Reading archive 2026-06-22

Pro-Israel and crypto money become central issue in Democratic primary Dark money — and complaints about it — have become the central issue in the 24-candidate field to replace Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland).

Tulsi Gabbard, her guru and the mysterious messages that helped shape her political career: I obtained hundreds of confidential memos detailing politics and policy guidance for Gabbard from her years in Congress, then embarked on a quest to identify who was behind them.

Could There Be a Third Party for Moderates?: It turns out, Americans agree on an awful lot.

World Cup visitors marvel at American food, from cheesesteaks to cheese slices: After going broke on tickets, there’s only one way for these fans to save a buck: cheap (and greasy) eats.

Who Is Andy Burnham, the Man Who Could Be Britain’s Next Prime Minister?: Charismatic, northern and exuding a relaxed optimism, Mr. Burnham is a contrast to Keir Starmer. His allies hope he could mend Labour’s relationship with voters. - "In 2022, after the last soccer World Cup, Mr. Starmer himself poked fun at his former colleague. In a speech to reporters, Mr. Starmer joked that Mr. Burnham 'got to see his boyhood team Argentina win the World Cup' but that 'it was a mixed bag because he also got to see his boyhood team France lose the final and his boyhood teams Morocco and Croatia lose in the semis.'"

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s: For decades, American roads were steadily getting safer for pedestrians. But around 2009, the trend reversed. Since then, the number of pedestrians killed each year has risen by about 75 percent.

Why cyclists don't stop at stop signs and shouldn't have to: Stop signs in Toronto were designed to control cars, and don't work for bikes. Cities with balanced transportation systems don't have them. - "I learned in design school that The User is Always Right. It doesn't matter what you think you have designed, the user's behaviour tells you what your product or system actually IS.... A great example is how roads are designed for 70 km/h, but then signed for 30 km/h – and then we wag our fingers at the speeders. These drivers are behaving perfectly normally for the system. If you wanted people to drive 30 km/h, then YOU FAILED. The people are not broken, YOUR SYSTEM IS BROKEN.

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"'Nearly everyone has jaywalked, rolled through a stop sign, or driven a few miles per hour over the speed limit, but most such offences face no legal consequences. Society also tends to see these relatively minor infractions that almost all people make—though they are unmistakably illegal—as normal and even rational. Bicyclists who break the law, however, seem to attract a higher level of scorn and scrutiny.'"

Boomer caregiving will wreck our politics We have maybe five years to escape gerontocratic capture - "We are not prepared — emotionally, politically, financially — for what it means to care for tens of millions of aging boomers while also trying to invest in the future for our children. 

"Consider the demographic trends. In five years, America will have more people over 65 than under 18. Americans over 75 are the fastest-growing age group in the country. The worker-to-retiree ratio has collapsed from five-to-one in 1960 to about 2.5 today. Nearly 70% of people over 65 will need long-term care.

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"Even if you were willing to make the hard decisions, political incentives won’t allow it. Older Americans are growing in number and vote at much higher rates than the young. Many of us want to invest more in children, families, and fertility, but the boomer caregiving wave will pull spending and incentives further toward the old. Politicians will follow their most reliable and expanding voting bloc."

The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun: Do we need a 'Holy War' against the Thinking Machines? - "Magnifica Humanitas is valuable precisely because it does not make the vulgar mistake now being projected onto the fictional Butlerian Jihad. It treats the thinking machine neither as a demon nor a consciousness hiding inside the circuitry. Nor does it see AI as some rival species whose emergence must be met with holy violence. 

It simply asks whose vision of the human person is being elevated through the thinking machine. And it warns against the very concentrations of power and structures of domination that haunted Frank Herbert’s writing.

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"The burning question regarding AI is not whether the machines are evil. It is whether human beings will allow the machines to become instruments through which other human beings will concentrate power. A properly conceived Butlerian Jihad must target technocracy, not technology."

If Only Trump Knew What Vance Is Doing: If the president is infallible, there must be some other explanation for his Iran defeat.

The Democratic Base Is Angry: Is the party paying attention?

‘You Slap Me in the Face, I’ll Slap You Right Back’: Nancy Pelosi on gerrymandering, the midterms, and her 39 years in Congress

A ‘Death Train’ Is Haunting South Florida: The Brightline has been hailed as the future of high-speed rail in the United States, but it has one big, unignorable problem. - "What the Brightline is best known for is not that it reflects the gleam of the future but the fact that it keeps hitting people. According to Federal Railroad Administration data, the Brightline has been involved in at least 185 fatalities, 148 of which were believed not to be suicides, since it began operating, in December 2017. Last year, the train hit and killed 41 people-none of whom, as best as authorities could determine, was attempting to harm themselves. By comparison, the Long Island Rail Road, the busiest commuter line in the country, hit and killed six people last year while running 947 trains a day. Brightline was running 32.

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"'Fast trains and grade crossings are always a deadly combination,' the historian Richard White, whose 2011 book about American railroads was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, told me. He put it the most succinctly, but I did not talk with anybody who disagreed with that conclusion."

The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance: An underground intelligence network uses subterfuge and honey traps to direct drone strikes deep inside Russian-occupied territory. - "I asked the partisans why they would talk with me at all, sharing intimate details of the war's most dangerous operations. In part, they are sending a message to the occupier: You are hated here. Sestra put a finer point on this: 'I want every Russian soldier who has set foot on our land to carry that paranoia with him - suffocating, relentless, every second of every day. I want him to look at the grandmother at the market, at the bus driver, at the doctor in the clinic, at the ordinary passerby on the street-and to see in each of them his own potential destruction.'"

Reading archive 2026-04-16

Boys killed in shooting near Northeast DC convenience store were visiting new food truck

Police arrest teen in connection with graffiti at elementary school that referenced Sandy Hook

Amid ‘constant' data center noise, Sterling residents also worry about health impact: A study done for an environmental group shows emissions from the center could have severe health consequences.

Trump tests loyalty of Christian supporters as erratic behavior escalates: The president maintains his hold on the Christian right, but his bluster, fight with the pope and portrayal of himself as a Jesus-like figure strain that bond.

Why Democrats are failing to reach young voters like me: Some in the party don’t understand the attention economy or how to communicate.

Prosecutors add terrorism charge in new D.C. pipe bomb indictment: Brian Cole Jr. is accused of placing explosives near the RNC and DNC headquarters the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. - "During the first two hours of his FBI interview in December, Cole denied placing the pipe bombs and said he was a Trump supporter. After being told that lying to federal agents could be charged as an additional crime, Cole admitted that he planted the bombs out of frustration with both political parties and 'denied that his actions were directed toward Congress or related to the proceedings scheduled to take place on January 6,' prosecutors said."

Reading archive 2026-04-01

Retirees receive six times as much in federal dollars as young people: An analysis from Penn Wharton Budget Model shows that baby boomers and the Silent Generation received an estimated $2.7 trillion in federal outlays last year.

Bike share: Paris has made space for cyclists in a way that I simply have not seen in any other city

D.C. Council overrides Bowser’s veto of police bill, underscoring tensions: The council also postponed a vote on a curfew extension, which the mayor has pressed for after some large youth gatherings ended with acts of violence.

Reading archive 2026-03-27

How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve The Housing Shortage: Our hardest problems — from housing shortages to climate retreat to democratic trust and technology — aren’t failures of politics; they’re failures of incentives.  "This is the promise of mechanism design: It suggests our hardest problems — from housing shortages to climate retreat to democratic trust and technology — won’t be solved by better attitudes or more flexible positions. They will be solved by better architectures, by structures that treat division not as an obstacle to eliminate but as material to consider when building." [ed. note: mechanism design; Transferable Development Rights]

Where Are All the Campus Protests?: Two years ago, students occupied buildings and colonized the quad. Now the same places are strangely silent.

The Deep Risk That Republican Hawks Overlooked: If the Iran war goes badly, the isolationist, anti-Israel wing of the party is likely to steer the GOP’s future. - "Trump has held [America First and Neocons] in place through personalist rule. Anybody who supports Trump - however disreputable or criminal they might be - can be in the party, nobody in the party can oppose Trump, and the party's platform consists of whatever Trump has said at any given moment, even if it contradicts what he claimed to stand for yesterday. The holdover Republicans who have remained attached to the party's old identity (hawkish, pro-Israel, anti-Russia, opposed to anti-Semitism) have squabbled with its newer entrants. But those disputes could be settled by Trump, who has repeatedly declared, 'I am MAGA.'"

Infamous DC squatter sues homeowner, claims $500K in designer goods are missing

US newspaper circulations 2025: Washington Post print declines 21% in a year: Some 24 out of top 25 US newspapers saw print circulation decline in 2025.

Education Department headquarters will relocate as part of Trump’s dismantling

What gladiatorial politics will bury in the midterms: Never underestimate the Democrats’ ability to make a sow’s ear out of a silk purse. - "Trump, himself a highly caffeinated creature, has been caffeine for the electorate: a stimulant, who in 2024 upended the axiom that higher voter turnout is better for Democrats. Last spring, David Shor, a data scientist, calculated that if more people had voted, Kamala Harris would have fared even worse. Trump would have won the popular vote by almost five points instead of 1.4 points, and in doing so would have won five states he lost (Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Virginia). The electoral vote outcome would have been 355-183 instead of 312-226."

FBI probe of 2020 election count in Georgia faces crucial court hearing: A federal judge Friday will consider Fulton County’s request for the return of thousands of ballots seized by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department.

House Democrat violated ethics rules, panel finds, putting her seat in jeopardy: The Ethics Committee panel cited a years-long inquiry into whether Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick misused covid pandemic money. She has maintained her innocence. - "The Justice Department brought its charges against Cherfilus-McCormick and several others, including her brother and tax preparer, in November, concluding an investigation that began during the Biden administration."

U.S. uses hundreds of Tomahawk missiles on Iran, alarming some at Pentagon: More than 850 have been fired in just four weeks, people familiar with the matter said, raising concerns about the weapon’s limited supply.

Is The End of NATO Near?: The alliance has been battered by Trump’s threats.

A Turning Point in the Iran War: The president is discovering the high stakes of an escalation that damages energy facilities.

The Countdown to a Ground War: The president wants to avoid a long, messy entanglement, but all of the ground options promise to be just that.

The Immigration Restriction Trump Won’t Try: Focusing enforcement on employers might be the easiest choice in immigration policy—after all the hard ones are made. - "For these reasons, the Democrats proposing employer-focused enforcement all offer the same important caveat: Yes to E-Verify, but only after most of the undocumented people already in the country are given a path to legal status. 'Once we have immigration reform,' Gallego told me, 'and once we have actually legalized' most undocumented immigrants without a criminal record, then strict enforcement of E-Verify is the natural next step. Last August, the New Democrat Coalition, a caucus of 115 congresspeople, released an immigration plan embodying the same logic. It proposes beefing up border security, creating new visa categories and expanding existing ones, giving Dreamers a path to citizenship, and granting legal status to noncriminal undocumented immigrants who arrived more than five years ago and pay a fine."

Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic Disaster: The AI boom wasn’t built for the polycrisis. - "The way the money moves is concerning, but so is the AI industry's underlying business model. At every layer, the technology appears to decrease the value of its assets. The advanced AI chips that make up the majority of the cost of a data center? Their value rapidly decreases as they are superseded by the next generation of chips, meaning that the ultimate backstop for all of the data-center debt - selling the data center itself - is not actually a backstop. The way that AI companies make money when people use their products is also deflationary. OpenAI, Anthropic, and others charge users for using 'tokens,' the components of words processed by their bots. This means that tokens are an industrial commodity akin to, say, crude oil or steel. But unlike other commodities, the cost of each token is rapidly decreasing owing to advancements in AI's capabilities. Kedrosky called this 'a death spiral to zero.' As the value of a token plummets, the value of what data centers can produce also falls.

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"Even if Iran and the Strait of Hormuz don't directly trigger an AI-driven financial crisis, the odds are decent that another vector could. (Remember tariffs?) Energy prices could stay elevated for years, because the targeted fossil-fuel facilities in the Persian Gulf will take a long time to restore. As the U.S. directs huge amounts of attention and military resources toward Iran, it's easy to imagine China launching an invasion of Taiwan - a scenario that terrifies Silicon Valley, because it would halt the production of chips needed to train frontier models. That's not even considering the single Dutch company that makes the high-tech lithography machines used to print virtually all AI chips, or the German company that makes the mirrors used in those machines. 'There are too many ways for it to fail for it not to fail,' Kedrosky said of the AI industry's web of risk. 'All you can say for sure is this is a fragile and overdetermined system that must break, so it will.'"

OpenAI Is Doing Everything … Poorly: The company’s sudden decision to pull the plug on Sora is a sign of deeper trouble.

What Was Clavicular?: The internet’s most famous looks-maxxer is far more pernicious than he may seem.

Reading archive 2026-03-19

Trump Is Learning That His Bullying Has Consequences: Allies are not eager to assist a superpower that’s shown them no loyalty. - "In the past, Denmark and other European countries that viewed good relations with Washington as the foundation of their security would have been more willing to assist 'even if they weren't on board with the military mission per se,' Søndergaard said. "It's pretty clear this is not the case anymore." Proof of that came last night, when Denmark's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, gave a forthright answer to a question in a televised debate about whether she could still call the United States her country's most important ally. 'No, I can't do that anymore,' she said, instead pointing to Europe, especially other Nordic countries, as well as Canada.

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"Germany's position reflects a pragmatic response to a pattern of U.S. behavior. Roderich Kiesewetter, a member of the foreign-affairs committee in the German Parliament, ticked through the blows with me: downgrading Europe's importance in annual national-security and defense strategies, dialing back support for Ukraine, and delivering a boost to the Kremlin's war economy by lifting some sanctions on Russian oil. All of this, naturally, has repercussions. "It strains the transatlantic relationship," Kiesewetter told me today. 'We do not see Trump as a trustworthy ally anymore.'"

A Possible Upside to the Iran War: Perhaps inadvertently, Trump is revealing the limits of China’s Axis of Autocracy. - "Villa suggests that China's leaders could burnish the country's reputation in Latin America by fighting U.S. hard power with soft power, expanding aid and investment in the region. Yet this looks unlikely. Although China is a major trading partner for Latin American countries, Beijing's generosity can be limited. Villa estimates that even after the Trump administration's cuts to USAID's budget, Beijing's international aid amounted to only 5 percent of what Washington handed out around the world last year. 'There's no indication that China will close that gap,' he told me."

Glimpsing Victory in Iran: The campaign has already delivered major wins for American national security, but something much bigger is starting to come into view.

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done: Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing. - "Specifically, they remember that for 14 months, the American president has tariffed them, mocked their security concerns, and repeatedly insulted them. As long ago as January 2020, Trump told several European officials that ;if Europe is under attack, we will never come to help you and to support you.; In February 2025, he told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he had no right to expect support either, because ;you don't have any cards.; Trump ridiculed Canada as the ;51st state; and referred to both the present and previous Canadian prime ministers as ;governor.; He claimed, incorrectly, that allied troops in Afghanistan ;stayed a little back, a little off the front lines,; causing huge offense to the families of soldiers who died fighting after NATO invoked Article 5 of the organization's treaty, on behalf of the United States, the only time it has done so. He called the British ;our once-great ally,; after they refused to participate in the initial assault on Iran; when they discussed sending some aircraft carriers to the Persian Gulf conflict earlier this month, he ridiculed the idea on social media: 'We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won!'"

The Iran War’s Next Threat Is to Food and Water: A prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz could unleash a humanitarian crisis.

This app is quietly reformulating America’s food supply: Food scanning app Yuka is empowering consumers to demand that processed food brands make their products healthier. - "Dariush Mozaffarian, a Tufts University cardiologist and director of its Food Is Medicine Institute, faults Nutri-Score as relying on 'outdated science,' such as penalizing some healthy fats, while lacking evidence it leads individuals to eat meaningfully better over time. 'It’s not terrible,' he said, “but I don’t think it’s great." (Mozaffarian has helped develop his own nutritional index called the Food Compass). 

"Other food experts say Yuka unhelpfully demonizes additives that can be dangerous at high doses but are usually present in tiny amounts. Some may not be 'high-risk' at all: Yuka puts MSG in that category, despite scientific bodies from the FDA to WHO declaring them safe in typical amounts after multiple randomized controlled studies."

Trump has choked off Cuba’s oil supply. China is stepping in with solar.: Chinese-backed solar parks could be supplying as much as 10 percent of Cuba’s electricity, researchers say.

Economic fallout from U.S.-led war is hitting the rest of the world harder: Because of greater exposure to disruptions in the Middle East, such as high natural gas prices, businesses and consumers outside the U.S. are being hit harder by the war in Iran.

Britain is ready to admit it has an America problem: Washington’s unquestioned leadership of the West’s postwar alliance system is dissolving. - "Despite Britain’s conventional ammo stocks having whittled down to the point it could barely sustain a week of high intensity warfare with Russia, London was willing to put its specialist skills and weaponry behind Ukraine while Washington dithered. This included airlifting NLAW anti-tank weapons to Kyiv and telling Britain’s long-standing in-country training mission to stay put as other Westerners withdrew theirs. By the time I arrived in Kyiv, the United Kingdom had spent two years not following but pushing the United States, all while being much more present on the ground.

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"The truth is it is not Britain, with its rocky politics and strained public finances, that is seriously rearming. It’s Germany. With Berlin aiming to hit 3.5 percent of GDP on defense by 2029, the balance of power in Europe is going to shift radically. A Europe still allied to Washington but primarily defended by Europeans is in sight. But neither Britain nor France are ready for their German partner suddenly overshadowing them militarily. Unless the U.K. raises its defense budget to generate more deployable assets to secure Europe’s perimeter, London’s return to relevance risks being a passing moment in between two Western security orders."

This Emirati billionaire put a voice to Gulf anger over Trump’s war in Iran: In a post on X, the hotel magnate lambasted the president for not considering collateral damage, although he later told The Post: “I blame Trump, but I blame the Iranians more.”

The nation’s accelerating self-assassination: The national debt is heading for $40 trillion. Blame “Total Boomer Luxury Communism.” - "The fastest-growing age cohort is people 65 and older. They are high-propensity voters because the more government subsidizes them, the higher are the stakes of politics for them. And because of their powerful incentive to vote (in order to defend and enlarge their benefits), the political class has a permanent incentive to intensify the elderly’s incentive by enriching those benefits. Last year, the president’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act increased the standard tax deduction for seniors — and only for them.

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Thomas Jefferson said spending money to be repaid by posterity is 'swindling futurity on a large scale.' There is, however, no injustice in borrowing from the future to fund public goods — those from which all citizens, present and future, will benefit. Such goods — physical (roads, dams, harbors, defense) and intellectual (education, scientific research) — are the infrastructure enabling society’s dynamism. The swindle that has become normal is perpetrated by generations in power funding their consumption of government goods by burdening — borrowing from — future generations."

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog: Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too - "Another aspect of America’s rapidly deteriorating democracy, according to the report, is the removal of internal guardrails that protect the federal government from abuse of power. When I ask Lindberg how we should read the findings, his response is emphatic. 'Trump has fired inspector generals and higher levels of civil servants across departments, and replaced them with loyalists. This is exactly what Orbán and Erdoğan did. They remove the constraints on power. It should be obvious by now that Trump is aiming for dictatorship.'"

None of These People I Insulted Want To Die For Me in The Strait of Hormuz?: The Trump people, on top of everything else, do not know ball. PLUS: U.S. military AI usage killed an Iraqi student in 2024 - "Thirty years ago, while basking in the dawn of U.S. hyperpower, imperial policymakers liked to say that 'superpowers don't do windows'—that is, the unglamorous, menial tasks of hegemony, which ought to be performed by client states. We are a long way from that now. The Iraq War (and then the Afghanistan surge) showed that even at the height of U.S. unipolarity, there were serious political limits to the participation of partner militaries in unpopular American wars of choice. Now, at the historical end of U.S. unipolarity, there simply was never going to be any appetite to save the Americans from their own mistakes.

That reticence would confront any administration reckless enough to engage in an unprovoked aggression against what remains a formidable regional power. But this is the Trump administration we're talking about. Last year, the Trump administration levied massive tariffs on its traditional allies, basically as imperial tribute. Not two months ago, Trump threatened Europe over Greenland, and in doing so clarified his position that Europeans ought to be vassals of the United States. Marco Rubio—this time to European applause—placed Europe within a claimed American sphere of influence. Some of those European countries at first issued statements of support for the U.S. against Iran, particularly when the Iranians held the Gulf at risk, despite Mark Carney's fire at Davos about exiting the U.S. security umbrella. But the last thing insulted states are going to do is send their own navies into the line of fire on behalf of a contemptuous and aggressive patron. This is real basic shit."

Walgreens robberies rattled D.C.’s Chinatown. The ringleader is going to prison.: Gianni Robinson, who prosecutors say orchestrated an inside job of seven robberies at the iconic drugstore location starting in 2023, was sentenced to 10½ years.

House panel gives green light to bill to eliminate DC traffic cameras

Six Federal Scientists Run Out by Trump Talk About the Work Left Undone: “There’s been a fundamental destruction,” one researcher said. It’s going to “take a very, very long time to rebuild.”

Men can get out of the manosphere. Here’s what former incels say about why they left

After the Iran war, the global economy will never be the same: The fighting may end, but the inflationary and investment effects across the region will not.

A prolonged war in Iran could hand China the commodity it prizes most: But a short, decisive campaign could cause Beijing to think twice about taking Taiwan.

Reading archive 2026-03-16

Ric Grenell took a ‘sledgehammer’ to the Kennedy Center. Trump still soured on him - "'He kept saying that he agreed to take on the Kennedy Center role because he was assuming that he would that he would be taking on the State job quite quickly, so he was just a matter of time,' a person close to the Kennedy Center said. 'He felt like he was getting sloppy seconds of the Kennedy Center.'" [ed. note: lol, lol]

I Was an F.B.I. Agent for 25 Years. Kash Patel Is Playing a Dangerous Game. - "Mr. Patel is fond of saying that his goal is to let 'good cops be cops.' In leading the F.B.I., his job is to let good special agents be special agents. F.B.I. agents are trained to use intelligence and technology to advance investigations into federal crimes such as terrorism and cyberattacks. They are not trained to patrol city streets or to enforce immigration laws — as Mr. Patel has had them do. There are about 13,000 F.B.I. agents, and roughly 700,000 full-time sworn state and local law enforcement officers in the United States. The bureau must work with law enforcement partners to effectively address issues including violent crime. But agents aren’t cops, and their skills are best directed at neutralizing the most significant threats.

I Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis. What Is Coming May Be Worse.

Jobs least and most vulnerable to AI

Trump sold young voters on his vision. Many are having buyer’s remorse.: They were a key part of the coalition that powered the president’s comeback, and their frustrations signal vulnerability for Republicans ahead of the midterms.

The Iran war is eroding America’s China deterrent: U.S. tactical gains are consuming the ships, munitions and readiness needed for the Indo-Pacific.

I traveled to Ukraine to teach sociology. It left me amazed.: A university in Kyiv is under siege — and running more than 12 hours a day.

I’ve seen several types of warfare. This is the worst.: Drones are erasing any sense of safety, and Iran is only a warmup.

Collagen sits on a throne of lies: Or, how the supplement industry took meat garbage and turned it into a 9-billion-dollar business. - "The collagen pushers are always conveniently forgetting to mention that the collagen-protein relationship is kind of one-directional, in a positive way: While dietary collagen is a terrible source of protein, it’s relatively simple and easy to construct body collagen from most proteins, which means that virtually any protein we eat will probably help us regain or maintain body collagen. Just having a sufficient protein intake means your body will be able to make all the collagen it is able to. And per the protein digestibility factor, virtually any protein source, any semblance of a balanced diet, is going to help you do this better than consuming collagen itself."

Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story: Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel’s military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account

“South Park Syndrome”: How a Generation Misunderstood Satire and the Death of Critical Thinking - "This is where 'South Park Syndrome' and Rogan’s brand of detached discussion intersect. When everything is framed as just a joke or just a conversation, it fosters an environment where nothing is really taken seriously. Dangerous ideas can spread under the guise of curiosity, and critical engagement gets replaced with passive consumption. The audience, much like many South Park fans, absorbs the humor and the debate but doesn’t always do the work of questioning what it all really means. The result? A culture of cynicism where skepticism gets mistaken for intelligence and where laughing at everything feels more comfortable than confronting hard truths."

College Republicans group disbanded after students allegedly give Nazi salute: The University of Florida’s chapter accused the Florida Federation of College Republicans of lying “to silence christian conservative groups on campus.”

Teenagers Are Pushing Himmler’s Favorite Myth: If you are older than 25, you probably haven’t heard of “Agartha.”

‘The More I’m Around Young People, the More Panicked: I Am’ Anti-Jewish prejudice isn’t a partisan divide—it’s a generational one.

Reading archive 2026-03-09

As D.C.’s mayor race heats up, stark contrasts emerge in the two front-runners: With a Democratic primary in June, Kenyan R. McDuffie and Janeese Lewis George remain the leading contenders in the race to succeed D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser.

Israeli officials are growing concerned: A bombing campaign nearing its military goals in Iran leaves the hardest questions unanswered. - "A second concern expressed by the Israeli official was maintaining good relations with the United States at a time when Americans in both political parties are voicing growing concern about the alliance. 'We won’t drag the U.S. into an endless war,' the official said. 'Israel is a reliable ally,' not a burden, he argued."

There are two winners in Iran. Neither one is America.: Oil disruption benefits Russia, as does less U.S. aid for Ukraine. And Iran distracts from China. - "While Trump has been bombing various countries, imposing tariffs, discouraging foreign students from coming to America and cutting research funding, China has been making massive investments designed to dominate the industries of the future. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute reports that China now leads the United States in research on 66 of 74 frontier technologies, including artificial intelligence, superconductors, quantum computing and optical communications. China is already manufacturing roughly 70 percent of the world’s electric vehicles, 80 percent of smartphones, 80 percent of lithium-ion batteries and 90 percent of drones. Last year, roughly half of all vehicles sold in China were EVs or hybrids. The comparable figure for the U.S. is 22 percent — and it is likely to decline after Congress repealed the EV tax credit."

D.C.’s most apolitical official is on the hot seat — with $180M on the line: The brewing conflict in D.C. government stems from a vote by Republicans in Congress to block a city tax policy and the revenue it raised.

Reasons you should get a colonoscopy earlier than recommended: The official recommendation is to start colorectal cancer screening at age 45, but should you go earlier if you’re concerned? An oncologist explains.

Gen Z Lives in the Archive: Is cultural time actually continuous? - "In Plato’s dialogue, 'Ion,' he describes how inspiration works: the first poet was inspired directly by the muse, like an iron filling attached to a lodestone. The subsequent generations of poets are like iron fillings attached to that first filling. The force of inspiration is still present, but it is exerted indirectly and weakens with every generation. Thus, the influence of the original impetus wanes until, presumably, we culturally reset and reconnect to the magnetic source directly. Gen Z finds itself in a state in which the fillings have all been scattered on the ground, perhaps experiencing some ambient attraction from the lodestone, but unable to really connect with it. 

"Can this state of affairs create vital popular music? It appears not. The results seem to be avant garde Adderall brain slurry—100 Gecs and nettspend and hyperpop—for a tiny, cultured minority. The masses just keep listening to Taylor Swift on repeat. And for those of you who want to object by saying, 'No, no, you have to hear my cousin’s noise rock project. It’s really going somewhere, doing something new,' I say, 'That’s exactly what I’m talking about.'"

After a decade of missteps, Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe: City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic disaster without precedent, former officials say. - "The region’s largest industrial users, which collectively consume the majority of the region’s water, remain exempt from emergency curtailment. These multi-billion-dollar refineries, petrochemical plants and liquified natural gas facilities are built to run at a steady rate and can’t simply throttle down production in accordance with water availability. They consume large volumes of water primarily in cooling towers to prevent excessive heating and explosions.

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"'It’s a surprise to me that none of those refineries and industries down there have their own desal plants,' said [former assistant energy secretary with the Obama administration Charles] McConnell, who worked 31 years for the chemical manufacturer Praxair in Houston. 'They’re using municipal water, for Christ’s sake!'

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"A facility of that scale, he knew, would require railcars full of pretreatment chemicals, create a mountain of sludge waste every day and consume a tremendous amount of electricity. But he didn’t see serious plans for any of that, he said. 

"He dug deeper into the desalination boom and quickly saw what was going on: Politicians and businessmen had oversold their water supply, he said, and were scrambling for more as shortages approached. But none of them had any idea what they were doing, Serna remembered thinking as he reviewed the applications. 

"'I’ve been trying since 2020 to let them know how catastrophic this is going to be,' he said in an interview at his home. 'They’ve acted with a profound ignorance.'"

Losing the War on Truth: Iran and what to make of it

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat - "The conversations included some of the campus’ top conservative leaders: the county GOP secretary, FIU’s Turning Point USA chapter president and the former College Republicans recruitment chair."

Reading archive 2025-12-15

Spectacle Alone Does Not Sell Books: Why American Canto stiffed. - "The book itself and the additional revelations about Nuzzi paint her not as an interesting, if tragic, figure, but something less interesting, a woman without a stable sense of self who lurches between toxic men seeking god know’s what to fill the hole in her spirit."

Donald Trump's Big Gay Government: On the town with the A-Gays of Washington, who have never been happier to be out, proud and Republican

The Cryptocurrency Scam That Turned a Small Town Against Itself: How did a successful, financially sophisticated banker gamble his community’s money away?

He leaned right in high school. Now he’s the Trump-trolling Portland Chicken.: The protests against ICE gave Jack Dickinson a taste of national celebrity, but more important they gave him a community he’d never had before.

We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

Christian musician, who sang the national anthem for Trump at 2022 rally, is facing felony child pornography charges

Thanks a Lot, Boomers: Hey, boomers! Younger Americans would like a word. We’ve noticed that many of you are pretty upset about the state of the nation. And we get it. We really do. But do you ever stop and ask yourselves how we got here?

Reading archive 2025-11-18

More than $1 billion and two decades later, the Grand Egyptian Museum is — finally — ready to share its treasures

With China Truce, U.S. National Security Controls Now Appear Up for Negotiation: Some analysts say Beijing won a major victory in its trade talks: Getting the U.S. to withdraw a national security measure that previously was not under discussion.

Cleaning Woman Killed Through Door After Arriving at Wrong Home, Police Say: The shooting of the woman, an immigrant from Guatemala, took place on Wednesday in Indiana, a state with a “stand your ground” law.

Youth pastor accused of sexual relation with a teen arrested in Coarsegold

Dutch voters have been seduced by positivity – liberals elsewhere, take note

China has lent $200B to U.S. tech and infrastructure projects, report finds: Chinese lenders backed 2,500 projects, covering almost every U.S. state, from gas pipelines to airport terminals, even as Washington warned developing nations about Chinese debt traps.

Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago: Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.

Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about: DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.

Kash Patel, the FBI's Agent of Chaos: The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director

Whatever happened to U.B.I.?: Guaranteed income in the A.I. age - "To the extent that the threat of automation [ed. note: AI] is a point of leverage in class warfare, it can lower the wages of workers and otherwise disempower them--as the Gen Z employees from Walsh’s article are finding.

"In this way, guaranteed-income programs should be seen not as complementary to 'A.I. automation' but as leverage for the other side--workers, who can more easily withhold their labor and otherwise refuse disempowerment if they know they have an income floor."

How baby boomers got so rich and why their kids are unlikely to catch up: The wealthiest generation holds more than $85 trillion in assets thanks to economic conditions Gen X, millennials and others would be hard-pressed to replicate.

Armed man fatally shot by officer in Northeast, D.C. police say Gunfire breaks out after struggle near Deanwood Metro station; a gun was found.

D.C. lawmaker proposes summer jobs expansion, teen centers, apprenticeships: D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto has introduced 23 bills, many of which focus on boosting economic opportunity for young people.

We found what you’re asking ChatGPT about health. A doctor scored its answers.: When to trust ChatGPT with your health — and when it could hurt you

A Case of Bromism Influenced by Use of Artificial Intelligence - "For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT, in which he had read that chloride can be swapped with bromide, though likely for other purposes, such as cleaning."

Reading archive 2025-07-28 pt 1

The Number Go Up Rule: Why America Refuses to Fix Anything: In the Booming Twenties, all decision-making is about protecting the value of financial assets held by older people. Therefore, the number must go up. And nothing else matters. - "Increasing the capitalization of the stock market at all costs has a number of implications about how our society works. Anything hindering short-term increases in profits, whether that’s higher wages, more factory investment, ending tax loopholes, rules to block being able to unsubscribe from Planet Fitness, transitioning to different energy sources, addressing an opioid crisis, or breaking Chinese control over the necessities of life, gets pushed out of the way. American life spans have plateaued or stagnated since 2015, which you’d think would be of concern. But it’s just not. There’s also something that distinguishes standard financial capitalism from ‘number go up.’ Financial capitalism implies risk. But in our era, the government guarantees financial returns with subsidies, regulations and bailouts. It’s a form of statecraft."

Pollen exploitation by non-native, feral honey bees: Potential consequences for interspecific competition

Interrogating a cold-case killer: ‘Honey, your DNA was in the crime scene’: Police videos show Eugene Gligor, who has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing, being arrested and questioned for the 2001 murder of Leslie Preer in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

VOLKSWAGEN’S SECRET: History forgot the horrors endured by laborers on the automaker’s massive cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon. But a priest had recorded it all.

What a Democrat Could Do With Trump’s Power: America is entering an age of retributive governing cycles.

Finally, a Democrat Who Could Shine on Joe Rogan’s Show Hunter Biden is unrepentant.

Trump fumes as Epstein scandal dominates headlines, overshadows agenda: The White House and Justice Department’s response has been driven by no clear strategy other than asking the country to move on, people close to the situation told The Post.

It turns out there’s a right and wrong way to pee: Many women push to speed things along, hover over the toilet or go ‘just in case,’ but those habits may cause future problems.

845,000 dead on U.S. highways. Why not address the main cause?: We need to ramp up the standards for road tests and train people to be better drivers.

In a legacy steel town, energy is now king — just don’t call it ‘green’: Form Energy is revitalizing Weirton, West Virginia. It’s also facing skepticism in this increasingly conservative area.

‘College hazing’ or training? Amid shortage, air traffic recruits wash out.: Almost 20 percent of new hires fail to become a controller at the first facility they’re sent to. - "There is an ill-defined mystique associated with air traffic control, a belief among some controllers that people are essentially born to do the job. But the idea obscures the fact that skills controllers need can be readily taught. 

"Controllers act like gatekeepers, demanding recruits prove they are worthy of entry to their club, said Linda Pierce, a retired FAA psychologist who studied how controllers are trained. 

"'It’s this professional guild, but to me it also felt like a college hazing,' she said. 'It was hostile.'"

I’m a cardiologist. Here are 10 science-based ways to prevent heart disease.: Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. But about 80 percent of cases are considered preventable.

I’m a cardiologist. Here are 10 science-based ways to prevent heart disease.: Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. But about 80 percent of cases are considered preventable.

Harvard Paper Explores Possibility That Object Approaching From Beyond Solar System Is Hostile Alien Technology: "The consequences, should the... hypothesis turn out to be correct, could potentially be dire for humanity." - "Loeb is an interesting character: he's an enormously accomplished academic and the former chair of Harvard's prestigious astronomy department, but in recent years has often made headlines for suggesting that various detections in the cosmos might be alien spacecraft. In other words, he was almost bound to weigh in on this latest interstellar visitor, which is only the third ever detected."

Reading archive 2024-08-26

Opinion Justice Gorsuch’s book of fish tales: A new book by the Supreme Court conservative raises the question: Does having all the facts matter?

Elon Musk’s X reveals investors in court filing: A court filing obtained by The Post lists which firms and individuals have a financial stake in the platform.

Canadian government ends major railway stoppage, ordering arbitration: Canada’s two largest railroads shut down early Thursday, jeopardizing deliveries of crucial supplies to the United States.

Where mosquito season is getting longer

Trump takes it upon himself to decide who is a proper Jew: In an interview and a late-night social media post, the former president railed against and disparaged Jewish Democrats, largely for being anti-Trump.

A close race brings fresh fears of election interference by Trump allies: The euphoric mood at the Democratic National Convention this week came alongside growing concern that the former president’s backers could attempt to undermine the results. - "The new certification rule in Georgia may be only the beginning. The majority has proposed 11 additional rules that will come up for approval close to the state’s Oct. 14 early-voting start date. Among the proposals is one requiring a hand-count of ballots in precincts to make sure the number of votes recorded equals the number of ballots. It’s a task that voting machines already do."

Some Giant stores in D.C. are banning unaccompanied minors after 6 p.m.: The grocery chain’s new policy also modifies a previous effort to prohibit customers with large bags.

Traffic fatalities have doubled since D.C.’s promise of zero: Thirty-three people have lost their lives in traffic crashes this year.

Indian Americans conflicted about Kamala Harris pose campaign challenge: In an immigrant community stratified by religion, language and class, Kamala Harris’s background is embraced by some but rings hollow for others.

DeSantis in middle of Florida feud pitting marijuana against hemp: Voters in Florida will soon decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana. DeSantis is against it and getting support from an unlikely ally: the hemp industry.

Tim Walz’s upbringing in rural Nebraska seemed idyllic. Then came tragedy.: Uprooted from a small city, Walz and his family moved to a remote town of a few hundred to deal with his father’s cancer.

Opinion A big problem for young workers: 70- and 80-year-olds who won’t retire: With five generations in the workforce, it’s harder for beginners to get hired or promoted.

Opinion Ukraine’s Kursk offensive isn’t just a raid. It’s upending assumptions.: Russia, stunned by the incursion, has been slow to respond, while Ukraine gains battlefield maneuverability.

Opinion Sam Bankman-Fried, a personal verdict: A few thoughts on how Americans thought about the crypto trial of the century. - "When confronted by older experts in some complicated field in which he had zero experience, Sam’s first step was always to doubt the value of their advice and think about the complicated field on his own."

Environmental group calls for RFK Jr. to be investigated for reportedly sawing off whale head: In a resurfaced 2012 interview, his daughter shared he had once used a chain saw to cut off a dead whale’s head to bring it home, reportedly to study.

Trump vowed to release all remaining JFK files. What could they contain?: Despite their differences about what they suspect happened on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, two prominent researchers agree the remaining files should be released. - "When he was president in 2017, Trump announced that he planned to publicly disclose the remaining documents but ultimately delayed the release of some files for national security reasons, saying they would be released by October 2021. In 2018, Trump authorized the disclosure of 19,045 documents, many of which contained redactions."

Ukraine keeps crossing Russia’s red lines. Putin keeps blinking.: Ukraine’s punch through Russian defenses in the first foreign invasion since World War II has laid bare Moscow’s apparently illusory red lines.

How a gay beach oasis flourished in Michigan’s Bible Belt: Gay artists, club owners and nude bathers have found a safe haven in Saugatuck and Douglas since the 1890s.

Public service, secret payments: FBI says Trayon White had two sides: On days FBI says he took bribes, D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8) took to social media and posted about serving constituents.

The balloon drop at the DNC had more meaning than you might know: More than 50 balloon artists volunteered to make the display in honor of their colleague who is fighting cancer.

Australia offers U.S. a vast new military launchpad in China conflict: Australia is expanding its northern military bases, with U.S. support, to counter China's growing threat. Critics quip it’s become the “51st state.”

RFK Jr. suspends his campaign — with an appropriately bizarre theory: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insisted he can somehow still be elected president. Let’s count the holes in his reasoning.

Trump allies try to energize him as he struggles to adapt to Harris: The Republican nominee has fixated on Biden’s withdrawal: “It feels like he’s lost his mojo.”

Trump suggests he might skip ABC debate with Harris: The Sept. 10 debate with ABC is the only one both campaigns have agreed to do with one of the major networks.

Endangered lynx makes its first appearance in Vermont in years: Wildlife officials said it was the first confirmed Canada lynx sighting in the state since 2018.

The fact-vs.-fiction election: The alliance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump makes sense from an epistemological standpoint, if not a policy one. - "Because, at the end of the day, Trump and Kennedy are aligned on the most fundamental aspect of their politics: that what you believe is more important than what is. That they are right and that the people saying they’re wrong are wrong.

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"This reflects the through-line between him and Trump: that there is no expertise or authority that should be given deference over what you want or believe to be true. That scientists and military experts and researchers have opinions that can sit alongside your own. Or, in many cases, have opinions that are inferior to your own, since they are part of informational systems that are inherently untrustworthy by virtue of including those experts."

Scientists may have found a radical solution for making your hamburger less bad for the planet: Researchers in California are working to genetically engineer the cow microbiome -- and in the process, eliminate methane emissions. - "Such a probiotic could also improve a farm’s productivity. Cows can lose up to 12 percent of their energy through burping up methane; other ruminants, like sheep and goats, also lose energy in this way. “If there is a way to redirect that hydrogen and convert it into milk, meat, wool — it would be much more accepted by farmers,” Kebreab said."

Reading archive 2024-04-13

DC police dealt thousands of guns; ATF demands answers after concerning number found at crime scenes - Eight years later as COVID-19 took hold in the District (and, as federal statistics show, gun purchases rose rapidly), D.C.’s longtime lone licensed dealer closed his business. A D.C. police spokesperson told the I-Team, 'MPD was required to operate as an FFL from April 3, 2020, until January 4, 2021, to uphold a constitutional right in the District.'"

Germany bars doctor who worked in Gaza, shuts down Palestinian conference - "The conference — and Salman Abu Sitta’s participation in particular — stirred controversy before it even began, with Germany’s antisemitism commissioner, Felix Klein, saying he was in favor of banning the author from entering the country. The furor related to a January blog post in which Salman Abu Sitta wrote that he 'could have been one of those who broke through the fence' if he were younger and still lived 'in the concentration camp called the Gaza Strip.'"

General warns House on Ukraine: ‘The side that can’t shoot back loses’: Within weeks, Russia will be able to launch 10 artillery shells for every one round fired by Ukraine without additional U.S. aid, Gen. Christopher Cavoli said

The joys and challenges of interracial friendships

A drone factory in Utah is at the epicenter of anti-China fervor: After struggling for years for survival, U.S. small drone manufacturers are getting a second shot, despite prices many times higher than China’s DJI

Opinion  How Gen Z took over incel slang - "Here’s how that can work: I like to watch videos on urban planning, and I recently got a TikTok complaining that 'it’s so hard being a walkpilled cardiomaxxer in a carcel gascucked state like Arizona.'"

Prosecutor will probe possible coverup in investigation of teacher’s shooting: Months after a 6-year-old boy in Newport News, Va., shot a first-grade teacher, authorities say they are still examining whether others are culpable - "Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard E. Gwynn, the top prosecutor in Newport News, Va., said his office will probe why one of the shooter’s discipline files disappeared and the other had material removed from it.

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"The special grand jury wrote that police obtained a search warrant for the boy’s disciplinary files, but the documents were missing when investigators went to the school to get them. They were the only disciplinary files missing from the school. 

"LaQuiche Parrott, the director of elementary school leadership for the district, eventually returned one of the files, but the special grand jury said it was missing all of its disciplinary records, including documentation about the choking incident in kindergarten. The other file remains missing.

"Parrott said she could not recall how she got the disciplinary file, which the special grand jury called 'highly suspicious.' The panel questioned whether she might be engaging in a coverup and recommended Parrott be investigated for obstruction of justice. Parrott did not return calls from The Washington Post seeking comment."

Opinion  This is why Trump supporters will believe absolutely anything

A narco revolt takes a once-peaceful nation to the brink

Reading archive 2024-04-10

Former Richneck administrator charged in teacher’s shooting by 6-year-old

Gen Z workers can take criticism. You’re just phrasing it wrong.: Young workers want feedback and lots of it. But if you deliver it in the wrong ways, it could backfire.

This is the most consequential technology in America: It’s the most popular social app and music service, the healthiest economy on the internet and AI training fuel

Opinion  Jack Smith’s Trump immunity brief highlights the prosecutor’s mistake

Police fire 96 shots in 41 seconds, killing Black man during traffic stop - "COPA said its review of the footage and initial reports 'appear to confirm that Mr. Reed fired first,' hitting one officer while four others returned fire."

Mothers accused of child neglect will get cash in D.C. poverty study: Study will test whether cash payments alleviate problems that contributed to the neglect allegations

‘Catastrophic,’ ‘a shock’: Arizona’s abortion ruling threatens to upend 2024 races: Arizona Supreme Court rules that a near-total ban from 1864 can go into effect in a battleground state that could play an outsize role in the presidential election and help determine which party controls the Senate next year

Tradwives, stay-at-home girlfriends and the dream of feminine leisure: Some young women see patriarchy as a solution, not a problem. What in ‘The Feminine Mystique’ is going on here? - "The Wall Street Journal recently detailed a new paper to be published in the journal Social Indicators Research that found that, 'regardless of how the question is asked or what measure is used, women say they are more anxious, more depressed, more tired and more pessimistic than men,' the Journal said. At the same time, though, women are also more likely 'to say they are happy and satisfied with their lives.'"

Virginia militia member raised suspicion, then alarm with talk of bombs: A militia group’s rare public warning about a former member shows how concerns around Justice Department prosecutions is changing extremist organizing

Nuclear deal in tatters, Iran edges close to weapons capability: Six years after the Trump administration withdrew from the Iran nuclear accord, Tehran is rapidly accumulating enriched uranium, some of it very close to weapons grade. Experts fear that a bomb could be a short dash away. - "The collapse of the deal, meanwhile, has sharply curtailed the IAEA’s ability to monitor Iran’s activity or investigate any reports of secret weapons activity, the officials and experts said. A U.S. official with knowledge of internal discussions at the IAEA’s governing board conceded that the nuclear watchdog is less capable now of detecting a nuclear breakout by Iran. Such an event could bring cascading consequences, from a Middle East arms race to a direct Israel-Iran conflict that could unleash a wider regional war, said the official."

Reading archive 2023-11-21

Ladybugs are oddly vicious. Here’s how to keep them out of your house.: The cute beetles are voracious predators that may bite or leave smelly excretions

Musk’s X sues Media Matters after report shows ads next to pro-Nazi posts

Opinion  Why we’re borrowing to fund the elderly while neglecting everyone else

The far right toppled McCarthy over spending. What has it gotten them?: House GOP conservatives have demanded steep reductions to the federal budget, but have little to show for it thus far

A mysterious illness is sickening dogs in several states. Some are dying.

Opinion  A troubling split at my Thanksgiving table — and the nation’s

Many now see Haley as Trump’s top GOP challenger. She faces hurdles ahead.: Jockeying in a tier below the former president has moved, with Haley surging into a distant second place

A hungry beaver is chomping on the Tidal Basin’s cherry trees: At least one busy muncher has gnawed away at about 15 cherry trees near the Jefferson Memorial

She tried to save her troubled brother. Then came a horrendous assault.: Homeless and mentally ill, Russell Fred Dunkley III is accused of attacking teachers and terrorizing a preschool class in D.C.

Reading archive 2023-10-24

Opinion  Let’s not forget the Palestinian Authority’s role in this catastrophe

The surprising benefits of switching to ‘lamb mowers’

Opinion  How to raise cancel-proof kids

Opinion  This is not the State Department I know. That’s why I left my job.

Metro braces for closed stations, layoffs, reduced service without funding hike: Forced to plan ahead, Metro has drawn up multiple service plans that vary in severity depending on how much financial help the transit agency receives

Older Americans are dominating like never before, but what comes next?

Reading archive 2023-06-16

What Gen Z wants in the workplace - "Despite the severe loss of jobs during the pandemic, Gen Z actually has more opportunities than any group of recent graduates going back to before the Great Recession. Companies are often competing for them, instead of the other way around, and that, combined with the exigencies of the time they were born into, lends a certain empowerment. As Bianca Alvarado, a 23-year-old junior publicist at a marketing firm in Los Angeles who spent months looking for a job after graduation, said: 'People my age don’t take any bulls---. … We’re doing our best to rise above all the mistakes of past generations and fix things more urgently.'"

America’s unlikeliest abortion clinic has opened in its reddest state

Reading archive 2021-09-02

Why The South Is Decades Ahead Of The West In Wildfire Prevention

What Is The Internet Doing To Boomers’ Brains?: Social media platforms are sucking a generation into a misinformation rabbit hole.

Reading archive 2021-05-10

Child care has bipartisan support. But the culture war could wreck that.

The Jean War between millennials and Gen Z cannot be won

An off-duty officer ‘terrorized’ a family displaying a BLM flag. Police drove him home without arrest.

German priests defy Pope Francis with blessings of same-sex unions

The making of a myth: Russell J. Ramsland Jr. sold everything from Tex-Mex food to light-therapy technology. Then he sold the story that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. - "The campaign foundered amid revelations she had previously appeared on Infowars, the right-wing website operated by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and on another occasion had said she believed data showed that military-grade explosives were planted inside the twin towers on 9/11. That comment prompted the Austin American-Statesman to retract its endorsement of her. (Pressley told The Post she had 'no opinion' on whether planes brought down the World Trade Center.) 

"The race was not close: Her opponent, a community organizer, defeated her by a margin of almost 30 points. 

"Pressley could not believe it. 

"'I knew in my heart that I had won,' she recently told a gathering of law enforcement officers outside Houston, one of hundreds of speeches she has given about the case, 'and I became convinced there was fraud.'"

Reading archive 2020-05-27

Does "Fire Pink" Make Much of a Difference?

The unluckiest generation in U.S. history: Millennials have faced the worst economic odds, and many will never recover

Reading archive 2020-01-27

A Warning from the 60s Generation: Today’s progressives have a real chance to reshape American politics. But they’re in danger of repeating our mistakes.