September 22, 2015

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The Burkina Faso presidential guard attempted a coup—the rest of the army wasn’t as enthusiastic.

Shkreli’s pharma profiteering is hardly unique, but it sheds light on an odious—and dangerous—practice.

Scientists think they’ve isolated dengue’s virulence to a single protein—the discovery could point to new treatments.

“Abortion is one of those rare issues in which public opinion never seems to budge all that much.”

Journalists can deceive, within limits, to chase a story—but what about the activist behind the Planned Parenthood tapes?

Politically, Francis isn’t liberal. He’s progressive. Americans use the terms as if they’re interchangeable, but they’re not.

A new study says that in four years of college, more than a quarter of undergrad women were sexually assaulted.

After Scott Walker quits 2016 race, ex-aide dishes on his strategic missteps.

Volkswagen in crisis after admitting it cheated on pollution tests for years.

VW says 11 million diesel cars worldwide are equipped with its emissions-deceiving software.

“Here is a rare public example of how power is wielded by Britain’s elite, of how control is exerted.”

A Chinese actor impersonates Obama with a mixture of real and fake English.

“Depending on your attitude to Chinglish, it is getting better / worse all the time.”

This year’s National Book Award longlist for nonfiction features the most women ever, seven of 10 nominees.

NPR is streaming Lin Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop musical Hamilton.

The moon is shrinking—Earth’s tidal forces are causing its surface to crack.

Father John Misty covers Taylor Swift in the style of Lou Reed.