May 9, 2016

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White House aide harangued for telling the NYTimes the Iran nuclear deal was sold on fiction.

North Carolina to defy federal deadline on bathroom law, risking $4.8 billion in federal funding.

“Rockstar” Democratic fundraiser Elizabeth Warren may find a Trump presidential run playing right into her hands.

Kenya closes all of its refugee camps, displacing over 300,000 people.

Bias and minor technicalities prevent thousands of immigrant children from attending school in the US.

UK teachers say four-year-olds increasingly unfit to begin school, thanks to parents’ smartphone addiction.

Hanging Vogue pictures of Kate Middleton in the National Portrait Gallery “makes British art stupid.” #opinions

Now is the time for the British people to stand up for globalization, liberalization and openness, as much of the rest of the world reverts back to nationalism.

See also: “The Evangelical Roots of American Economics.”

“Single-option aversion” finds people afraid to buy expensive items when only one option is presented.

Singapore draws more travelers than India, Indonesia or the Philippines, thanks to business conferences.

Examples of architectural details that make cities feel hostile—deliberately in many cases.

Since Obama’s Keystone XL veto, 20 other fossil fuel projects have been cancelled.

Nearly 24 years later, Jon Krakauer’s still trying to figure out what killed Into the Wild’s Chris McCandless.

I just point at things. Every episode of David Attenborough’s series Life, ranked.

Data visualization of Hollywood’s blatant sexism towards female characters.

Details from an appointment with Madam Boob Slapper, whose job is exactly what it sounds like.

One in six US hospital beds are in Catholic hospitals, which prohibit a range of reproductive health care services.

How a little-known crime bill signed by Bill Clinton 20 years ago gutted habeas corpus in America.