Reading archive 2022-06-26

For Trixie Mattel, drag is an art form. It’s also her empire.: A new double album, a Discovery Plus show and a comedy tour are just the latest ventures for the drag queen

Opinion  As an adoptee, I know: Adoption is not a fairy-tale answer to abortion

Opinion  We know what to do to save the giant sequoias

Opinion  The Supreme Court rulings represent the tyranny of the minority - "In Federalist No. 22, Alexander Hamilton warned that giving small states like Rhode Island or Delaware 'equal weight in the scale of power' with large states like 'Massachusetts, or Connecticut, or New York' violated the precepts of 'justice' and 'common-sense.' 'The larger States would after a while revolt from the idea of receiving the law from the smaller,' he predicted, arguing that such a system contradicts 'the fundamental maxim of republican government, which requires that the sense of the majority should prevail.'

...

"To take but one example: Twenty-one states with fewer total people than California have 42 Senate seats.

"As an Economist correspondent points out, '5 of the 6 conservative Supreme Court justices were appointed by a Republican Senate majority that won fewer votes than the Democrats' and '3 of the 6 were nominated by a president who also won a minority of the popular vote.'"

GOP lawmaker calls Roe ruling ‘victory for white life’ as Trump rally cheers: A spokesman said the comment by Rep. Mary E. Miller (R-Ill.) was a ‘mix-up of words’