Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists ( www.theguardian.com )
A data scientist promoted by the rightwing activist Christopher Rufo, the Manhattan Institute thinktank, and other conservatives as an expert critic of the former Harvard president Claudine Gay has co-authored several papers in collaboration with a network of scholars who have been broadly criticized as eugenicists, or...
Sanders warns Biden: address working-class fears or risk losing to demagogue ( www.theguardian.com )
"We’ve got to see the White House move more aggressively on healthcare, on housing, on tax reform, on the high cost of prescription drugs,” Sanders said. “If we can get the president to move in that direction, he will win; if not, he’s going to lose.”...
Mouse secretly filmed tidying man’s shed every night ( www.theguardian.com )
Video included! Of course they picked the worst thumbnail lol
Why do hardly any straight men write about sex and dating? | Imogen West-Knights ( www.theguardian.com )
Men do think about matters of the heart, but writing about it publicly could be seen as undignified, says journalist Imogen West-Knights
‘Stakes are really high’: misinformation researcher changes tack for 2024 election ( www.theguardian.com )
Kate Starbird, co-founder of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, added that she feared that the entirely false story of rigged elections has now “sunk in” for many Americans on the right. “The idea that they’re already going to the polls with the belief that they’re being cheated means...
It’s the democracy, stupid … and other issues set to shape the 2024 US election ( www.theguardian.com )
From the economy to the climate crisis to abortion and US support for Ukraine, the presidential race is likely to encompass some key themes
‘A formulaic game’: former officials say Trump’s attacks threaten rule of law ( www.theguardian.com )
Ex-president has made increasingly conspiratorial and authoritarian broadsides against prosecutors pursuing him
New York sergeant, wife and two sons found dead in murder-suicide, police say ( www.theguardian.com )
One was a tech VC, the other was unhoused. They forged an unlikely friendship in a deeply unequal city. ( www.theguardian.com )
From the outside, a friendship between Todd and Armstrong may have seemed unlikely. They occupy two worlds that are emblematic of San Francisco but rarely collide. Todd, 64, is a slightly built African American man who had been living on the streets, shelters, and in and out of prison for years. Armstrong, 62, is a white partner...
Democratic long-shot candidates to debate in New Hampshire – without Biden ( www.theguardian.com )
Marianne Williamson and Dean Phillips will appear on stage together on 8 January, two weeks before state’s primary
Putin ‘has Trump’s number’ and still sees him ‘as an asset’, says Fiona Hill ( www.theguardian.com )
Hannah Arendt would not qualify for the Hannah Arendt prize in Germany today | Samantha Hill ( www.theguardian.com )
'It’s totally unhinged’: is the book world turning against Goodreads? ( www.theguardian.com )
Hopefully. Join Bookwyrm!
Hard-up this holiday? Amazon flyer tells workers to ask company mascot for help ( www.theguardian.com )
Yeah, definitely don’t put any of those profits toward a living wage though. Make your employees trauma dump for the chance at a few extra bucks! Probably comes as an Amazon gift card, too.
‘I miss my name’: Giuliani verdict lays bare limits of defamation law ( www.theguardian.com )
Alex Jones offers $55m to Sandy Hook families to satisfy $1.5bn judgment ( www.theguardian.com )
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries singles out Republican ‘pro-Putin caucus’ opposing Ukraine aid ( www.theguardian.com )
Latin America remembers Kissinger’s ‘profound moral wretchedness’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Henry Kissinger’s death has brought out some bitter epitaphs from Latin America where the legacy of US intervention helped saddle the region with some of the most brutal military regimes of the 20th century....
Three Palestinian students shot and wounded in Vermont, police say ( www.theguardian.com )
New York City mayor Eric Adams accused of sexual assault in 1993 ( www.theguardian.com )
European far right celebrates as exit poll puts Wilders’ party in front – as it happened ( www.theguardian.com )
Voters cast ballots until 9pm in elections that could set country on different course after Mark Rutte’s four consecutive governments