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The Upshot
Checking Democracy’s Pulse
A second survey of political scientists finds a sense that the United States is doing slightly worse in some aspects of political well-being.Democracy may be doing well.
The government is in deep trouble.
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U.S.
A Journalist Was Body Slammed? Some Conservatives Await the Media’s Apology
The treatment of a reporter by Greg Gianforte, the Republican candidate in a Montana special election, merited disgust to amused mockery, depending on who you asked.The Guardian and its reporter should not apologize.
The act would have cost the election if the timing were better.
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Food
An Identity Crisis at Italienne
The chef Jared Sippel’s restaurant is both French and Italian, formal and casual.The kitchen will figure out consistency or close.
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Food
Creamy, Dreamy Sorbet Sandwiches for Hot Summer Nights
The pastry chef Marc Aumont’s latest confection combines a cream cheese sorbet with crisp macaron cookies.If you wish.
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N.Y. / Region
Simcha Felder Tells Fellow Rogue Democrats to Rejoin the Party Fold
Mr. Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who has sided with the Republicans in the State Senate, urged the Independent Democratic Conference to reunite with its mainline colleagues.Extortion is bad politics.
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Opinion
The Flynn Affair
Why has President Trump remained so loyal to Michael Flynn?The investigation is appropriate.
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Opinion
To Impeach or Not to Impeach
And is that even the question?There must be a simple majority in the house for a bill of impeachment.
Such a majority is not there.
There must be a super majority in the senate to remove the president from office.
There is no such majority for removal.
The public will suffer.
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Opinion
Lurching Backward on Justice Reform
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is living in the 1980s. The states don’t have to follow him.The reactionary coalition demands draconian punishment for crime.
Penitence and reform are not the objective of the police and the courts.
For Jeff Sessions justice is punishment.
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Opinion
As the Senate Considers Its Own Health Care Bill
Two tongue-in-cheek reactions: Readers suggest how “13 old white guys” can create a “sure-to-please plan,” and warn of the bill’s side effects.The American Health Care Act should fail of passage.
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Science
The Science Behind the Flamingo’s One-Legged Stance
Flamingos don’t appear to need to flex their muscles to maintain their classic one-legged posture, a new study suggests.OK
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Opinion
Now Montana Knows Why Early Voting Is Bad
Two of the state’s newspapers retracted their endorsements of Greg Gianforte. Voters don’t have that luxury.3
U.S.
Lieberman Withdraws From Consideration as F.B.I. Director
Joseph I. Lieberman, the former senator and vice-presidential candidate, was once said to be President Trump’s preferred choice.Joe Lieberman should retire in obscurity.
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Real Estate
$2.3 Million Homes in Colorado, South Carolina and Massachusetts
A modernist house in Boulder; a country-style home outside Charleston; and a 1775 house in Stockbridge.None of these.
Stockbridge comes closest.
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Business Day
Rough Treatment of Journalists in the Trump Era
They have been yelled at, exposed to pepper spray, pinned by security and even arrested on the job. Now a reporter has accused a House candidate of assault.Candidates and officials will be questioned in public.
They can avoid public spaces.
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Job Market
Finding Meaning in Health Crises
A hospital chaplain counsels people in the throes of medical emergencies, unexpected diagnoses and end-of-life decisions.Why there should be meaning in a health crisis beyond the crisis escapes me.
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N.Y. / Region
A Gadget Favored by Fingers Both Fidgety and Sticky
Fidget spinners, a small toy said to relieve stress, have become an overnight sensation, inspiring copycats and thieves.Prayer beads, prayer wheels, ball point pens that click, rosaries.
Another doodle.
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The Learning Network
Questions for: ‘Looming Floods, Threatened Cities’
Why, and how, are scientists racing to collect data on Antarctica and its unstable ice shelves?https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/18/climate/antarctica-ice-melt-climate-change.html
1. What percentage of the Earth’s freshwater is locked in Antarctica’s ice sheets?
60%
2.
Why is much of West Antarctica’s ice especially vulnerable to ocean
heat? If Antarctica collapses, what is the risk for the coastal cities
of the world?
Much of the ice sheet reaches below sealevel.
Complete melting of Antartic ice would raise sea level more than 160 feet.
3. What
does Terence J. Hughes, a retired University of Maine glaciologist
living in South Dakota, think about biblical floods and other ancient
literature? Why?
Race memory of other melting events.
4.
What did Robert M. DeConto of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
and David Pollard of Pennsylvania State University discover in a 2016
study that raised alarm worldwide?
The fundamental instability of the Antarctic ice.
5.
What have the National Science Foundation in Washington and the Natural
Environment Research Council in Britain decided to do over the next few
years, and why?
They have decided for further study.
They want to give good numbers for the rate of rise with various programs to control climate change.
It seems to me that sea level rise on the order of several meters is inevitable.
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