Morning Coffee (8/3/19)

Sigh: Lewandowski confirms he's 'very seriously' considering 2020 US Senate run

Oh THIS is what happened with that whole weird thing: Pence Canceled New Hampshire Trip to Avoid Meeting a Drug Trafficker

Enough with "Novelty Candidates"

There's hope: Only 8 Candidates Have Qualified for the Next Democratic Debate

The Trump Strain in American History

Moves to improve press freedom in Malaysia met with cautious optimism

New Documents Raise Ethical and Billing Concerns About the NRA’s Outside Counsel

Could a PrEP implant change the fight against HIV infection forever?

Triceratops Skull, 65 Million Years Old, Unearthed by College Student, 23

Study Asks If War Makes A Person More ... Or Less ... Religious

Morning Coffee (11/11/18)

(I'm away for a few days, so this was written in advance. By the time you're reading this I assume 5000 more pieces of alarming news will have broken.)

Who Should Recount Elections: People … Or Machines?

Very excited about this: The Next N.H. Legislature Will Be Younger, More Diverse

Native Americans overcome North Dakota’s restrictive voter ID laws, turn out in record numbers

Devah Pager, Who Documented Race Bias in Job Market, Dies at 46

This is sad but I'm glad they were focused on keeping everyone safe: Xherdan Shaqiri: Liverpool midfielder to miss Red Star Belgrade game in Serbia

How 2018 of him: Prince Emanuele of Savoy calls for the restoration of Italy’s monarchy

Oh no: Technical Difficulties May Jeopardize Food Stamps At Farmers Markets

This is the worst public proposal yet.

The Gauls really did embalm the severed heads of enemies, research shows

Fascinating: Satanists Sue Netflix & Warner Bros For $50M In ‘Sabrina’ Copyright Clash

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 (9/25/18)

Is Rod Rosenstein fired, resigning, or staying? The drama, explained.

Why Senator Mazie Hirono Asked a Crucial Question at the Kavanaugh Hearing

Republicans just don’t take sexual assault seriously

Well, small victory: Dallas cop fired after killing neighbor in his own home

Just ordered her book: Author Ibi Zoboi Calls Out Racism and Classism in The Wall Street Journal Book Review

With Vatican Talks and Bulldozers, China Aims to Control Christianity

This makes sense: SiriusXM buys Pandora for $3.5 billion

Charles Kao, Nobel Laureate Who Revolutionized Fiber Optics, Dies at 84

Astronomers Spot a Black Hole Sucking Up an Earth-Size Clump of Matter

How Puberty Kills Girls’ Confidence

Morning Coffee (9/13/18)

New Hampshire voters pick House candidates poised to make history no matter who wins

Detention of Migrant Children Has Skyrocketed to Highest Levels Ever

And: Trump admin wants ability to hold migrant kids indefinitely, upending decades-old ban

She sounds great: Planned Parenthood Names Leana Wen, a Doctor, its New President

'Designing Women' Creator Goes Public With Les Moonves War: Not All Harassment Is Sexual

The National Book Award longlists are coming out this week! Here's Young People's Literature and Translated Literature.

I love Debra Messing: Debra Messing Reignites Her Political Feud With Susan Sarandon: ‘STFU SUSAN’

It’s Not Just You: 2017 Was Rough for Humanity, Study Finds

Well! Novelist who wrote about ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ charged with murdering her husband

JUST HIRE TYLER HOECHLIN, YOU COWARDS. Henry Cavill Out as Superman Amid Warner Bros.' DC Universe Shake-Up

Morning Coffee (8/28/18)

Student Loan Watchdog Quits, Saying Trump Administration Is Harming Students

An important read from Lily Herman: After Jacksonville Shooting, Vote In Tuesday's Primary Like Your Life Depends On It

Washington Is Turning Into Moscow

Iran’s Parliament Removes Finance Minister From Office

This is great: Scotland to offer free sanitary products to all students in world first

What We Know About Voter ID Laws

Mike Pence’s Outer-Space Gospel

A Retirement Community Turned Away These Married Women

Ancient Burial Pits Reveal Sophisticated Rituals

Attempt to replicate major social scientific findings of past decade fails

Afternoon Tea (7/20/18)

How Climate Change in Bangladesh Impacts Women and Girls

Anne Helen Petersen's celebrity analyses are always fascinating: The New Gwen Stefani Is A Lot Like The Old One

Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends?

Heh: The 10 Horniest Men in Literature

Funding Victory: French posters from the end of the First World War

Afternoon Tea (3/28/18)

Picture a Leader. Is She a Woman?

The Very Unnerving Existence of Teen Boss, a Magazine for Girls

Jonathan Kellerman and the Dark Psychology of Crime

Soil and Satellites Are Telling a New Story About Ancient Civilizations in the Amazon

A Catholic bishop and his rural Chinese parish worry about a deal between Beijing and the Vatican

Morning Coffee (3/26/18)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

John Bolton Is a Gut-Check Moment for America in the Trump Era

How Trump helped inspire a wave of strict new abortion laws

Public lands are being sold in secret on the internet

Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys

Civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond is first Canadian woman on currency

An Arizona girl vanished in 1999. Could her name scrawled on a dollar bill be a new clue?

Wreck of the Juneau Is Found, 76 Years After 5 Brothers Perished

Ooh: 2,000-Year-Old Mosaics Unearthed Under Florida Art Museum

Michael B. Jordan Set To Produce (And Probably Star) In WWII Action Film, ‘The Liberators’

Frank Miller to spin King Arthur legend into YA book Cursed

Afternoon Tea (6/12/17)

The Rise of the Global Novelist

This is fascinating: 'It was quasi-religious': the great self-esteem con

Whoa: Tracking Bumblebees Based on Their Buzzes

From Penelope to Pussyhats, The Ancient Origins of Feminist Craftivism

As usual, Todd VanDerWerff writes pieces I love even about things I don't care about: The Mummy says more about its stars and its franchise than anything mummy-related