August 4, 2016

Trump racks up $64 million in small donations during biggest fundraising period yet.

Citizens United turns the legal wall against foreign money in US elections into something more like a sieve.

Clinton could defeat Trump with capitalism, simply by pledging to grow the economy. #opinions

European-style welfare found to provide middle-class security without sacrificing GDP.

Profile of Clinton’s economists and financial policy advisors, who see her as one of their own.

Hedge funds have given Clinton-backing groups about $48.5 million; for Trump-backing groups, about $19,000.

Democratic and Republican fund managers tend to do equally well.

Classic children’s literature A Wrinkle in Time soars in sales after mention by Chelsea Clinton at the DNC.

The World Bank runs an excellent bookstore in Washington D.C., but not for much longer.

Tokyo has a growing population of over 13 million people, but house prices have barely increased in 20 years.

Government policy and cultural imagination see a curiously pastoral future for post-nuclear site in Washington.

Related: “So Below,” a web comic about territoriality, identity, and sacrificing land to capitalism.

Many Silicon Valley giants are headquartered on toxic waste sites.

Ikea is so disorienting it triggers fights in couples with communication issues.

France proposes financing mosques—possibly with taxes on halal food—to prevent investments from radical overseas benefactors.

Pope commissions research on role of deaconesses in early church, possibly to set stage for women to re-enter clergy.

Reparations, investment, and police: Official Black Lives Matter platform signals new chapter, greater sophistication.

Your Thursday Olympic oddity: Olympic pools need lifeguards, too.

Reporter attempts to relax and become a better athlete by wearing a hoodie in Baker-Miller pink.

Prenatal depression is just as common as postpartum depression, but much less discussed.

Is mental illness an adaptation that guards against suicide?

Millennials having less sex shouldn’t avoid intimacy and the growth it encourages. #opinions

Redditors encourage a mom to bond with her son by taking up competitive Super Smash Bros.

by via The Morning News