Tracy Mumford

Proponents of cursive point to studies that link handwriting to better information retention.

And New Jersey's governor also said it can help people read the original U.S.

Constitution.

Not everyone is on board.

One education professor told The Times that while handwriting is important, valuing cursive specifically might just be a nostalgia thing.

It is true that reading old school cursive is a dying art.

The National Archives actually put out a call for help last year looking for volunteers who could read the script on old documents.

That is the kind of task that would require remembering what an uppercase cursive Q looks like.

Those are the headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

We'll be back tomorrow.

From The New York Times, it's The Headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

Today's Monday, January 19th.

Here's what we're covering.

President Trump's campaign to make Greenland part of the United States escalated this weekend as he threatened to slap tariffs on European nations that don't cooperate with him.

He announced he would hit some of the U.S.

's closest allies, including Britain, France and Germany, with a 10 percent tariff starting in February.

And he said he'd ramp it up to 25 percent in June, quote, until such time as a deal is reached for the complete and total purchase of Greenland.

The countries he targeted are all NATO members that have expressed solidarity with Denmark in the face of Trump's repeated demands that it should give up control of Greenland.