Reading archive 2019-01-31

‘The man who attacked me works in your kitchen’: Victim of serial groper took justice into her own hands

Reading archive 2019-01-24

Officials rejected Jared Kushner for top secret security clearance, but were overruled: Jared Kushner was rejected for a top-secret clearance by two career security specialists, but their supervisor overruled them and approved him, sources say.

Donald Trump 'handed Russia classified intelligence on Israel successfully hacking Isis computers': Israeli cyber operations had reportedly succeeded in penetrating one of the terror group's cell

Reading archive 2019-01-23

‘Nobody Is Going to Believe You’: The Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer has been trailed by accusations of sexual misconduct for 20 years. Here, his alleged victims tell their stories.

Millennial Burnout Is Being Televised: How Fyre Fraud and Tidying Up With Marie Kondo capture a precarious cultural moment

Reading archive 2019-01-22

‘Absolutely out of control’: Cliff Sims’s book depicts life in Trump’s White House

Trump voters now blame him for the government shutdown

Reading archive 2019-01-21

A new Mississippi flag has a surprising champion: A segregationist’s grandchild

Who killed Martin Luther King Jr.? His family believes James Earl Ray was framed.

Viral standoff between a tribal elder and a high schooler is more complicated than it first seemed

Reading archive 2019-01-20

Shaun King threatens to sue activists who accused him on Twitter of mishandling fundraisers

The man who stood behind Trump: After his laugh was heard around the country, Joe Davidson is wondering: “I’m a good person. Isn’t that what people say about me?”

Reading archive 2019-01-19

A black R&B artist hoped singing for Trump would build ‘a bridge.’ It derailed her career instead.: Chrisette Michele is singing to nearly empty concert halls. She says she’s finding a new path to happiness.

Reading archive 2019-01-15

The Suffocation of Democracy

Keep Your Trickle-Down White Male Socialist Revolution

Reading archive 2019-01-14

Tulsi Gabbard’s 2020 Campaign May Be Over Before It Starts: The congresswoman from Hawaii’s past is filled with anti-LGBTQ activism, calls for bombing Syria and endorsing torture

President Trump can't stop U.S. coal plants from retiring

Reading archive 2019-01-13

The new space race pits the U.S. against China. The U.S. is losing badly.

The world’s oldest person record stood for decades. Then came a Russian conspiracy theory.

Searching for news on RBG? YouTube offered conspiracy theories about the Supreme Court justice instead.

Two years after #Pizzagate showed the dangers of hateful conspiracies, they’re still rampant on YouTube

‘A travesty to this nation’: People are destroying Joshua trees in Joshua Tree National Park

Reading archive 2019-01-08

The Fetishization of Mr. Rogers’s ‘Look for the Helpers’: Turning the reassuring line for children into a meme for adults should make everyone uncomfortable.

Genetically modified 'shortcut' boosts plant growth by 40%

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s very bad defense of her falsehoods

The Networks Blew the Call Once again, broadcasters prove hapless in the face of Trump’s three familiar tools.

Paul Manafort shared 2016 polling data with Russian associate, according to court filing

‘It’s Just Too Much’: A Florida Town Grapples With a Shutdown After a Hurricane

Reading archive 2019-01-04

House Democrats vote to reopen government and deny Trump wall money, defying veto threat

Trump’s sons are running the business — and their big hotel expansion is at a standstill

Irish PM says he has escalated no-deal Brexit preparations

Britain clings to imperial nostalgia as Brexit looms

The UK must abandon the imperial fantasy of “global military reach”: Rather than masquerading as a world power, Britain should focus on defending Europe from Russia and itself from terrorism.

Reading archive 2019-01-03

Trump’s bizarre history lesson on the Soviet Union, Russia and Afghanistan

A defensive Trump calls a Cabinet meeting and uses it to boast, deflect and distract

Romney asserts his independence from Trump — and Trump’s defenders return his searing criticism of the president

Reading archive 2019-01-02

He’s designed hats for Dior. Now, he’s created one inspired by the African American Museum.

Reading archive 2019-01-01

‘America First’ is only making the world worse. Here’s a better approach.

Hasan Minhaj criticized the Saudi crown prince on ‘Patriot Act.’ Netflix pulled the episode in Saudi Arabia.