NBC News

World Series highlights the dwindling number 

of Black players in America's pastime

In the years after Robinson broke the color barrier, players fled the Negro Leagues for the major leagues. And the Negro Leagues’ business structure “pretty much ended,” said Early, a professor of African American studies at the Washington University in St. Louis. 

Just The News:  

As Washington shirks federal border enforcement role, burden falls to frontline sheriffs

WSJ

U.S. in Talks to Pay Hundreds of Millions to Families Separated at Border

Government is considering payments of $450,000 per person affected by Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy in 2018

Joel Kotkin/Newsweek Opinion

Elites Are Using Climate Hysteria to Immiserate the Working Class

Daniel Greenfield:  California Drove Truckers Out of Business. Now Store Shelves Are Empty

Bill Maher: Despite Some Not Wanting to ‘Give Up’ on COVID, ‘It’s Over’ – ‘We Shouldn’t Fire People Who Have Natural Immunity’

Former U.S. Atty Andrew McCarthy

Merrick Garland Plays Dumb on a DOJ Atrocity

There is no doubt that he grasps how wrong he is.

Merrick Garland turns out to be a political hack.

Tucker Carlson Opening Statement (video)

American Freak Show - Lib Media Can't Shake Its Addiction To Trump

Chicago's Magnificent Mile looks like ghost town (video)

Michael Shellenberger

Why The Pro-Nuclear Movement Is Winning

Hint: By doing the opposite of what the anti-nuclear movement has done

Bloomberg

People inoculated against Covid-19 are just as likely to spread the delta variant of the virus to contacts in their household as those who haven’t had shots, according to new research.

Paul Sperry

Clinton Campaign Spread Alfa Bank Ruse Throughout Obama Admin to Press Trump-Russia Probe

Glenn Harlan Reynolds/New York Post

Merrick Garland has proved himself unfit for Supreme Court — but he shouldn’t be AG either

Matt Taibbi

"Meltdown": 

How "Hope and Change",

 "Too Big To Fail" and "Too Big To Jail"

 led to Donald Trump

Interview with David Sirota about the aftereffects of the 2008 financial crash.

WSJ

The Radicalism of James Madison

The Father of the Constitution took extraordinary steps to sweep away America’s first, dysfunctional form of government

Gen. H. R. McMaster

Preserving the Warrior Ethos

"The warrior ethos is at risk. If lost, it might be regained only at an exorbitant price."

National Review

The Real Culprit in Our Supply-Chain Crisis

Globalization is not the problem. The culprit is an uncompetitive level of regulation and taxation, and protectionism.

The Lancet

Fluvoxamine, an incredibly cheap and safe anti-depressant drug, may be as effective in treating COVID as monoclonal antibodies.

Pat Buchanan

Who Decides What Kids Should Be Taught?

Do parents have no right to object if the tenets of critical race theory — that America is shot through with “systemic racism,” that whites are privileged from birth and blacks oppressed — are taught as truth about the country to which they have given their loyalty and love?

The Thielist Dispatch

Beyond the Dogmas of Reaganism

It's time for a new American politics.

CBS Evening News (video):

DADS ON DUTY: After a violent week of fighting at a Louisiana high school, parents knew something had to change. So, a group of dads decided to show up not just for their kids - but for the whole student body - to help maintain a positive environment.

 Alex Berenson: The likely hyper-medicalization of long COVID.

Alex Berenson: Our response to Covid has exposed the dangers of hyper-medicalization

Glenn Greenwald

A tiny number of like-minded billionaires are using their vast wealth to control the contours of permissible speech

National Review:  The Return of the Grassroots Right

Milwaukee Journal: A look back at 2020 underscores the role the education divide played in Joe Biden's victory in Wisconsin

Legal Insurrection:

“Why Didn’t Anybody Tell Us?”: Angry Loudoun County Students Stage Walk Outs Over Sexual Assaults in Their Schools

Meet Ray Epps: The Fed-Protected Provocateur Who Appears To Have Led The Very First 1/6 Attack On The U.S. Capitol

eugyppius

More on Original Antigenic Sin and the Folly of Our Universal Vaccination Campaign

A deeper look at a decisive limitation of our adaptive immune systems.

Nature:

The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies with high efficiency

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, continues to rage in many countries, straining health systems and economies. Vaccines protect against severe disease and death and are considered central to ending the pandemic. COVID-19 vaccines (and SARS-CoV-2 infection) elicit antibodies that are directed against the viral spike (S) protein and neutralize the virus. However, the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with S protein mutations that confer resistance to neutralization might compromise vaccine efficacy [1]. Furthermore, emerging viral variants with enhanced transmissibility, likely due to altered virus-host cell interactions, might rapidly spread globally. Therefore, it is important to investigate whether emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants exhibit altered host cell interactions and resistance against antibody-mediated neutralization.

The Leaky Vaccine Breakthrough Variant is Here

Axios-Ipsos poll: Confidence in Biden COVID recovery tumbles

Jonathan Last/The Bulwark

Everything Facebook: It's Worse Than You Thought

Can we fix social media?

Republican governors and legislatures are leading Americans back to work, according to analysis of the state-by-state unemployment data from the Department of Labor.

USA Today

Atlanta is still seething that Major League Baseball stripped the All-Star Game away from their beloved city this summer. Well, politics or not, there’s absolutely nothing MLB can do to stop Atlanta now. Atlanta will host the World Series for the first time since 1999.

Spectator World

Sign of the Times

When the media’s credibility collapsed, the New York Times led the way

It’s how you know we’re in a moral panic: only the mob has the right to judge you. And too many journalists have ceded them that right. Indeed, a huge number of the mob are journalists — journalists from the most important newspapers in the country and the world, all tweeting the exact same meaningless sentence repeatedly. People who had been hired to think for themselves now mindlessly repeat a dogma like their jobs depended on it.

 

Well, they do.

Staggering $1.5 billion lithium deposit discovered in Maine; excavating it poses a challenge

The find, one of the richest on Earth, could test Maine’s 2017 metallic mining laws, considered the strictest in the nation.

Mrs. Rand Paul tees off on CNN's Brianna Keilar for dissing Rand after he correctly called Fauci a liar.

Russell Brand (video): CNN’s obsession with Trump has backfired

New COVID-19 Biomarker Discovery – Can Predict Patient Death or Hospitalization

Via Althouse: Aaron Rodgers Rips Cancel Culture (video)