Morning Coffee (7/31/19)

"We are in great danger": In Amazon, indigenous Waiapi chief is killed by illegal miners

No More Family Separations, Except These 900

Trump’s Cynical War on American Citizenship

States Rush to Make Voting Systems More Secure as New Threats Emerge

Hardly Any Rape Cases Lead to Charges in England and Wales: Report

Study: Malaria Drugs Are Failing At An 'Alarming' Rate In Southeast Asia

Scientists want to make it a war crime to damage the environment in a conflict

America’s dual housing crisis and what Democrats plan to do about it, explained

The World Is Getting a Pickup-Truck Emoji Because the other emoji weren't manly enough!!

Michael Jaffee, Who Co-Founded Early-Music Group, Dies at 81

Morning Coffee (7/20/19)

SOME GOOD NEWS: New Law Offers Anti-Discrimination Protection For N.H. Public School Students

Trump says US Navy destroyed Iranian drone

...of course: Trump to nominate Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court justice, as his next secretary of Labor

Great column from Jamelle Bouie: Trump Voters Are Not the Only Voters

EPA will not ban use of controversial pesticide linked to children’s health problems

The House just passed a $15 minimum wage. It would be the first increase in a decade.

Catholics in Iowa went to church. Steve Bannon tracked their phones.

The new Veronica Mars is STREAMING NOW, this is not a drill!

Yay! Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! Musical Will Release a Cast Recording in the Fall

Heh: The Other CBD: Christian Book Distributors Changes Name After Cannabis Confusion

Morning Coffee (6/26/19)

‘We’re in a Dark Place’: Children Returned to Troubled Texas Border Facility

Good for the Times editorial board: Children Shouldn’t Be Dying at the Border. Here’s How You Can Help.

This guy is, of course, evil and racist: Mark Morgan to replace John Sanders as border chief as DHS shake-up continues

Wayfair Workers Plan Walkout Over Sales to Migrant Detention Facilities

I'm glad Dara Lind is back from vacation: The horrifying conditions facing kids in border detention, explained

GOOD: Elizabeth Warren: Repeal The Law That Criminalizes Migrants

I'm not getting my hopes up for anything to come of this, but I think it's good that it happens regardless: Mueller to testify to Congress in open session about his investigation

Uh, whoa: New Estimate for an Oil Leak: A Thousand Times Worse Than Rig Owner Says

Good: N.R.A. Shuts Down Production of NRATV

And let's end on one more positive thing: Jesuit School, Defying Archdiocese, Refuses to Remove Teacher in Same-Sex Marriage

Morning Coffee (5/22/19)

Thousands of immigrants suffer in solitary confinement in U.S. detention centers (SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THEIR SEXUALITY OR A DISABILITY.)

Anti-Abortion and Pro-Trump Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

Lock Him Up?

Prime Minister Theresa May offers a “new” Brexit plan, but nobody’s buying it

E.P.A. Plans to Get Thousands of Pollution Deaths Off the Books by Changing Its Math

New HIV Map Offers Most Detailed Look Yet At The Epidemic

A Great White Shark Was in the Long Island Sound! (Or Maybe Not)

Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light announced for 2020 (I need to catch up because Twitter is going to be INTO THIS.)

The details here are fascinating: Aztec allies ritually disfigured captured Spaniards’ remains

I originally read this headline as ALL ONE MOVIE but the separate movies sound good too! Fred & Adele Astaire Story & WWII Thriller ‘The Zero Hour’ In The Works For Altitude — Cannes

Morning Coffee (5/4/19)

Emails show Trump admin had 'no way to link' separated migrant children to parents

The Dangerous Ideas of Bill Barr

Trump Administration Files Formal Request to Strike Down All of Obamacare

Of course: Interior Dept. Loosens Offshore-Drilling Safety Rules Dating From Deepwater Horizon

Staking Out Battle Lines, House Votes to Keep U.S. in Paris Climate Pact

Uh, what's going on, Tennessee?? Democratic lawmakers locked inside House chambers

New Hampshire Democrats Push 2020 Hopefuls on Voting Rights

Some voting booths in India have an all-female staff and childcare facilities

Can't imagine why! Americans Are Among the Most Stressed People in the World, Poll Finds

So glad I'll be seeing her perform again this year: World champion skater Kaetlyn Osmond retires

Afternoon Tea (3/12/19)

Wow: WWF's Secret War

This is a tough read, but it's another interesting case of a crime solved via genetic genealogy: A baby frozen in a ditch haunted a South Dakota town for 38 years. Now his mother has been found.

HBO’s The Case Against Adnan Syed comes armed with an agenda and little else

The Oldest American Picture Book Still in Print is Obviously About Cats

An Instagram-worthy Bible aimed at millennials

Morning Coffee (2/14/19)

Former Air Force Intelligence Agent Charged With Spying for Iran

Inside The Largest And Most Controversial Shelter For Migrant Children In The U.S.

Good: ACLU Sues to Block New Hampshire Voter Residency Requirements

Why Mitch McConnell is holding a vote on the Green New Deal

Hey but some good news from the Senate! The Senate just passed the decade’s biggest public lands package. Here’s what’s in it.

John Roberts Is Not Your Friend

Republicans Keep Admitting Everything They Said About Obama Was a Lie

This is awful: New Bill Aims to Prevent Gender Dysphoria 'Disease' From Spreading to Kids

UGH, MEN: Ryan Adams Dangled Success. Women Say They Paid a Price.

I'M SO SAD: NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission

Morning Coffee (2/13/19)

This collection of obituaries by teen reporters of young gun violence victims is moving and important: Since Parkland

Trump supporter attacks BBC cameraman at El Paso rally

Blackface Is the Tip of the Iceberg

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is making the Green New Deal a 2020 litmus test

AP Exclusive: Undercover spy exposed in NYC was 1 of many

Southern Baptist Convention: More than 200 ministers, deacons and others have been found guilty of sex abuse, report says

Greece, 10 Years Into Economic Crisis, Counts the Cost to Mental Health

What’s Anti-Semitic?

Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'

British Library's collection of obscene writing goes online

Morning Coffee (2/5/19)

This should be criminal: US sees limitations on reuniting migrant families

Italy Slides Into Recession as Europe Stalls, Stoking Global Fears

Trump to nominate David Bernhardt, a former lobbyist, as the next Interior secretary

On Well-Intended White Folks: Thoughts on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and the Making of a Public Image

McKinsey Advised Purdue Pharma How to ‘Turbocharge’ Opioid Sales, Lawsuit Says

Not to make light of clients who were duped or anything but... lolol: Crypto Exchange Says It Can't Repay $190 Million to Clients After Founder Dies With Only Password

Christian publishing company owned by News Corp found guilty of significant fraud and destroying evidence

A third of Himalayan ice cap doomed, finds report

Oh good: New York Joins Movement to Abandon Use of Student Tests in Teacher Evaluations

Ooh: Netflix Picks Up Indian Drama Series ‘Delhi Crime’ From Richie Mehta, Golden Karavan & Ivanhoe Pictures

Morning Coffee (1/31/19)

The Trump Administration Is Trying to Make It Easier for Doctors to Deny Care to LGBTQ People

There is a crisis at the border. It’s just not what Trump says it is.

...of course: Treasury Dept. Lifts Sanctions on Russian Oligarch’s Companies

Of course. Exclusive: Trump EPA won't limit 2 toxic chemicals in drinking water

The Real Reason John Roberts Just Offered a Low-Stakes Win to Workers

Good: Additional Federal Hate Crimes Charges Filed Against Suspected Synagogue Gunman

5 anti-poverty plans from 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, explained

State of Alaska issues alert after measles disaster declared in Washington State

Wow: Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps

The 4% Challenge looks like a good initiative.

Morning Coffee (1/1/19)

Happy New Year! And here we go: Elizabeth Warren Announces She Is Running for President in 2020

Pilots Kept Losing Oxygen and the Military Had No Idea Why. Now There’s a Possible Fix.

For Italy’s Populists, Everything Is a Nationalist Cause. Even Leonardo.

China’s State Media Finds Good News in Underwear

Liza Redfield, Who Broke a Broadway Barrier, Is Dead at 94

Today! For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain

Celeste Ng Reflects on Our Era of Rage—and Illuminates the Path Forward

How To Make Good New Year’s Resolutions

Why eating less meat is the best thing you can do for the planet in 2019

Lincoln declared an end to slavery on New Year’s Day 1863. It went on for two more years.

Morning Coffee (12/30/18)

Horrifying: How a Crackdown on MS-13 Caught Up Innocent High School Students

Delays, frustrations as Congo’s presidential election begins

Court dissolves North Carolina elections board with election fraud scandal still under investigation

Of course: New E.P.A. Plan Could Free Coal Plants to Release More Mercury Into the Air

Malware attack disrupts delivery of L.A. Times and Tribune papers across the U.S.

This is an essential look at both Trump and the TV industry: How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success

The Border Dividing Ireland Has Long Been Invisible. Brexit Threatens to Make It Real.

Sono Osato, Japanese-American Ballet Star, Is Dead at 99

A Journey Into the Solar System’s Outer Reaches, Seeking New Worlds to Explore

Papers reveal saga of horse given to John Major by Turkmenistan

Morning Coffee (12/17/18)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

The Law Must Apply to Donald Trump

Ryan Zinke, Face of Trump Environmental Rollbacks, Is Leaving Interior Department

How Florida Is Thwarting [a] Voter-Approved Measure To Restore Felon Voting Rights

The Oil Industry’s Covert Campaign to Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules

Domestic slayings: Brutal and foreseeable

Oh good! Non-Binary Will Be An Official Gender Option At D.C., Arlington, And Alexandria Schools

I am FURIOUS about this: Offset Interrupts Cardi B’s Set at Rolling Loud

Uh, wow: Arizona newspaper publisher uses his publication to accuse wife of poisoning attempt

!! NASA's InSight Takes Its First Selfie

Egypt announces the discovery of a high priest's 4,400-year-old tomb

Morning Coffee (12/12/18)

Time got person of the year right this time.

The fiery meeting between Trump, Schumer, and Pelosi about the border wall, explained

Trump Can’t Stop Confessing

Paul Ryan's long con

Not to be a buzzkill, but that viral story about gay WWI soldiers buried together is fiction.

Ooh, good finalists for the Morris award!

Investigation of generic ‘cartel’ expands to 300 drugs

British politics has worst record for antisemitism in Europe, poll says

The Arctic Ocean has lost 95 percent of its oldest ice — a startling sign of what’s to come

Putin's East German identity card found in Stasi archives – report

Morning Coffee (12/9/18)

The details here are even more dystopian than the headline makes it sound! Denmark Plans to Isolate Unwanted Migrants on a Small Island

Anti-fascists were stabbed at a neo-Nazi rally. Then police tried to charge them

Trump Drilling Plan Threatens 9 Million Acres of Sage Grouse Habitat

Milo Yiannopoulos’s collapse shows that no-platforming can work

‘No Labels’ Needs A Warning Label

This included PRESSURING STRANGERS FROM THE AUDIENCE TO KISS EACH OTHER so... good: Princeton Singers Abandon a ‘Little Mermaid’ Song Over Kissing Concerns

Ugh: Straight Actors in Queer Roles Could Dominate the 2019 Oscars

Ooh, yay: The Joy of Cooking, vindicated: Journal retracts two more Brian Wansink papers

Good for her: Meghan Markle will focus on helping women in developing countries when she announces her first royal charity patronages next year

500-year-old skeleton still wearing thigh-high boots found in London river

Morning Coffee (10/14/18)

Of course: Trump administration weighs new family-separation effort at border

Turks tell U.S. officials they have audio and video recordings that support conclusion Khashoggi was killed

Sure, who needs that? E.P.A. to Disband a Key Scientific Review Panel on Air Pollution

Trump’s USA Today op-ed demonstrates why it’s time to unbundle news and opinion content

Oh go away: Sanders barnstorming country ahead of midterm elections

Uh, not good: Germany’s Far-Right AfD Urges Students to Report Biased Teachers

Awful: Babysitting While Black: Georgia Man Was Stalked by Woman as He Cared for 2 White Children

SLIGHT progress... Diversity of TV Directors Ticks Up in DGA Study: "The Compass Is Pointing in the Right Direction"

Dutch museums discover 170 artworks stolen by Nazis

A home with some Salem witch trials history is up for sale

Morning Coffee (10/4/18)

A running list of everyone the FBI has interviewed in the Kavanaugh investigation so far (and, you know, HASN'T)

And a late related addition: The F.B.I. Probe Ignored Testimonies from Former Classmates of Kavanaugh

Seriously, we need to see Donald Trump’s tax returns

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Trump administration working to weaken EPA radiation regulations

Shinzo Abe reshuffle leaves just one woman in Japanese cabinet

Beatles Engineer Geoff Emerick Has Died at 72

!! Dwarf planet 'The Goblin' discovery redefining solar system

Veteran CBS Producer Brad Kern Fired Amid Abuse Claims

Amazon is raising its minimum wage to $15 for US workers

Riddle of a Scandalous French Painting Is Solved, Researcher Says

Cardiff University's new X-ray method reveals ancient scroll

Morning Coffee (10/1/18)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

80,000 Americans died of the flu last winter. Get your flu shot.

The details here are even more horrifying than the headline sounds: Hundreds of Migrant Children Quietly Moved to a Tent Camp on the Texas Border

I... E.P.A. to Eliminate Office That Advises Agency Chief on Science

...of course: Trump anti-discrimination official once called most hate crimes hoaxes

The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing Will Be Remembered as a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment

Christine Blasey Ford’s family has been nearly silent amid outpouring of support

Of course he has: Kavanaugh Has Become a Hero to the Incel Community

School athletic director on leave after telling students 'girls ruin everything'

Aw: Paul McCartney announces picture book, Hey Grandude

In World War II, Bombs Sent Shockwaves All the Way Up Into the Atmosphere

Morning Coffee (9/27/18)

Brett Kavanaugh Is the ‘Pro-Life’ Poster Boy

Black Female Lawmaker in Vermont Resigns After Racial Harassment

Pence is first VP to speak at anti-gay group's Values Voter Summit

This surprised me because usually Republicans at least pretend to care about FETUSES. (Not actual children, obviously.) E.P.A. Places the Head of Its Office of Children’s Health on Leave

Fortune's Most Powerful Women Are Still Mostly White

Constance Sutton, Feminist Anthropologist, Is Dead at 92

Obscenity trial judge’s copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover to be sold

I am working on this: Every Adult Should Have a Bedtime

Sigh: HSBC tells Welsh singer to send letter in English

Whoa: Jewelry in the shape of gerrymandered US congressional districts

Morning Coffee (9/22/18)

(I'm traveling so this was mostly written in advance.)

Rod Rosenstein Suggested Secretly Recording Trump and Discussed 25th Amendment

Senate Judiciary chairman says he’ll give Kavanaugh accuser more time to decide whether to testify before committee

U.S. approach to Yemen is challenged as country splinters and government vanishes

Midterms 2018: the battle for state legislatures

This is awful: Pennsylvania to end prison book donations, forcing inmates onto pricey eBook platform

Two Murders in Iowa

Luigi Cavalli-Sforza, 96, Who Tracked Genes Through History, Dies

‘Downton Abbey’ Movie Sets Fall 2019 Opening

Likely birthplace of Henry VII found in Pembroke Castle

Oregon Launches First Statewide Refillable Bottle System In U.S.