August 1, 2016

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Locals will be left with a still-toxic water supply after the Río Olympics.

The “Movement” is a vast Olympics bureaucracy that rewards higher-ups and treats athletes “like replaceable cogs.”

Olympians complain about Río’s lack of Pokémon Go.

Russia hosts the “Military Olympics,” with no NATO countries participating except Greece.

Russia is breaking Geneva Conventions in Syria, and the State Department refuses to answer questions about it.

Profile of a former Guantánamo detainee trying to build a life in Estonia.

Uber uses a CIA contractor to try to bust unions in Seattle.

Nearly nine out of ten cops are men. The so-logical-it-hurts case for more female law enforcement officers.

Kansas judge strikes down rule preventing over 17,000 people from voting in state elections.

Skydiver falls 25,000 feet without a parachute and safely lands in a net at terminal velocity.

In a centuries-old tradition, some parents in rural India let their babies be dropped 30 feet into a sheet.

International adoptions by Americans dropped 75% in the last decade.

Historical pictures of different dogs show that breeders “have intentionally selected for traits which result in diseases.”

History of the dietary supplement industry, which has been shady and full of lies since day one.

See also: It’s horrifyingly easy to make your own dangerous-but-legal dietary supplement.

Pharmaceutical companies initially didn’t market in-home pregnancy tests for fear that women would get hysterical and kill themselves.

In Argentina, psychoanalysis is standard mental health treatment for kids.

We don’t remember Roberto Clemente’s game-winning, walk-off, inside-the-park grand slam because baseball has long been racist.

One reason Franzen hasn’t written a book about race: he’s never been in love with a black woman.

Cynthia Ozick responds fabulously to a negative book review with a poem to the editor.

Here’s the story as briefly as I can make it. Cynthia Ozick explains publishing to Robert Birnbaum.