February 19, 2016

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Ankara was bombed Thursday; Turkey blames Kurdish groups allied with United States against ISIS.

Myth of the “black vote” breaks down in Harlem, where some think Clinton will do more for blacks than Obama.

Clinton built a primary “firewall” in Nevada then left it alone, and now Sanders has more offices and ads.

Speechwriter crafts “a totally pandering stump speech” for a candidate who espouses only positions that please Democrats.

Gigantic chart tries to predict the states Sanders needs to win to capture the nomination.

You can keep your Kenny Loggins records. Socialism means giving up private property, but not personal property.

If Trump wins in South Carolina, he’ll need to be covered as the overwhelming Republican favorite.

Trump previewed his xenophobia when he called for the (proven innocent) Central Park Five to be executed.

Warren Ellis: It feels like the news out of the US is being generated by a computer that ate books by me.

New Yorker copy editor marks up a Donald Trump speech.

Survey finds British designers higher educated, lower paid, and less satisfied than American peers.

Sports journalists competing for scoops flaunt industry guidelines for quoting anonymous sources.

Before cable, political parties were beholden to centrism; now they are host bodies for social media hive minds.

After a lifetime of mental illness, woman explains why she chose electroconvulsive therapy.

Thieves’ Cant and Gobbledygook. Brief history of “anti-languages,” from Elizabethan ruffians to Polari.

David Bowie’s recent “Girl Loves Me” is a mixture of Polari and A Clockwork Orange’s Nadsat.

Bestselling author confesses to an addiction to cursing.

Alain de Botton considers marrying wisely a matter of public safety, like wearing a seatbelt.

Just because motherhood was for so long a constraint on women doesn’t mean we can’t also find it deeply meaningful and fulfilling.

Tennis has actually been around for ages. Visual history of women’s tennis.

By now it’s pretty clear that Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis were hot for each other.

As a market, adult incontinence has gotten too big and lucrative to remain in the shadows.