Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates to join Howard University faculty  —  Hannah-Jones said she would not join faculty of UNC-Chapel Hill after tenure controversy  —  Journalists Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates are joining Howard University's faculty, school officials announced Tuesday …

‘So, So Angry’: Reporters Who Survived the Capitol Riot Are Still Struggling  —  The reporters who survived the insurrection are still covering Congress.  But things don't feel normal.  —  CJ  —  Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox?  Sign up here.

Taliban parade new weapons seized from Afghan military as U.S. withdraws … KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban have showed off containers full of weapons and military hardware seized from the Afghan military as American forces withdraw from the country and the militants march across the country.

Is Critical Race Theory Taught in K-12 Schools?  The NEA Says Yes, and That It Should Be.  —  “It is reasonable and appropriate for curriculum to be informed by academic frameworks...”  —  The public debate over critical race theory (CRT) is in large part a semantics argument …

Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract that Amazon and Microsoft were fighting over  —  The Department of Defense announced Tuesday it's calling off the $10 billion cloud contract that was the subject of a legal battle involving Amazon and Microsoft.

I'm joining the Lincoln Project to make sure Republicans don't win Congress in 2022  —  Donald Trump is fueling an authoritarian movement abetted by far too many Republican senators and House members.  We must unite to preserve democracy.  —  America is exhausted.

We Still Won't Admit Why So Many People Believe the Big Lie  —  CLUELESS … Six months after the insurrection it triggered, it's clear that the stolen-election nonsense is just a drop in a tidal wave of bullshit.  —  How could so many Americans believe in “the Big Lie?”  We see the numbers and we shake our heads.

Ivanka Just Might Flip on Her Dad, Mary Trump Says  —  “She's much less likely to stay loyal than Allen Weisselberg.”  —  The Trump Organization is now feeling the heat, with its CFO under indictment for grand larceny.  Prosecutors are clearing to get that money man, Allen Weisselberg, to flip on his boss.

Republicans weigh ‘cracking’ cities to doom Democrats  —  Kentucky's GOP congressional delegation entered the redistricting cycle with an unusual request for their state legislative counterparts: leave Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth alone.  —  The group, which includes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell …

Meet the Consulting Firm That's Staffing the Biden Administration  —  WestExec represented major corporations throughout the Trump years.  Now it's in the White House.  —  This piece has been co-published with The Intercept  —  From its headquarters just blocks from the White House …

What Does Mitch McConnell Do Now?  —  To visit Mitch McConnell at his office in the Capitol, you must first pass through a faded world that he has meticulously preserved.  A fireplace in the reception room still bears a crack left by a fire British soldiers set during the War of 1812.

Fox's New Channel Changes the Climate for Weather TV  —  As viewers tune out cable news, Rupert Murdoch is preparing the debut of Fox Weather, a potentially powerful new player in a sphere long dominated by the Weather Channel.  —  Weather is taking the media industry by storm.

No, children don't need to see kink at Pride parades  —  If I didn't know better, I'd think a post titled, “Yes, kink belongs at Pride.  And I want my kids to see it,” was such an outrageous invitation to spar in the public square that it was not worthy of a response.

Sen. Lankford responds to ‘unheard of’ lack of neutrality from state GOP chairman  —  In addition to challengers in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate next year, incumbent Sen. James Lankford said he is contending with opposition from a high-ranking member of his own party.

Trump sees Walker as ‘unstoppable’ candidate, but many in GOP are wary  —  Herschel Walker hasn't lived in Georgia for decades.  He's never held public office, doesn't attend the sort of Republican events that are mainstays on the political calendar and has bypassed the backslapping fundraising circuit …

Meet the Republicans who want to stop the next attempt to steal an election  —  As we hit the six-month anniversary of Jan. 6, the GOP's radicalization against democracy continues to hurtle forward.  And very few prominent Republicans will stand athwart that radicalization and yell, “Stop!”

After the Attack: The Future of the U.S. Capitol Police  —  It has been six months since rioters attacked the United States Capitol and our brave police officers and law enforcement partners who fought valiantly to protect elected leaders and the democratic process.

At least 150 people fatally shot in more than 400 shootings over the Fourth of July weekend  —  (CNN)At least 150 people were killed by gun violence in more than 400 shootings across the country during the Fourth of July weekend as major cities nationwide confront a surge in violent crime …

When Bill Clinton's Veep Vetting Process Revealed That Al Gore Had No Friends  —  “Senator, who are your friends... the people you most like, relax with, travel with, drink with.  Your friends.”  —  I was in the third grade when I saw Abraham Lincoln assassinated.

‘It shakes you to your core’: the anti-abortion extremists gaining ground on the right  —  Operation Save America opposes Covid vaccination, women in power and same-sex marriage - and allies are making inroads among legislators  —  undreds of anti-abortion protesters lined blocks along …

An American lawyer went on a lunch date in Moscow.  Now he's languishing in a jail cell in Belarus  —  (CNN)When Youras Ziankovich, a lawyer with American citizenship, returned to his Moscow hotel after a lunch date with a friend in April, he found four men waiting for him in the street.

The Paradox of Trumpist Patriotism  —  Claiming to love America while believing that it is broken and that many of your fellow citizens are your enemies.  —  How is it that we hear the loudest jingoistic yelps from dismal patriots who cannot stand the state of the nation and half the people in it?

How political polarization broke America's vaccine campaign  —  The US's partisan divides have left much of the country vulnerable to Covid-19 — leading to unnecessary deaths.  —  The Covid-19 epidemic in the United States risks becoming a tale of “two Americas,” as Anthony Fauci warned in June …

He says he helped his country.  A decade later, the government accused him of fraud.  —  Rafi Anwari had worked his way up from delivery driver to owner of two Northern Virginia deep-dish pizza shops when he was offered a job recruiting Dari and Pashto linguists to work with U.S. troops in Afghanistan during the 2009 surge.

After Palestinians reject deal, Israel to send 700,000 vaccines to South Korea  —  Under agreement with Seoul, Israel to send doses that will expire by end of month and receive a similar number in return at end of year from existing South Korean deal with Pfizer