March 21, 2016

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George Packer on how Tunisia, post-Arab Spring, became the Middle East’s leading exporter of jihadis.

Twenty-five percent of Puerto Rico will probably get Zika within a year; 80% or more may become infected.

Only 37% of Americans have the savings to cover a $500 car repair or a $1,000 emergency room bill.

Brockovich: I didn’t discover Flint — the community wrote to me.

Thanks to a law from 1887, there’s a legal scenario where John Kasich could single-handedly pick the next US president.

Colorist of artificial fish. Occupations held by Britons in 1881.

Years after becoming a model for desegregation, Charlotte schools face old tests all over again.

Why it’s the duty of every white American to burn a Confederate flag.

Maryland scrubs “Northern scum” and other Civil War phrases from its official state song.

Today, the probability of a one-word song title is two and a half times greater than in the 1960s.

Jogging in groups requires government registration in Burundi, and can only be done in approved venues.

Steph Curry still sees room for improvement in his game, in focus and turnovers.

“The savanna theory” finds that smart people are less happy when they spend more time with friends.

Sociologists take issue with pundits who play fast and loose identifying the white working class with intolerance.

A cadre of corporations, more powerful than many countries, “unsettles the notion of a global superpower.”

In a newly documented Amazonian tribe, speakers refer to time by pointing to where the sun would be.

Visual guide to trash discarded by employees of the world’s largest particle accelerator.

“In the Event That You Have Accidentally Swallowed the Higgs Boson.”

“Graphophilia” is a fetish for handwriting.

Today in the Tournament of Books, Kit Rachlis meets Bats of the Republic and The Sympathizer.

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