White House counselor Kellyanne Conway and House Intel Committee Chairman Adam Schiff are on "This Week" Sunday, April 21.
📺 Face the Nation 04-21-2019 | CBS News
This week on "Face the Nation," Bob Schieffer talks to House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings and Sen. Mike Lee. We'll also sit down with Robert Caro and a panel of authors. And we have more of Margaret Brennan's interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker.
👓 ‘I Want What My Male Colleague Has, and That Will Cost a Few Million Dollars’ | New York Times
Women at the Salk Institute say they faced a culture of marginalization and hostility. The numbers from other elite scientific institutions suggest they’re not alone.
The thing that goes unsung in a lot of these gender inequality articles is the assured dramatic loss to science as a result. If women were given equal footing, funding, and support what great discoveries would they have otherwise have found by this point? Assuredly the world would be far better off from those unknown discoveries.
It was quoted in the title of the article, but the full quote is even more damning.
“I know a lot of men who sincerely promote gender-equality opportunities for women, but all their efforts are devoted toward younger women,” Emerson says — because it’s less costly. “But I want what my male colleague has, and that will cost a few million dollars.”
A normal president confronted with a news story suggesting he ordered underlings to illegally transport asylum seekers to so-called sanctuary cities in order to retaliate against political enemies would deny knowledge of such a heinous plot. If need be, he’d make light of it, portray it as if it were idle chatter or a joke. That’s what President Trump’s devoted prevaricators (White Houses staffers) did following The Post account.
👓 How Barr’s Excerpts Compare to the Mueller Report’s Findings | New York Times
Attorney General William P. Barr sent a letter to Congress last month citing brief fragments from the Mueller report. Now that the document is public, his selections are coming under scrutiny.
👓 See Which Witnesses the Mueller Report Relied on Most | New York Times
A partially redacted report of the special counsel’s findings released on April 18 cited interviews with 43 individuals at least 10 times.
👓 The Disciplines Where No Black People Earn Ph.D.s | The Atlantic
In more than a dozen academic fields—largely STEM related—not a single black student earned a doctoral degree in 2017.
👓 ‘Extraordinary’ 500-year-old library catalogue reveals books lost to time | The Guardian
The Libro de los Epítomes was a catalogue for Hernando Colón’s 16th-century collection, which he intended to be the biggest in the world
👓 A Reader’s Guide to the Journalism Behind the Mueller Report | New York Times
If some of the revelations in Robert S. Mueller III’s redacted report sound familiar, it’s because many of them were previously published by The New York Times and other news outlets.
👓 How Barr and Trump Use a Russian Disinformation Tactic | New York Times
They were able to define “collusion” to benefit themselves. Don’t let them twist meanings again with their “spying” investigation.
👓 The Mueller report redactions, explained in 4 charts | Vox
We can’t see behind the bars. But we can see where they are — and why they’re there.
👓 Bees on Notre-Dame roof survive fire | BBC
The French cathedral's beekeeper says they would only have got "drunk" on smoke.