Reading archive 2022-12-28

How wildlife experts battled the Chesapeake Bay’s ‘menace in the marsh’: A two-decade effort succeeded in ridding the Delmarva Peninsula of the nutria, a pesky rodent that ruins marshlands. But experts worry that it could return.

The scale of George Santos’s deceit — and the remaining questions

The benefits of ‘Dry January’ last longer than a month, studies show: People who abstained from alcohol for a month started drinking less the rest of the year and showed striking improvements in their health.

Putin declares ‘war’ – aloud – forsaking his special euphemistic operation

Here’s who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter: Who pulls the financial strings at Twitter? These are Musk’s backers

Inside the monumental, stop-start effort to arm Ukraine: The U.S. supply of weapons has never been enough for Kyiv. But for Washington and the Pentagon, there are broader concerns. - "An upcoming CSIS report on American readiness, Jones said, concludes that 'the U.S. defense industrial base is in pretty poor shape right now. If you identify China as the ‘pacing’ threat, and an ‘acute’ threat from Russia, we don’t make it past four or five days in a war game before we run out of precision missiles.'"

Opinion  The D.C. region needs more housing. The time to act is now.

For John Eastman and Clarence Thomas, an intellectual kinship stretching back decades: The Supreme Court justice and the lawyer referred by the House Jan. 6 panel for criminal investigation became acquainted years before Eastman served as Thomas’s clerk