Monday, July 1, 2024

Reading archive 2024-07-01

In head lice outbreaks, ‘selfies’ may be a surprising culprit: Getting close for group selfies could give lice an opportunity to crawl from one head to another, as they cannot jump or fly.

Opinion Denmark’s model for assimilation: Send in the bulldozers: The Danish plan has drawn criticism as ethnic discrimination. Others in Europe may be watching.

D.C. police respond to 6 shootings and a stabbing in 12-hour period: Two people were killed and seven were injured in the seven incidents.

No charges in fatal fight outside of D.C. restaurant: Vivek Taneja’s family says he was attacked while defending himself and his friends; prosecutors assert Taneja was the initial aggressor.

He never saw himself as disadvantaged. Then the government had him write an essay.: It had never occurred to Curtis Joachim to blame racism for his professional setbacks until an SBA application forced him to think differently about his life.

The most religious, and religiously diverse, places in America: This week, we mine the U.S. Religious Census, a decennial count of America’s faithful, for insights into the geography of religious devotion. We also compare people’s claims on church attendance to their actual behavior.

Russia’s devastating glide bombs keep falling on its own territory: Internal Russian documents show how often its glide bombs hit its own territory, likely due to faulty guidance systems, say experts.

What Taiwan is learning from the war in Ukraine: For the Taiwanese public, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has revealed the dangers at their own doorstep, said Taiwan’s de facto ambassador in Washington.

Opinion God save us from this dishonorable court: An egregious, unconscionable ruling on presidential immunity from the Supreme Court. - "Sotomayor was similarly apocalyptic. 'With fear for our democracy, I dissent,' she closed her dissent. Both Sotomayor and Jackson abandoned the customary 'respectfully' — for good reason."

Justice Sotomayor dissent: ‘The President is now a king above the law’: Liberal justices said the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling makes even corrupt presidents immune from criminal prosecution.

Opinion The Trump immunity decision isn’t the end of democracy — but it is bad: The Supreme Court’s opinion is much bigger than Trump.

Opinion Biden’s 2024 survival requires a lot more than hope: If the president falls significantly behind in polls, the party must intervene and find alternative candidates.

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