Reading archive 2020-05-31

Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge

The jaw-dropping fall of an elite Baltimore police unit validates the need for federal oversight

Protest, Uprisings, and Race War

Reading archive 2020-05-28

How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror: There are too many noosed necks, charred bodies and drowned souls for them to deny knowing precisely what they are doing.

Reading archive 2020-05-27

Does "Fire Pink" Make Much of a Difference?

The unluckiest generation in U.S. history: Millennials have faced the worst economic odds, and many will never recover

Reading archive 2020-05-26

Forget “Earth-Like”—We’ll First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets: They may not look like much, but there’s a thin ring of life on these unique planets.

Is It Okay to Remove Cowbird Eggs From Host Nests?: It can be tempting to interfere with these brood parasites. But there are many reasons—legal and behavioral—to leave tampering to the pros.

ONE WAY TO SAVE ASH TREE SPECIES – CREATING CONSERVATION PLOTS

A black birdwatcher asked a white woman to leash her dog in Central Park. She called the police instead.

A white woman apologized after calling police on a black man and saying 'there's an African American man threatening my life'

Reading archive 2020-05-22

Why Our Economy May Be Headed for a Decade of Depression

Loss of Louisiana marshes that protect New Orleans is ‘probably inevitable,’ study finds: The research, based on 8,500 years of wetland history, says sea level is already rising too fast for marshes to catch up

Reading archive 2020-05-21

China to impose sweeping national security law in Hong Kong, bypassing city’s legislature

Reading archive 2020-05-19

Fired watchdog was investigating arms sales to Saudi Arabia: "It’s troubling that Secretary Pompeo wanted Mr. Linick pushed out before this work could be completed," says House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel.

US officials see al-Qaeda link to Florida military base attack: An audio recording said to be from the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the fatal attack.