March 28, 2016

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Suicide bomber kills 70 on Easter Sunday at Lahore amusement park, injuring 300 others.

Why the US keeps killing ISIS’s second-in-command: because there are so many of them.

Between the CIA and the Pentagon, America funds both sides of a firefight in Syria.

US cities lower murder rates by paying criminals not to commit gun crimes.

Most solitary confinement prisoners share a cell, which makes them less prone to suicide but more likely to murder.

Brooklyn mailman arrested for no reason by plainclothes cops, who summarily crash their unmarked car.

Democrats been wrong on every policy issue—police brutality, the financial crisis—that matters to young people. #opinions

Astra Taylor: Liberals need organizers, not activists.

Cruz wins through “a mix of ruthless effort, ideological flexibility, and calculated kissing-up.”

Thrasher’s longstanding editor Jake Phelps is nearly too hardcore in his embodiment of skate culture.

Novelist, screenwriter, poet, food maven Jim Harrison dies at 78.

You have to give your entire life to this because that’s the only way it’s possible. Harrison in conversation with Robert Birnbaum.

Beautiful typography of classic cars.

In today’s semifinal match, Tournament of Books veteran Jeff VanderMeer faces a difficult decision. #tob16

Back by popular demand for a limited time, the official ToB16 T-shirt, designed by Knopf’s Janet Hansen.

Overwhelmed charity shop begs customers not to return used copies of Fifty Shades of Grey.

Not only has the quinoa craze benefited farmers in Peru—it’s even benefited quinoa consumers in the region who don’t actually plant the crop.

An obituary for Jesus, as commissioned by Vanity Fair.

Lin-Manuel Miranda: When 3.5 million of our citizens—the people of Puerto Rico—face the consequences of financial collapse, we should act.