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Jared KushnerThe memoirs of Breaking History, will be published on August 23. If you’ve been clicking the pre-order button and wondering if the former first son-in-law might have written something worth reading, The New York. Times is here to tell you: MOST SURE IT DIDN’T. In a historically wild review published Wednesday, book critic Dwight Garner writes that, essentially, Breaking History is one of the worst things he has ever read. Of course, The New York Times doesn’t just tell its audience, “This book sucks, don’t buy it unless you plan to use the pages to line your birdcage,” and…

Rogue Retreat founder Chad McComas hugs longtime friend Scotty White of Medford during a rally Wednesday in Hawthorne Park to support McComas. [Jamie Lusch / Mail Tribune] Rosann Thiessen of Medford helps organize a rally in support of Chad McComas at Hawthorne Park in Medford on Wednesday. [Jamie Lusch / Mail Tribune] After the head of Rogue Retreat was terminated Tuesday, the nonprofit said Wednesday it laid off 25 people last week. A crowd of about 30 people showed up at Hawthorne Park Wednesday afternoon to show their support for Chad McComas, the former executive director of Rogue Retreat who…

No one would ever accuse Joe Biden of being extremely online. As a candidate, he hinted that he wasn’t particularly interested in social media. In a reversal typical of the political world, his aides let it be known that a communications team crafted his tweets and posts, not Biden himself. His campaign focused on winning local TV markets, not winning the morning with Twitter cognoscenti and “Morning Joe” regulars on MSNBC. In an age of news microcycles that come and go like the wind, and running against a sitting president who tweets around the clock about what seems to be…

WASHINGTON – Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Wednesday issued a scathing rebuke of her agency’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it had not responded quickly enough and that had to be reviewed. “To be frank, we are responsible for some pretty dramatic and public failures, from testing to data to communications,” he said in a video distributed to the agency’s approximately 11,000 employees. Dr. Walensky said the CDC’s future depended on whether it could absorb the lessons of the past few years, during which much of the public lost confidence…

(Indeed, vice presidents have testified before Congress, but only on rare occasions.) In recent weeks, the panel has been debating what to do with some of the more prominent potential witnesses, such as Mr. Pence or Mr. Trump himself, and lawmakers have not reached a conclusion on how to proceed with either man. How Times reporters cover politics. We trust our journalists to be independent observers. So while Times staff members can vote, they are not allowed to endorse or campaign for political candidates or causes. This includes participating in marches or demonstrations in support of a movement or donating…