The Debrief
Trump, frustrated by unpopularity with Jews, thrusts Israel into his culture war
The president’s words about Jews magnify his transactional approach to politics and his miscalculation that his support for Israel should automatically translate into electoral support from Jewish Americans.
House Democrats face a long path to getting Trump’s tax returns before 2020 election
House Democrats face internal divisions over whether they could have moved faster to secure the president's financial records.
The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm’s ties to ICE under attack by employees
The company provides digital profiling tools to the federal government as it carries out President Trump’s increasingly controversial immigration policies.
A tent encampment near downtown Austin. (Tamir Kalifa for The Post)
Should people have a right to sleep on city streets? Austin joins the national battle over urban homelessness.
A new city rule allows people to sleep in public, but some residents are revolting over homeless encampments.
Visual Story
Why is the Amazon burning?
The region is home to some of the wettest land on earth, soaked in more than 400 inches of rain each year. So how can it burn? And why are wildfires — blazes that spewed so much smoke this week that they turned the Sao Paulo day into night — growing?
After pressure from Capitol Hill, the Trump administration backed off a proposal that drew criticism from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
The revelation came a day after President Trump called off a trip to Denmark because, he said, the country’s leader was not interested in selling Greenland to the United States.
Supporters see the plan as a way President Trump could move the ball forward on gun control following recent mass shootings.
A support page for the titanium credit card warns that if it comes into contact with leather or denim, the interaction could cause “permanent discoloration that might not wash off.”
(Tom McCorkle for The Post)
Perspective
We tested how the new offering stacks up against the competition.
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From The Magazine
My life with face blindness
When your brain won’t let you recognize people, how do you navigate the world?
(Astrid Riecken for The Post)
Special Report
Hate-crime reports have soared in D.C. Prosecutions have plummeted.
Ashly Taylor was shot for being a lesbian. Then she watched as the hatred that fueled the attack was ignored in court.
(Andrew Colin Beck for The Post)
Voraciously
The real reason you should stop eating lunch at your desk
The Internet is not your friend. So don’t spend time with it during the midday feast.
