Los Vecinos

Alison Luterman
Poet Alison Luterman offers us lessons in neighborliness.

Did Trump Just Declare War on the American Left?

Susan B. Glasser The New Yorker
While others were praying for a sane conversation around how to end the rapidly escalating problem of violence, for the President and Stephen MIller it was about the American right under siege—and what Trump was going to do about it

The Other End of the Weight Spectrum: Very Thin People

Ute Eberle Knowable Magazine
Researchers are exploring why some individuals are naturally super-lean and may struggle to gain weight. The causes of such constitutional thinness offer clues to the physiology of weight control.

Appeals Court Judges Publicly Admonish Supreme Court Justices

Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney Politico
“They’re leaving the circuit courts, the district courts out in limbo,” one judge said during appeals court oral arguments that turned into a venting session about the high court’s terse emergency rulings.

Bolsonaro Joins a Rogues’ Gallery of Coup Plotters

John Joseph Chin and Joe Wright The Conversation
When defeated at the polls, both Donald Trump and Bolsonaro tried to overturn the official results. Both attempted to alter vote totals after they had lost and block an election winner from being inaugurated. Bolsonaro faces 27 years in prison.

We Got 18,000 of Jeffrey Epstein’s Emails

Bloomberg’s Jason Leopold and Ava Benny-Morrison with host David Gura on the massive trove of emails — what they tell us about Epstein, his powerful network, and Ghislaine Maxwell

European Security Depends Upon Ukraine

It is a mistake to consider Ukrainian security as an issue separate from the construction of a new European security order, where Europe can defend itself without the United States