June 27, 2016

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There really is no pleasing some people. Brexit leaders renege on promises.

Fact-checking Boris Johnson’s first post-Brexit article—he claims Scotland doesn’t want another referendum.

After poor Brexit showing, UK Labour Party wants to oust Jeremy Corbyn, who says he’s not going anywhere.

Post-financial crash, local governments outsourced emergency services to private companies, with horrifying results.

The federal agency established to detect the next financial crisis is discomfortingly quiet.

“Fully transparent” donations to state and national campaigns declined 47% between 2006 and 2014.

Weapons sent by the CIA and Saudi Arabia to Syrian rebels were “systematically” stolen in Jordan and sold on the black market.

Interactive report explores allegations of an American war crime in Afghanistan.

Another day, another report of a shady Trump-connected business targeting poor people with bad investment advice.

See also: Trump’s golf courses have mostly been “bad investments.”

His camera made black beauty and female beauty democratic. Hilton Als remembers street photographer Bill Cunningham, who died Saturday.

Pentagon to repeal ban on transgender troops next month.

After last year’s highly publicized breakout from Clinton Correctional Facility, inmates say guards made conditions “significantly worse.”

Overview of San Francisco’s inability to come up with any real plan to humanely deal with its homeless population.

Curious Dutch quasi-bureaucrats called “Night Mayors” proselytize progressive thinking about nighttime policy.

Extensive history of the booty call in pop culture.

Former chef John Birdsall interviews Anthony Bourdain on the event of his 60th birthday.

An oral history of Radiohead’s chatbot.

Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge left the band to study extraterrestrial life.

The expansion of the Panama Canal has been beset with corruption, broken promises, and the near-impossibility of maneuvering today’s “neo-Panamax” ships.