This President Won't Be Deterred

Also: More Americans Are Eating Plant-Based Diets. This Might Help End Animal Prisons ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  [View in Browser]( | [Donate [WBUR]]( [WBUR](  [WBUR]( February 16, 2020 Dear Cog reader, This week: Martha Minow reminds us about [Edward Levy’s reforms]( at the Justice Department after Watergate. Nancy Gertner, also writing about controversy surrounding Roger Stone’s sentencing, warns that the president is running with [Dershowitz’s impeachment defense](. Fred Hewett calls out the “naked cynicism” of a plan to [plant a trillion trees]( (without curbing fossil fuel use) and Rich Barlow on new legislation to [curb factory farming](. Plus, Nancy Rapport on why [lockdown drills]( are harmful to kids, Andrea Campbell imagines a [Boston for everybody]( and perspectives on the [New Hampshire]( [primary](. — Cloe Axelson Cognoscenti, co-editor newsletters@wbur.org Must Reads url[This President Won't Be Deterred]( President Trump is taking Dershowitz's impeachment defense and running with it, writes retired federal judge Nancy Gertner. The Trump-Barr message could not have been clearer or more clearly wrong.   #%23%23[Twitter](  #%23%23[Facebook](    [More Americans Are Eating Plant-Based Diets. This Might Help End Animal Prisons]( Legislation proposed by Sen. Cory Booker would put a moratorium on building new concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, and prohibit the expansion of the largest ones. [Is Boston's Booming Economy Making Our City Better Or Destroying It? The Truth Lies Somewhere In Between]( Andrea Campbell grew up in the South End and Roxbury in the 1990s, where she saw gentrification happen first hand. Now, she writes, Boston must work hard to preserve the diverse and unique character of our neighborhoods.  [Barr’s Justice Department Is Ignoring The Lessons Of History]( Edward Levi, who served as attorney general under President Ford, devised institutional rules and structures to guarantee the integrity of the Justice Department's actions, writes Martha Minow. Current DOJ leaders should reacquaint themselves with his work. [Lockdown Drills Are Bad For Children. They Also Create A False Sense Of Security]( By prioritizing lockdown drills above all else, writes Nancy Rappaport, schools are abdicating their responsibility to take other actions -- like investing in mental health services for students -- that might help to prevent a mass shooting. [Planting A Trillion Trees Is A Worthwhile Undertaking. And Not Remotely Enough]( Planting a trillion trees while simultaneously bolstering the fossil fuel industry, writes Frederick Hewett, is a political fig leaf over the naked cynicism of a Republican Party that still doesn’t take the climate crisis seriously. Bookmarks "In his post-impeachment rage, Trump wanted vengeance, and he wanted us to know it. There was no one inside his Administration to stop him." ("[A President So Unhinged That Even Bill Barr Says He's Out Of Control]( The New Yorker) "It’s also like, Okay, everybody, stop acting so freaking shocked that I’m relatively well-adjusted. Look: I’m a pretty peerless person." ("[Macaulay Culkin Is Not Like You]( Esquire) "The spectacular collapse of my parents’ marriage has been too much for me. I am undone, untethered, dysfunctional." ("[When 80-Year-Old Parents Divorce]( New York Times) “ Be ready for [Trump] to do 300 mph in a 60 mph zone, switch lanes at will ... ignore all of the guardrails -- this time the constitutional ones. — Nancy Gertner, ["This President Won't Be Deterred"]( From The Archives ['They' Is Here To Stay. Get Over It]( My 12-year-old is now using "they" pronouns, writes Jane Roper. So far, people have been very supportive. But many also add, with varying degrees of consternation, that they just have trouble with the fact that "they" is a plural.      If you’d like to write for Cognoscenti, send your submission, pasted into your email and not as an attachment, to opinion@wbur.org. Please tell us in one line what the piece is about, and please tell us in one line who you are. 😎 Forward to a friend. They can sign up [here](. 📣 Give us your feedback: newsletters@wbur.org 📨 Get more WBUR stories sent to your inbox. [Check out all of our newsletter offerings.]( [WBUR]( [WBUR]  [WBUR]( [95289b97-66e8-43d4-a174-3bc3520a79a9.png]( [Instagram](  [Twitter]( [Facebook]( Want to change how you receive these emails? [Stop getting this newsletter by updating your preferences.]( I don't want to hear from WBUR anymore. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters.]( Interested in learning more about corporate sponsorship? [Click here.]( Copyright © 2020 WBUR-FM, All rights reserved. You signed up for this newsletter at wbur.org. Our mailing address is: WBUR-FM 890 Commonwealth AveBoston, MA 02215-1205 [Add us to your address book](