Reading archive 2019-02-26

U.S. Cyber Command operation disrupted Internet access of Russian troll factory on day of 2018 midterms

‘White women’s yoga’: How one woman’s Meetup experiment exploded on the Internet

Labour announces backing for a second Brexit referendum: Jeremy Corbyn says the party will support a public vote to "prevent a damaging Tory Brexit being forced on the country".

Trump’s ideology isn’t populism. It’s catastrophism.

Reading archive 2019-02-21

Justice Department preparing for Mueller report in coming days

‘They hate white males’: A Norwegian mass murderer inspired the Coast Guard officer accused of plotting terror, feds say

An angry historian ripped the ultrarich over tax avoidance at Davos. Then one was given the mic.

Some anti-vaccination parents cite religious exemptions. Measles outbreaks could change that.

GOP Campaign Worker in NC Admits to Filling in Republican Votes on Absentee Ballots, Claims She Was Told to Lie

N Carolina US House candidate faces questions over choices

How the Failure of Our Foreign Wars Fueled Nativist Fanaticism: For nearly two centuries, US politicians have channeled extremism outward. But the frontier is gone, the empire is faltering, and the chickens are coming home to roost.

Reading archive 2018-12-06

Republican officials had early warnings of voting irregularities in North Carolina

Documents Point to Illegal Campaign Coordination Between Trump and NRA: Trump and the gun group used the same consultants to spearhead their TV ad blitzes at the height of the 2016 election, likely in violation of federal law.

Reading archive 2018-11-18

How the Democrats Took Back Michigan: A Democratic tsunami in the midterms engulfed the state Trump won most narrowly in 2016—and could keep the state blue in 2020.

‘Nothing on this page is real’: How lies become truth in online America

In Mississippi, Republican concern rises over a U.S. Senate runoff that should have been a romp

Reading archive 2018-10-28 through 2018-10-31

Trump’s Caravan Hysteria Led to This: The president and his supporters insisted that several thousand Honduran migrants were a looming menace—and the Pittsburgh gunman took that seriously.

Trump, GOP defiant amid allegations that incendiary rhetoric contributed to climate of violence

She was ‘white and hot’ in a racist video. Now she’s viral and unemployed.

A Doctor Who Died In The Pittsburgh Shooting Is Being Remembered As A Hero To Patients At The Start Of The AIDS Crisis: "He would hold my hand, without gloves, when I was feeling really bad," one of his patients said. He "kept us alive the longest."

Police and a big-time columnist called a woman’s 1994 rape a ‘hoax.’ Here’s why police are now apologizing.

U.S. borrowing on pace to top $1.3 trillion this year, the highest since 2010

Mueller Wants the FBI to Look at a Scheme to Discredit Him: The special counsel says a woman was offered money to fabricate sexual-harassment claims.

Trump isn’t to blame. His entire party is.

This is how republics end: Warnings from the fall of Rome.

Reading archive 2018-10-02

Alex Trebek moderated a gubernatorial debate in Pennsylvania. It didn’t go well.

Dear dads: Your daughters told me about their assaults. This is why they never told you.

Republicans have a strategy to save Kavanaugh. It exposes Trumpism at its worst.

Reading archive 2018-09-30

Family ties are no match for Trump’s divisive politics

China has silenced American academics for years. Now they’re pushing back.

Putin’s war is transforming Ukraine

The Geopolitical Divorce of the Century: Why Putin Cannot Afford to Let Ukraine Go

Foreign aid as a cash-only transaction? It’s worth a try.

Reading archive 2018-08-31

Why so many people are coming to see Beto O’Rourke: A revolt against Trump and a demand for compassion

Trump’s latest rally rant is much more alarming and dangerous than usual

People don’t vote for what they want. They vote for who they are.

Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance: A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.

NAFTA talks rocked by media leak of off-record Trump comments on Canada

Justice lawyer was told Russia had ‘Trump over a barrel’: AP

Reading archive 2018-08-21

Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one

A guide to the racism scandal that’s tearing Beauty YouTube apart

‘Beyond disrespectful’: At VMAs, Madonna gets backlash after bizarre Aretha Franklin tribute

Microsoft says it has found a Russian operation targeting U.S. political institutions

‘Silent Sam is down’: Crowd topples Confederate statue at UNC

Michael Cohen says he worked to silence two women ‘in coordination’ with Trump to influence 2016 election

Reading archive 2018-08-15

Minnesota Republicans reject former governor Tim Pawlenty as Democrats pick historic nominees

I read six sycophantic pro-Trump books — and then I read Omarosa

Was Smokey Bear wrong? How a beloved character may have helped fuel catastrophic fires.

‘They be pirates’: An old scourge is reappearing in the Caribbean

Elizabeth Warren has a plan to save capitalism She’s unveiling a bill to make corporate governance great again.

Reading archive 2018-07-26

Once again, ‘fake news’ decried by Trump turns out to be true

Alleged killer of black woman was white supremacist, says his own daughter. ‘He’s the true definition of evil.’

From Russia to Bistro Bis: The Calif. congressman who dined with alleged Russian agent

Russian Hackers’ New Target: a Vulnerable Democratic Senator: Sen. Claire McCaskill is a top target for Republicans looking to grow their slim Senate majority in 2018. Turns out, Russia’s “Fancy Bear” hackers are going after her staff, too.

Reading archive 2018-07-08

Five dead in Capital Gazette shooting; suspect Jarrod Ramos is in custody, police say

The Annapolis shooting was an attack on a newspaper — and on women

A journalist’s conscience leads her to reveal her source to the FBI. Here’s why.

Ocasio-Cortez, Hegar and the art of making your political ad feel like an uplifting movie

Reading archive 2018-05-12

Loyalty, unease in Trump’s Midwest: Voters gave Trump a chance. Some remain all in. Others have grown weary of the chaos.

D.C. AG seeks more than $800,000 from city employees who live in Maryland, alleging they fraudulently sent children to city schools

The smear that killed the ‘reset’: Putin needed an American enemy. He picked me.

Congressional candidate drops an f-bomb on the NRA in new campaign ad

Trump’s latest rage-filled tirade unmasks Paul Ryan’s lies

Reading archive 2018-04-11

House Speaker Paul Ryan will not seek reelection

Dog rescuers, flush with donations, buy animals from the breeders they scorn

Reading archive 2018-04-09

This is how homophobia feels in 2018.

Fox News mistakenly posts graphic showing it lags in trust

Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys

The Moscow Midterms How Russia could steal our next election.

A debt crisis is coming. But don’t blame entitlements.

Sinclair commentator resigns after threatening to sexually assault Parkland survivor David Hogg

‘A bomb on Trump’s front porch’: FBI’s Cohen raids hit home for the president

Reading archive 2018-03-08

What swamp? Lobbyists get ethics waivers to work for Trump

Bernie Sanders tells Democrats to back off primary attacks

I Can't Even, Followed by More Cantevening (ed. note: Bernie Sanders and his cadre of bros are fuckbags and I hate them)

Reading archive 2018-02-28

We studied thousands of anonymous posts about the Parkland attack — and found a conspiracy in the making

Hope Hicks Acknowledges She Sometimes Tells White Lies for Trump

Turkey’s president consoled a crying 6-year-old with talk of her glorious death in future combat

NSA director Mike Rogers’s remarkable comments about Trump’s Russia efforts — or lack thereof

Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault (from June 2017)

Corker Reconsiders Retirement, but He Must Win Over Trump to Do It

The Foiled Plot to Kick Mitt Romney Out of the [Utah] Republican Party: The Senate candidate's allies believed party activists were trying to change bylaws to exclude him—but a last-minute amendment preserved his eligibility.

North Pole surges above freezing in the dead of winter, stunning scientists

Shocker: Democrats’ predictions about the GOP tax cut are coming true

Trump’s Tax Cuts in Hand, Companies Spend More on Themselves Than on Wages

Trump lashes out at attorney general over alleged surveillance abuses

Sessions pushes back on Trump after 'disgraceful' insult

Clinton says Trump is surrendering to Russia's election meddling

Gus Kenworthy Reveals the Homophobic Messages He Gets Online: ‘Go Die of AIDS'

Cindy McCain sounds off on Trump: ‘We don’t need more bullying, and I’m tired of it’

Reading archive 2018-01-14

Trump loyalists rush to defend the indefensible — and get left holding the bag

The forgotten dream of Martin Luther King Jr.

New alarm among Republicans that Democrats could win big this year

Reading archive 2018-01-10

The US has reached the last stage before collapse

A Gay Husband, a Dire Diagnosis and the Best-Laid Plans

Netanyahu’s son brags about prostitutes, $20 billion deal for friend’s dad in strip club rant

Who is attacking Russia’s bases in Syria? A new mystery emerges in the war.

Why Are Our Most Important Teachers Paid the Least?: Many preschool teachers live on the edge of financial ruin. Would improving their training — and their pay — improve outcomes for their students?

Some birds are so stressed by noise pollution it looks like they have PTSD

Meet the Most Toxic Plant in North America

Rep. Darrell Issa, who was GOP’s attack dog against top Democrats, will retire

Mueller adds veteran cyber prosecutor to special-counsel team

A 7-year-old Pakistani girl was raped, strangled and left in a dumpster

Reading archive 2017-11-08

Johnstown Never Believed Trump Would Help. They Still Love Him Anyway.: In a depressed former steel town, the president’s promises don’t matter as much as they once did. (ed. note: holy shit)

His girlfriend’s televised slaying made him run for office. He won.

Senate GOP tax bill could delay corporate tax cut and make other major changes that break sharply with House plan

Why Northam’s Win in Virginia Was So Impressive

Hearing Both Sides of Taylor Swift: Since the 2016 election, she has been criticized for refusing to engage with national politics, or speaking out against the hate groups that celebrate her. Can a pop star afford to stay apolitical in our current climate?

Donna Brazile is walking back her claim that the Democratic primary was ‘rigged’

Barack Obama is building a library — and grappling again with Chicago politics

‘Canary in the coal mine’: Republicans fear Democratic wins mean more losses to come

‘The cracks in the foundation are there’: Bob Costas imagines a future without football