First the president’s business panel resigned. Early last week, following President Donald Trump’s failure to condemn the white supremacists in Charlottesville, the great and the good queued up to quit the White House. Even more striking than the forceful language, though, lay a more subtle rebellion, deliberately designed to draw attention to Mr Trump’s notorious lack of interest in the written word. The first letter of the first word of each paragraph spelled out the word “resist”. On Wednesday its science envoy Dr Daniel Kammen resigned in protest at the president’s racism and sexism.

Source: The Guardian August 24, 2017 18:00 UTC