Albert Poindexter

𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 “𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥”? Back on August 28, 2014 President Obama wore a perfectly normal light-colored suit. Fox News and its conservative pundits lost their minds, calling it “un-presidential,” “one of the ugliest suits in history,” even saying it "showed weakness to America’s enemies."

This week I was busy on a new project (details to come). I fell behind on the wrecking ball news about US science. So I put together a round-up of cuts and chaos in my email newsletter today. (Plus some nice news and cheery photos to keep things from getting too dark.) buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...