Sticking to it: How on earth did Jeff Sessions manage to stonewall the Senate Intelligence Committee for three hours on Tuesday, pretending that President Trump never admitted his rationale for firing James Comey to Lester Holt? Leon Neyfakh picks apart a bravura performance.
New podcast siren: On Trumpcare Tracker, Jim Newell and Jordan Weissmann talk about the GOP’s silence on the bill.
How scary is: Russia’s supposedly “new” cyberweapon that can wreck electric grids? Fred Kaplan finds it relatively terrifying.
Not enough: If lefty cities like Berkeley are really serious about fighting climate change, Henry Grabar writes, it’s great that they want to join the Paris Agreement, but they still have to do what’s most painful: Limit free parking, fund public transit, and discourage low-density building.
For fun: Flatliners is happening again.
That Matthew Dessem sure is a rare one,
Rebecca
