Reading Time: 6 minutes With little public notice, just six days after Donald Trump pardoned his disgraced, but loyal, former
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Scientist Sheds New Light on Darwin’s Flowering Plant Mystery
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Look Inside Biden’s Oval Office (Dan) The author writes, “President Biden has filled the Oval
Operation Snail Speed
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This Week in Pandemic: Where Did SARS-CoV-2 Come From?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The year 2020 was the Year of the Rat, and the horoscope was really quite prescient:
Indigenous Women Engage Feds To Combat Violence in Alaska
Reading Time: 8 minutes “You people take death too seriously.” Those words, from a commander with the Alaska State Troopers,
Elephants Counted From Space for Conservation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Fact-Check: Would Trump Lose Post-Presidency Benefits If Impeached? (Reader Steve) From the Austin American-Stateman: “If the
Don’t Panic: Health Passports Are Already a Thing
Reading Time: 4 minutes Questions continue to circle around the idea of mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for international travel after a
Biden Signs Order for US to Rejoin Paris Climate Agreement
Reading Time: 3 minutes Senate Trial of Former President Trump Depends Largely on 145-Year-Old Case (Reader Steve) From the San
Biden’s Diverse Cabinet Will Matter to America
Reading Time: 7 minutes President Joe Biden is in the midst of creating an administration that resembles the public. He’s
Unusual Confirmation Delays Dangerous for America
Reading Time: 4 minutes At noon on Wednesday, January 20, current Cabinet secretaries and agency heads are scheduled to step
New CDC Director to Make Sure Voices of Science Are Heard Again
Reading Time: 2 minutes ‘Money Goes Towards Power’: Trump Is Exiting the White House With His Brand in Tatters (Dana)
Biden Picked a Lot of Obama People. Here’s Why It’s OK.
Reading Time: 4 minutes President-elect Joe Biden finalized his Cabinet picks on Thursday, naming US Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland
Military Insiders Reveal Their Inauguration Nightmare
Reading Time: 17 minutes NEWS ANALYSIS The final countdown has begun, but the military is worried about what Donald Trump
Trump’s Storm Troopers: First Blood
Reading Time: 6 minutes ANALYSIS January 6, the day the Capitol building was sacked by Visigoths, happens to be the
Humans Won’t Be Able to Control Artificial Intelligence, Scientists Warn
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Hacker Who Archived Parler Explains How They Did It (Judy) From Vice: “With Twitter’s permanent
Amid Charges of Election Fraud, Uganda Reelects Museveni
Reading Time: 3 minutes While Donald Trump was preparing to scuttle out of Washington a few hours before Joe Biden’s
Biden May Hit A Manchin Roadblock
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Big Tech Giveth and Big Tech Can Taketh Away
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Switzerland Risks Becoming Beijing’s Security Satellite
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This Week in Pandemic: New Flavors of Coronavirus
Reading Time: 4 minutes First, the bad news: There are new variants of the coronavirus. But, good news: The new
A Bill Gates Venture Aims to Spray Dust Into the Atmosphere to Block the Sun. What Could Go Wrong?
Reading Time: 2 minutes National Guardsmen Sleep on Capitol Building Floors Amid Threats of Violence (Dan) The author writes, “Hundreds
Biden Presidency a New Era for Disability Rights?
Reading Time: 4 minutes –OPINION– President-elect Joe Biden is no stranger to disability. Biden not only survived a brain aneurysm
Tim Berners-Lee, Father of the Web, Prepares ‘Do-Over’
Reading Time: 3 minutes Parler Users Breached Deep Inside US Capitol Building, GPS Data Shows (Dana) The author writes, “At
Virginia Braces for Armed Protests on MLK Day
Reading Time: 8 minutes As the FBI warns of violent pro-Trump actions across the country following the attack on the
Giuliani’s Trial By Combat
Reading Time: 3 minutes Donald Trump famously used to ask, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” — the snarling pitbull of a
Insects Are Vanishing at an Alarming Rate — but We Can Save Them
Reading Time: 3 minutes Domestic Terrorism: A More Urgent Threat, but Weaker Laws (Reader Steve) The author writes, “In the
Could the Rioters Have Breached the Capitol’s Cybersecurity?
Reading Time: 3 minutes January 6, 2021: A Day That Will Live in Infamy (Dan) From the Daily Hampshire Gazette:
Azerbaijan Celebrates a Victory Made Possible by Turkey
Reading Time: 5 minutes This was the first military parade ever to celebrate one ex-Soviet nation’s victory over another. Thousands
This Week in Pandemic: To Travel or Not to Travel?
Reading Time: 3 minutes It is a fascinating thing that one year into this pandemic, we still do not understand
Looking for Trump Tweets? They’re Not Entirely Gone
Reading Time: 3 minutes “Goodbye Twitter” is trending on the social media site after Twitter permanently suspended the account of
Ex-Monk Takes on the Thai Sex Mafia
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Did We Just Witness Our Fort Sumter?
Reading Time: 20 minutes Normally it’s only at the end of year when we rerun a podcast. However, events today
Trump Extremists Emboldened by Lack of Crackdown
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Trump-inspired riot on Capitol Hill could be just the beginning, with more violence on the
‘Shifting Baselines’ Are Changing What Normal Climate Means
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mob Attack on US Capitol Dominates Overseas News, Unnerves World (Reader Steve) The author writes, “News
When the Commander in Chief Encourages Insurrection
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the days leading up to the attack on the Capitol, Donald Trump had tried to
Georgia: Republicans Blame Trump While Democrats Celebrate
Reading Time: 4 minutes Georgia turned blue after all, not only in the presidential election, but now in its Senate
‘It Just Doesn’t Stop’: Georgians Swamped by Election Calls
Reading Time: 6 minutes Emmaline Tyler’s phone has been ringing incessantly for the past three months. The calls and texts
How the Department of Defense Could Help Win the War on Climate Change
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sen. David Perdue Became Wealthy Outsourcing Work to China. Now the Former CEO Stands With Trump,
The Week That Jumped the Shark
Reading Time: 3 minutes Twitter can handle 6,000 tweets per second. How about the human mind? The current week may
No, Polar Bears Do Not Live In Antarctica. But Could They?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Republicans Don’t Know Anything About Their Party (DonkeyHotey) From Data for Progress: “While the packaging of
Republicans Glory in Electoral Dysfunction
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January 2, 2021 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode
On this edition for Saturday, January 2, COVID-19 vaccinations are proceeding slower than hoped as record hospitalization numbers continue, a
GA Leaders Uphold Election Results After History of Suppression
Reading Time: 5 minutes In addition to overseeing the upcoming runoff elections, Georgia’s top election officials have been fighting back
Vaccine Rollout Isn’t Exactly at Warp Speed
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This Week in Pandemic: What Possible Good Can Come of This?
Reading Time: 3 minutes As COVID-19 cases in the US and beyond continue to soar, as hospitals continue to be
WhoWhatWhy 2021: Where Do We Go From Here?
Reading Time: 2 minutes WhoWhatWhy is getting a name for its unique approach to journalism in the public interest. We
Robot Rhythm: Androids’ New Year Dance Celebration Goes Viral
Reading Time: 2 minutes Michael Cohen Predicts People Trump Pardoned May Testify Against Him (Russ) The author writes, “President Trump’s