KC Ramaniflipped into WORLD AFFAIRSSocial Work Evicted by Matthew Desmond review – what if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people?The Guardian - Katha Pollitt‘There is an enormous amount of pain and poverty in this rich land,’ argues American sociologist Desmond in this brilliant book about housing and the lives of eight families in Milwaukee What if the dominant
KC Ramaniflipped into Media WatchWriting Anonymous author of Trump ‘resistance’ op-ed to publish a tell-all bookThe Washington Post - By Philip RuckerThe author of an anonymous column in the New York Times in 2018, who was identified as a senior Trump administration official acting as part of the “resistance” inside the government, has written a tell-all
KC Ramaniflipped into WORLD AFFAIRSTechnology Sorry—organic farming is actually worse for climate changeMIT Technology Review - James Temple The practice cuts greenhouse-gas emissions only if you ignore the inconvenient fact that it requires a lot more land. Organic practices can reduce …
KC Ramaniflipped into WORLD AFFAIRSOpinion I work on Operation Yellowhammer. We all know what we’re doing is for showThe Guardian - The civil servantThe many thousands of civil servants who, like me, work on no-deal Brexit preparations know that Twitter is increasingly a more reliable guide to what’s about to go down than anything our bamboozled civil
KC Ramaniflipped into Trump WatchJames Mattis Trump's former generals, from James Mattis to Joseph Votel, sound an unprecedented warningNBC News - Col. Jack JacobsFrom the beginning of his tenure, the president has given critics plenty of reasons to be excoriated. But we have heard little dissent from warriors — until now. On Oct. 17, I attended the Al Smith Dinner,
KC Ramaniflipped into Media WatchU.S. Politics Shocker: Runs Op-Ed Arguing Trump Serves Putin Firstcrooksandliars.com - Karoli Kuns Even Fox News can't turn away from what Donald Trump is doing and who he is serving. In a blistering op-ed for FoxNews.com, Democratic strategist …
KC Ramaniflipped into Trump WatchHillary Clinton The embarrassing epilogue to the media’s obsession with Hillary Clinton’s emailsVoxWe can all finally stop worrying about Hillary Clinton’s emails. Last week, Congress received a brief, nine-page report from the State Department, which summarizes the department’s investigation into Clinton’s
KC Ramaniflipped into Media WatchU.S. Army White Supremacists Operate Like ISIS—and U.S. Law Lets ThemThe Daily Beast - Rita Katz The recent arrests of Jarrett William Smith, a former U.S. Army soldier who discussed plans to “bomb a major U.S. news network,” and Conor Climo, a …
KC Ramaniflipped into Media WatchPolitics Nicolle Wallace Can't Stop Laughing At Mike Pompeo's TV DisasterHuffPost - Ed MazzaThe former Bush administration official wonders what the secretary of state is hiding. MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace mocked White House acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
KC Ramaniflipped into Trump WatchDonald Trump Trump’s quest for vengeance against John BrennanPOLITICOPresident Donald Trump’s obsession with former CIA director John Brennan could be on a collision course with an ongoing Justice Department probe as Attorney General Bill Barr takes a more hands-on approach
KC Ramaniflipped into WORLD AFFAIRSPolitics British pensioners in Europe struggle to make ends meet, committee toldThe Guardian - Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondentRetired Britons in Europe are not sipping prosecco on a warm terrace but are struggling to make ends meet and fear further poverty because of Brexit, a parliamentary committee has been told. Jeremy Morgan
KC Ramaniflipped into Trump WatchDonald Trump With Impeachment Looming, Trump Is Threatening to Sue ‘Everybody Who Pisses Him Off’The Daily Beast - Asawin Suebsaeng Last week, as the White House struggled to grapple with an accelerating impeachment probe and a bloodbath in Syria, President Donald Trump’s mind …
KC Ramaniflipped into Trump WatchU.S. Politics Trump might expose whistleblower, Schumer tells Intel officialsPOLITICOAs President Donald Trump continued his attacks on the Ukraine whistleblower on Monday, Chuck Schumer is asking the intelligence community what is being done to protect the source from harm. The Senate
KC Ramaniflipped into Trump WatchOpinion Column: Republicans got Trump to abandon his plan for hosting the G-7. There’s a lesson thereLos Angeles Times - Jonah GoldbergUpon hearing the news that President Trump bowed to pressure from congressional Republicans and reversed his decision to hold next year’s Group of 7 summit at the Trump National Doral Miami, my immediate
KC Ramaniflipped into Trump WatchTANF Last U.S. Base in Syria ‘Is Everything Wrong With Trump’s War’The Daily Beast - Spencer Ackerman In the southeastern Syrian desert, near the Jordan and Iraq borders, far from the ruins of the Caliphate or the carnage of the Turkish invasion, lies …
KC Ramaniflipped into WORLD AFFAIRS No longer the obedient NATO ally, Erdogan floats nuclear optionCNN - Analysis by Tim Lister, CNN(CNN) — It's no secret that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees his country as the pre-eminent Muslim power in the Middle East. He regards his vision of political Islam as competing with that Saudi
KC Ramaniflipped into Media WatchSean Duffy Sean Duffy Spends First Day at CNN Pushing Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory Debunked by NetworkThe Daily Beast - Maxwell Tani In less than 24 hours as a CNN paid contributor, former congressman Sean Duffy, the network’s newest pro-Trump talking-head, immediately used his new …
KC Ramaniflipped into WORLD AFFAIRSWealth Tax 'Just too much': Meet the uber-rich who want a wealth taxAssociated Press - By JOSH BOAK, AP Economics WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — When the grand vacation homes of Newport Beach were empty on a beautiful Memorial Day weekend, Molly Munger decided it was time for the U.S. to consider taxing wealth. As her family's
KC Ramaniflipped into Trump WatchMick Mulvaney The Unraveling of Mick MulvaneyThe New York TimesThis weekend, Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, sat down with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” to try to bind some of the gaping wounds he’d inflicted on President Trump’s impeachment
KC Ramaniflipped into Trump WatchThe White House Donald Trump's Televised Cabinet Meeting Was Another Nutty EpisodeEsquire - By Charles P. PierceDoes it even matter any more that, on Monday, El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago had another televised nutty in the White House? Does it matter more that, in the course of his televised nutty, the president* virulent
KC Ramaniflipped into Media WatchCulture Seth Meyers Blasts Mick Mulvaney and Mike Pompeo’s Disastrous Sunday-Show SpinThe Daily Beast - Matt Wilstein Seth Meyers had a lot of news to catch up on when he returned from vacation on Monday. And much of it had to do with the Trump administration’s …
KC Ramaniflipped into Trump WatchDonald Trump Do Americans Support Impeaching Trump?FiveThirtyEight - By Aaron Bycoffe, Ella Koeze and Nathaniel Rakich An updating calculation of support for and opposition to impeachment, accounting for each poll's quality, recency and sample size, since Aug. 1, …
KC Ramaniflipped into Media WatchMitt Romney Stephen Colbert and Conan O’Brien Mock Mitt Romney’s ‘Embarrassing’ Secret Twitter Account Pierre DelectoThe Daily Beast - Matt Wilstein Back in 2012, when he was still playing “Stephen Colbert” on The Colbert Report and Donald Trump was still just a reality-show host, Stephen Colbert …
KC Ramaniflipped into Trump WatchOil Why does Trump think we've 'taken control' of Middle Eastern oil?MSNBC - Steve Benen On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump tried again to defend his highly controversial policy in Syria, telling reporters, “We’ve taken control of the oil …
KC Ramaniflipped into Trump WatchOpinion Trump likely saw Pelosi’s overseas trip as a slap in the face. But someone had to do it.The Washington Post - By Eugene RobinsonLast week’s viral photograph of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pointing her finger at President Trump and reading him the riot act reflected a larger reality: If Trump won’t responsibly lead the nation, Pelosi
KC Ramaniflipped into Trump WatchDonald Trump The Impeachment Investigation Might Get Its Most Damning Testimony On TuesdayVICE - Greg WaltersWASHINGTON — Last week’s impeachment testimony was brutal for President Trump — and things are about to get worse. Next up: Bill Taylor, a central player in the Ukraine scandal, who’s already made some
KC Ramaniflipped into WORLD AFFAIRSPolitics The 41 most out-there lines from Donald Trump's Cabinet meetingCNN - Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large(CNN) — On Monday, President Donald Trump held a Cabinet meeting. And, as often happens in these meetings, he spent the first half of the gathering monologuing while taking the occasional question from
KC Ramaniflipped into Trump WatchOpinion Thank gerrymandering for Trump's staunchest defenders in CongressThe Guardian - David DaleyThey’re President Trump’s first line of defense against impeachment: US Representatives Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows, both former chairmen of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, now ubiquitous bulldogs
KC Ramaniflipped into Trump WatchMike Pompeo Nicolle Wallace: Pompeo just had worst appearance by executive branch official I've ever seenMSNBC - MSNBC.com Nicolle Wallace on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's interview on ABC This Week: "I was a Communications Director for a White House that didn't get a …
KC Ramaniflipped into Trump WatchOpinion The White House’s story comes into focus. It’s not a very good one.The Washington Post - By Harry LitmanActing White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and other Trump loyalists took to the airwaves over the weekend to try to clean up the colossal mess that Mulvaney himself created during a news conference
KC Ramani ‘Her ambition got it wrong about Joe’: Harris faces debate backlashPOLITICO - By NATASHA KORECKI and CARLA MARINUCCI
KC RamaniJoe Biden Readers React: The left’s attacks on Joe Biden can destroy the Democrats in 2020Los Angeles Times
KC Ramani Fashion capital New York considers banning sale of furpbs.org - David Klepper, Associated Press
KC RamaniRobert Mueller Mueller May Drop Second Report That Can’t Be BuriedThe Daily Beast - Nelson W. Cunningham
KC Ramani New furniture company marries high-end design with direct-to-consumer convenienceCurbed - Jenny Xie
KC RamaniHome Ownership The GOP's tax bill guts 4 of the biggest tax benefits of homeownership in America - Business InsiderBusiness Insider - Wolf Street
KC Ramani Unpaid Factory Workers Are Hiding Notes Inside ZARA Clothinghighsnobiety.com - Candice Nembhard
KC Ramani We bailed out the bankers. And yet we’re ready to throw care workers to the wolvesThe Guardian - Sonia Sodha
KC Ramani 'Game of Thrones' actress Lena Headey shares her own horrifying Harvey Weinstein experienceMashable - Proma Khosla
KC Ramani Why do so many powerful men behave like Harvey Weinstein? This psychologist has some theories.The Washington Post
KC Ramani Florida Man Awarded $37,500 After Cops Mistake Glazed Doughnut Crumbs For MethNPR - Laurel Wamsley
KC RamaniIcon version of the Flipboard logo Trevor Noah Lists All The Clinton Scandals That The Trumps Are Now Suspected Ofhuffingtonpost.com - Lee Moran
KC Ramani 11 websites that let you book luxury hotel rooms for cheap - Business InsiderBusiness Insider - INSIDER
KC Ramani Graham: Firing Mueller would be 'beginning of the end' of Trump's presidencyPOLITICO - By DARREN SAMUELSOHN
KC RamaniIcon version of the Flipboard logo Jill Stein looped into widening investigation of Russia and Trump Jr. connectionsthehill.com - Alicia Cohn
KC Ramani Bill Clinton is literally hiding between two Bushes in a viral photoCNN - By Nancy Coleman, CNN
KC Ramani Donald Trump Jr.'s Russia emails: An extraordinary break from historical precedentQuartz - Casey Michel
