July 21, 2016

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American airstrike in Syria kills scores of civilians mistaken for ISIS troops.

The Philippines sees wave of extrajudicial killings—but violence directed towards addicted victims elicit little sympathy.

Erdogan uses coup as excuse to clean up civil service, with a travel ban for academics thrown in for good measure.

Vote your conscience. Cruz’s onstage snub of Trump provides Clinton with a concise message.

Whether or not Lucifer inhabits the Clinton corpus, the GOP is behaving like a small church.

Online porn streaming in Cleveland shot up by 184% this week; popular search terms: “teen, cuckold, granny.”

Trump offered a Faustian vice presidency to Kasich, but he wouldn’t take it.

Car dealerships allow haggling—uniquely in American retail—because it helps them set their prices.

Japan will stop producing VCRs by the end of the month.

Cartoon bear created to promote tourism in an overlooked part of Japan becomes a billion-dollar phenomenon.

Don’t eat gabagool, Grandma. Brief history of the Italian New Jersey Accent.

Racial conflict and terrorism tend to reinforce the conservative view that human nature is something that needs to be restrained.

Miami police shoot black healthcare worker after confusion over mental health patient.

Claims that police display no racial bias during shootings after traffic stops forget that races aren’t stopped equally.

You don’t become any race all by yourself. Affirmative action doesn’t discriminate against Asian-Americans.

Report on the loneliness of being black in today’s San Francisco.

Letterboxing—a sort of Victorian geocaching—is ancestor to Pokémon Go’s viral love of exploration.

Scavenging a Napoleonic battlefield for the treasures of dead men—weapons, clothes, teeth—was once brisk business.

In response to food waste concerns, Wal-Mart orders test run of cosmetically-challenged apples.

How to get second-degree burns from making margaritas in the sun.