August 31, 2015

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Obama officially changes the name of America’s highest peak from McKinley to Denali.

Democratic candidates will soon gain access to the most powerful voter targeting tool yet created.

Jeb undermined his cool reputation with an absurd Katrina response: a quarter-billion-dollar cruise ship.

Students and parents protesting Chicago school closures enter 11th day of hunger strike.

A veteran documented his slow descent into suicide for an unlistening Facebook audience.

Meet the writer behind the movement to get vets writing.

New Tesla scores 103 from Consumer Reports—it’s the first model to break the century mark.

Some amazing technologies never actually monetize, and Twitter might be one of them.

Oliver Sacks died this weekend; read from a collection of his late-life meditations.

“Since Google failed me, I wished that I knew an expert I could ask. And that’s when I thought of Oliver Sacks.”

Charts depict just how dominating Serena Williams is, as she eyes a calendar-year grand slam at the US Open.

Maria Sharapova is the world’s best-paid female athlete, but Serena Williams has bested her 17 times straight.

Unbelievable menus from Atlantis, Avalon, and Shangri-La.

“Everyone else is becoming fungible, sought only for their reliability and low cost.”

Flying moose, cloaked bison, a turtle in the bathroom: the moving-out of a natural history museum. #photos

Kyoto tourism is booming—enough that the city issued a guide for visitors who don’t properly use toilets.

See also: “The Morning News Guide to Urban Etiquette: New York City.”