The Morning News

The Rooster crows! It's finals week in the 2019 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.

While taking separate honeymoons may seem extreme, highly individuated couples may view their independence and separate experiences as a strength of their relationship.

Now trending: separate honeymoons, otherwise known as “solomoons” or “unimoons.”

↩︎ The New York Times

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A graveyard for apps, services, and hardware killed by Google.

↩︎ Killed by Google 14h

It also makes clear that the Mueller report creates an extensive record on the obstruction question. And that may well be the point.

A legal guide to reading the letter sent by Bill Barr to congressional leaders on Sunday.

↩︎ Lawfare

19h

Biggest loser of the Mueller revelations? Joe Biden. Biggest winners, besides Trump? Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke.

↩︎ Marginal Revolution 19h

↩︎ TMN Newsletters 20h

"Grindr came along offering a much more direct route to sex with no real barriers. Why would people want to go to a club, pay a door entry fee, pay for drinks, when there might not even be anyone there they like?"

After 10 years of countless hook-ups, marriages, bullying, and violent crimes, Grindr struggles to still be a desirable platform.

↩︎ BBC News

20h

The correction fluid market—Wite-Out, Tipp-Ex, Liquid Paper—remains remarkably resilient, but no one really knows why.

↩︎ The Atlantic 20h

Rick Steves still travels obsessively, spreading the gospel of travel as a humanity-improvement engine.

↩︎ The New York Times Magazine 21h

Overwhelming snow and flooding have set off a humanitarian disaster on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

↩︎ The New York Times 21h

Despite a "devastating" Human Rights Watch report, IBM had no problem helping to build a surveillance system for Rodrigo Duterte.

↩︎ The Intercept 21h

A map shows the years that different nations around Africa gained their independence.

↩︎ Geopolitical Futures 21h

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to many of the world’s longest-ruling heads of state, but the trend may be reversing.

↩︎ Council on Foreign Relations 21h

Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire are the most stressed out states.

Facts learned from a hundred million messages received by the Crisis Text Line.

↩︎ Crisis Text Line

21h

"I took this as a sign that I should persevere." Jessica Francis Kane finds life lessons in overlooked trees.

↩︎ Flower Magazine 21h

Avuncular is most often used to describe the villainous father of a lesbian once employed by the Coors Brewing Company: Dick Cheney.

Myriam Gurba, writing in praise of the word “avuncular,” pays tribute to her uncle.

↩︎ The Paris Review

21h

Moving to stifle the left, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee bans hiring firms that work with primary challengers.

↩︎ National Journal 3d

The UK government announces it will miss nearly all of the environmental targets it set in 2010.

↩︎ The Guardian 3d

Collected local LA news footage of Depeche Mode fans in a frenzy over the release of Violator in 1990.

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Vasectomies in Spokane spike during March Madness, which provides an ideal time to do little else but recuperate on the couch.

↩︎ The Spokesman-Review 3d