July 19, 2016

Cleveland’s GOP convention begins, and Melania Trump lifts a key passage from Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention speech.

RNC invites multi-level marketing pyramid schemer to speak.

“Never Trump” Republicans seethe after close call at the start of the convention.

Politically, the failed coup is a boon for Erdoğan. Turkey’s latest coup makes no sense: a summary of events.

Cowen: Bad moods are the other great global migration problem. #opinions

Canada will put a market-wide price on carbon this fall.

Your Tuesday white paper: More than one in four LBGT adults could not afford to feed themselves or their families at least once in the past year.

Following the privatization of academic publishers, social sciences papers are being deleted.

How to create bullshit statistics.

Difficulty of Tour de France climbs rated in comparison to American equivalents.

The Rio ratio that matters: 42 condoms per athlete.

Bill Simmons pays lengthy tribute to Serena Williams as one of the greatest athletes of all time.

Simmons’s tribute to Serena perhaps overdue, seeing how he used to “grade the Wimbledon babes.”

Reader’s tweet to a bookstore’s official Twitter account ends in matrimony.

Big leap in atomic-level data storage may be able to store the Library of Congress “in a grain of salt.”

“Silly though the Ice Bucket Challenge may seem now,” it had far-reaching effects for ALS research.

Malcolm Gladwell urges students not to attend Bowdoin or other schools where the food is good.

For women in the trucking industry, business as usual can include catcalling, harassment, and rape. #longreads

Profile of the great moral philosopher Martha Nussbaum, who tends to skip anesthesia.

Supreme consumes us instead of the other way around. Exegesis of a clothing brand: Supreme from 15 angles, from gender to “hyperobjects.”

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