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7 Rules for Making Amazing Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Chowhound - Miki Kawasaki
Does the world need a guide to making grilled cheese sandwiches? Probably not. They are one of the most basic things you can make, after all. Even a …
Tucker Carlson
Behold the Tucker Carlson Interview Where He Got Owned So Bad He Refused to Air It
Esquire - By Jack Holmes
By a Dutch historian, no less. There is nothing hugely constructive about watching Tucker Carlson get owned by a Dutch historian to the point that the Bowtie-American starts screaming insults at the academic
Science
Meet the newest known moon of Neptune
National Geographic
Science & InnovationStarstruck The wee world, named after a mythical sea creature, has a surprisingly brutal past. 3 Minute Read For billions of years, a small moon orbiting the ice giant Neptune hid the
News
Arrest Of Heavily Armed Former U.S. Military Members In Haiti Sparks Many Questions
NPR - Bill Chappell
We know their names, and where they were. But no one has given a public explanation for what several former elite U.S. service members were doing in Haiti — and why they were driving without license plates,
The Brain
Why scientists say experiencing awe can help you live your best life
NBC News - By Sarah DiGiulio
Psychologists say the emotion of awe plays a big role in our health, happiness and wellbeing. And you don't need to witness a supermoon to experience it. Maybe you’ve felt it standing on the rim of the
Lifestyle
Don’t blame MeToo for ruining the most iconic kiss in history. The photo was never romantic.
The Washington Post - By Monica Hesse
If you have been alive and in possession of eyeballs at any point in the past 75 years, chances are, you have seen the photograph of George Mendonsa kissing Greta Zimmer Friedman on V-J Day in 1945. He:
Science
The Surprising Reason Zebras Have Stripes
The Atlantic - Ed Yong
By putting black-and-white coats on horses, a new study shows that the pattern discourages biting flies from landing. For Tim Caro, it was surprisingly easy to dress horses like zebras. Several vendors
Ku Klux Klan
Alabama Newspaper Calling for a Resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan Sparks Backlash
TIME - Associated Press
(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — A small-town newspaper has called for a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, prompting two universities to withdraw the awards it had given its editor. Auburn University and the University
Home Building
Stunning Tile Stars in This Renovated 19th-Century Pad in Barcelona
dwell - Lucy Wang
A turn-of-the-century apartment receives a stylish revamp that highlights gorgeous floor tiles and exposed brick throughout. After approximately a year’s worth of work by Barcelona–based architecture TWO-BO,
U.S. Politics
Reports say Robert Mueller could conclude his Trump-Russia investigation next week
Vox - Andrew Prokop
Both NBC News and CNN are reporting this. Could special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation at last be reaching its conclusion? According to reports in NBC News and CNN, the answer is yes. Both outlets
Liberal View
Somebody's been forging Nobel Peace Prize nominations for Donald Trump. No, really
dailykos.com - Hunter
Over the weekend we learned that somebody in the American government, and we're looking at you, Jared, asked Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to …
Opinion
Graham sums up how stupid the GOP has become
The Washington Post - By Jennifer Rubin
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in a number of ways epitomizes the Republican Party’s descent into intellectual rot and immoral opportunism. Graham as a candidate called out President Trump as a bigot and
Opinion
There’s yet another Trump administration scandal brewing. And it’s a doozy.
The Washington Post - By Paul Waldman
That the Trump administration is deeply, profoundly corrupt is not in question. But there are layers to that corruption that we have barely begun to explore. We are now learning of an absolutely shocking
Class Action
Courts hammer Trump for sabotaging Obamacare, in rulings that could cost the Treasury billions
Los Angeles Times - By Michael Hiltzik
Legal experts thought that one of President Trump’s cruder attacks on the Affordable Care Act would come back to bite him once the courts took a crack at it. Court rulings have flooded in over the last
U.S. Politics
Tucker Carlson had a total meltdown when a guest criticized Fox News
Vox - Dylan Matthews
Carlson to historian Rutger Bregman: “Go fuck yourself.” Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host, has lately been trying to rebrand himself as a different kind of conservative — one who’s open to government
Politics
Will President Trump's Border Wall Keep Drugs Out Of The U.S.?
NPR
Steve Inskeep talks to ex-Deputy Drug Enforcement Administrator Jack Riley about Trump's national emergency declaration, which could take money from drug interdiction efforts to fund a border wall. Transcript
U.S. Politics
Ethically challenged: Three scandals rock Trump administration in one day
NBC News - By Chuck Todd
First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. WASHINGTON — It’s hard to keep up with all of the alleged
U.S. Politics
Have Trump’s policies ‘lifted’ nearly 5 million Americans off food stamps?
The Washington Post - By Meg Kelly
“Nearly 5 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps.” — President Trump, during the State of the Union address , Feb. 5, 2019 “We’ve lifted 4.3 million Americans off of food stamps.” — President
Science
The Vanishing Flights of the Monarch Butterfly
The New Yorker - Sue Halpern
Walking around my family’s property in upstate New York last summer, I noticed something I hadn’t seen in years: scores of monarch butterflies flying around the milkweed that rings the perimeter of the
U.S. Politics
White House pushed Saudi nuclear power plan, report says
Associated Press - By CHAD DAY, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior White House officials pushed a project to share nuclear power technology with Saudi Arabia despite the objections of ethics and national security officials, according to a new
Politics
Trump's loyalty obsession could lead to obstruction case
CNN - Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump's craving for loyalty from his top law enforcement officials and alleged efforts to topple those whom he perceives as threats could be leading him into deep trouble
Career Development
The subtle art of calling in sick
CNN
(CNN) — You've spent the night in the bathroom after eating some questionable takeout food, and you're still feeling queasy. What are you going to tell your boss? While some people are hesitant to share
Opinion
Arrest a student after he doesn't say the pledge? Arrest the teacher instead
CNN - By Roxanne Jones
(CNN) — Why wasn't the teacher arrested? That's the biggest question I had after reading the sad story of the 11-year-old boy in Lakeland, Florida, who was arrested and sent to a juvenile detention center
Architecture
6 Schools That Defined Their Own Architectural Styles
archdaily.com - by Megan Schires
Architectural education has always been fundamentally influenced by whichever styles are popular at a given time, but that relationship flows in the …
Opinion
The Madness of King Donald
The New York Times - By JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN
I was going to watch the State of the Union speech the other week, honest I was, but I have this new policy of only screaming into my pillow once a day, so it didn’t pan out. Instead, I figured I’d watch
Cabin Crew
The case against tipping cabin crew
The Economist
FRONTIER AIRLINES, an American low-cost carrier, introduced individual tips for flight attendants earlier this month. Tipping people for exemplary …
Long-form Journalism
Did Capital Punishment Create Morality?
The New Yorker - George Scialabba
A new book argues that violence—specifically, the killing of alpha males—laid the foundation for virtue. On June 30, 1860, there was a debate in Oxford between Thomas Huxley, Charles Darwin’s chief explainer,
Politics
Trump Threatens To Cancel California's $929 Million High-Speed Rail Grant
NPR - Richard Gonzales
The Trump administration says it intends to cancel a $929 million federal grant for California's high-speed rail project. The administration also wants to reclaim another $2.5 billion in federal funds
U.S. Politics
McCabe: When I opened a case against Trump, I briefed top Republicans. They didn’t object.
Vox - Aaron Rupar
“No one objected. Not on legal grounds, not on constitutional grounds, and not based on the facts.” During an interview on Tuesday’s edition of Today, former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe said that
Politics
Trump denies report that he tried to put his own appointee in charge of hush money investigation
NBC News
The New York Times reports that last year President Trump called Matthew Whitaker -- his newly-named Acting Attorney General -- to ask whether U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman “could be put in charge of widening

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7 Rules for Making Amazing Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Behold the Tucker Carlson Interview Where He Got Owned So Bad He Refused to Air It

Meet the newest known moon of Neptune

Arrest Of Heavily Armed Former U.S. Military Members In Haiti Sparks Many Questions

Why scientists say experiencing awe can help you live your best life

Don’t blame MeToo for ruining the most iconic kiss in history. The photo was never romantic.

The Surprising Reason Zebras Have Stripes

Alabama Newspaper Calling for a Resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan Sparks Backlash

Stunning Tile Stars in This Renovated 19th-Century Pad in Barcelona

Reports say Robert Mueller could conclude his Trump-Russia investigation next week

Somebody's been forging Nobel Peace Prize nominations for Donald Trump. No, really

Graham sums up how stupid the GOP has become

There’s yet another Trump administration scandal brewing. And it’s a doozy.

Courts hammer Trump for sabotaging Obamacare, in rulings that could cost the Treasury billions

Tucker Carlson had a total meltdown when a guest criticized Fox News

Will President Trump's Border Wall Keep Drugs Out Of The U.S.?

Ethically challenged: Three scandals rock Trump administration in one day

Have Trump’s policies ‘lifted’ nearly 5 million Americans off food stamps?

The Vanishing Flights of the Monarch Butterfly

White House pushed Saudi nuclear power plan, report says

Trump's loyalty obsession could lead to obstruction case

The subtle art of calling in sick

Arrest a student after he doesn't say the pledge? Arrest the teacher instead

6 Schools That Defined Their Own Architectural Styles

The Madness of King Donald

The case against tipping cabin crew

Did Capital Punishment Create Morality?

Trump Threatens To Cancel California's $929 Million High-Speed Rail Grant

McCabe: When I opened a case against Trump, I briefed top Republicans. They didn’t object.

Trump denies report that he tried to put his own appointee in charge of hush money investigation