Thursday, April 14, 2022

Reading archive 2022-04-14

Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai is the face of NBA's uneasy China relationship

Russia threatens to move nukes to Baltic region if Finland, Sweden join NATO

Elon Musk launches hostile takeover bid for Twitter: The Tesla CEO, who recently became the social media company’s largest shareholder, is offering $54.20 per share

Poland builds a border wall, even as it welcomes Ukrainian refugees

Here’s how The Post analyzed Hunter Biden’s laptop: Two experts confirm the veracity of thousands of emails, but say a thorough examination was stymied by missing data - "In their examinations, Green and Williams found evidence that people other than Hunter Biden had accessed the drive and written files to it, both before and after the initial stories in the New York Post and long after the laptop itself had been turned over to the FBI."

"Russia cannot afford to lose, so we need a kind of a victory": Sergey Karaganov on what Putin wants A former adviser to the Kremlin explains how Russia views the war in Ukraine, fears over Nato and China, and the fate of liberalism.

'We Are Tired of Killing': How Long Can Ukraine Trade Land for Blood?: A journey to the front lines with an elite unit of Ukrainian marines willing to sacrifice everything

A policing strategy abandoned after Breonna Taylor’s death spreads to other cities: At least nine jurisdictions either plan to or have adopted the crime-reduction strategy known as ‘place network investigations’ — a model that examines geographic connections that allow crime to flourish.

What Should America Do With Its Nuclear Waste?: Currently there are about 80 locations in 35 states where spent fuel is being stored, with no long-term plans for disposal.

Slain 15-year-old was shot near family’s new home in Columbia Heights: Malachi Jackson’s mother and grandmother say neighborhood tensions led to the teen’s shooting

Economic toll in Texas worsens as trucks remain stopped at Mexico border Gov. Greg Abbott has kept many of his new inspection policies in place despite pleas from businesses for relief

Perennial Sources of Russian Weakness [ed. note: from The Economist in 1854]

I Commanded U.S. Army Europe. Here’s What I Saw in the Russian and Ukrainian Armies.: The two armies at war today couldn’t be more different.

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