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July 5, 2021 - July 11, 2021

Right-wing media outlets are salivating at the opportunity to use the Olympics and athlete activism to keep their audiences in a permanent state of anger in order to make a buck.

SUNDAY
The Conservative Outrage-Industrial Complex Goes for Gold
KLAUS MARRE AND DONKEYHOTEY 07/11/21
Right-wing media outlets are salivating at the opportunity to use the Olympics and athlete activism to keep their audiences in a permanent state of anger in order to make a buck.

SATURDAY
This Week in Pandemic: Good News
T.J. FORD 07/10/21
Welcome to WhoWhatWhy’s occasional COVID-19 roundup. There’s a lot of virus coverage out there, so this feature will give you a dose of the latest news.

No Mission Accomplished

TED RALL 07/10/21
As America’s longest war comes to an abrupt and chaotic end, will the last man out turn off the empire?

FRIDAY
George Packer Explains It All
JEFF SCHECHTMAN 07/09/21
The real story of the divisions of 2020 and whether we can ever be made whole again.

THURSDAY
Farm to Factory: A Frontline View of Big Ag’s Manure Machine
MAX STEINER 07/08/21
As the corporations behind Big Ag put small farmers out of business, they changed a way of life in rural America. They also made it harder to fight climate change.

What’s the Deal With: “Gain-of-Function” Research
T.J. FORD 07/08/21
You can’t bake a good lab leak hypothesis without it.

WEDNESDAY
Republican Leaders to Members: Seeing Is Not Believing
JON RICHARDS 07/07/21
Potentially fearing a bipartisan investigation, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA) threatened to remove Republicans from committees if they joined a panel on the Capitol riot.

TUESDAY
Can a New Initiative Spur Agricultural Revolution in Alaska?
MAX GRAHAM 07/06/21
A grassroots project to build biomass-heated greenhouses aims to alleviate food insecurity in the communities most affected by it.

MONDAY
Better Building Codes Could Mitigate Climate Disasters
STELLA LORENCE 07/05/21
Wildfire mitigation used to mean managing forests, but many now argue that it means managing people — convincing them to adhere to building codes that will save lives and maybe even whole towns.

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