Reading archive 2021-02-10

How a sluggish vaccination program could delay a return to normal and invite vaccine-resistant variants to emerge: Experts warn that the current pace of vaccinations won’t just prolong coronavirus restrictions. It could also make it more likely that new variants will infect the previously immune.

Opinion: What happened with New York Times reporter Donald McNeil?

Big Russian hack used a technique experts had warned about for years. Why wasn’t the U.S. government ready?: Hackers got long-term, wide-ranging access to government and private networks by manipulating the software that vouches for those allowed inside.

What’s Behind China’s Crackdown on Its Tech Giants

A majority of the people arrested for Capitol riot had a history of financial trouble: Trail of bankruptcies, tax problems and bad debts raises questions for researchers trying to understand motivations for attack - "The poor and uneducated are not more likely to join extremist movements, according to experts. Two professors a couple of years ago found the opposite in one example: an unexpectedly high number of engineers who became Islamist radicals.

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"Miller-Idriss said she was struck by a 2011 study that found household income was not a factor in whether a young person supported the extreme far right in Germany. But a highly significant predictor was whether they had lived through a parent’s unemployment."

In wake of Trump calls to state officials, Georgia prosecutors open criminal investigation into efforts to subvert election results

Biden removes Trump appointees from boards that shape the District

‘It was inciting,’ ‘provoked by the president’: What GOP senators said before about Trump’s culpability for the Capitol riot

In self-imposed exile, Trump watches with unhappiness as second impeachment trial unfolds