Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

How the Supreme Court is using Trump to grab more power for itself

If you’ve followed the Supreme Court’s recent presidential power cases, you know there’s no mystery surrounding the Court’s eventual decision in Trump v. Slaughter, a case asking if President Donald Trump may fire several high-ranking federal officials who are protected from being terminated by federal law.  All six members of the Court’s Republican majority are […]

Manafaingana ny famonjenan’ireo tanalahy mampalaza an’i Madagasikara ireo manam-pahaizana satria efa mitatao ny afo.

AFOVOANTANY, Madagasikara— Akaiky ny lelafo. Nanazava ny lanitra amin’ny alina ilay doro-tanety noho ny setroka miloko volomboasary, ka nifindra tahaka ny lava mikoriana manaraka ireo havoana, tokony ho kilaometatra vitsivitsy monja miala teto. Nijery an’ilay afo avy teny amoron’nyala matevina aho, taty amin’ny faritra afovoantanin’i Madagasikara, ora vitsivitsy avaratra-andrefana miala an’Antananarivo, renivohitrin’i Madagasikara. Toerana manokana […]

Miharingana ny gidro maneran-tany. Ity no hany fomba hamonjena azy ireo.

MAHALEOTSE, Madagasikara — Indray maraina tsy nisy rahona, tamin’ny volana Septambra, dia nitaratra niditra avy eny amin’ny ravin’aviavy lehibe iray ny tara-masoandro, teo akaikin’ny moron’ny reniranon’i Onilahy, izay manomboka any atsimo-andrefan’i Madagasikara ka mikoriana mankany amin’ny Lakandranon’ny Mozambika. Nitsiry teo an-tampon’ilay hantsana kely ilay hazo, ary ny fakany naniry nanaraka ny sisin’ny hantsana toy ny […]

Your personality is more complicated than you think

Introvert. Extrovert. Type A. Type 3. A Samantha. These days, it seems, there is an ever-expanding list of terms and frameworks for describing our personalities. But what we see in ourselves, and what other people see in us, are often not the same. So when LaDel, a listener to Explain It to Me — Vox’s […]

America’s war on data centers is coming

For more than a century, the Conshohocken steel mill in suburban Philadelphia employed thousands of people and anchored a booming industrial economy. But the original owner went bankrupt in the 1970s, after which the facility limped on with a succession of new owners. Last summer it was idled indefinitely, and put up for sale.  It’s […]