Reading archive 2022-05-03

Roberts directs investigation into leaked draft of abortion opinion: The document is authentic but not final, the chief justice said in a news release Tuesday

Collins and Murkowski are put on defensive after leaked Roe draft

Opinion  How Russia’s grim demographics could thwart Putin’s global ambitions

Mass flight of tech workers turns Russian IT into another casualty of war: About 10 percent of the tech workforce is projected to leave Russia before the end of May

Hacking Russia was off-limits. The Ukraine war made it a free-for-all.: Experts anticipated a Moscow-led cyber-assault; instead, unprecedented attacks by hacktivists and criminals have wreaked havoc in Russia

In the capital of Blue State America, a new ferment over homelessness - "But there is something happening here where two major California rivers converge, currents placing Democrats of various shades of blue against each other. One approach is being promoted by the state and local governments, which want to focus more resources on the mentally ill, the most visible and defining characteristic of the crisis. 

"Another is being advocated by business leaders, neighborhood groups and angry voters, who have watched the expanding homeless population fill in the city’s public spaces and now want local officials to force people to accept housing, getting them off the streets. Those who decline an offer of an available bed, of which there are none now, would no longer be allowed to live on the street. The proposal, highly popular with the public, will come before voters in November."