This week, we looked the secret behind the Trump administration's push to add a citizenship question to the census. Plus, a hawk solves a pigeon problem in California.
Scott’s Weekly Weigh-in
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A good weekend to you, in the heat that grips much of the world. Such temperatures will return every summer, say scientists, until we can curb global warming. There are lots of urgent stories, but the climate crisis, of which this heat is a telling sign, winds its way into every other issue. I felt this week’s essay had to be aimed squarely at the effect of scorching summers on our children.
The Jan. 6 committee prime time hearing was filled with vivid testimony from former Trump staffers, who revealed how the former president watched a mob invade the Capitol on TV, but scorned pleas from his family and staff to call off rioters. They showed video of Republican Sen. Josh Hawley raising a fist to spur on the mob, but sprinting out of the Capitol as they came close.
Week in and out — but a week like this especially — I don’t feel I’ve heard it all until I hear from our own Ron Elving.
Many listeners may not like what Ruy Teixeira has written recently. That’s why I thought it was important to hear it from him. Mr. Teixeira co-wrote The Emerging Democratic Majority in 2002, which held that demographic changes in America, especially the growth of Hispanic voters and other groups, would deliver an enduring Democratic majority. Now he believes his party casts off working-class voters of all groups by valuing identity above issues, especially inflation and crime.
But no issue is more contentious among some listeners than grammar. Ellen Jovin’s book,Rebel with a Clause, is a summer feast for those enthralled by conjugations, punctuations, and pronunciations. (Please notice my use of the Oxford Comma. Our expert is not so persnickety about that.)
And a warm (sorry) smile for the weekend: a horse in France who flees recent wildfires, but comes back for friends and family.
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