March 2, 2016

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Super Tuesday sees Democrats solidify around Clinton, Republicans vent rage via Trump.

The GOP faces two endgames: Donald Trump for president or a contested convention.

The best article we’ve seen to explain Trump’s success: Amanda Taub’s “The rise of American authoritarianism.”

However: Trump often wins with the support of only 6% of a state’s voters.

Sanders upends Democratic voting demographics, excelling with poorer whites.

We have to move away from this view of ‘monolithic blackness.’ Nine percent of black Americans are immigrants, nearly triple the number in 1980.

Artist Anish Kapoor gets exclusive rights to paint with “Vantablack,” the blackest black that has ever existed.

Like certain words in poetry, Buddha faces contain many meanings—“and the sculptural convention that allowed this was asymmetry.”

Selection of photos taken over the last year by NASA’s Scott Kelly.

China builds full-sized aircraft carrier made entirely of concrete.

McDonald’s creates happy meal boxes that turn into virtual reality headsets.

Now available: The official 2016 Tournament of Books T-shirt, from book designer Janet Hansen—get some! #tob16

Record number of nominees—the Pope, Merkel, Trump—put forward for the Nobel Peace Prize.

California experiences rare “super bloom” of wildflowers in Death Valley, thanks to El Niño.

America’s first official climate refugees are members of a Louisiana tribe living on a shrinking island.

Declassified bin Laden writings call for Americans to read Thomas Paine, overthrow the oligarchs (and the Jews).

Africa’s divisions make regional trade difficult—and economies of scale hard to come by.

Sorting through the numbers that are child-rearing in capitalism: insurance, school costs, mortgage payments.

I don’t mind a bit being labelled a suicide. Confessions from a guerrilla right-to-die group in Canada.

A teenager sent her boyfriend countless texts encouraging him to kill himself—is she his killer?

Detailed but engaging fact-check of the eyewitness who saw OJ in his Bronco but was dismissed by the prosecution.