through the Eyes of Teenage Girls.

Exclusive: White House Readies to Fight Election Day Cyber Mayhem

Democrats Call For Probe Of FBI Leaks About Clinton After Rudy Giuliani’s Comments “It is absolutely unacceptable for the FBI to leak unsubstantiated — and in some cases false — information about one presidential candidate to benefit the other candidate.”

Who Broke Politics?

Reading archive 2016-11-03

Keep Harping Over Trump’s Tax Returns: His refusal to release them no longer feels like a first-order concern. But it’s one more broken norm that Americans will rue.

Louis C.K., Michael Moore, Hillary Clinton, and the rise of benevolent sexism in liberal men

THE CASE AGAINST DEMOCRACY If most voters are uninformed, who should make decisions about the public’s welfare?

Republicans are now vowing Total War. And the consequences could be immense.

Former CIA chief: Trump is Russia’s useful fool

Meet Donald Trump’s Top FBI Fanboy: Trump supporters with strong ties to the agency kept talking about surprises and leaks to come—and come they did.

Resign, Mr. Comey: The FBI director lends credence to Trump’s accusation that the system is rigged.

Hawaii: The islands where evolution ran riot

The Era of 'The Bitch' Is Coming: A Hillary Clinton presidential victory promises to usher in a new age of public misogyny.

Reading archive 2016-11-02

How far does Saudi Arabia’s influence go? Look at Nigeria.

Why I Have No Sympathy for Angry White Men The media promotes their victim narrative 24-7. Donald Trump exploits their violent rage. Which gives white men a free pass to do as they will—and that spells disaster for people of color. - In the 1970s, when thousands of Blacks in Detroit, Los Angeles, and Brooklyn lost work as companies outsourced jobs overseas and into [the] Southwest, politicians and media elites did not descend into these communities with microphones and policy proposals. Instead, they sent police officers and the system of mass incarceration. And White America said: Good! Keep us safe from those criminals. Now that these same forces are locking up White men and women, they are crying injustice and understand our plight.

DONALD TRUMP’S COMPANIES DESTROYED EMAILS IN DEFIANCE OF COURT ORDERS

White nationalists plot Election Day show of force: KKK, neo-Nazis and militias plan to monitor urban polling places and suppress the black vote.

A Black Church Burned in the Name of Trump: Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi, was reportedly set on fire and spray painted with the words “Vote Trump” on Tuesday night.

Meet The Ivanka Voter: She’s not in the photos of Trump rallies. She doesn’t have his sign on her lawn. She doesn’t like everything he says. But she’s voting for him.

10 Questions (and Answers) About New Email Trove

Obama Criticizes F.B.I. Director: ‘We Don’t Operate on Incomplete Information’

F.B.I.’s Email Disclosure Broke a Pattern Followed Even This Summer

Trump, Waking a ‘Sleeping Giant,’ Helps Clinton Build an Unlikely Firewall

Reading archive 2016-11-01

Autistic black teen got lost running a 5K — and was assaulted by a man who feared getting mugged