Majority of Americans want Biden to consider ‘all possible nominees’ for Supreme Court vacancy: POLL  —  An ABC News/Ipsos poll says a plurality of the U.S. views the court as partisan.  —  A new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds that a plurality of Americans view the Supreme Court as motivated by partisanship …

At Texas rally, Trump all but promised a racially charged civil war if he's indicted  —  For a nation that's awakened every morning for nearly two years to a Groundhog Day of pandemic and paranoia, the scenes from Donald Trump's latest comeback rally on Saturday at a fairground …

Georgia county purges Democrats from election board and cancels Sunday voting  —  The takeover in Spalding county is part of Republican efforts to dominate elections mechanisms nationwide  —  The judges met, in private, over a two-day period in May, for what might seem like a minor task …

Spotify's Platform Rules and Approach to COVID-19  —  A decade ago, we created Spotify to enable the work of creators around the world to be heard and enjoyed by listeners around the world.  To our very core, we believe that listening is everything.  Pick almost any issue and you will find people and opinions on either side of it.

He Spent 25 Years Infiltrating Nazis, the Klan, and Biker Gangs  —  Scott was a top undercover agent for the FBI, putting himself in harm's way dozens of times.  Now, he's telling his story for the first time to sound the alarm about the threat of far-right extremists in America

The moral calculations of a billionaire … BOCA RATON, Fla. — The stock market had been open for only 17 minutes when Leon Cooperman picked up the phone to check how much money he'd made.  He dialed a private line to his trading desk in New Jersey, just as he did a dozen times each day.

Politics After Covid  —  The pandemic has accelerated the increasingly reactionary turn of American liberalism  —  Covid-19 will soon be endemic.  For whatever bizarre reason, that fact has become cause for some measure of angst and consternation to a certain demographic.

U.N. report says Taliban have killed scores of former Afghan officials, others  —  A U.N. report seen by Reuters says the Taliban and its allies are believed to have killed scores of former Afghan officials, security force members and people who worked with the international military contingent since the U.S.-led pullout.

Living by the Code: In China, Covid-Era Controls May Outlast the Virus  —  The country has instituted a wide range of high-tech controls on society as part of a mostly successful effort to stop the virus.  The consequences may endure.  —  The police had warned Xie Yang, a human rights lawyer …

MOScout Weekender: New US Senate Poll... Greitens Keeps Lead, Hartzler Gains, Two Tiers of Candidates.  —  New US Senate Poll  —  See a new US Senate poll below.  A few thoughts...  Eric Greitens retains the lead.  Polls are snapshots, so you don't want to try to forecast without imagining the twists ahead.

As police were abandoning East Precinct, Seattle officials drafted plan to give station to a Black Lives Matter group  —  At the height of Seattle's racial justice protests in 2020, then-Mayor Jenny Durkan's administration drafted legislation to transfer the Police Department's East Precinct building …

Trump Shouts Out Jason Ravnsborg, the State AG Who Ran Over and Killed a Man  —  “They like you in Texas,” the ex-president said after pointing out the embattled attorney general's appearance at his Saturday evening rally.  —  South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg …

Public education is facing a crisis of epic proportions  —  How politics and the pandemic put schools in the line of fire  —  Test scores are down, and violence is up.  Parents are screaming at school boards, and children are crying on the couches of social workers.  Anger is rising.

Pelosi is the GOP's 2022 bogeywoman  —  Nancy Pelosi's decision to seek an 18th full term has added a new angle to Republican efforts to win back the House: tying swing-state Democrats to an even bigger Democratic bogeywoman than President Biden.  —  Why it matters: This may be the GOP's …

Ron Johnson crashes the clown car  —  Sen. Ron Johnson, the most notorious conspiracy theorist in the U.S. Senate, finally got something right.  —  The Republican from Oshkosh interrupted a panel discussion he'd organized Monday to amplify messages from vaccine skeptics with an announcement …

50 Years On, Bloody Sunday's Wounds Are Still Felt  —  A half-century after the killings in Northern Ireland, symbols of division and hostility still hold their potency.  —  The events themselves took a matter of minutes to unfold in a paroxysm of one-sided gunfire that snuffed out more than a dozen lives …

Race-Based Rationing Is Real—And Dangerous  —  The stock market has plummeted, erasing hundreds of billions of dollars in household wealth in the span of weeks.  War in Ukraine is a distinct possibility and not merely a worst-case scenario.  Stakes as high as this tend to concentrate the mind.

The Man Trying to Take Down Boris Johnson  —  It's “an unpleasant but necessary job,” says Dominic Cummings.  “It's like sort of fixing the drains.”  —  There is a joke in British political circles that Dominic Cummings exists to destroy prime ministers.  After his organization Vote Leave won …