Reading archive 2020-03-31

Taxpayers Paid Millions to Design a Low-Cost Ventilator for a Pandemic. Instead, the Company Is Selling Versions of It Overseas.: As coronavirus sweeps the globe, there is not a single Trilogy Evo Universal ventilator — developed with government funds — in the U.S. stockpile. Meanwhile, Royal Philips N.V. has sold higher-priced versions to clients around the world.

Problems with FBI surveillance extended far beyond probe of Trump campaign, Justice Dept. inspector general says

Reading archive 2020-03-27

Coronavirus modelers factor in new public health risk: Accusations their work is a hoax

Now we know: The conservative devotion to life ends at birth

Trump just raged at Michigan’s governor. Here’s what’s really behind it.

A top White House faith adviser is under fire for suggesting that coronavirus is due to God’s wrath over homosexuality, environmentalism

Reading archive 2020-03-21

The church that won’t close its doors over the coronavirus

This is not the end of the world, according to Christians who study the end of the world

Reading archive 2020-03-20

No, the airlines do not need a bailout

Was the White House office for global pandemics eliminated?

Here’s why giving every American $1,200 is a really bad idea: Let’s give the money to the millions of laid-off workers — and in large enough amounts to make a difference

Donald Trump’s Cult of Personality Did This: The autocratic political culture that has propped up the Trump administration has left the nation entirely unprepared for an economic and public-health calamity.

U.S. intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic

Reading archive 2020-03-19

SAFE PASSAGES: Rocky Mountain animals will move as the climate warms. These corridors could give them an easier path.

Connecting fractured habitats has long-lasting ecological benefits, study finds

‘Bee-washing’ hurts bees and misleads consumers

Reading archive 2020-03-17

INVISIBLE CENSORSHIP: TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People and the Poor to Attract New Users

Limbaugh guest host Mark Steyn: San Francisco faces a COVID-19 shutdown because it's “a big gay town”

How South Korea Is Composting Its Way to Sustainability: Automated bins, rooftop farms, and underground mushroom-growing help clean up the mess.

Reading archive 2020-03-16

New Democratic majority in Richmond wrests money, power for Northern Virginia from downstate

On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus

Reading archive 2020-03-13

Trump’s bogus effort to blame Obama for sluggish coronavirus testing

Reading archive 2020-03-10

Trump to meet with Senate Republicans as he faces backlash on coronavirus economic plan: Congressional leaders and White House seeking quick action to address financial turmoil, but solutions differ

GOP mayor in pro-Trump county explains his surprise vote for Biden

Local Photographer’s Portraits Of Gentrification Acquired By The Smithsonian

Could Sanders beat Trump in Michigan? These voters think he’s their only hope.

Reading archive 2020-03-09

The markets are sending a message about coronavirus: The recession risk is real: The stock market drop is ugly. But one big threat to the economy is a slew of defaults — both personal and business.

White House advisers to give President Trump policy options for coronavirus response, including paid sick leave: Congressional Democrats are also pushing for a new legislative package to address fallout

Reading archive 2020-03-08

"Drag Race" Star Sherry Pie Apologized After Five Actors Said She Catfished Them: One of the men said he even allowed himself to be filmed masturbating by Joey Gugliemelli, aka Sherry Pie, as part of the fake audition process.

Stock futures sink deep into the red as oil prices plummet and coronavirus fears spread: Saudi Arabia opens the spigot as it launches a price war

Reading archive 2020-03-07

Inside the Sanders campaign’s quest to win the Internet

The doubt of a ‘Bernie Bro’: A hard-charging Sanders supporter questions whether his tactics help or hurt

Where Trump border wall rises, these ranchers see defeat

What Were The Makers Of “Joker” Even Upset About?: Joker’s commercial success — and now its critical success — makes the filmmakers’ persecution complex even more absurd.

Reading archive 2020-03-03

Bernie Sanders would be an awful president

Bernie Sanders’s Scandinavian fantasy

Bernie Sanders called AIPAC a platform for ‘bigotry.’ The group is proving his point.

Trump’s new attack on Biden exposes his own unfitness

Moderate Democrats are doing what Republicans refused to do in 2016: Getting out of the way

‘He and I have flirted unabashedly for 20 years’: Kathleen Parker’s defense of Chris Matthews sparks #MeToo debate

Sanders Says He’ll Attract a Wave of New Voters. It Hasn’t Happened.: Bernie Sanders has so far prevailed by expanding his appeal among traditional Democratic voters, not by driving record turnout.

The real reason Chris Matthews had to go

Despite his promised turnout surge, Sanders is getting fewer votes than he did in 2016

Reading archive 2020-03-02

Man fatally shot near Brookland Metro station

D.C. Police Excel at Finding Illegal Guns—But the Traffickers Are Rarely Caught: And more guns keep coming to the city.

D.C. is awash in illegal guns. How do you think they get there?

D.C. Council member proposes free public transit for residents

The Sanders and Biden Families Have Been Cashing In for Years: Joe Biden likes to say he was the poorest man in the Senate. Bernie Sanders rails against the establishment. But family members have long benefited from the Democratic front-runners’ political careers.

The President Is Winning His War on American Institutions: How Trump is destroying the civil service and bending the government to his will [ed. note: until part 4]

Reading archive 2020-03-01

Sanders pushed for a contested convention in 2016. Now he wants to avoid one.