Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photo Hillary Clinton greeted the crowd at an Ohio Democratic Party event in Cincinnati where she and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts spoke on Monday. Credit Hilary Swift for The New York Times Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump are deadlocked less than a month before the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions, according to a…
Over the past 30-ish hours, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas anti-abortion law, Liz Warren spent a solid 15 minutes burning Trump, and the GOP let Crooked Hillary get away with Benghazi once and for all. And throughout all of it, red-faced Twitter egg king Donald Trump hasn’t made a peep. Something’s not right….
WASHINGTON — Ending one of the longest, costliest and most bitterly partisan congressional investigations in history, the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report on Tuesday, finding no new evidence of culpability or wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton in the 2012 attacks in Libya that left four Americans dead. The 800-page report, however, included…
In 1934, at the dawn of the Stalinist Terror, the great Russian writer Isaac Babel offered a daring quip at the International Writers Conference in Moscow: “Everything is given to us by the party and the government. Only one right is taken away: the right to write badly.” Sidebar The Return of Lesser Evilism…
Former London mayor and Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson walks through the Houses of Parliament and Portcullis House in central London on June 27. (Justin Tallis/Agence France-Presse) Let me see if I can get all of these Brexit reactions straight. First, there’s the simple fact that markets have given a big short-term thumbs down to the…
Airbnb Inc., the second-most highly valued San Francisco-based startup, sued its hometown over claims the city’s rental restrictions violate protections for internet companies and its free-speech rights. The company is hoping to avoid thousands of dollars in daily fines it could face when a new San Francisco law takes full effect next month. The law,…
I arrived at naptime at Bethany Mandel’s 2nd floor apartment in Central New Jersey. Evidence of her two children under 3 — toys, toys and more toys — was everywhere. She’s a full-time mom and writer who works from home. And so amid the kiddie detritus is her laptop, open, on the couch. But that’s not…
There’s a delicious irony to Remainers’ branding of Leave voters as confused individuals who have simply made a desperate howling noise, whose anti-EU vote was a ‘howl of anger’ (Tim Farron) or a ‘howl of frustration’ (JK Rowling). Which is that if anyone’s been howling in recent days, it’s them, the top dogs of the…
President Obama has issued executive orders to ban the use of solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons. Here is what you need to know about the new rules. (Victoria M. Walker/The Washington Post) President Obama on Monday announced a ban on solitary confinement for juvenile offenders in the federal prison system, saying the practice…
The shadow of Brexit and rising protectionist sentiment loom large as U.S. President Barack Obama meets his North American counterparts to bolster the world’s largest trading bloc. Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto hold the so-called Three Amigos summit Wednesday in Ottawa, with fallout from the U.K.’s vote last week…