1. Why Alaska's Lisa Murkowski Isn’t Afraid of Donald Trump
She won her seat as an independent write-in. She enjoys wide support from Alaskan Democrats, centrist Republicans, and Alaska Natives. Meet Lisa Murkowski, one of the Republican Senators who has staunchly opposed the GOP health care bill.
2. I Don’t Want to Watch Slavery Fan Fiction
The producers of HBO’s massively popular “Game of Thrones” are following up their fantasy hit with a rewriting of history: “Confederate,” a show that envisions what America would be like had the South won the war. The project idea has sparked significant backlash — here, Roxane Gay digs into why.
3. Transgender Airman: ‘I Would Like to See Them Try to Kick Me Out of My Military’
After President Trump’s surprise announcement Wednesday barring transgender people from serving “in any capacity“ in the military, one prominent transgender airman says he’s more determined than ever to continue serving in the Air Force.
4. WATCH: How Does Deporting a Pastor Make Our Country Safer?
Immigration Campaigns Associate Jessica Cobian explains what led ICE to detain Los Angeles pastor Noe Carias — and what we can do about it.
5. Freed From ISIS, Yazidi Women Return in ‘Severe Shock’
“Women rescued in the first two years after ISIS overran their ancestral homeland came home with infections, broken limbs and suicidal thoughts. But now, after three years of captivity, women like Souhayla and two others seen last week by reporters, are far more damaged, displaying extraordinary signs of psychological injury.”
6. Why Do Republican Congressmen Keep Threatening Their Female Colleagues?
“Female politicians on both sides of the aisle not only have to anticipate hostility from their political opponents, they can expect to be undermined and humiliated by the men who are supposedly on their team. Collins, Capito, and Murkowski are only the latest example in a long-standing pattern.”
7. ‘From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler’ Is 50. Here’s How the Met Celebrated.
The childhood favorite, a story of two children who run away to live in the Met and solve art mysteries, turns 50 this year. The museum is celebrating with a guided tour of Claudia and Jamie’s favorite hiding spots.
“Kazakhstan remains, for many, a huge blank on the map somewhere between Russia and China, essentially a hinterland. …[But] Kazakhstan is in the middle of a quixotic identity-building project, an attempt not only to define itself to the world but to reclaim and remake the past, and thus reckon with the realities of self-determination.”
9. How Much Discrimination Do Muslims Face in America?
“This stat, more than any other, speaks to American Muslim life under Trump: People feel an abiding sense of dread, hostility, and discomfort. Meanwhile, life largely continues as usual.”
In the conversation about how to create more diversity and gender balance in newsrooms, one group has been routinely ignored: mothers.
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