Why Women Feel the Heat | Mue ller’s Most Important Question

It’s long been argued that climate change will see our cities flooded, our forests reduced to ash and our weather turn increasingly violent and unpredictable.

But research has found that the downside of living in a hotter, less-climate-stable world may not be limited only to buildings, trees and weather: A recently released report suggests climate change may actually affect what’s going on inside our own heads. But as with many of the adverse effects of climate change, it doesn’t affect everyone equally. Women are disproportionately impacted.

What they need is a documentary. Sprinkle a few dramatic reenactments here, compelling witness testimony there, some ominous music and time-lapse photos of the White House with the sun going down. Maybe that would accomplish Democrats’ goal of getting people to care about the Mueller Report and swaying public opinion about impeaching the president. Hey, it worked on R. Kelly.

Instead, we got Wednesday. In his highly anticipated testimony before two U.S. House committees, former special counsel Robert Mueller haltingly referred his inquisitors to the text of the report in a thousand different ways and declined to read portions himself. The sphinxlike 74-year-old prosecutor did everything he could to avoid being interesting.

Forty-five years ago, an estimated 1 billion viewers worldwide tuned in to see an unforgettable boxing match in October 1974, one that took place at 4 am local time in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). In that match — long known simply as “The Rumble in the Jungle” — a 32-year-old Muhammad Ali knocked out undefeated heavyweight champion George Foreman in the eighth round, reclaiming the title in the process after a seven-year hiatus.

But it almost didn’t happen.