Reading archive 2017-04-07

TOP DEMOCRATS ARE WRONG: TRUMP SUPPORTERS WERE MORE MOTIVATED BY RACISM THAN ECONOMIC ISSUES

Octopuses and squids can rewrite their RNA. Is that why they’re so smart?

Sielski: Bryan Scott's story should terrify everyone who loves football

Russia condemns U.S. missile strike on Syria, suspends key air agreement

Reading archive 2017-04-06

The Gorsuch filibuster is about far more than payback

Adam Schiff Leverages Democrats’ Limited Power in Trump Inquiry

The knives are out for Stephen Bannon, and his scam is getting unmasked

Reading archive 2017-04-05

A second-by-second breakdown of Kendall Jenner’s unspeakably tone-deaf Pepsi ad

‘Nevertheless, she Pepsisted’: Kendall Jenner made a Pepsi ad. The Internet made glorious memes.

These high school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials. Days later, she resigned.

If white America is in ‘crisis,’ what have black Americans been living through?

WHY DANA SCHUTZ PAINTED EMMETT TILL: The artist has spent her career using abstract and figurative images to tell enigmatic stories. But a recent work has made her an incendiary figure.

Censorship, Not the Painting, Must Go: On Dana Schutz’s Image of Emmett Till

A maid begged for help before falling from a window in Kuwait. Her boss made a video instead.

World Health Organization: Syria chemical attack likely involved nerve agent

Jared Kushner, Man of Steel

The Daily 202: Trump keeps blaming Obama. Fresh polls show voters don’t buy it.

‘It went off the rails almost immediately’: How Trump’s messy transition led to a chaotic presidency

Reading archive 2017-04-04

Paper says columnist tried to remove his articles criticizing Trump to get a State Department job. It backfired.

Meet the Woman Who Was Sipping Wine in a Fur Coat at an Ivanka Trump Protest

Reading archive 2017-04-03

Bill O’Reilly: An awful, awful man

Democrats just took the filibuster off life support

Collins tells the Senate why Gorsuch shouldn’t be filibustered

Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Gorsuch in Party-Line Vote

Our Dishonest President

Why Trump lies

Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel

The left and right agree: Fox News destroyed EPA chief Scott Pruitt over climate change

The looming strategic disaster at Mar-a-Lago this week

Why is Trump flailing? Because Americans hate his agenda, and it’s based on lies.

When the President Is Ignorant of His Own Ignorance

Trump Is Wimping Out on Trade

New details emerge about 2014 Russian hack of the State Department: It was ‘hand to hand combat’

Reading archive 2017-03-31

Mike Pence's Dining "Standard" Reveals So Much About What He Thinks of Women: The vice president won't eat alone with a woman who's not his wife.

The Trump White House is in deep legal trouble, according to Trump’s own standards

Suspended Fox News expert returns — and doubles down on baseless wiretapping claims

Brexit and Britain’s delusions of empire

Is Paul Ryan a policy guy, or does he just play one on TV?

Reading archive 2017-04-01

North Carolina’s Dominance Fails to Cover Cheating’s Stain

After ‘classy’ N.C. restaurant bans kids, critics fume — and reservations surge