Reading archive 2019-01-24

Officials rejected Jared Kushner for top secret security clearance, but were overruled: Jared Kushner was rejected for a top-secret clearance by two career security specialists, but their supervisor overruled them and approved him, sources say.

Donald Trump 'handed Russia classified intelligence on Israel successfully hacking Isis computers': Israeli cyber operations had reportedly succeeded in penetrating one of the terror group's cell

Reading archive 2019-01-23

‘Nobody Is Going to Believe You’: The Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer has been trailed by accusations of sexual misconduct for 20 years. Here, his alleged victims tell their stories.

Millennial Burnout Is Being Televised: How Fyre Fraud and Tidying Up With Marie Kondo capture a precarious cultural moment

Reading archive 2019-01-22

‘Absolutely out of control’: Cliff Sims’s book depicts life in Trump’s White House

Trump voters now blame him for the government shutdown

Reading archive 2019-01-21

A new Mississippi flag has a surprising champion: A segregationist’s grandchild

Who killed Martin Luther King Jr.? His family believes James Earl Ray was framed.

Viral standoff between a tribal elder and a high schooler is more complicated than it first seemed

Reading archive 2019-01-20

Shaun King threatens to sue activists who accused him on Twitter of mishandling fundraisers

The man who stood behind Trump: After his laugh was heard around the country, Joe Davidson is wondering: “I’m a good person. Isn’t that what people say about me?”

Reading archive 2019-01-19

A black R&B artist hoped singing for Trump would build ‘a bridge.’ It derailed her career instead.: Chrisette Michele is singing to nearly empty concert halls. She says she’s finding a new path to happiness.

Reading archive 2019-01-15

The Suffocation of Democracy

Keep Your Trickle-Down White Male Socialist Revolution