April 15, 2016

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UK begins its official campaign over an EU exit, preparing for the “Brexit” referendum on June 23.

The average “democracy score” of 29 formerly Communist countries in Eurasia has declined every year since 2004.

Czech Republic may change its name to Czechia (CHECK-iya), which even its ministers can’t pronounce.

The cost of preserving Lenin’s body: $200,000 a year.

Hong Kong owner of world’s cheapest Michelin-starred restaurant to open a branch in New York.

America is a car society, but their damn good manners are not limited to cars. Advice given to Japanese travelers in the US.

Total wealth of China’s female billionaires is twice as much as the rest of the world’s combined.

Average American men cry more often than average Chinese women.

Second report confirms Clinton campaign’s use of a “static noise machine” outside a fundraising event.

Analysis of 70m comments left on the Guardian’s site since 2006: of the 10 most abused writers, eight are women, and the men are black.

Black students are three times more likely than white students to be suspended or expelled from US schools.

“Campus carry” laws may enable more suicides, researchers find.

Canadian PM Trudeau introduces bill that would legalize assisted suicide.

Prosecutors around the US says anti-Muslim threats on the rise.

Over three seasons as a guard, Jeremy Lin got the most fouls without a flagrant being called—and the fans have noticed.

Some people have told me my childhood was a disaster. Marti Leimbach on growing up privileged or not.

Kim McLarin on the two times in her life that she’s sought revenge.

Color guard team collaborates with Ira Glass and Nico Muhly. #video

Artist colorfully arranges garbage that was found on British beaches.

Sharp increase in oil production means oil tankers park in docks for weeks, waiting their turn to unload.

Former bondage film actress wages legal combat over the riches of her husband’s Sea Monkey empire. #longreads

Today’s fantastic Silicon Valley rumor involves Jack Dorsey’s beard clippings and Azealia Banks’s witchcraft.

Your lazy weekend read: the New Yorker’s Alex Ross on plagiarism (or not) in Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.”