June 21, 2016

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As expected, senators say no to strengthening background checks and preventing suspected terrorists from purchasing firearms.

On the gun vote: only 11 senators’ votes were up for grabs.

Gun control point and counterpoint: Leah Finnegan annotates an AR-15 owner’s apologia.

Every time a bomb goes off somewhere, every time there’s a shooting somewhere, [gun] sales spike like crazy.

On Brexit: the EU provides legal bulwarks for Britain’s “protected foods,” like Rutland bitter ale and Stilton cheese, which come from only one place.

The main political entity most likely to emerge from Brexit is “a standalone England.”

Trump’s war chest trails Clinton’s by more than $41 million, “the worst disadvantage of any major party nominee in recent history.”

Trump fires his campaign manager—who shouldn’t be blamed for the candidate’s plummeting poll numbers.

In an example of the Sanders effect, Nebraska Democrats elect a progressive, pipeline-fighting chairwoman.

Over half of 18- to 29-year-olds in America say they do not support capitalism—and no one should be surprised.

Recovery from the housing crisis drives a generation to rent.

Saudi women practice driving by visiting bumper car attractions at amusement parks.

The idea for a body transplant is the kind of thinking that has experts around the world alarmed at how far China is pushing the ethical and practical limits of science.

Protesters in Okinawa demand removal of US military after yet another murder of a local woman by an American.

A scenario that could happen, based on what already has. Here’s how a hacker could use our devices to take down New York City.

Unabomber says “some creep” is writing letters to journalists under his name.

Composer elegizes the Arctic from a floating piano at the edge of a melting glacier. #video

In internet news, it appears that “Crying Jordan” has passed the torch to “Crying LeBron.”

Tribune Publishing’s unbearable video about the “future of media” is not, in fact, a joke. #video

Jack in the Box trademarks “brunchfast,” but won’t explain how it intends to use the invented word.

A romp through the fonts of Blade Runner, which begins with the distinctly retro Goudy Old Style.

See also: The economics of Broadway.

We’re a ‘70s bar band that made it in the ‘80s. Twisted Sister toiled for years before making it big with a song that hardly represented their oeuvre.