Reading archive 2017-04-06

Mexico Worries That A New Border Wall Will Worsen Flooding

Reading archive 2017-04-25

The Very Hungry Plastic-Eating Caterpillar: Could waxworms—or something inside them—help degrade the planet’s mountains of plastic waste?

The No. 1 reason why Trump’s wall won’t fix the drug problem

New Orleans Begins Removing Confederate Monuments, Under Police Guard

Chobani sues Alex Jones, saying he falsely linked company to child rape, tuberculosis

Reading archive 2017-04-24

What is Bernie Sanders' Endgame?

Reading archive 2017-04-23

‘The mission was to bring down Bill O’Reilly’: The final days of a Fox News superstar

Sandy Hook truther Alex Jones asks for privacy in custody battle ‘for the sake of my children’

Fake Working Class: The muted response to the retail apocalypse shows which workers count in Trump’s America.

Reading archive 2017-04-22

Sharon Horgan: ‘Carrie Fisher was so real it was dangerous’

Reading archive 2017-04-20

A youth revolt in France boosts the far right: Marine Le Pen’s hopes of winning the presidency may rest on her appeal among the young

The problem with calling out ‘stolen valor’: What if you’re wrong?

Bernie Sanders’s strange behavior

Bernie Sanders, What Are You Even Doing?

Reading archive 2017-04-19

Justices express sympathy with Missouri church at Supreme Court hearing

Bill O’Reilly Is Forced Out at Fox News

Exclusive: After Bill O’Reilly’s Ouster, Fox Executives Fear “There’s More to Come”: Insiders say that the troubles at Fox news are only just beginning.

The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black - I couldn't escape Rachel Dolezal because I can't escape white supremacy. And it is white supremacy that told an unhappy and outcast white woman that black identity was hers for the taking. It is white supremacy that told her that any black people who questioned her were obviously uneducated and unmotivated to rise to her level of wokeness. It is white supremacy that then elevated this display of privilege into the dominating conversation on black female identity in America. It is white supremacy that decided that it was worth a book deal, national news coverage, and yes—even this interview.

Reading archive 2017-04-18

British prime minister calls for elections in June amid Brexit fallout

Fairytale Prisoner by Choice: The Photographic Eye of Melania Trump

Reading archive 2017-04-17

The L.G.B.T. Trump Fallacy

KING: Conservatives don't hate a golfing President, but they hated an uppity negro golfing President

Trump Voters in a Swing District Wonder When the ‘Winning’ Will Start

Reading archive 2017-04-16

seriously, the guy has a point - "In effect, Fearless Girl has appropriated the strength and power of Charging Bull. Of course Di Modica is outraged by that. A global investment firm has used a global advertising firm to create a faux work of guerrilla art to subvert and change the meaning of his actual work of guerrilla art. That would piss off any artist."

Lions of Los Angeles: Are the city’s pumas dangerous predators or celebrity guests?

Reading archive 2017-04-15

Sin City Or Bust: How Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis -- with a little luck, his own brand of genius and an assist from Jerry Jones -- outflanked power brokers to put the Raiders in Las Vegas.

Reading archive 2017-04-14

The downfall of America's first sport-only college: "What Am I Paying For?": It was a bold new idea: an all-sports college, classes be damned. But for the athletes at Forest Trail Sports University who faced hunger, sickness and worse, it turned into a nightmare.

DEATH OF A DYSTOPIAN: Alt-right conspiracy theorists think that the government killed the aspiring Libertarian filmmaker David Crowley. The truth is far stranger.

Reading archive 2017-04-13

I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong.

British spies were first to spot Trump team's links with Russia

Reading archive 2017-04-12

AP EXCLUSIVE: MANAFORT FIRM RECEIVED UKRAINE LEDGER PAYOUT

Reading archive 2017-04-11

The Passion of Southern Christians

C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed

Reading archive 2017-04-10

Mitch McConnell, the man who broke America

Reading archive 2017-04-08

This $26 sandwich — literally ham, butter and bread — says everything about D.C. dining

The media loved Trump’s show of military might. Are we really doing this again?

Reading archive 2017-04-07

TOP DEMOCRATS ARE WRONG: TRUMP SUPPORTERS WERE MORE MOTIVATED BY RACISM THAN ECONOMIC ISSUES

Octopuses and squids can rewrite their RNA. Is that why they’re so smart?

Sielski: Bryan Scott's story should terrify everyone who loves football

Russia condemns U.S. missile strike on Syria, suspends key air agreement

Reading archive 2017-04-06

The Gorsuch filibuster is about far more than payback

Adam Schiff Leverages Democrats’ Limited Power in Trump Inquiry

The knives are out for Stephen Bannon, and his scam is getting unmasked

Reading archive 2017-04-05

A second-by-second breakdown of Kendall Jenner’s unspeakably tone-deaf Pepsi ad

‘Nevertheless, she Pepsisted’: Kendall Jenner made a Pepsi ad. The Internet made glorious memes.

These high school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials. Days later, she resigned.

If white America is in ‘crisis,’ what have black Americans been living through?

WHY DANA SCHUTZ PAINTED EMMETT TILL: The artist has spent her career using abstract and figurative images to tell enigmatic stories. But a recent work has made her an incendiary figure.

Censorship, Not the Painting, Must Go: On Dana Schutz’s Image of Emmett Till

A maid begged for help before falling from a window in Kuwait. Her boss made a video instead.

World Health Organization: Syria chemical attack likely involved nerve agent

Jared Kushner, Man of Steel

The Daily 202: Trump keeps blaming Obama. Fresh polls show voters don’t buy it.

‘It went off the rails almost immediately’: How Trump’s messy transition led to a chaotic presidency

Reading archive 2017-04-04

Paper says columnist tried to remove his articles criticizing Trump to get a State Department job. It backfired.

Meet the Woman Who Was Sipping Wine in a Fur Coat at an Ivanka Trump Protest

Reading archive 2017-04-03

Bill O’Reilly: An awful, awful man

Democrats just took the filibuster off life support

Collins tells the Senate why Gorsuch shouldn’t be filibustered

Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Gorsuch in Party-Line Vote

Our Dishonest President

Why Trump lies

Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel

The left and right agree: Fox News destroyed EPA chief Scott Pruitt over climate change

The looming strategic disaster at Mar-a-Lago this week

Why is Trump flailing? Because Americans hate his agenda, and it’s based on lies.

When the President Is Ignorant of His Own Ignorance

Trump Is Wimping Out on Trade

New details emerge about 2014 Russian hack of the State Department: It was ‘hand to hand combat’

Reading archive 2017-03-31

Mike Pence's Dining "Standard" Reveals So Much About What He Thinks of Women: The vice president won't eat alone with a woman who's not his wife.

The Trump White House is in deep legal trouble, according to Trump’s own standards

Suspended Fox News expert returns — and doubles down on baseless wiretapping claims

Brexit and Britain’s delusions of empire

Is Paul Ryan a policy guy, or does he just play one on TV?

Reading archive 2017-04-01

North Carolina’s Dominance Fails to Cover Cheating’s Stain

After ‘classy’ N.C. restaurant bans kids, critics fume — and reservations surge