August 10, 2016

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Trump suggests “second amendment people” should shoot Clinton if she becomes president.

Reminder: Trump hasn’t spent a dime on TV advertising.

Momentum grows for boycotting the Dominican Republic, where racist immigration policy is deporting Haitians en masse.

Democrats in Congress break from Obama to condemn Brazil’s coup.

Guantanamo sees biggest test of clemency versus security—for the man used as America’s “guinea pig of post-911 torture.”

Obama’s bragging on clemency is undeserved, when ”even Nixon let more people out of jail.”

It would take a black family over two centuries to accumulate the same wealth the average white family has today.

Most of Wisconsin’s 61 black neighborhoods are jails or prisons.

Secret sub bases aren’t so hidden when their icy cover melts because of climate change.

How the US clobbered the competition in the women’s gymnastics team final.

Photos of parents while their daughters win Olympics gold.

Adults may love being nostalgic about their summer jobs, but most of today’s teenagers don’t work.

American Bar Association bans sexist language, in part to prevent male judges from calling female attorneys “honey.”

ISIL demands many things of its top commanders, but good Arabic isn’t always one of them.

Trends in home design: Model rooms from the 1970s.

Wind throb, or, “the Helmholtz resonance,” drives drivers crazy, and it’s only getting worse as cars become “tighter.”

Financial technology promised to make banking cheaper, but the industry’s leading lights have dimmed.

How Silicon Valley spreads the same sterile aesthetic—“Airspace”—across the world

The astonishing story of Peter Doig, artist accused of disowning his own painting.

The contemporary art boom is hurting museums’ bottom line.