August 18, 2016

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By pairing up with Bannon, Trump abandons centrists to focus on winning over those who already supported him.

The RNC can’t pull funding from Trump without risking low turnout and losses down the ballot.

Paul Manafort further tied to facilitating secret lobbying by Ukrainian pro-Russian parties.

It’s just 15,000 less dollars that the Trump campaign has. Squatter sells ClintonKaine.com to Trump’s marketers.

Countries all over the world have walls at their borders, and none of them work.

Drones will soon be cheap enough for any military—they’ll all cite Obama’s policies as international precedent. #longreads

The IRS is allowing depleted water resources to be deducted, but doesn’t have any hydrologists on staff to root out fraud.

Women are the fastest-growing incarcerated segment, and struggle with environments and services designed for men.

Social media survey shows white people don’t talk about race.

Twitter’s dismal record in curtailing abuse is even worse in light of its rapid removal of Olympics content.

When is a distribution method that harms users’ brains no longer an acceptable cost of doing business? Against digital media.

Related: NPR ditches comments.

New York businesses will no longer have to individually contract out trash pickup, leading to major efficiency gains.

Los Angeles’s psychics, illusionists, and fortunetellers trick writer into becoming a better person.

Science isn’t driven by curiosity—research is leashed to military and institutional strictures. #longreads

Dutch could ban new gas-powered cars in the next decade.

Florida prosecutor declined to charge George Zimmerman but has no problems sending kids to jail for life, even in murky cases.

Profile of an architect who builds off-kilter “Lifespan Extending Villas” designed to destabilize inhabitants. #longreads