Harper’s Weekly Review

A lot of weird news this week, even by today’s standards:

US secretary of the interior Ryan Zinke, who has been investigated for violating the Hatch Act after tweeting a photo of himself wearing “Make America Great Again” socks, wore Ronald Reagan socks while touring the Carr fire sites in Northern California, and said that the wildfires were started by “environmental terrorist groups.”

★ Tuesday, 21 August 2018