Reading archive 2022-05-08

Clarence Thomas says he worries respect for institutions is eroding

Meat grown from fungus? It could save the world’s forests.: A study in Nature suggests that eating meat made from microbes could stave off half the world’s deforestation — but at a certain point, the land-saving effect is diminished

Opinion  Kevin McCarthy is a shining symbol of democratic decay - "Let’s take a moment from the lightning pace of the news cycle to reflect on a disturbing fact of American life: The likely next speaker of the House of Representatives is a liar, a hypocrite and an enabler of democratic decay.

"Trump’s main moral damage to the country is not his incitement of the MAGA faithful. It is his extraordinary talent for turning regular GOP pols into hollow men."

Opinion  Russia’s top propagandist in Latin America has a change of heart