Reading archive 2021-09-08

Opinion: How the rise of Politico shifted political journalism off course - "So the press spent much of the Obama years acting as if the opposition to him was solely because he had a liberal policy ideas on issues such as health care — and not because Obama had become both the leader and a symbol of a multicultural America whose values are opposed by many on the right. Wary of angering Republican readers, much of the mainstream press refused to cast the GOP as drifting into radical and racist behavior, even when prominent Republicans would not acknowledge that Obama was born in the United States."

D.C. renews Adams Morgan business improvement district but urges change: Critics called for the dissolution of a taxpayer-funded nonprofit organization because of its governance

Reading archive 2021-09-07

New Frederick Douglass bridge hailed as D.C.’s ‘most important’ span during opening week ceremony: The bridge was blessed during the Tuesday event, and the freedom fighter it was named for was recalled as an inspiration

Inside the Wuhan lab: French engineering, deadly viruses and a big mysteryt

Reading archive 2021-09-05

‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley, face of pro-Trump Capitol riot, pleads guilty to felony

The man who committed the New Zealand stabbing attack was a known threat. Now, the nation’s counterterrorism laws are under scrutiny.

Reading archive 2021-09-04

19-year-old Navarro College student dies from COVID-19

What it would take to put all our electric lines underground: Burying cables protects them from the elements. It’s not cheap.

Reading archive 2021-09-03

Get the vaccine or get fired? In Shenandoah Valley, some nurses choose termination.

Doctors dismayed by patients who fear coronavirus vaccines but clamor for unproven ivermectin

ISIS-inspired extremist killed after stabbing six in New Zealand terrorist attack, authorities say

Here’s what we know about the mu variant: Cases of the WHO-designated “variant of interest” have been reported in the United States, Colombia, South Korea and parts of Europe.

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 2021-09-01

‘Impeachment: American Crime Story’ shows there are limits to how much we can (or should) rehab ’90s tabloid figures - "Paula’s plight as an unassuming pawn who’s debased by even the right-wing press for her naivete in going to Clinton’s hotel room during his governorship (where he allegedly asked her for oral sex) is hard to square with the real-life Jones, who showed up at a presidential debate in 2016 in support of Donald Trump."

Why You Should Do Your Spring Planting in the Fall: Conventional wisdom says you should do the same tasks in the same order every year. The director of horticulture at Brooklyn Bridge Park has a better idea.

Four conservative radio talk-show hosts bashed coronavirus vaccines. Then they got sick. - "'The vaccine isn’t the problem. Talk radio is,' said Jerry Del Colliano, a professor at New York University and publisher and editor of Inside Music Media, which covers the radio industry. Radio companies, he said, 'are risking the health of their audiences even as anti-vaxxer bloviators continue to die.'

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"Even as he was receiving state-of-the-art care for cancer last year, Limbaugh maintained a skeptical, conspiratorial pose, falsely dismissing the then-emerging coronavirus as 'the common cold' and saying, without evidence, that it was being 'weaponized' to attack President Donald Trump."

Opinion: I was a combat interpreter in Afghanistan, where cultural illiteracy led to U.S. failure

Oklahoma congressman threatened embassy staff as he tried to enter Afghanistan, U.S. officials say

A 9/11 survivor wanted nothing to do with ‘Come From Away.’ Now she’s seen it a dozen times.

Opinion: Texas shows us what post-democracy America would look like