Reading archive 2021-11-12

Opinion: Have Democrats reached the limits of White appeasement politics?

Out of uniform. Still in the fight.: Seven veterans, each on a mission to end the often avoidable harms that afflict those who serve

London’s River Thames, now home to sharks, seals and sea horses, is no longer ‘biologically dead’

An Air Force sergeant killed himself on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The note he left is heartbreaking.

A veteran helped spread viral 9/11 conspiracy theories. Can he start over?: Nearly 20 years after shipping off to war, a soldier who helped make the ‘Loose Change’ video wrestles with the power stories have to heal and to destroy.

Two more candidates join a crowded at-large D.C. Council race

Bruce V. Spiva, longtime D.C. lawyer, will run for city attorney general

Candidates debate in hot Ward 5 D.C. Council race

Trump defends Jan. 6 rioters' 'hang Mike Pence' chant in new audio: The audio captured part of an interview ABC News’ Jonathan Karl conducted with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in March for Karl’s upcoming book.

Qatar to represent U.S. interests in Afghanistan

Ala. man pleads guilty to bringing molotov cocktails, five loaded firearms to Capitol on Jan. 6

Reading archive 2020-05-31

Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge

The jaw-dropping fall of an elite Baltimore police unit validates the need for federal oversight

Protest, Uprisings, and Race War

Reading archive 2020-05-28

How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror: There are too many noosed necks, charred bodies and drowned souls for them to deny knowing precisely what they are doing.

Reading archive 2020-01-06

Terry Gilliam Is Tired of White Men Being Blamed for Everything. I Blame White Men for This

Reading archive 2019-03-29 through 2019-04-02

A football locker room, a broomstick and a sex assault case roil a school

Prankster sentenced to 20 years for fake 911 call that led police to kill an innocent man

Can black women and white women be true friends?

‘Stop the massacre!’: When women chained themselves to Washington’s cherry trees

The WWII Nazi Spy Gay Sex Scandal That Rocked the Senate

In small towns across the nation, the death of a coal plant leaves an unmistakable void

Should cats be culled to stop extinctions?

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 2018-10-08

White Women, Come Get Your People: They will defend their privilege to the death.

Reading archive 2018-05-07

‘The Department of Justice is not going to be extorted’: Rosenstein responds to impeachment threat

Nestle pays Starbucks $7.1bn to sell its coffee

Oil pops above $70 for first time since 2014

Trump Joins House Attacks Over Investigations

I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye Kanye West wants freedom—white freedom.

Metro wants to rebuild 20 station platforms over three years, creating SafeTrack-like disruptions

Reading archive 2018-05-02

The worthless Washington media

Some Said They’d Flee Trump’s America. These People Actually Did.

Kanye West seems ignorant on the realities of slavery. That’s shockingly common.

Trump’s former health secretary: Americans will pay more because GOP weakened Obamacare

Three black teens are finalists in a NASA competition. Then hackers spewing racism tried to ruin their odds.

Reading archive 2018-04-27

Rachel Dolezal’s Grotesque Idea of Identity: In a new Netflix documentary, ‘The Rachel Divide,’ the controversial “transracial” activist makes her case—and it still doesn’t make sense - "Dolezal talks about blackness as if it were reducible to two qualities, and only two qualities: scholarship and aesthetics. It cannot occur to her that blackness—a social construction, indeed—is a comprehensive and involuntary realm of experience. White power invented it, and white power enforces it, but, paradoxically, black people own blackness.
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"Ideally, a white person should be able to empathize with a black person, and enjoy black culture, without mistaking themselves for a black person. Ideally, Dolezal would see herself for who she truly is: a white woman with peculiar but nonetheless righteous interest in black culture and black liberation. Instead, Dolezal is a tourist with a fetish who must swear she’s a native."

Who (really) wants gaydar to be accurate anyway?

Reading archive 2017-09-13

PewDiePie said the n-word on YouTube. The Internet’s most famous gamer is out of excuses.

Deep Six: Jemele Hill and the Fight for the Future of ESPN

A downside to D.C.’s population growth? The growing number of rats.

Steve Bannon is a Swiss-cheese philosopher - "Later in the interview, Bannon evoked his grand theory to justify deportation of the 'dreamers,' and called on Alexander Hamilton and Henry Clay’s 'American system' to back him up. But Hamilton (an immigrant) was the opposite of a populist, and Clay was the archenemy of populism’s high priest, Andrew Jackson. Clay and his disciple Abraham Lincoln — another Bannon name-check — were strong supporters of virtually unchecked immigration."

‘Shut up, slave!’: A spilled Starbucks drink leads to sidewalk fight — and hate-crime charges

Reading archive 2017-09-05

Why the Works of Visionary Artist Jacob Lawrence Still Resonate a Century After His Birth: His vibrant and bold paintings tell stories of liberation, resistance and resilience

Obama calls President Trump’s decision to end DACA ‘wrong,’ ‘self-defeating’ and ‘cruel’

Officer shoots Ohio newspaper photographer after confusing his tripod and camera for a gun

The biggest beneficiaries of the government safety net: Working-class whites

Is Anybody Home at HUD? A long-harbored conservative dream — the “dismantling of the administrative state” — is taking place under Secretary Ben Carson. - "HUD has emerged as the perfect distillation of the right’s antipathy to governing. If the great radical-conservative dream was, in Grover Norquist’s famous words, to 'drown government in a bathtub,' then this was what the final gasps of one department might look like."

Disabled, or just desperate?: Rural Americans turn to disability as jobs dry up

Generations, disabled: A family on the fringes prays for the “right diagnoses”

The Upwards Failing of Colin Trevorrow and Why It Matters

The Art of Failing Upward

When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer

Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart

Democrats should take the class warfare message to upscale suburbs: It worked for Jeremy Corbyn, and the opposite failed for Jon Ossoff.

4 lies Jeff Sessions told to justify ending DACA

The Russian Company That Is a Danger to Our Security

Reading archive 2017-08-14

The last thing America needs is more of ‘The West Wing’

Syria’s Assad has become an icon of the far right in America

Trump fires back after the CEO of Merck resigned from his manufacturing council

Incoming! A charged-up photo sequence from Saturday’s severe thunderstorm in Washington.

Two Days After White Supremacist Violence, Trump Finally Condemns Hate Groups

Donald Trump’s Art: A Retrospective

Man arrested by FBI agents after allegedly planning to bomb building in downtown Oklahoma City

It Wasn’t Just White Men Who Participated In The ‘Unite The Right’ Rally White women have always played a role in propping up white supremacy and toxic masculinity.

Charlottesville White Supremacists Begin to Lose Jobs, Web Hosting Platforms

It Was Never Going to Be a Normal Protest. They Came Ready to Fight.

Father disowns Neo-Nazi son: “You’ll have to shovel our bodies into the oven, too”

The ‘war on whites’ is a myth — and an ugly one

Trump campaign emails show aide’s repeated efforts to set up Russia meetings

Reading archive 2017-08-02

Frustrated Senators seek path forward for new FBI headquarters

Of Course Abortion Should Be a Litmus Test for Democrats - Democratic candidates are perfectly welcome to refrain from terminating their own pregnancies. But to be anti-choice on a policy level is absolutely indefensible from an economic justice, racial justice, gender justice and human rights standpoint. And if the Democratic Party does not stand for any of those things, then what on earth is it?

The Trump administration takes up the cause of oppressed white people

White Trump voters think they face more discrimination than blacks. The Trump administration is listening.

Justice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action in College Admissions

Reading archive 2017-08-01

The Painful and Liberating Practice of Facing My Own Racism

Behind Fox News' Baseless Seth Rich Story: The Untold Tale

They trashed their wedding photographer over a $125 fee, so a jury told them to pay her $1 million

My Party Is in Denial About Donald Trump: We created him, and now we're rationalizing him. When will it stop?

Reading archive 2017-06-11

Trump looms over Georgia special election, a proxy battle for 2018

Trump’s Assault on LGBT Rights Is Galvanizing Activists for an Even More Defiant Pride

Protestors Disrupt D.C. Pride Parade, Seek A ‘Different Vision’ For The Event: Parade organizers are pressed to break ties with “police, prisons and pipelines.”

Reading archive 2017-05-28

A high-stakes gamble: How Jared Kushner reacted to previous crises

Trump returns home from abroad — with a Twitter rant about fake news, leaks and ‘the enemy’

Ed Sheeran Has a Toxic Masculinity Problem

African-American Museum Wins New Fans: Athletes

Appropriating is wrong, but so are the black men who allow it

The U.S. has a homegrown terrorist problem — and it’s coming from the right

Reading archive 2017-05-19

Will Republicans ever rein in Trump? Only when this happens.

Here’s how Trump could survive — even if we learn the worst

Trump or Congress can still block Robert Mueller. I know. I wrote the rules.

Seeing the World Through Google’s Eyes The new feature is fun, but what if it steers you wrong?

Trump Told Russians That Firing ‘Nut Job’ Comey Eased Pressure From Investigation

Roger Ailes's (Other) Legacy: Remembering the founder of Fox News also demands remembering the many women in his orbit—women who refused to be silent.

When Your Child Is a Psychopath: The condition has long been considered untreatable. Experts can spot it in a child as young as 3 or 4. But a new clinical approach offers hope.

Russia probe reaches current White House official, people familiar with the case say

Trump loyalists pay little heed to revelations rocking DC

“I just choose to not listen”: why Trump supporters are tuning out the scandals: Motivated ignorance, explained.

The sad saga of thoroughbred D.J. Trump, Donald Trump’s lone foray into horse racing

Trump attacked the free press, and he got exactly what he deserved

Reading archive 2017-05-15

The Motionless Ghosts That Haunt the South: A Richmond native recalls the veneration of the Confederacy that marked his youth—and says it’s time to take the statues down.

How Trump gets his fake news: The president rarely surfs the web on his own, but his staff have made a habit of slipping news stories on to his desk—including the occasional internet hoax.

Museums So White: Survey Reveals Deep Lack of Diversity

Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador

What Did Donald Trump Tell the Russians?: A Washington Post story claims that the president divulged highly sensitive intelligence received from an ally in a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador.

Reading archive 2017-04-19

Justices express sympathy with Missouri church at Supreme Court hearing

Bill O’Reilly Is Forced Out at Fox News

Exclusive: After Bill O’Reilly’s Ouster, Fox Executives Fear “There’s More to Come”: Insiders say that the troubles at Fox news are only just beginning.

The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black - I couldn't escape Rachel Dolezal because I can't escape white supremacy. And it is white supremacy that told an unhappy and outcast white woman that black identity was hers for the taking. It is white supremacy that told her that any black people who questioned her were obviously uneducated and unmotivated to rise to her level of wokeness. It is white supremacy that then elevated this display of privilege into the dominating conversation on black female identity in America. It is white supremacy that decided that it was worth a book deal, national news coverage, and yes—even this interview.