The Full Belmonte, 1/23/2022
Former President Donald Trump attends a border security briefing June 30, 2021 in Weslaco, Texas. | Brandon Bell/Getty Images
“Among the records that Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to shield from Jan. 6 investigators are a draft executive order that would have directed the defense secretary to seize voting machines and a document titled ‘Remarks on National Healing.’
POLITICO has reviewed both documents. The text of the draft executive order is published here for the first time.
The executive order — which also would have appointed a special counsel to probe the 2020 election — was never issued. The remarks are a draft of a speech Trump gave the next day. Together, the two documents point to the wildly divergent perspectives of White House advisers and allies during Trump’s frenetic final weeks in office.
It’s not clear who wrote either document. But the draft executive order is dated Dec. 16, 2020, and is consistent with proposals that lawyer Sidney Powell made to the then-president. On Dec. 18, 2020, Powell, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Trump administration lawyer Emily Newman, and former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne met with Trump in the Oval Office.
In that meeting, Powell urged Trump to seize voting machines and to appoint her as a special counsel to investigate the election, according to Axios.
A spokesperson for the House’s Jan. 6 select committee confirmed earlier Friday that the panel had received the last of the documents that Trump’s lawyers tried to keep under wraps and later declined to comment for this story on these two documents.
The Draft Executive Order
The draft executive order shows that the weeks between Election Day and the Capitol attack could have been even more chaotic than they were. It credulously cites conspiracy theories about election fraud in Georgia and Michigan, as well as debunked notions about Dominion voting machines.
The order empowers the defense secretary to ‘seize, collect, retain and analyze all machines, equipment, electronically stored information, and material records required for retention under’ a U.S. law that relates to preservation of election records. It also cites a lawsuit filed in 2017 against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Additionally, the draft order would have given the defense secretary 60 days to write an assessment of the 2020 election. That suggests it could have been a gambit to keep Trump in power until at least mid-February of 2021.
The full text of the never-issued executive order can be read here.
It opens by citing a host of presidential authorities to permit the steps that Trump would take, including the Constitution and Executive Order 12333, a well-known order governing the intelligence community. But the draft executive order also cites two classified documents: National Security Presidential Memoranda 13 and 21.
The existence of the first of those memoranda is publicly known, but the existence of the second has not been previously reported. NSPM 13 governs the Pentagon’s offensive cyber operations. According to a person with knowledge of the memoranda, 21 makes small adjustments to 13, and the two documents are viewed within the executive branch as a pair.
The fact that the draft executive order’s author knew about the existence of Memorandum 21 suggests that they had access to information about sensitive government secrets, the person told POLITICO.
The draft order also greenlit ‘the appointment of a Special Counsel to oversee this operation and institute all criminal and civil proceedings as appropriate based on the evidence collected and provided all resources necessary to carry out her duties consistent with federal laws and the Constitution.’
To bolster its provisions, the draft order cites ‘the forensic report of the Antrim County, Michigan voting machines.’ That report was produced by Russ Ramsland, who confused precincts in Minnesota for those in Michigan, according to the Washington Post. Michigan’s secretary of state, meanwhile, released an exhaustive report rebutting election conspiracy theories and concluding that none of the ‘known anomalies’ in Antrim County’s November 2020 election were the result of any security breach.
‘This draft order represents not only an abuse of emergency powers, but a total misunderstanding of them,’ said Liza Goitein, co-director of the liberty and national security program at the nonprofit Brennan Center for Justice. ‘The order doesn’t even make the basic finding of an 'unusual and extraordinary threat' that would be necessary to trigger any action under [federal emergency powers law]. It’s the legal equivalent of a kid scrawling on the wall with crayons.’
The draft remarks
The draft document labeled ‘Remarks on National Healing,’ also now in the select panel’s possession, provides a first look at the remarks Trump would deliver the next day, which stand in jarring contrast to other rhetoric Trump employed at the time and continues to use when discussing the insurrection.
‘I would like to begin today by addressing the heinous attack that took place yesterday at the United States Capitol,’ it opens. ‘Like all Americans, I was outraged and sickened by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem. I immediately deployed the National Guard and federal law enforcement to secure the building and expel the intruders. America is, and must always be, a nation of law and order.’
That claim that Trump immediately ordered the National Guard to head to the Capitol may be false. The Jan. 6 select committee sent a letter Thursday saying that Trump’s defense secretary at the time of the riot, Chris Miller, ‘has testified under oath that the President never contacted him at any time on January 6th, and never, at any time, issued him any order to deploy the National Guard.’
The ‘national healing’ document continued with sharp criticism of the attack.
‘The Demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol have defiled the seat of American Democracy,’ the remarks state. ‘I am directing the Department of Justice to ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.’
The document follows with a direct communication to the rioters: ‘We must send a message - not with mercy but with justice. To those who engaged in acts of violence and destruction, I want to be very clear: you do not represent me. You do not represent our movement. You do not represent our country. And if you broke the law, you belong in jail.’
The remarks departed significantly from the way he described the rioters in other contexts. In a video released during the attack, Trump struck a tone of empathy with the mob.
‘We have to have peace,’ Trump said then. ‘So go home. We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens, you see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel.’
The day after the attack, facing a torrent of criticism and public discussion about invoking the 25th Amendment in order to remove him from office, Trump delivered an Oval Office address similar to the draft remarks. In that address, Trump also condemned the violence at the Capitol and called for perpetrators to be held accountable.
A Trump spokesperson declined to comment for this story.” Read more at Politico
Thousands of civilians have joined volunteer military units in Ukraine.Sean Gallup/Getty Images
“The Kremlin appears to be developing plans to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine as President Vladimir Putin weighs whether to invade, the British government said.
The highly unusual disclosure by British intelligence officials comes at a pivotal moment in negotiations between the West and Russia, which has deployed more than 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders that could, according to American officials, attack anytime.
According to a British intelligence assessment, Russian planners are considering installing Yevgeniy Murayev, a former member of Ukraine’s Parliament, as leader of a pro-Kremlin puppet government in Kyiv. Officials disclosed few details about how Russia might impose a new government on a sovereign Ukraine and did not say whether such plans were contingent on an invasion by Russian troops.
British officials said the intent of sharing the information was both to head off the activation of such plans and to put Putin on notice: This plot had been exposed.
Here are the basics of the conflict.” Read more at New York Times
Omicron is finally in retreat.
“More and more states have passed a peak in new coronavirus cases in recent days, as glimmers of progress have spread from a handful of eastern cities to much of the country. By the end of last week, the country was averaging about 720,000 new cases a day, down from about 807,000 last week. New coronavirus hospital admissions have also leveled off.
The U.S. is not in the clear yet. It continues to identify far more infections a day than during any prior surge, creating havoc for hospitals and businesses in small towns. Deaths continue to mount, with more than 2,100 announced most days. Still, the decline in new cases offered a sense of relief to virus-weary Americans. Here’s what scientists know about Omicron.
Did you get a breakthrough infection? Vaccinated people may now have “hybrid” immunity, but experts still encourage precautions.” Read more at New York Times
“Anti-abortion rights activists rallied in D.C. for the 49th annual March for Life, ahead of tomorrow's Roe v. Wade anniversary, Axios' Shawna Chen reports.” Read more at Axios
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“In the days before the Capitol riot, then-President Donald Trump held off-the-books meetings in the White House with mystery participants, according to his former press secretary Stephanie Grisham. The Guardian reports that Grisham made the intriguing disclosure during an early January interview with the select committee investigating the Capitol attack. Grisham reportedly told the panel that only a small number of aides were made aware of the secret meetings and she saw the former White House chief usher, Timothy Harleth, directing participants upstairs. She reportedly said she wasn’t sure who attended the meetings, but told the panel that Harleth and other Trump aides would know their identities. A spokesperson for the select committee declined to comment on The Guardian’s report, and Harleth didn’t respond to questions.” [Daily Beast]
Read more at The Guardian
“A Florida man has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Pelosi, two leading Democrats in Congress, and Kim Foxx, a prominent district attorney in Illinois.
The US attorney’s office for the southern district of Florida said Paul Vernon Hoeffer, 60, entered his plea in federal court in Fort Pierce on Friday.
Hoeffer admitted calling Pelosi’s Washington office in March 2019, threatening ‘to come a ‘long, long, way’ to rattle her head with bullets and cut her head off’.
He admitted a call to Foxx on the same day, saying bullets would ‘rattle her brain’.” Read more at The Guardian
“More than 3,000 of Rudy Giuliani’s communications were released to prosecutors on Wednesday after a review of 18 devices that the FBI seized from the former Trump lawyer's possession last April.
The Washington Post reported that former federal judge Barbara S. Jones, who was chosen to lead a privilege review of Giuliani's communications, stated that there were 25,000 messages on a cellphone that dated back to 2018.
The former NYC mayor asserted attorney-client privilege over 96 items, 40 of which were granted by Jones, the Post reported. The other 56 items were released to prosecutors. Read more at The Hill
“An ex-whistleblower turned Republican Senate candidate is lifting the lid on an alleged dirty-tricks plot carried out by allies of Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. According to The Guardian, Everett Stern—a candidate for the Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania and head of intelligence firm Tactical Rabbit—has informed the FBI that Flynn allies attempted to recruit him to gather potentially damaging ‘intelligence’ on top Republicans in order to cajole them into backing election audits in states where Trump lost in 2020. Stern alleges that, in April, two Flynn allies with the right-wing Patriot Caucus group contacted him to seek compromising information on two Republican congressmen—Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), who both backed Trump’s impeachment after the Capitol riot. Stern told The Guardian he has passed texts and emails about the alleged plot to the FBI. Flynn’s office didn’t comment on the report.” Read more at The Guardian
“The Arizona Democratic Party's executive board announced Saturday that it formally censured Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for voting to maintain the Senate's filibuster rules, effectively blocking Democrats' voting legislation that is a key priority for the party.
The symbolic gesture Saturday from Arizona Democrats adds to the mounting pressure Sinema is facing from those in her state who helped her flip a Senate seat in 2018. Sinema -- who started her political career as a progressive -- has been a target on the left during Biden's administration for her stances.
Sinema and Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, both centrists, were the only two Democrats on Wednesday to join all Republicans in voting to maintain the Senate's 60-vote threshold to overcome a filibuster on legislation. Democrats had sought to change the Senate rules so that they could pass voting rights legislation with just 51 votes.” Read more at CNN
“When it recently emerged that there was some Republican interest in helping Democrats fix the Electoral Count Act of 1887 — the arcane law that played out according to its dangerously ambiguous terms on January 6, 2021 — those same Democrats were at first a bit annoyed. With the Senate on the brink of a final, doomed push to overcome a GOP filibuster to enact federal voting-rights legislation, talk of a bipartisan ECA fix seemed a distraction at best and a misleading feint at worst.
But now that the voting-rights push is at an end (for this Congress, anyway), perhaps the opportunity to reduce the odds of a 2024 presidential-election coup will be more welcome to Democrats. And the identity of the Republicans who might cooperate is beginning to come into view. The latest is the unlikely figure of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. According to Politico, McCarthy has ‘joined his Senate counterpart [Mitch McConnell] in entertaining potential reform of the 135-year-old law that Donald Trump allies used to fuel their case against certification of the 2020 election.’” Read more at NY Mag
“GREEN BAY, Wis. – For three-plus quarters, the San Francisco 49ers found it virtually impossible to move the ball against the defense of the Green Bay Packers in Saturday night’s divisional playoff showdown at Lambeau Field.
But a robust defensive showing, and game-changing plays from their special teams units led to a late-game momentum shift and paved the way for a stunning 13-10 victory.
The 49ers will move on to play in their second NFC championship game in three seasons, and Aaron Rodgers once again fails to exact vengeance on the team that opted against drafting the Bay Area native with the first overall pick of the 2005 NFL draft.
At the time of that San Francisco selection of Alex Smith, and a 23-pick wait before the Packers took him 24th, Rodgers vowed to make the 49ers regret their decision. However, 17 years later, Rodgers has failed to beat San Francisco in four postseason meetings.” Read more at USA Today
Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs are two wins away from returning to the Super Bowl.Jay Biggerstaff/USA Today Sports, via Reuters
“Today’s divisional round playoff games will decide the N.F.L.’s conference championship matchups.
The teams feature four of the highest-rated quarterbacks from the regular season. In the first game, Matthew Stafford and the star-studded Los Angeles Rams will face Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the defending Super Bowl champions, at 3 p.m. Eastern.
Then Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs will face Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills’ top-ranked defense, a rematch of last year’s A.F.C. championship, at 6:30 p.m. Eastern. Here’s what to watch for.
The conference championships are partly set: The Cincinnati Bengals shocked the Tennessee Titans and the San Francisco 49ers upset the Green Bay Packers.” Read more at New York Times
“Rapid inflation is fueling a debate in Washington: Who — or what — is to blame?
The White House is emphasizing that price surges are worldwide. Economists say that’s true, but point to government policies as a big reason that U.S. inflation is at a 40-year high. They say that America’s decision to flood the economy with stimulus money helped to send consumer spending into overdrive, exacerbating the global trends.
In sectors as diverse as housing and fast food, the pandemic is sending prices soaring across industries. This is the first time many adults have experienced meaningful inflation, and to help bring some clarity to the situation, we asked experts to answer your questions.” Read more at New York Times
Two police officers were shot in Harlem while responding to a domestic dispute.David Dee Delgado for The New York Times
“A spate of violence in New York City is increasing pressure on Mayor Eric Adams to deliver on his promise of bolstering public safety.
On Friday, one police officer was killed and another critically wounded when a gunman opened fire on them inside a Harlem apartment. They were the third and fourth officers to be shot in the line of duty this week. Last weekend, an Asian-American woman was shoved in front of a moving train in Times Square. On Wednesday, an 11-month-old baby was shot in the face in the Bronx.
‘This was just not an attack on three brave officers,’ Adams said of Friday’s shooting. ‘This was an attack on the city of New York.’
Adams used the shooting to call for a unified, citywide response to gun violence and to attack Congress for doing too little, in his view, to control guns. He also offered an implicit rebuke of the call from his party’s left wing to shift funding away from the police.” Read more at New York Times
“Florida state senators this week offered a rare hint of bipartisan agreement on a plan to redraw a swing state’s congressional district boundaries in a way that placates both majority Republicans and minority Democrats — and, likely, a state Supreme Court that is keeping careful watch of both.
But a last-minute intervention from an unusual source — Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) — has tripped up what might have been a smooth finish to a bumpy process, adding what amounts to a new lap of an already-long course just as legislators thought they were nearing the finish line.
DeSantis this week proposed his own version of a map, which would likely hand his party control of 17 of 28 seats in Congress for the next decade while ensuring Democrats eight seats. The remaining three seats would be narrowly divided between the two parties.” Read more at The Hill
“Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) this week refused to turn over records of his participation at a pro-Trump rally that occurred just before supporters of the former president stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year.
The Travis County district attorney’s office allotted Paxton four days to turn over the records or face a lawsuit, according to The Associated Press. But in a Friday letter, Paxton's office reportedly denied the district attorney’s demands and refused to acknowledge any violations, the news outlet noted.
The request from the district attorney’s office comes after several Texas news outlets, including The Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle and the Austin American-Statesman, filed a complaint to investigate an alleged violation of open records laws.” Read more at The Hill
“Firefighters on Saturday were taking advantage of shifting winds while working against a blaze that prompted evacuations in California’s Big Sur and shut down part of Highway 1 along the Pacific coastline, the latest wildfire to threaten a region known for its famous landscapes.
The Colorado Fire started Friday in Palo Colorado Canyon, a rural area in Monterey County, and had burned about 1,050 acres, Cal Fire spokesperson Cecile Juliette said, revising the acreage down from an earlier reported 1,500 acres. It was 20 percent contained as of Saturday evening.
A stretch of Highway 1 was closed in both directions because of the fire north of the Bixby Bridge, the California Department of Transportation said. National Weather Service meteorologists noted that photos posted on social media indicated ‘some pretty surreal fire behavior,’ given recent wet conditions.” Read more at Washington Post
“LOS ANGELES – Blue surgical masks and cotton balls. Car parts, pieces of tools and dozens of new toner cartridges for laser jet printers. Boxes from Macys, Bath and Body Works and Amazon – all empty with postmarks to addresses across the county.
The railroad tracks in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Lincoln Heights look as though a twister swept through, with thousands of boxes, bags and trash littering the rails for blocks. For months, residents in the area say they've watched the chaos unfold at all hours.
Men working as a team crack open large shipping containers on idle trains then load stolen goods into trucks and vans. Some, they say, continue their missions even when a train is moving – jumping on a train and climbing atop the containers with power tools or bolt cutters to crack open the large metal boxes.
‘This must stop. This is not the wild wild west,’ said Christopher Tang, a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management who studies supply chains. ‘Back then, thieves would steal money but now they're stealing merchandise that actually affects people's lives.’
One of the country's largest railroad companies, Union Pacific, said they'd seen about $5 million in damages and thefts and noted on average, more than 90 shipping containers are looted per day.
The worsening trend is another potential hurdle in the nation's supply chain crisis as the ports in Los Angeles and nearby Long Beach – the two busiest in the country – attempt to rebound after a backlog caused largely by COVID-19. It's also reignited concerns by Californians about organized crime rings that authorities say are likely fueling these train thefts and a series of high-profile smash-and-grab thefts that have been occurring across the state.” Read more at USA Today
Satellite images: Maxar Technologies
“Satellite images show Nomuka (population 500) in the Tonga islands, before and after last weekend's undersea eruption in the South Pacific.
Volcanic fallout on the surface of the ocean is damaging boats and making travel between the islands challenging, Reuters reports.
Tongans queued for limited money services. A national emergency team distributed 60,000 liters of water, and a desalination plant on a New Zealand naval ship arrived yesterday. The official death toll is 3.” Read more at Axios
“When China hosted the Olympics in 2008, it sought to mollify critics. Now, President Xi Jinping is defying them, delivering the Games on his own terms.
China has plowed through the obstacles that once made Beijing’s bid for the Winter Games seem a long shot — limited experience with winter sports, little snowfall and dense pollution — and faced down new ones, including an unending pandemic and mounting international concern over its authoritarian behavior.
But unlike in 2008, ‘they don’t need this to legitimize their rule,’ one historian said. ‘And they don’t need to please the whole world to make the event a big success.’
With the Games set to open in about two weeks, thousands of Olympians worldwide are integrating a routine into their daily regimens: Sidestepping Covid-19, by whatever means necessary.” Read more at New York Times
“HONG KONG—Ken Chow, a 37-year-old jobs broker, already had four hamsters in his 150-square-foot apartment when the government announced it was embarking on a massive cull of the tiny pets in an effort to curb a Covid-19 outbreak.
Then a neighbor contacted him through a hamster-rescue Facebook group. One of the neighbor’s family members works at a pet shop and they were worried that authorities might come looking for their five hamsters. Mr. Chow agreed to help. Now he is harboring nine furry fugitives.
‘Humans can protest, but animals can’t help themselves when they are in trouble,’ he said.
Volunteers across Hong Kong have mobilized to save the rodents from the clutches of the government, which has been exterminating the animals after an outbreak was tied to a pet shop. Under the latest order, authorities will cull more than 1,000 hamsters seized from a warehouse and almost three dozen pet shops. Officials also asked anyone who bought a hamster since Dec. 22 to surrender it, and said these animals will also be killed regardless of their Covid status.
Government officials said the campaign was launched out of prudence amid fears of animal-to-human transmission, even though experts said there is minimal risk of such cross-infection.
Social-media groups sprang up to prevent hamsters from being handed in, collecting the pets and connecting them with foster homes and prospective owners. Some veterinarian nurses stayed up all night to make hamster care packages to distribute to animal adopters. Other volunteers searched for abandoned hamsters in city parks and around garbage areas.” Read more at Wall Street Journal
Jean-Jacques Savin, shown in May at age 74, tests his rowboat at a shipyard in Lege-Cap-Ferret, southwestern France. (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images)
“Jean-Jacques Savin, a 75-year-old French adventurer who was attempting to row across the Atlantic Ocean solo, was found dead inside his boat Saturday after he had sent out distress signals in the days before, his team said in a statement.
The Portuguese coast guard found the boat overturned near the Azores, the Portuguese archipelago, on Friday and dispatched a diver on Saturday.” Read more at Washington Post
“The story of a Tongan man washed away by the tsunami and who drifted and swam between islands for more than 24 hours has become one of the first to emerge from the island nation, five days after the disaster cut off communications between it and the rest of the world.
Lisala Folau, a retired disabled carpenter, told Tongan radio station Broadcom FM that he swam and floated from his island of Atata via two other uninhabited islands to eventually reach the main island of Tongatapu, a total distance of around 13 kilometres.
A transcript of his Thursday interview was translated and shared by a senior editor at the radio station, George Lavaka, on Facebook.” Read more at The Guardian
“Most fraternities at the University of Southern California will be allowed to open for parties again in March as long as they hire security guards to stand near bedrooms to prevent sexual assaults. The Los Angeles Times reports that the requirement for security guards is part of a set of new policies to be enacted after social gatherings were halted and some fraternities were suspended last fall in response to several allegations of sexual assault and drugging. The policies, drafted by student leaders, safety experts, and faculty members and then approved by university officials, also require frat members to undergo risk and sexual violence prevention training.” [Daily Beast] Read more at Los Angeles Times
Yakei, a Japanese macaque monkey, has become a rare alpha female.Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden
“If you like sports, soap operas or primatology, this is for you.
Yakei, a female Japanese snow monkey who lives in a nature reserve, violently overthrew a trio of high-ranking males (and her own mother) to move up the ranks and become the first female leader in the reserve’s 70-year history. Yakei’s ascent to alpha status surprised both scientists and reserve workers, who are now closely observing her reign.
But mating season could endanger her grip on power. ‘Mating season generally heats things up in Japanese macaque society,” one primatologist explained. “The environment becomes more competitive and tense.’
In other news from the animal kingdom, scientists discovered a unique piece of anatomy that prevents whales from choking every time they ingest giant amounts of seawater to filter out food.” Read more at New York Times
“For years to come, companies are going to need new creativity and flexibility to attract employees, chief economic correspondent Neil Irwin writes in Axios Capital.
Why it matters: For the past few decades, employers could hang out a ‘Help Wanted’ sign — literal or virtual — and count on people lining up looking for a job. That has been turned on its head.
Zoom in: Companies need to give workers a reason to want to work for them beyond a paycheck. Here's what Chris Floyd, a restaurant-industry recruiter in the D.C. area, tells Axios:
‘If you treat people with respect and compassion and see them as whole people, they feel that — and tend to be more loyal even if they could be making more elsewhere.’
Zoom out: In retail, even amid widespread labor shortages, Walmart hired 150,000 employees this past holiday season.
The company says its average hourly wage for store employees has risen to $16.40 — more than double the federal minimum wage.
And 400,000 employees have taken advantage of company-paid training programs in the last year alone.
“What's next: Boomers are retiring, millennials are approaching middle age. Gen Z, which follows them, is comparatively small, Neil explains.
The U.S. labor force will grow by a mere 0.2% a year from 2024 to 2031, the Congressional Budget Office estimated in July.
So employers can't count on a flood of new workers to fill empty jobs.” Read more at Axios
Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP
“Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says in her newest book that her mother taught a valuable lesson that's become a daily question:
‘Whom have I helped today?’
Sotomayor tells readers that she remembers seeing her mother — who died last year — helping others, both as a nurse and in the community where she lived in the Bronx, AP reports.
Sotomayor's book, ‘Just Help! How to Build a Better World’ — out Tuesday — challenges kids to also ask how they will help:
‘I want kids to do this intentionally, to think that this is a requirement of living almost, that trying to figure out how they will make a better world should be a part of the charge of their living.’” Read more at Axios