Reading archive 2017-07-31

R. Kelly Is Holding Women Against Their Will In A “Cult,” Parents Told Police

Dire wolves were real. Now someone is trying to resurrect them.

Why police cheered Trump’s dark speech

Trump dictated son’s misleading statement on meeting with Russian lawyer

Reading archive 2017-07-30

At age 26, Ravens’ John Urschel retires from NFL to pursue PhD in math at MIT

The Trump administration: Where your pride goes to die

Voter by voter, GOP super PAC tries to separate the party from Trump

Death of a F***ing Salesman

Reading archive 2017-07-29

Republicans’ failure to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare may cost them at the ballot box

In One Day, Trump Administration Lands 3 Punches Against Gay Rights

Reading archive 2017-07-28

The night John McCain killed the GOP’s health-care fight

Senate Rejects Slimmed-Down Obamacare Repeal as McCain Votes No

McCain Got the Credit, But Don't Forget: Collins and Murkowski Killed This Bill

American Muslims Are A Diverse Group With Changing Views

Enough about McCain. It was Collins, Murkowski and red-state Democrats who killed Trumpcare.

Mark this date: Donald Trump is now a lame-duck president

"Everyone thinks he was whacked": The US government ruled Mikhail Lesin’s death an accident, but multiple intelligence and law enforcement officials suspect it was a Russian hit. The government is withholding information so today BuzzFeed News has filed a lawsuit to pry the records loose.

Heritage Rewrites History: The think tank proposed the individual mandate years before Clinton took office.

The Desperation of Our Diplomats

Reading archive 2017-07-27

Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon: He started by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. It escalated from there.

Reading archive 2017-07-26

What the Layoffs Look Like at the Carrier Plant Trump Said He’d Save

Trump announces ban on transgender people in U.S. military

The military spends five times as much on Viagra as it would on transgender troops’ medical care

Trump’s LGBT supporters defend him after surprise military transgender ban

Hill Democrats slam Trump’s military transgender ban, while GOP is caught by surprise

‘It will be fun to watch [Democrats] have to defend this’: Why Trump’s transgender military ban should frighten GOP

The Dots Are Never Going to Connect: What Russians understand about the Russia scandal that Americans don’t.

Reading archive 2017-07-25

Senators on hot mic: Trump is ‘crazy,’ ‘I’m worried’

Reading archive 2017-07-23

Samuel Huntington, a prophet for the Trump era

Reading archive 2017-07-22

Burr: Nunes 'created' unmasking allegations against Rice

Reading archive 2017-07-21

Trump team seeks to control, block Mueller’s Russia investigation

Disabled and disdained: In rural America, some towns are divided between those who work and those who don’t

Lana Del Rey Is Worried About America: On ‘Lust for Life’ the usually navel-gazing singer can’t ignore what’s going on around her. Her fourth album finds her national anthems taking a decidedly dark turn about the world around her. - "Del Rey’s music captures — better than that of almost any of her contemporaries — a unique frustration faced by her generation: the difficulty of making something new and great in the wake of a digitally accessible past (so much culture, so revered). But her music also asserts the eternal necessity of a now — the need for young people to eke out some kind of movement to call their own, if only to assert the fact that they are alive in this moment in time."

Reading archive 2017-07-20

Nearly half of liberals don’t even like to be around Trump supporters

U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Criminally Outlaw Support for Boycott Campaign Against Israel

Trump set a red line for Robert Mueller. And now Mueller has reportedly crossed it.

Trump’s deeply worrisome New York Times interview reveals a lawless president

The millennial left’s war against liberalism

Reading archive 2017-07-19

Trump’s penchant for extremes worked on the campaign trail but hinders his White House

‘It’s an insane process’: How Trump and Republicans failed on their health-care bill

Hundreds of boys abused at storied Catholic choir in Germany, new report says

More and More Trump Supporters Celebrate His Character Flaws - He’s not the engine but the hood ornament for a movement that now feels liberated from traditional rules of decent behavior.

Reading archive 2017-07-17

Minneapolis police officer fatally shoots an Australian bride-to-be under mysterious circumstances

Creek Theses

Trump’s ‘Made in America’ week is a hypocritical joke

Ivanka Inc.: The first daughter talks about improving the lives of working women. Her father urges companies to “buy American.” But her fashion line’s practices collide with those principles – and are out of step with industry trends.

Reading archive 2017-07-15

Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting sure sounds like a Russian intelligence operation

Trump campaign paid firm of lawyer representing Trump Jr. before emails were made public

Activision Blizzard’s ‘Overwatch’ eSports League Lands Owners From NBA, NFL, MLB

Quit Your Job for a Better One? Not if You Live in Idaho

Reading archive 2017-07-14

Former Soviet Counterintelligence Officer at Meeting With Donald Trump Jr. and Russian Lawyer

Lessons in disaster: A top Clinton adviser searches for meaning in a shocking loss

Even Glenn Greenwald And His Fans Should Fear the Trump-Putin Alliance

Russian American lobbyist was present at Trump Jr.’s meeting with Kremlin-connected lawyer

Reading archive 2017-07-13

Nevermore, or Tomorrow? Ravens Can Plan Ahead: Like great apes, the canny corvids seem capable of delaying gratification

Reading archive 2017-07-12

The Wall Begins to Crumble: Notes on Collusion

Rancor at White House as Russia Story Refuses to Let the Page Turn

Exploring Sean Hannity’s defense of Donald Trump Jr.: Clinton and Ukraine did it, too

‘A million miles per hour’: Inside Trump’s campaign when Trump Jr. met with Russian lawyer

Reading archive 2017-07-11

A riptide swept away a Florida family. Then beachgoers formed a human chain.

This law might explain why a Russian lawyer wanted to meet with Trump

Pro-Trump media scrambles to react to bombshell emails

What If It's All True?: For months, President Trump and his aides have insisted that any suggestion of collusion with Russia was bogus. But if the Trump campaign was eager to receive information from the Russian government, what else might have happened?

Reading archive 2017-07-10

The Bots Beat Us. Now What?

Trump Jr. Was Told in Email of Russian Effort to Aid Campaign

Reading archive 2017-07-09

‘Grandstander’ or truthteller? CNN’s Acosta walks a fine line with Trump.

Trump suggested a cybersecurity pact with Russia. Lawmakers say they were ‘dumbfounded.’

Tillerson vows relations with Russia will be frosty until it leaves Ukraine alone

Trump’s Son Met With Russian Lawyer After Being Promised Damaging Information on Clinton

Reading archive 2017-07-08

Merkel's Impossible Role at the G20 Summit: With the U.S. trying to step out of some of the most important issues at the meeting, the German Chancellor was forced to play negotiator and host.

Reading archive 2017-07-07

The Empty Nobility of “Taking Less”: By taking big pay cuts, Kevin Durant and Dirk Nowitzki aren’t making room for their teammates. They’re just saving money for their employers.

Trump Airs Meddling Concerns With Putin: Two leaders hold highly anticipated bilateral in Hamburg amid questions about Russian interference in U.S. elections, policies in Syria and Ukraine

Reading archive 2017-07-06

The Declaration of Independence was a plea for help

U.S. hospital offers to admit Charlie Gard, the British baby at the center of life support controversy

Rick Perry offered a ‘little economics lesson.’ It didn’t go so well.

Reading archive 2017-07-05

The greatest threat facing the United States is its own president