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Putin’s Weakness Unmasked
Jun 25, 2023 | The New Yorker
How Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion exposed the Russian President.
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Great Newspapers and the Problem of Underspending Billionaires
Jun 22, 2023 | open.substack.com
The Combat Codes: New book mixes sci-fi, BJJ and MMA
Jun 20, 2023 | Bloody Elbow
Black belt author Alexander Darwin gives fight and fantasy fans a great summer read with, “The Combat Codes”
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Prejudice and misconduct remain in Massachusetts high school sports — but the MIAA won’t say where - The Boston Globe
Jun 20, 2023 | BostonGlobe.com
A disturbing pattern of discriminatory acts persists across the state, according to a new tracking system. But the MIAA isn't interested in sharing details.
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How our weak public records law is enabling a cover-up of school sports harassment
Jun 20, 2023 | Media Nation
Sports builds character, we are told over and over again. And yet Massachusetts has been hit with multiple cases of racist, homophobic harassment aimed at high school athletes. 🗽The New England Muz…
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Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead at 92
Jun 16, 2023 | www.nytimes.com
Opinion | This Father’s Day, stop treating dads as dopes, deadbeats or icebergs
Jun 16, 2023 | Washington Post
Paid leave. Postpartum mental health care. Equal access to changing tables. Help providing. Men deserve family policy just as much as women do.
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Urban exodus: Maps show where people across the U.S. are moving
Jun 16, 2023 | www.sfchronicle.com
The Instant Pot Failed Because It Was a Good Product
Jun 16, 2023 | The Atlantic
A one-hit wonder is never enough.
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United States of America v. Donald J. Trump and Waltine Nauta
Jun 12, 2023 | www.lawfareblog.com
Opinion | 758 doctors for 19 million kids. The safety net for kids is gone.
Jun 07, 2023 | Washington Post
Backlogs for early intervention services are months long. 25 states have critical shortages of special education teachers. What's a parent to do?
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It's infuriatingly hard to understand how closed models train on their input
Jun 07, 2023 | simonwillison.net
How Wildfire Smoke Affects Your Health, According to Doctors - Heatmap News
Jun 07, 2023 | heatmap.news
Analysis | America’s doughnut capital. Can we stop at just one?
Jun 06, 2023 | Washington Post
No country loves fried dough more than the United States. But is America split by a hidden doughnut divide? We investigate.
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The Murder Rate Is Suddenly Falling
Jun 05, 2023 | The Atlantic
The first five months of 2023 have produced an encouraging overall trend for the first time in years.
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Supreme Risk: An Interactive Guide to Rights the Supreme Court Could Take Away
Jun 04, 2023 | ProPublica
Most rights are based in statute, but dozens — such as rights to same-sex marriage, search warrants and Miranda warnings — are based on judicial rulings that the Supreme Court can overturn and that current justices have questioned some aspect of.
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Journalists at country’s largest newspaper chain will walk off the job
Jun 02, 2023 | Washington Post
Hundreds of staffers at Gannett newspapers across seven states are protesting their company’s leadership and job cuts.
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Pork-pocalypse now? In wake of Supreme Court ruling and 2016 vote, pork prices could soar in Mass. - The Boston Globe
May 27, 2023 | BostonGlobe.com
A 2016 animal welfare ballot measure that would prohibit most US pork from being sold in Massachusetts could finally take effect as soon as next month. And pork purveyors here say that means prices are about to pop.
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From the editor: Sonoma County trans student-athlete’s story is not ours to tell
May 25, 2023 | Santa Rosa Press Democrat
The national firestorm that ignited last week over a Sonoma County transgender student-athlete is bullying, plain and simple, says Richard A. Green, executive editor of The Press Democrat.
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As wildfire smoke worsens public health, government watchdog calls EPA response 'ad hoc'
May 23, 2023 | MuckRock
Congressional investigators say the use of a regulatory loophole to erase smoke pollution from the official record is on the rise.
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