January 2018 Archives
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Remember the glory days of “quagmire?”
FEMA blindsides Puerto Rico by announcing that, as of today, its food and water shipments to the island will cease, citing the recovery of the commercial supply chain. At current...
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Tuesday Headlines: Don’t open this newsletter.
Republicans vote to release a secret Republican memo about the FBI—though not a secret Democrat memo—no matter that the Justice Department says releasing it is "extraordinarily...
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Saturday Headlines: When your coworker says it’s just allergies.
This year's flu is the worst since 2009—and hospitalizations just jumped, which likely means deaths will increase. Scientists now posit Earth's first eon, the Hadean—thought...
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Friday Headlines: Stuck with a golden toilet.
President Trump ordered special counsel Robert Mueller fired back in June, but he backpedaled after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign. Here are five takeaways from the Mueller-firing...
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Thursday Headlines: Please wait a decade or two for justice.
Trump sends mixed signals to the nearly 700,000 Dreamers, saying he would be open to citizenship after "10 to 12 years," just days after killing a bipartisan plan—in his "shithole" meeting...
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Wednesday Headlines: Uncomfortably numb.
The government shutdown only broke because Senators had to wait their turn to hold Susan Collins's "talking stick." Democrats fail at Republican tactics—like government shutdowns—because...
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Tuesday Headlines: Shutdown, go ahead and give it to me.
The government shutdown ends (for the next three weeks, anyway) and the big question is: Who won? Democrats or Republicans? This question represents everything wrong with our current politics, in...
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Saturday headlines: Dogs and cats living together…
The Republicans have become the first party in American history to control the White House and both houses of Congress and manage to shutter the government. Here’s what...
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Friday Headlines: We’ll always have Mars.
To avoid a government shutdown, the House has passed a stopgap spending bill. Now the Senate must approve the measure by midnight tonight—which looks unlikely. Even as the...
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Thursday Headlines: Kiss the hood.
In the world's coldest town—Oymyakon, Russia—a bonfire must be lit to warm the ground before burying any dead bodies. About 2,000 people live in a Paris...
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Wednesday Headlines: Stupid like a fox.
After a federal judge revived most of the DACA protections on Jan. 9, Sessions announced yesterday that the DoJ would sidestep the US Court of Appeals and take the case directly...
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Tuesday Headlines: A life well lit.
Bannon meets behind closed doors with the House panel on Russia. Trump sends a preemptive tweet, “The Russian Collusion Hoax is dead.” African immigrants who come to the...
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Saturday Headlines: Mars is frozen. Earth is not.
Whether New Yorkers recover from opioids at home or must travel to a clinic correlates with race and income. “It’s the prescription thing that’s really...
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Friday Headlines: Make that 2,001.
Trump denies calling Haiti, El Salvador, and all of Africa “shithole countries”—a comment even the White House didn’t try to claw back. “This...
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Thursday Headlines: “I Started the Media Men List.”
Last fall, a crowdsourced spreadsheet titled “Shitty Media Men” began privately circulating among women in media. A new variation on a whisper network, it named powerful men in...
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Wednesday headlines: We’re going to need more mats.
At least 13 are dead from mudslides in Southern California, the region’s “worst-case scenario” after the recent fires. Canyon dwellers in California defend their way of life...
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Tuesday Headlines: The air that I creep.
The Trump administration says the 200,000-plus Salvadorans living in the US under temporary protection for the past 17 years must leave by September 2019. Some US-born children of Salvadorans ordered to depart...
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Saturday headlines: Mmm… slurpee wave.
The White House wants $33 billion over the next decade to start building Trump’s border wall. To defend himself from this week’s furious fire, Trump calls himself...
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Friday Headlines: Capricorns will be cold today.
The winter "bomb cyclone" currently battering the Northeast is expected to make life miserable—and for many, life-threatening—over the next few days. Photos of the treacherous conditions,...
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Thursday headlines: The omelet bar cometh.
“They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV.” In a new book by Michael Wolff, Steve Bannon says a 2016 meeting between Trump...
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The Rooster
Announcing the 2018 Tournament of Books
A new year, a new Rooster. Introducing the shortlist, judges, commentators, and Zombie poll for the 14th edition of The Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.
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Wednesday headlines: For starters, there’s no button.
North Korea reopens its border telephone line with the South—a dramatic reversal of relations and probably a clever strategic move to thwart the White House. If you thought...