Oprah Winfrey: one of the world's best neoliberal capitalist thinkers
Israel invested in “Mideast peace” Trump adviser Jared Kushner: Jared Kushner was never an honest broker for peace in the Mideast
WHITE HOUSE AIDES “INFURIATED” AS TRUMP BULLDOZES HIS OWN INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN
Rep. Steve Alford cites belief blacks more susceptible to marijuana
Bitcoin is teaching libertarians everything they don’t know about economics
The Rockefellers vs. the Company That Made Them Rockefellers: The family that pioneered the oil industry in America wants to expose what Exxon hid from the public about climate change.
Tillerson and Mattis are reportedly trying to hold Trump back from striking North Korea
The Golden Globes Red-Carpet Protest Wasn’t Perfect, but It Was a Start: A visual element—like black dresses—is a necessary part of any larger campaign
Golden Globes: Men had little to say about harassment, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed
James Damore just filed a class action lawsuit against Google, saying it discriminates against white male conservatives
Monday, January 8, 2018
Sunday, January 7, 2018
Reading archive 2018-01-07
Fact-checking ‘The Crown’: Is Prince Philip a total jerk?
Fact-checking ‘The Crown’: Did the Duke of Windsor plot with Hitler to betray Britain?
Debunking Myths About Estrangement: New research challenges the deeply held notion that family relationships can’t be dissolved and suggests that estrangement is not all that uncommon.
‘Learn his name first’: The politicizing of military widows is touching a nerve
Trump says he’s a genius. A study found these other presidents actually were.
Fact-checking ‘The Crown’: Did the Duke of Windsor plot with Hitler to betray Britain?
Debunking Myths About Estrangement: New research challenges the deeply held notion that family relationships can’t be dissolved and suggests that estrangement is not all that uncommon.
‘Learn his name first’: The politicizing of military widows is touching a nerve
Trump says he’s a genius. A study found these other presidents actually were.
Friday, January 5, 2018
Reading archive 2018-01-05
Trump book author Michael Wolff made a damaging admission on the ‘Today’ show
A day with ‘killology’ police trainer Dave Grossman
Deadly ‘swatting’ hoaxes and the dangerous conditioning of cops
For Kraft, Brady and Belichick, is this the beginning of the end?
We’re seeing institutions start to waver as constraints to Trump’s impulses
A day with ‘killology’ police trainer Dave Grossman
Deadly ‘swatting’ hoaxes and the dangerous conditioning of cops
For Kraft, Brady and Belichick, is this the beginning of the end?
We’re seeing institutions start to waver as constraints to Trump’s impulses
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Reading archive 2018-01-04
Dear Northerners: We get that this weather is no big deal for you. Now please shut up. - "'Look, if you are in one of those Midwestern states where everyone boasts that they’re used to the weather — you are driving everywhere. Here, you are walking, or you’re biking, or worst, you’re just standing. You’re waiting for the bus, and you’re standing.'"
Steve Bannon waves the white flag at Trump
Trump lawyer seeks to block insider book on White House
Sessions is rescinding Obama-era directive for feds to back off marijuana enforcement in states with legal pot
Jeff Sessions is on the wrong side of marijuana legalization. Can Democrats take advantage?: Sessions' anti-marijuana stance opens up a big window of opportunity for Democrats in midterm races.
Dave Chappelle's Jokes About Trans People Haven't Aged Well: The world has started to evolve on trans rights since the days of Chappelle's Show. Now the comedian is back with two Netflix stand-up specials, and his jokes about trans people prove he hasn't caught up with the times.
Richard Pryor: meltdown at the Hollywood Bowl: Starring at a gay rights fundraiser, the great standup saw other black artists being treated with racist contempt – and launched into an astonishing tirade that the 17,000-strong audience would never forget
Michael Wolff tells a juicy tale in his new Trump book. But should we believe it?
I read decades of Woody Allen’s private notes. He’s obsessed with teenage girls.
Steve Bannon waves the white flag at Trump
Trump lawyer seeks to block insider book on White House
Sessions is rescinding Obama-era directive for feds to back off marijuana enforcement in states with legal pot
Jeff Sessions is on the wrong side of marijuana legalization. Can Democrats take advantage?: Sessions' anti-marijuana stance opens up a big window of opportunity for Democrats in midterm races.
Dave Chappelle's Jokes About Trans People Haven't Aged Well: The world has started to evolve on trans rights since the days of Chappelle's Show. Now the comedian is back with two Netflix stand-up specials, and his jokes about trans people prove he hasn't caught up with the times.
Richard Pryor: meltdown at the Hollywood Bowl: Starring at a gay rights fundraiser, the great standup saw other black artists being treated with racist contempt – and launched into an astonishing tirade that the 17,000-strong audience would never forget
Michael Wolff tells a juicy tale in his new Trump book. But should we believe it?
I read decades of Woody Allen’s private notes. He’s obsessed with teenage girls.
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Reading archive 2018-01-03
Tom Brady Is Drowning In His Own Pseudoscience
Warren positions herself for potential 2020 run: The Massachusetts senator has made a series of under-the-radar moves in the past year that would help her if she challenges Donald Trump.
Former Taliban captive Joshua Boyle arrested and charged with sexual assault, death threats
Trump Tower meeting with Russians 'treasonous', Bannon says in explosive book
The Republicans’ Fake Investigations - "Three congressional committees have heard over 21 hours of testimony from our firm, Fusion GPS. In those sessions, we toppled the far right’s conspiracy theories and explained how The Washington Free Beacon and the Clinton campaign — the Republican and Democratic funders of our Trump research — separately came to hire us in the first place."
Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President: One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration’s shocked first days. - "This was a real-life version of Mel Brooks’s The Producers, where the mistaken outcome trusted by everyone in Trump’s inner circle — that they would lose the election — wound up exposing them for who they really were.
...
"As soon as the campaign team had stepped into the White House, Walsh saw, it had gone from managing Trump to the expectation of being managed by him. Yet the president, while proposing the most radical departure from governing and policy norms in several generations, had few specific ideas about how to turn his themes and vitriol into policy. And making suggestions to him was deeply complicated. Here, arguably, was the central issue of the Trump presidency, informing every aspect of Trumpian policy and leadership: He didn’t process information in any conventional sense. He didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-literate. He trusted his own expertise — no matter how paltry or irrelevant — more than anyone else’s. He was often confident, but he was just as often paralyzed, less a savant than a figure of sputtering and dangerous insecurities, whose instinctive response was to lash out and behave as if his gut, however confused, was in fact in some clear and forceful way telling him what to do. It was, said Walsh, 'like trying to figure out what a child wants.'"
Trump slams Bannon: ‘When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind’
Michael Wolff’s unbelievable — sometimes literally — tell-all about the Trump administration
Manafort sues DOJ, Mueller over Russia probe authority
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE IS REBRANDING AS A WHITE MAN: The former *NSYNC singer is the latest pop star to embrace his “authentic” roots.
THE BIGGEST SECRET: My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror
U.S. officials urge Iran to stop blocking social-media sites as death toll rises in nationwide protests
Trump takes hard line on ‘dreamers,’ but remains interested in a deal
NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, slumping morale and unpopular reorganization
Why Turkey’s president was among thousands in Konya paying homage to Rumi
Pharma, under attack for drug prices, started an industry war
‘You feel that the devil is helping you’: MS-13’s satanic history
Accused Islamic State supporter appears in Virginia court
Warren positions herself for potential 2020 run: The Massachusetts senator has made a series of under-the-radar moves in the past year that would help her if she challenges Donald Trump.
Former Taliban captive Joshua Boyle arrested and charged with sexual assault, death threats
Trump Tower meeting with Russians 'treasonous', Bannon says in explosive book
The Republicans’ Fake Investigations - "Three congressional committees have heard over 21 hours of testimony from our firm, Fusion GPS. In those sessions, we toppled the far right’s conspiracy theories and explained how The Washington Free Beacon and the Clinton campaign — the Republican and Democratic funders of our Trump research — separately came to hire us in the first place."
Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President: One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration’s shocked first days. - "This was a real-life version of Mel Brooks’s The Producers, where the mistaken outcome trusted by everyone in Trump’s inner circle — that they would lose the election — wound up exposing them for who they really were.
...
"As soon as the campaign team had stepped into the White House, Walsh saw, it had gone from managing Trump to the expectation of being managed by him. Yet the president, while proposing the most radical departure from governing and policy norms in several generations, had few specific ideas about how to turn his themes and vitriol into policy. And making suggestions to him was deeply complicated. Here, arguably, was the central issue of the Trump presidency, informing every aspect of Trumpian policy and leadership: He didn’t process information in any conventional sense. He didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-literate. He trusted his own expertise — no matter how paltry or irrelevant — more than anyone else’s. He was often confident, but he was just as often paralyzed, less a savant than a figure of sputtering and dangerous insecurities, whose instinctive response was to lash out and behave as if his gut, however confused, was in fact in some clear and forceful way telling him what to do. It was, said Walsh, 'like trying to figure out what a child wants.'"
Trump slams Bannon: ‘When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind’
Michael Wolff’s unbelievable — sometimes literally — tell-all about the Trump administration
Manafort sues DOJ, Mueller over Russia probe authority
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE IS REBRANDING AS A WHITE MAN: The former *NSYNC singer is the latest pop star to embrace his “authentic” roots.
THE BIGGEST SECRET: My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror
U.S. officials urge Iran to stop blocking social-media sites as death toll rises in nationwide protests
Trump takes hard line on ‘dreamers,’ but remains interested in a deal
NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, slumping morale and unpopular reorganization
Why Turkey’s president was among thousands in Konya paying homage to Rumi
Pharma, under attack for drug prices, started an industry war
‘You feel that the devil is helping you’: MS-13’s satanic history
Accused Islamic State supporter appears in Virginia court
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Reading archive 2018-01-02
Trump urges Justice Department to ‘act’ on Comey, suggests Huma Abedin should face jail time
Iran protests and death toll grow as tension rises
Iowa went big for Trump, but there are signs its voters are souring on the president
New NYT scoop on Russia raises questions about old NYT story on Russia
How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt
Orrin Hatch, Utah Senator, to Retire, Opening Path for Mitt Romney
Partisans, Wielding Money, Begin Seeking to Exploit Harassment Claims
The real reason Breitbart abandoned ‘pro-white’ Paul Nehlen
Utah could be Steve Bannon’s next battleground, especially if Mitt Romney runs
Trump’s Irish golf course lost $2.3 million in 2016
Suspect in deadly 'swatting' call in Kansas held without bail in Los Angeles
Iran protests and death toll grow as tension rises
Iowa went big for Trump, but there are signs its voters are souring on the president
New NYT scoop on Russia raises questions about old NYT story on Russia
How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt
Orrin Hatch, Utah Senator, to Retire, Opening Path for Mitt Romney
Partisans, Wielding Money, Begin Seeking to Exploit Harassment Claims
The real reason Breitbart abandoned ‘pro-white’ Paul Nehlen
Utah could be Steve Bannon’s next battleground, especially if Mitt Romney runs
Trump’s Irish golf course lost $2.3 million in 2016
Suspect in deadly 'swatting' call in Kansas held without bail in Los Angeles
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