Reading archive 2018-11-30

How It All Went Wrong in Packerland: A one-of-a-kind franchise, a front office’s conservative approach, a roster caught in limbo, and the friction between the legendary quarterback and the embattled head coach. A closer examination of what has led to the Green Bay Packers’ most disappointing season of the past decade.

‘Individual 1’: Trump emerges as a central subject of Mueller probe

‘It’s still a blast beating people’: St. Louis police indicted in assault of undercover officer posing as protester

History to Paul Ryan: You’re wrong

Reading archive 2018-11-28

Ammon Bundy breaks with Trump on anti-migrant rhetoric: ‘It’s all fear-based’

Otter devours famed garden’s prized koi, forces emergency fish evacuation

In D.C., water fees tap into tension over race, gentrification and the First Amendment

Reading archive 2018-11-27

I was wrong on climate change. Why can’t other conservatives admit it, too?

Break the Internet: Amanda, Please

A black man helped his drunk neighbor get home — and got arrested

The weather of Washington’s future: Hellish heat and high water, says Trump administration climate report

Watch a reporter correct Trump to his face

Reading archive 2018-11-26

‘These children are barefoot. In diapers. Choking on tear gas.’

What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?

GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada

Russia attacks, seizes Ukrainian vessels in Black Sea off Crimea: One Ukrainian official called the incident an act of "warmongering" that "undermines security of the whole region."

Reading archive 2018-11-22

‘God, I don’t want to die,’ U.S. missionary wrote before he was killed by remote tribe on Indian island

A man hurled racist slurs and a punch at a FedEx driver — then died after he was punched back

A couple denied being neo-Nazis. Their photo of baby ‘Adolf’ with a swastika proved otherwise.

Reading archive 2018-11-19

3 takeaways from Trump’s testy Fox News interview

Why Finland is so good at handling forest fires. Hint: It’s not because of raking.

How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet: With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts.

The Brexit Fantasy Goes Down in Tears

Anti-vaccination stronghold in N.C. hit with state’s worst chickenpox outbreak in 2 decades

Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government business last year

‘Nothing on this page is real’: How lies become truth in online America

Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy: He says there’s a crisis in masculinity. Why won’t women — all these wives and witches — just behave?

Yes, Facebook made mistakes in 2016. But we weren’t the only ones.

Reading archive 2018-11-18

How the Democrats Took Back Michigan: A Democratic tsunami in the midterms engulfed the state Trump won most narrowly in 2016—and could keep the state blue in 2020.

‘Nothing on this page is real’: How lies become truth in online America

In Mississippi, Republican concern rises over a U.S. Senate runoff that should have been a romp

Reading archive 2018-11-16

The moral and ethical rot at Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Facebook

Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis

Reading archive 2018-11-13

‘A scary time for men’: Alex Trebek talks #MeToo, politics and the kind of ‘Jeopardy!’ player that bothers him

Northern Virginia property owners are delighted Amazon HQ2 is moving in. Renters, first-time buyers, and low-income residents aren’t.

Amazon’s HQ2 split between New York and Virginia sparks backlash from locals, politicians

Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Isn’t Just Shameful—It Should Be Illegal: Each year, local governments spend nearly $100 billion to move headquarters and factories between states. It’s a wasteful exercise that requires a national solution.

Reading archive 2018-11-11

Growing the future: High-tech farmers are using LED lights in ways that seem to border on science fiction

Reading archive 2018-11-04

‘If you don’t get at that rot, you just get more officers like Josh Hastings’: The Little Rock police shooting of 15-year-old Bobby Moore revealed a horror show of misconduct, cover-up and cascading institutional failure at the department.

Reading archive 2018-11-02

Maryland Sold Its Soul Only to Fire D.J. Durkin: Just one day after announcing that it would retain Durkin, the university fired its head coach amid a wave of public outcry. What does this reversal say about college football’s power structure—and its history of prioritizing winning above all else?

Congress thinks the public is way more conservative than it actually is. Deep-pocketed lobbyists are to blame, according to new research.

‘Hi, I’m Oprah’: The Georgia governor’s race is at full boil — and now the cavalry has arrived

Reading archive 2018-10-28 through 2018-10-31

Trump’s Caravan Hysteria Led to This: The president and his supporters insisted that several thousand Honduran migrants were a looming menace—and the Pittsburgh gunman took that seriously.

Trump, GOP defiant amid allegations that incendiary rhetoric contributed to climate of violence

She was ‘white and hot’ in a racist video. Now she’s viral and unemployed.

A Doctor Who Died In The Pittsburgh Shooting Is Being Remembered As A Hero To Patients At The Start Of The AIDS Crisis: "He would hold my hand, without gloves, when I was feeling really bad," one of his patients said. He "kept us alive the longest."

Police and a big-time columnist called a woman’s 1994 rape a ‘hoax.’ Here’s why police are now apologizing.

U.S. borrowing on pace to top $1.3 trillion this year, the highest since 2010

Mueller Wants the FBI to Look at a Scheme to Discredit Him: The special counsel says a woman was offered money to fabricate sexual-harassment claims.

Trump isn’t to blame. His entire party is.

This is how republics end: Warnings from the fall of Rome.