April 26, 2016

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Turkey arrests another European journalist for insulting Erdogan, second time in recent weeks.

In a free speech showdown, Egypt doesn’t just deny it murdered a student—it’s investigating a Reuters journalist over the very suggestion.

Audio from a news report about Kim Jong-un’s birthday applied to a parade held to honor Queen Elizabeth. #video

Obama pushes Germans on TTIP, the EU-US free trade deal.

See also: Only a fifth of Americans oppose TTIP, opposite of the situation in Germany.

America spends much more per-capita on prison guards than does the rest of the world—and 35% less on police.

Saudi Arabia plans to sell shares in its state oil company to pay for its renewable energy transition.

Western women who move to Syria to join ISIS are given one job: recruiting more Western women.

A shooting victim reunites with the man who helped save his life—who is later shot and killed. #video

It’s very easy to be distracted by the drama of warfare. Sebastian Junger will no longer write about war.

Primer on the buzz around Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Rachel Roy, Rachael Ray, and the ongoing war of hair and brunch.

Roundtable on Beyoncé‘s Lemonade, a glimpse of the “Black Girl Magic Kingdom, where thrones are made for sharing.”

“Rando non-New York” northeastern states cast their presidential-primary votes today, aka Super Tuesday IV.

He’s a good old-fashioned print reader. An hour with Donald Trump’s campaign strategist.

Related: “Universe Feels Zero Connection To Guy Tripping On Mushrooms.”

We may interact with reality, but we don’t experience it, says evolutionary biologist.

What happens when a “hard-line, religiously oriented organization inserts itself into a gaping hole in the United States’ mental health system.”

It’s bringing your living room with you. Report from a convention of people who choose to live in vans.

See also: Love in the time of #vanlife.

Sheepdog travels 240 miles in two weeks to return home to its previous owners.

Impossibilities in Google Earth.

In late April, the N.B.A. playoff season has an event horizon out there at the edge of Alpha Centauri. The playoffs need reform.