Reading archive 2016-08-31

#VeteransforKaepernick show unflagging support for Colin Kaepernick

The Price of Nice Nails: Manicurists are routinely underpaid and exploited, and endure ethnic bias and other abuse, The New York Times has found.

Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers

Reading archive 2016-08-30

Colin Powell’s foundation and Hillary Clinton’s are treated very differently by the media

Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience: The talk-radio host claims that he never took Donald Trump seriously on immigration. He neglected to tell his immigration obsessed listeners.

Your dog really does know what you’re saying, and a brain scan shows how

Reading archive 2016-08-26

The St. Louis Blues: What happened to the media the Rams left behind?

Hillary’s Lifeboat to the GOP: The Democratic nominee offered her rivals a way to save themselves from the catastrophe that is Donald Trump.

Hillary Clinton’s Alt-Right Speech Isolated and Destroyed Donald Trump: By definitively linking him to the alt-right, she shredded any remaining legitimacy he had with sane Republicans.

Hillary Clinton’s ‘alt-right’ speech, annotated

She thought her server was ‘really sweet.’ Then she saw her racist Snapchat post.

Jill Stein’s fairy-tale candidacy

Reading archive 2016-08-25

It’s time to put work and place back at the center of economic policymaking

A C-SPAN caller asked a black guest how to stop being prejudiced. Here’s how she responded.

‘Healthy’ sweeteners, protein-powerhouse quinoa and other nutrition myths, debunked

To Every White ‘Ally’ Who Has Racist Friends

Is Rudy Giuliani okay?

The AP’s big exposé on Hillary meeting with Clinton Foundation donors is a mess

The Harambe meme is still going strong. And it's about a lot more than a dead gorilla.

Reading archive 2016-08-22

FBI uncovers 14,900 more documents in Clinton email probe

Email batch provides additional evidence that Clinton Foundation donors got access at State Department

What if Trump won't accept defeat?: As their nominee unravels, Republicans worry where his scorched-earth, rigged-election rhetoric leads the GOP and the country.

The NSA hack proves Apple was right to fight the FBI

Reading archive 2016-08-20

In Maze of Trump’s Empire, Unknown Ties and $650 Million in Debt

Reading archive 2016-08-18

Trinidad: The Difference 5 Years Makes

The Democratic National Committee Email Hack: Just How Dangerous Have Things Become?

Why Trump Isn’t Tweeting About the Olympics: You’d think two weeks of winning might be a golden opportunity. For this campaign, it's just the opposite.