Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
If there’s any such thing as a national consensus anymore, surely it is this: The 2016 presidential election has been one embarrassment after another for the United States. The Republican Party—no stranger to unmitigated disaster—really outdid itself this year, watching powerlessly as Donald Trump steered the clown car off a bridge. Meanwhile, the chair of…
Photo The Sharaf family, refugees from Syria, shopping in November in Troy, Mich. The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, has repeatedly called on world leaders to accept refugees, but his pleas have been met with reluctance. Credit Salwan Georges for The New York Times UNITED NATIONS — The Obama administration’s effort to step up…
Behold: The real reason John Boehner called Ted Cruz âLucifer in the flesh.â Man Just Look at This Shit. Source: Man Just Look at This Shit
During a National Prayer Team conference call Tuesday, Heidi Cruz compared her husband Ted Cruz’s “long battle” to win the Republican nomination for president to ending slavery. Darron Cummings / AP Texas Tribune reporter Patrick Svitek uploaded audio of the call in which Heidi Cruz can be heard said, “It took 25 years to defeat slavery. That is…
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch in March 2016.Alex Wong/Getty Images On paper, the current conflict between the U.S. Department of Justice and North Carolina can seem dry, academic even. North Carolina passed a law forbidding trans people from using certain bathrooms that align with their gender identity. The Department of Justice notified the state…
The United States has selected a national mammal—and, no, it’s not humans. The American bison (Bison bison bison) is now the official mammalian species of the land, putting it on the same symbolic pedestal as the bald eagle when it comes to national icons. The designation was signed into law by President Barack Obama May…
ASHLEIGH BANFIELD (HOST): I want to get some insight now from CNNMoney correspondent Cristina Alesci. This can be somewhat confusing if you don’t have a degree in economics. But safe to say, if you’re talking about this kind of thing like printing money, default’s not a problem. Maybe in the business world, that’s right. But…
What if victims of domestic violence didn’t have to worry that their abusers will come after them, guns a-blazin’, PEW PEW PEW, you’re dead? Sure, it would mean putting the lives of women — who die at the hands of their intimate partners every day, most often by being shot to death — above the absolute God-given unalienable right…
HARTFORD — The House of Representatives passed a bill that seeks to sever the often deadly link between domestic violence and firearms. The law would require those subject to a temporary restraining order to give up their guns. The 104 to 42 vote broke largely, although not exclusively, along party lines. It came after more…
The profile of one Ben Rhodes running in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine is not unsympathetic, which makes it all the more devastating. Perhaps the key sentence is this: “His lack of conventional real-world experience of the kind that normally precedes responsibility for the fate of nations — like military or diplomatic service, or even a master’s degree in…