Morning Coffee (7/30/19)

Julián Castro Introduces Major Platform For Indigenous Peoples

The battle over extending the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, explained

Trump administration to reject generous Medicaid expansion funding for Utah

'Unprecedented': more than 100 Arctic wildfires burn in worst ever season

SIGH: Neil deGrasse Tyson was accused of sexual misconduct by 4 women. He’s keeping all his jobs.

‘It snuck up on us’: Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth

I haven't read him yet, somehow, but I know it's a huge loss to the genre: Andrea Camilleri, Author of Inspector Montalbano Novels, Dies at 93

Lion Bones Are Profitable for Breeders, and Poachers

UGH: The Dalai Lama Still Thinks a Woman Successor Would Need to Be Hot

Mystery of Chedworth's 1,800-year-old Roman glass shard solved

Afternoon Tea (7/9/19)

Exclusive Investigation: Sex, Drugs, Misogyny And Sleaze At The HQ Of Bumble’s Owner

Why the USWNT’s open queerness matters

Romance Novelists Write About Sex and Pleasure. On the Internet That Makes Them Targets for Abuse

DNA Begins to Unlock Secrets of the Ancient Philistines

A few days late but very interesting: An Ives Fourth

Afternoon Tea (7/2/19)

Why Are the Democrats’ Bad Men Refusing to Step Down?

No Drips, No Drops: A City Of 10 Million Is Running Out Of Water

“Everyone uses Ravelry”: why a popular knitting website’s anti-Trump stance is so significant

Interesting commentary on the industry here: Netflix canceled One Day at a Time. Then a traditional TV network resurrected it.

Australian Gothic Literature

Afternoon Tea (6/25/19)

This is great: Naked, Afraid and Transgender: ‘The Wilderness Couldn’t Care Less’

The Wild Ride at Babe.Net

Can ‘Big Data’ Help Fight Big Fires? Firefighters Are Betting on It

I FEEL ATTACKED but no, this is important: You Are Doing Something Important When You Aren’t Doing Anything

6 YA Books About Thorny Female Friendships

Afternoon Tea (5/21/19)

Wow, this BuzzFeed investigation of Tony Robbins: Unlimited Power

This is so interesting, and obviously whether it's helpful or terrible depends greatly on how it's done: ‘Hi! My name’s Eva’: A teenage Holocaust victim’s diary comes to life on Instagram

My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me.

Liquid Death and the Nonsense of Packaged Water

Why You Should Start Binge-Reading Right Now

Morning Coffee (5/9/19)

Donald Trump Jr. Is Subpoenaed to Testify to Senate Panel on Russia Contacts

The House Judiciary vote on contempt of Congress and what it means for William Barr, explained

Georgia Just Criminalized Abortion. Women Who Terminate Their Pregnancies Would Receive Life in Prison.

Vatican establishes new rule for sexual abuse complaints and coverups involving bishops

Awful: Jewish Family Loses Legal Battle To Recover Painting Stolen By Nazis

Is Biden Really the Most ‘Electable’ Democrat?

The Man Who Made Your iPhone Wants to Run Taiwan. A Sea Goddess Backs Him, He Says.

Jacinda Ardern Got Engaged. New Zealand Almost Didn’t Notice.

He ruins everything! How Donald Trump ruined a space art project

Battle for .amazon Domain Pits Retailer Against South American Nations

Afternoon Tea (4/30/19)

An important read in the wake of the latest synagogue shooting: Once We Were Free

In Kosovo, a Teenage Girl’s Rape Case Stirs a #MeToo Fury

K-pop is being rocked by a sex scandal. It’s part of a bigger societal problem.

We've Always Been Into Psychological Thrillers

New Scholarship Is Revealing the Private Lives of China’s Empresses

Afternoon Tea (4/24/19)

This is a great, important piece: The Company That Sells Love to America Had a Dark Secret

In India, a Renewed Fight Against Leprosy

Hate in the Air

After Columbine, martyrdom became a powerful fantasy for Christian teenagers

Amazon made a skin care line based on what users search for

Afternoon Tea (4/16/19)

From parks to Premier League: the shocking scale of racism in English football

What Was the Washington Post Afraid Of?

This is an interesting read on climate change and real estate: Heaven or High Water

A great interview with a courtroom artist: Murder, She Drew

And a delightful one with Jasmine Guillory! Meghan Markle's Mom Inspired Jasmine Guillory's New Romance Novel, Royal Holiday

Afternoon Tea (3/11/19)

This is an fascinating read about new books defending ethnonationalism: The New Reactionaries

'Do you ever think about me?': the children sex tourists leave behind

Ryan Adams and the Perils of the Rock-Genius Myth

Awwww: 'Everything Just Came Flooding Back': Sparks Of Teen Romance Rekindled 28 Years Later

I want a TV show about a fashion detective: 'Underwear dates well': how fashion forensics are helping solve crimes

Morning Coffee (2/28/19)

YAY: House passes most sweeping gun control legislation in decades

Vox has a bunch of good pieces about different aspect of the Michael Cohen hearing here.

North Carolina Operative Indicted in Connection With Absentee Voter Fraud

Why it Matters if Trump Knew About Stone's Contacts with WikiLeaks

Chicago Runoff Ensures City Will Elect Its First Black Woman As Mayor

U.S. denied tens of thousands more visas in 2018 due to travel ban: data

Germany Is Testing the Limits of Democracy

Good for her: Emma Thompson’s letter to Skydance: Why I can’t work for John Lasseter

Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5%

Bill Jenkins, Who Tried to Halt Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Dies at 73

Morning Coffee (2/27/19)

Congress just got one step closer to blocking Trump’s national emergency

Thousands of migrant youth allegedly suffered sexual abuse in U.S. custody

Mark Harris, Tainted by Fraud Allegations, Will Not Run in New North Carolina Election

U.S. Cyber Command operation disrupted Internet access of Russian troll factory on day of 2018 midterms

Venezuela’s Food Crisis Reaches a Breaking Point

Exposing Amy Klobuchar’s Mistreatment Of Staff Is Not Sexist

SIGH: Harvey Weinstein Tells Female Lawyers Repping Him at Discount Will Be Good for Their Careers: Report

The Lesson of the Jussie Smollett Case

The Washington Post announces the launch of the Jamal Khashoggi Fellowship

The Magnitude of Black Panther’s Technical-Oscar Wins

Afternoon Tea (2/20/19)

This Is Her: The Lost Past and Hopeful Future of Mandy Moore

Meet the Mormon Transhumanists Seeking Salvation in the Singularity

He sounds exhausting: Tolstoy Ghosted His Wife Then Up and Died

A Whale's Afterlife

In the Fair City of Verona, Star-Cross’d Lovers Want to Believe in ‘La Casa di Giulietta’

Afternoon Tea (2/18/19)

Finding My Father’s Auschwitz File

The North Magnetic Pole’s Mysterious Journey Across the Arctic

R Kelly, Michael Jackson and Bryan Singer. Who knew? Everyone

Val McDermid | 'My relationship with the landscape has always been very strong'

One of film’s greatest epics is a 7-hour adaptation of War and Peace. Really.

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 (2/11/19)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

Sexual Abuse of Nuns: Longstanding Church Scandal Emerges From Shadows

Texas: civil rights groups sue to stop 'unlawful purge' of thousands of voters

How President Trump Is Like A Terrible Poker Player

Romania moves to block own candidate from EU prosecutor role

Liam Neeson laid bare the logic of lynching, in all its horror

‘It will take off like a wildfire’: The unique dangers of the Washington state measles outbreak

The one piece actually worth reading about this: YA Twitter is a Bottomless Well for Click Bait Articles. Here’s Why…

Milky Way is warped and twisted, not flat

Theodore Rabb, Resourceful Renaissance Historian, Dies at 81

Bots are cheap and effective. One startup trolls them into going away

Morning Coffee (2/10/19)

Uh, wow: France Recalls Ambassador to Italy, Revealing Strains at Europe’s Core

Schultz's toxic investments: For-profit college, tax shelter for the rich

HHS Office of Population Affairs removed Affordable Care Act content from Title X website (about contraception and women's health, obviously)

Smithsonian Staffers Scramble to Make Up Time Lost During Government Shutdown

New Research Explores the Ongoing Impact of Racism on the U.S. Farming Landscape

Adam Targum Fired at NCIS: New Orleans, Where Morale Problems Still Linger

Rosamunde Pilcher, author of The Shell Seekers, dies aged 94

Facebook Moves to Block Ad Transparency Tools — Including Ours

SIGH: Delta pulls napkins encouraging passengers to slip their number to their 'plane crush'

The Rumors Aren’t True: Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt Will Still Flow

Morning Coffee (1/12/19)

(I'm traveling, so this was written in advance. Back Tuesday!)

Michael Cohen, Trump’s Former Lawyer, Agrees to Testify to Congress

Trump’s advisers push for emergency declaration — while assuming it’ll be stopped in court

Government Shutdown Curtails F.D.A. Food Inspections

This is horrifying: Police seeking DNA of male staff at health-care facility where woman in vegetative state gave birth

Egypt’s president tried to stop a 60 Minutes interview from airing. It’s now clear why.

Good for them: Netflix Pulls Production From North Carolina Over Anti-LGBTQ Law

Ugh: Former Pixar Head, Ousted Over Alleged Sexual Misconduct, Finds New Gig

'Buddha boy' under investigation in Nepal over missing devotees

Georges Loinger, Wartime Rescuer of Jewish Children, Dies at 108

Female penguins 'get stranded more because they travel further'

Morning Coffee (1/2/19)

Let's start with W.S. Merwin's "To the New Year."

Wow, what a story: Trump used her slain daughter to rail against illegal immigration. She chose a different path.

Meanwhile: U.S. Agents Fire Tear Gas Across Mexican Border

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu could be indicted. Here’s what you need to know.

Top Pentagon spokeswoman resigns amid internal investigation

The great Dahlia Lithwick on Brett Kavanaugh: What Goes Around Comes to a Halt

How Trump Fuels the Fascist Right

'Blatantly sexist': backlash against South Korea's sex education

Nancy Roman, ‘Mother of the Hubble’ Telescope, Dies at 93

Chilling discovery: ice house found under London street