February 4, 2016

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UN panel says Julian Assange is being arbitrarily held by the UK under threat of arrest.

Trump says Cruz stole Iowa with voter fraud and wants his win disqualified.

Iowa doesn’t decide the nominee. But it does send a clear signal about the direction a party’s taking.

Elif Batuman reflects on wearing a head scarf in modern Turkey—“as if I were duping people into being kind to me.

Blow: White America is torn between two increasingly distant visions.

Obama’s speech on Muslims tries to counter the past two months’ nearly 100 anti-Muslim hate crimes.

Black Lives Matter activist files to run for mayor of Baltimore.

Cam Newton is being set up as the polar opposite of Peyton Manning—and that tells us a lot about today’s America.

It’s exciting. It feels like the team is a family. Report from last weekend’s Super Bowl in China.

Researchers test collar based on bighorn sheep to protect football players’ necks.

CDC says women who can have kids and don’t use birth control shouldn’t drink; women say they’re not incubators.

Dating websites are stuffed with bots full of flattery.

Women who watch romantic comedies are more accepting of men acting like stalkers, study finds.

Trump supporters are 11% more likely to expect sex on a first date than Clinton supporters.

Pentagon offers to freeze and store soldiers’ eggs and sperm, hoping to retain young troops.

American college students continue to graduate into fields—performing arts, psychology—that don’t have jobs for them.

In half of America, you can carry a concealed weapon without having to prove you know how to shoot it.

In true crime stories, “the greater the narrative self-doubt, the higher the brow.”

Another botched execution: Georgia’s Brandon Astor Jones opens his eyes six minutes in.

Texas maintains a database of death row inmates’ last words; most are “positive expressions.”

Finally: a search engine of Simpsons screengrabs.