August 8, 2016

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Filipino president Duterte links over a hundred government officials to the drug trade, encourages their extrajudicial murder.

Iran hangs scientist who spied for the US.

Russian athletes banned from competing at the Rio 2016 Paralympics following the country’s doping scandal.

Weightlifting lost its integrity as a sport long ago, but as a spectacle it’s better with drugs. #opinions

Michael Phelps wins his 23rd Olympic medal and his 19th gold, both records.

Thanks to Phelps, “cupping” has its Olympics moment.

Not to be featured anytime soon in the Olympics: Rapper Warrior Ninja. #video

The border between the Netherlands and Belgium in the Dutch village of Baarle zigzags through people’s living rooms.

The modern craze for pu’er can be traced back to 1994. Tracking the world’s most coveted tea.

Ultramarathoner adopts stray dog that followed him for 150 miles in the Gobi Desert.

Sixty years after his death, Einstein’s leather jacket still smells of pipe smoke.

Upper-class supremacy is nothing new in the US, where it shines brightest on people with bad teeth.

Condemning Trump’s comments on Muslims, Senator Collins points to a Somali community’s remarkable transition to Maine.

To be accepted as transgender in Japan, you need to be diagnosed with a condition the rest of the world agrees doesn’t medically exist.

Cooperativism, successful abroad, is the economic subtext of the Black Lives Matter platform.

Map shows the real value of $100 in each state in the US in 2016.

If you accept that student loan debt will only become a crisis if it increases individual costs beyond the returns to a college degree, you’ve already given up on public higher education.

The Library of Congress promised to archive every tweet, but open access would undercut a key Twitter revenue stream.

Your Monday twitter discovery: We Want Plates, a crusade against serving food on anything but.

The Iraq war version of War and Peace is a comic book.

A small moment in literature: Salman Rushdie comments on Michael Chabon’s post of Ayelet Waldman being shushed by Obama.