May 24, 2016

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The GOP has a beef with the IRS, and now Congress is considering impeaching the agency head.

“Of all the things that Congress could be truculent about, fighting an epidemic is the worst.” #opinions

Campaign finance reform that strips away recent rulings would still have to deal with entrenched disparities.

Sanders’s progressive movement could be bigger than his doomed presidential run—unless his campaign snuffs it out.

Leaked transcripts stun Brazil, reveal Rousseff impeached by ministers hoping to save their own skin.

Facebook denies political bias, but will change how Trending Topics are tracked.

Algorithms used in sentencing incorrectly predict recidivism twice as often in black subjects who don’t re-offend.

“Police spend a large part of their time distributing crime to the sorts of people who seem likely to be criminals.”

To improve city lives, a study suggests hyper-focusing on individual blocks to promote change.

South Asian heat wave melts roads in Gujarat.

Left out of Obama’s Vietnam headlines: news of activists jailed over a coast littered with poisoned fish.

From the depths of the ocean to the reaches of space, Chinese scientists are going big.

Lake Mead hits an all-time low—it’s time Western states accept that adapting to water scarcity will require some creativity.

In nature, aging doesn’t follow one model.

Bob Dylan turns 75 today, and you still don’t know which album is your favorite—our quiz will help.

Thanks to Hamilton and The Lion King, Broadway had another record-breaking season.

Today’s art market is out of control, and auctions are where emotions trump sound investing. #video

Adele’s new contract will be second only to Jay Z’s in wealth.

White supremacists crush on Taylor Swift. (She doesn’t reciprocate.)

A multimedia-rich, oral history of Run-DMC and Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way.”

In order to compete with movies and video games, Lego toys have become more violent—it worked, by the way.

See also: A common nomenclature for Lego families.

Forty years of data on the American diet, visualized.