March 10, 2017

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Top State Department drugs official encourages other countries to decriminalize narcotics.

Some nine million Americans have private wells with dangerously high levels of lead, according to Virginia Tech projections.

Bus of journalists attacked, set on fire, during a press tour organized by the Committee Against Torture.

The unethical practice of publishing mug shots accounts for five percent of the Tampa Bay Times’s web traffic.

Flippant comment by former Gawker editor about sex tapes involving four-year-olds does not go well in court.

Of the nearly 30,000 North Korean refugees to make it safely to South Korea, 70% are women.

See also: Escaping from hell (North Korea) into purgatory (Russia).

Fifteen notable women of color who made waves in 2015.

A lot of people say that Venice is like Williamsburg, but it’s not. New York neighborhoods applied to maps of other cities.

Father applies Toyota’s management philosophy to family problems, suddenly is able to eat dinner with his kids.

Unrelated: Full history of Trump Steaks.

Now that waiting in line is considered “unenlightened,” upper-end stores hide the cash register.

Lots of information on whether money causes happiness; conclusion: more income makes you happier, but only a little.

During last night’s Democratic debate, former Obama aides sparred on Twitter over Clinton’s auto bailout attacks.

Sanders won Michigan in part by openly courting its Muslim population.

The always-excellent Peter Hessler on living-room politics in upper Egypt. #longreads

Her LOL functions as, essentially, a punctuation mark. The mutability of “lol.”

Comparison of US and UK covers for this year’s Tournament of Books titles. #tob16

Today in the TOB, Brad Listi reads The Sympathizer and Oreo, debut novels separated by 40 years.

Buy the commemorative ToB Memo Book for $2 and Field Notes will match your $2 and donate $4 to 826 National.