We’re not asking you to storm the beaches of Iwo Jima; we’re asking you to walk into a damn CVS.
(Doug Mills | The New York Times)
The battle for 1042 Cutler Street
As landlords and tenants go broke across the U.S., the next crisis point of the pandemic approaches (Photo by Libby March)
Rich Americans Who Were Warned on Taxes Hunt for Ways Around Them
For wealthy Americans worried about higher taxes, the future is looking bleaker. As Joe Biden and state lawmakers target millionaires and billionaires, wealth advisers are trying to help their clients adapt to the new rules.
Leonard Pitts: The Republican Party is an unsalvageable mess
Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney are becoming heroes on the left for their simple refusal to lie. (J. Scott Applewhite | AP file photo)
Leonard Pitts: Times these days when you simply must close your mind
I miss the days when it was possible to have a thoughtful debate on a substantive matter with a political opposite.
The Pirate Who Penned the First English-Language Guacamole Recipe
A 1697 oil painting of Dampier holding a book. Credit: National Portrait Gallery / Public Domain.
CNN’s Jim Acosta Calls Fox News ‘The Bulls**t Factory’
Somebody finally had enough…
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The Price of the Stuff That Makes Everything Is Surging
The prices of raw materials used to make almost everything are skyrocketing, and the upward trajectory looks set to continue as the world economy roars back to life.
Liberals just cannot handle a Black conservative
Compare and contrast…
How Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors
Research reveals the link between bars and new inventions.
Photo by FPG / Hulton Archive / Getty Images.
This Is Deeply, Obviously, and Laughably Corrupt
A Koch organization boosted the Supreme Court candidacies of Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh. Now they'll rule on a case where its affiliate is the plaintiff.
An Investigation
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The Math That Takes Newton Into the Quantum World
How a math professor learned to stop worrying and love algebraic geometry.
Image Collage Credits: agsandrew / Shutterstock.
A little humor for the weekend…
Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years
Mr Aisha is finally on his way home [Credit: Mohammed Aisha]
The justices will consider a high school girl’s Snapchat post. But it won’t be the first time the court weighs whether the F-word is protected speech.
(Associated Press)
Why Utah’s Chris Stewart got the vaccine but says you shouldn’t shame people who don’t
Sen. Mike Lee, who also was inoculated, says the coronavirus shot should remain a personal choice.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune)
The Two Memos With Enormous Constitutional Consequences
What’s astonishing is that presidential criminal immunity has no grounding in actual law. It’s not in the Constitution or any federal statute, regulation, or judicial decision. It is not law at all.
(DAVID ARKY / GLOWIMAGES / GETTY / THE ATLANTIC)
A 'Worst Nightmare' Cyberattack: The Untold Story Of The SolarWinds Hack
An NPR investigation into the SolarWinds attack reveals a hack unlike any other, launched by a sophisticated adversary intent on exploiting the soft underbelly of our digital lives.
Zoë van Dijk for NPR
Biden Clashes With His Allies in Supreme Court Green-Card Case
Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg
President Joe Biden’s balancing act on the politically fraught issue of immigration moves to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that finds the new administration at odds with Democratic lawmakers and progressive allies.