Afternoon Tea (7/31/19)

Wow, this is wild: Who Gets to Be the Next Poet Laureate of New Hampshire?

Here’s to Lizzo: Patron Saint of Radical Self-Love and Badass Flute Solos

A question for conservatives: what if the left was right on race?

Hahaha: Thank You for Calling the Writer Envy Helpline

Marvellous monsters

Afternoon Tea (7/24/19)

This is long but really worth your time: How America Got to ‘Zero Tolerance’ on Immigration: The Inside Story

Stop Demanding People of Color to Show ‘Gratitude’

How the moon landing shaped early video games

The first Iranian newspaper: Mirza Salih Shirazi’s Kaghaz-i akhbar

What It Is To Wake Up

Afternoon Tea (7/12/19)

This is RIVETING: New Coke Didn’t Fail. It Was Murdered.

Whoa: An Eight-Second Film of 1915 New Orleans and the Mystery of Louis Armstrong’s Happiness

Mermaids Have Always Been Black

10 Black Princess Books to Celebrate Halle Bailey as Ariel

Jerome and the lion

Morning Coffee (7/8/19)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

DRC rebel chief 'the Terminator' convicted of war crimes

Greece Liked to Underestimate Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Now He’s Prime Minister.

Justice Dept. to Replace Lawyers in Census Citizenship Question Case

ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases

A Crime by Any Name

US women’s soccer team wins its fourth World Cup

USA's formidable women's soccer team is no accident. It's a product of public policy

Elizabeth Warren Unveils Plan for Getting Women of Color Paid More Fairly

Women's Health Providers Say Impasse After Sununu's Budget Veto Will Hurt Patients

João Gilberto, Father of Bossa Nova, Dies at 88

Morning Coffee (7/3/19)

GOOD: Federal Court Blocks Trump Administration Policy of Arbitrarily Jailing Asylum-Seekers

DHS Inspector General Finds 'Dangerous Overcrowding' In Border Patrol Facilities

Border agents confiscated lawmakers’ phones. Joaquin Castro captured photo and video anyway.

Phew: 2020 Census Won’t Have Citizenship Question as Trump Administration Drops Effort

Woww: Navy SEAL Acquitted Of Murder After Witness Claims To Have Killed ISIS Captive

About time: House Files Lawsuit Seeking Disclosure of Trump Tax Returns

Kamala Harris Doesn’t Have to Believe in Joe Biden’s Innocence

Amazing: Suspicious substance mailed to 'Straight Pride' organizers turns out to be … glitter

Good for him: Adam Scott Calls Out Mitch McConnell’s Social Media Team for Using His Image on Twitter

Lee Iacocca, Visionary Automaker Who Led Both Ford and Chrysler, Is Dead at 94

Morning Coffee (6/30/19)

Toothpaste and Soap

German far-right group 'used police data to compile death list'

The cost of Trump’s tariffs has fallen ‘entirely’ on US businesses and households: Goldman

Wowww: Supreme Court Affirms Police Can Order Blood Drawn From Unconscious DUI Suspects

Joe Biden's White Privilege

The Case Against Hope

Blue States Roll Out Aggressive Climate Strategies. Red States Keep to the Sidelines.

Blurred lines: Trump’s UN choice and her coal magnate spouse

This is horrifying: Increasing Support for Religiously Based Service Refusals

!! Scientists successfully transfer 1st test tube rhino embryo

Afternoon Tea (6/13/19)

I just finished reading this book and it was FASCINATING: ‘My Only Real Loyalty is to the Truth’: An Interview with Patrick Radden Keefe

Wow: PHOTOS: The Powerful Faces Of Women Who Faced Danger

Modernism’s Debt to Black Women

This has some really interesting history of terminology and how people see themselves: Not All Queer People Feel Like They Were “Born This Way”

The curse of the spiritual sword

Afternoon Tea (6/5/19)

An Urgent Mystery: Who's Attacking Ebola Responders In Congo — And Why?

This is more well-reported and important (beyond this one case) than the headline sort of implies: Trump Pardoned Billionaire Conrad Black but Left His Prison Buddy Behind

The Atlantic has a great special section for the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage: Votes for Women

When It Comes to Birth Control and Eugenics, Clarence Thomas Gets It All Wrong

Some great recommendations for kids here! 7 New and Upcoming Reads Perfect for Pride Month

Afternoon Tea (5/28/19)

What Reparations for Slavery Might Look Like in 2019

In Yemen’s war, a photographer finds points of light in the darkness

How Claudia Kishi Inspired A Generation Of Asian American Writers

I Can’t Hate My Body if I Love Hers

Inside The Lost Jehovah's Witnesses Tunnels Under Brooklyn Heights

Morning Coffee (5/14/19)

French special forces rescue hostages in a deadly Burkina Faso raid

Supreme Court Allows Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple to Proceed

New York Regulator Launches Investigation Into TurboTax Maker Intuit and H&R Block

How a James Comey Tweet Fueled a Conspiracy Theory That Upended a California Town

US is hotbed of climate change denial, major global survey finds

65 years after Brown v. Board of Education, school segregation is getting worse

Good for them: Brother and Sister of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Accuse Him of Spreading Misinformation on Vaccines

Actress And Singer Doris Day, Hollywood's Girl Next Door, Dies At 97

Missing Piece of Stonehenge Returned From Florida 60 Years After Removal

Dinosaur With Bat Wings Was More Than Legend

Morning Coffee (5/12/19)

Inside Syria’s Secret Torture Prisons: How Bashar al-Assad Crushed Dissent

There is the WILDEST anecdote in here: How golf explains Trump. Seriously.

The White House revoked my press pass. It’s not just me — it’s curtailing access for all journalists.

Pete Buttigieg Confronts Race and Identity in Speech to Gay Group

Huge Racial Disparities Found in Deaths Linked to Pregnancy

Ireland’s Church Homes Gave Children’s Bodies to Medical Schools for Dissection

Dutch family in cash plea to save ancestor’s tulip mania paintings

PERFECT: Kristin Scott Thomas Joins Ben Wheatley's 'Rebecca' Adaptation for Netflix

Producer Greg Berlanti Sets New Series Record With Another Strong Upfront

Morning Coffee (5/6/19)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

Trump wants Venezuela’s military to remove its president. But Maduro has made that difficult.

Poland’s Populists Pick a New Top Enemy: Gay People

Democrats Green Light Trump’s Authoritarian Ambitions

This story has been WILD: Baltimore’s Mayor Resigns Over a Series of Self-Published Children’s Books

Important historical context for Trump's ridiculous lies about abortion: “They Will Execute the Baby”

"The message Biden is sending is that he cares about women as a political bloc but not as individuals whose perspectives merit concerted empathy."

F.D.A. Approves the First Vaccine for Dengue Fever, but Limits Its Use

Science Academy Pushes to Eject Sexual Harassers

‘Coronation Street,’ Long-Running British Soap, Introduces Its First Black Family

The Hottest App in China Teaches Citizens About Their Leader — and, Yes, There’s a Test

Morning Coffee (4/27/19)

Maria Butina sentenced to 18 months for trying to infiltrate US right and NRA

Of . . . course: Trump Pulls Out of Arms Treaty During Speech at N.R.A. Convention

Joe Biden Expresses Regret to Anita Hill, but She Says ‘I’m Sorry’ Is Not Enough

GOP-led states move the war on voting to a new front: voter registration

Justice Ginsburg schools her conservative colleagues on the meaning of the word ‘consent’

Stephen Moore’s Columns Deriding Women Raise New Questions for Trump Fed Pick

Georgetown students vote overwhelming in favor of $27 fee for slavery reparations

Geraldyn M. Cobb, 88, Who Found a Glass Ceiling in Space, Dies

What an interesting perspective to have available: Diary of explorer David Livingstone's African attendant published

Academy votes not to change Oscar eligibility rules for streaming services in major win for Netflix

Afternoon Tea (4/26/19)

Janelle Monáe: Living Out Loud (and to make it even better, Lizzo is the interviewer!)

This was just lovely and made me cry: Blair Braverman on the Iditarod, Fear, and Resilience

Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls, Once a Secret Society, Now Prance in Public

A brief history of the ball pit

The Magic of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct

Afternoon Tea (4/15/19)

White Supremacists Have Weaponized an Imaginary Viking Past. It's Time to Reclaim the Real History

This was one of those profiles that made me really want to read the subject's work: A Beloved Canadian Novelist Reckons with Her Mennonite Past

Hefty Raises, Olympic Gold, and Then Crumbs for U.S. Women’s Hockey

The Authoritarian Heroes of Game of Thrones

Is your pregnancy app sharing your intimate data with your boss?

Afternoon Tea (4/11/19)

Old, Online, And Fed On Lies: How An Aging Population Will Reshape The Internet

Sandy Fawkes: The Reporter and the Serial Killer

Stories of transracial adoptees must be heard – even uncomfortable ones

When a Mystery Illness Threatens Your Identity

Move back to your dying hometown. Unless you can’t.

Afternoon Tea (4/9/19)

This made me say "oh my God" out loud: Scientists weighed all the mass in the Milky Way galaxy. It’s mind-boggling.

Awww, this story: This 61-Year-Old Woman Just Gave Birth To Her Own Granddaughter

Inside the Fight for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

9 Writers Who Perfectly Capture What It’s Like for Jews of Color

'Charge Your Phone' Is the Ultimate Reply-Guy Reply

Afternoon Tea (4/8/19)

Uncovering Nazi massacre of Jews on Belarus building site

This is a really interesting piece on Toni Morrison: On Black Difficulty

The Worst Disease Ever Recorded

How The Matrix universalized a trans experience — and helped me accept my own

What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend

Afternoon Tea (4/4/19)

The Man Trying to Make Sense of Brexit Is Tired and Would Like to Stop Now

At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why.

What More Could I Have Done For My Student, 'Vulnerable To The Slightest Of Breezes'?

I love a good bad book review and this is a GREAT one: Psycho Analysis

I didn't realize this was a New England thing! The Anatomy of a Three-Decker

Afternoon Tea (3/28/19)

By any measure, Nathan Chen’s performance at Worlds matches standard for transcendent greatness

Apple’s new streaming service is still mostly defined by what we don’t know

Human Genomics Research Has A Diversity Problem

Skara Brae women archaeologists who were written out of history

12 Jewish YA Books You’ll Want to Read in 2019