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Pete Hamill in His Own Words — and Voice
Reading Time: 2 minutes When I think of Pete Hamill I think of the old Brooklyn. New York tabloids. Ireland.
Blackstone’s $4.7B Acquisition of Ancestry Raises Privacy Questions
Reading Time: 3 minutes Texas A&M Disaster Expert: Aerial Photos of Chinese Parking Lots Could Have Flagged COVID Last Year
Teacher Mental Health Amid a Pandemic
Reading Time: 6 minutes Before the COVID-19 pandemic reached fever pitch, I was on the edge of burnout. Teaching is
Parks in Nonwhite Areas Are Half the Size of Those in Majority-White Areas, New Study Finds
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hackers Broke Into Real News Sites to Plant Fake Stories (Mili) The author writes, “Security firm
Scientists Dissect the Tactics of Climate Delayers
Reading Time: 2 minutes Deputies Accused of Being in Secret Societies Cost LA County Taxpayers $55 Million (Reader Steve) From
Defunding Police: A Tale of Five Cities
Reading Time: 6 minutes Defund the police? Whether you support or oppose the idea, it’s already happening, from big cities
This Tool Could Protect Your Photos From Facial Recognition
Reading Time: 2 minutes Census Cut Short a Month (Dana) The author writes, “The Census Bureau is ending all counting
Why Are White Evangelicals Primed for Trump’s Fear-Mongering?
Reading Time: 15 minutes Why do self-described evangelicals overwhelmingly support an irreligious commander-in-chief? Why do megachurches demand to stay open
Scientists Have Backed Away From the Worst-Case Climate Scenario — and the Best One, Too
Reading Time: 2 minutes In Portland, Getting Out of Jail Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights (Chris C.) The author writes, “Federal
More Separatist Rumblings Cloud Ukraine’s Future
Reading Time: 6 minutes Say “Ukraine,” and for many outside observers, the adjective “war-torn” often springs to mind. Yet its
Supreme Failures to Protect Elections from Partisanship
Reading Time: 8 minutes In July, Barack Obama tweeted, “Voting by mail shouldn’t be a partisan issue — especially during
Pandemic Threatens American DREAMers
Reading Time: 13 minutes The US Supreme Court’s rejection of President Donald Trump’s attempt to repeal the Deferred Action for
First They Came for Me and I Said Nothing
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Young Children Risk Being Undercounted in 2020 Census
Reading Time: 3 minutes Millions of people are at risk of becoming invisible as far as the United States government
Gun Sales Are Surging, but Background Checks Aren’t Keeping Up
Reading Time: 2 minutes This Recession Is a Bigger Housing Crisis Than 2008 (Dana) The author writes, “The impending flood
Despite Coronavirus, 85 Percent of Americans Are Thinking About Sustainability as Much as or More Than Ever
Reading Time: 2 minutes Oil Giants Help Fund Powerful Police Groups in Top US Cities (Chris C.) The author writes,
America Decides 2020: Voting by Mail, Explained
Reading Time: 5 minutes Election Day will be November 3, but there’s little agreement on anything else. In America Decides
Less Than 100 Days to Go
Reading Time: 4 minutes WhoWhatWhy’s Election Integrity Weekly is written by Gabriella Novello, and edited by William Dowell and Sue
Google’s Web App Plans Collide With Apple’s iPhone, Safari Rules
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tracking What Happens to Police After They Use Force on Protesters (Mili) From ProPublica: “As protests
Red Sea Corals’ Heat Tolerance Offers Hope for Climate Crisis
Reading Time: 2 minutes On Portland’s Streets: Anger, Fear, and a Fence That Divides (Gerry) The authors write, “To the
US Restrictions Threaten Admissions, Careers for Chinese STEM Students
Reading Time: 5 minutes The moment that college student Kecheng Du saw a tweet from President Trump saying only “China!,”
Zuckerberg, Bezos, Other Tech CEOs to Testify on Competition
Reading Time: 2 minutes Newsom Says Nursing Home Inspectors Will Be Tested for Coronavirus (Reader Steve) From the Los Angeles
Scrutineers Part II – Bennie Smith
Reading Time: 26 minutes What happens when a financial analytics manager applies his skills to how we determine the winners
No One Wants Schools Shut Down.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Living in the time of COVID-19 is like being on a slow-moving train and seeing the
July 25, 2020 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode
On this edition for Saturday, July 25, how racial health inequities are aiding the spread of the coronavirus in America,
US Postal Service’s Ability to Deliver in November Questioned
Reading Time: 4 minutes November is less than four months away, and it is expected that a record number of
The Test Questions That Would’ve Stumped Trump
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First Underwater Methane Leak Discovered Near Antarctica
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada Court Rules US ‘Not Safe’ for Asylum Seekers (Mili) The author writes, “Canada’s federal court
The High Cost of Free Speech
Reading Time: 14 minutes Stanley Fish is one of our nation’s most noted academics on the subject of free speech.
Two Dozen Weapons Taken Off NYC Streets After Gun-Trafficking Ring Is Dismantled
Reading Time: 2 minutes Reopening America’s Schools Is Way Harder Than It Should Be (Bethany) From Chalkbeat: “Schools are run
Why Policing in Schools Is Complicated
Reading Time: 9 minutes As a junior at East High School, an inner-city school in Rochester, NY, Eric Kounnavong, a
Trump Orders Undocumented Immigrants Excluded From Key Census Count
Reading Time: 2 minutes Lack of AC Compounds Threat of COVID-19 in Florida Prisons (Dana) The authors write, “As temperatures
The Possible Housing Opportunity Provided by COVID-19
Reading Time: 9 minutes This article is part of a series on economic inequality in the US. In 2014, Dani
Global Warming Shrinks Bird Breeding Windows, Potentially Threatening Species
Reading Time: 2 minutes Theranos Destroyed Patient Test Data, Prosecutor Alleges (Reader Steve) The author writes, “Assistant U.S. attorney Vanessa
Notes from a Coronavirus Contact Tracer
Reading Time: 14 minutes If you lived in Massachusetts the past three months you really did not want to get
How to Know If You’ve Been Hacked, and What to Do About It
Reading Time: 2 minutes Iranian State Hackers Caught With Their Pants Down in Intercepted Videos (Mili) The author writes, “Iranian
Treaty Created to Stop Child Abductions Could Now Be Protecting Abusers
Reading Time: 8 minutes An international treaty initially created in 1980 to protect children from being abducted has now become
Setting the Record Straight
Reading Time: 7 minutes Critics charge that the recent campaign to remove statues of Confederate Civil War figures is an
July 18, 2020 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode
On this edition for Saturday, July 18, remembering John Lewis, a Civil Rights Movement leader and a longtime member of
A Family Affair: The President’s Niece Strips the Bark Off the Family Tree
Reading Time: 11 minutes — BOOK REVIEW — It would be ironic, but not unimaginable, if the only person who
One Mega Revelation Not in Mary Trump’s Book
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New Genes Control Plant Height and Could Lead to Flood-Proof Crops
Reading Time: 2 minutes ‘Outright Lies’: Voting Misinformation Flourishes on Facebook (Bethany) The author writes, “Analysis … shows that Facebook
McCarthy to Cohn to Trump
Reading Time: 18 minutes Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the most dangerous demagogue of them all? Father Coughlin? Huey
CDC Employees Call Out Agency’s ‘Toxic Culture of Racial Aggressions’
Reading Time: 2 minutes A New Understanding of Herd Immunity (Bethany) The author writes, “What we seem to need is
America Decides 2020: Early Voting, Explained
Reading Time: 4 minutes WhoWhatWhy is providing voters with critical information about how to cast a ballot this November and
Burrowing Crabs Reshape Salt Marshes, With Climate Change to Blame
Reading Time: 2 minutes How to Fix the COVID-19 Dumpster Fire in the US (Judy) From STAT News: “This is
Stressed-Out Nurses Say Nation’s Hospitals Need More of Them to Care for Patients
Reading Time: 7 minutes Increases in post-surgery infections. More patients slipping and falling. Failure to prevent or rescue patients from
California Rejected 100,000 Mail-in Ballots Because of Mistakes
Reading Time: 2 minutes Global Brands Benefit From Systematic Exploitation of Uyghur Muslims (Russ) The author writes, “Big, well-known global
Even If You Vote… Will It Count?
Reading Time: 19 minutes You stand in line for hours to vote, or finally manage to receive a mail-in ballot