July 15, 2016

Bastille Day attack in Nice leaves France reeling, with at least 80 dead after truck drives through crowd.

First-person account from local journalist on the scene.

Project to make fun of ISIS takes laughter seriously.

Your Friday white paper: Rich people favor military rule more than poor people do, and the ratio is increasing.

Barack Obama just became the first sitting president to publish a scholarly article.

If you don’t monitor the mosques, this whole thing is a joke. Gingrich wants to test every Muslim in America for extremism.

Republicans meet in secret to try to forestall convention chaos, mostly without success.

GOP senators skip Cleveland to mow the lawn and go fly-fishing.

Convention panel mostly kills attempts to deny Trump the nomination.

Harvard study concludes that the primaries’ “horse race coverage” boosted Trump.

See also: Politico Playbook set the vacuous tone for a new “insider” attitude towards political journalism; good riddance.

Boris Johnson booed during his first public appearance as UK’s foreign secretary

New Prime Minister May immediately axes department for energy and climate change.

The future of no-drilling dental treatment has been here for a century, but only now available in the US.

Since Sandra Bland, 811 people have died in jail cells, one third in the first three days of incarceration.

Chicago police investigation concludes that bad cops are rarely, if ever, punished.

Young woman reveals her tattoos to her religious, ink-hating parents via video with choir. #video

Weekend read: “The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Chuck Close.”

VR could become the harder drugs to classic computer gaming’s marijuana.

Round-up of good photographers currently thru-hiking in America.

by via The Morning News