The Morning News

Headline of the week and it's only Monday: "Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?"

↩︎ The New York Times 18h

President Donald Trump seems to have both increased the audience for partisan media and polarized partisan views about the media’s value and credibility—turning Republicans further against the media and rallying Democrats to its defense.

People actually aren’t trapped in filter bubbles. But they like to believe they are—or least that everybody else is.

↩︎ Trust, Media & Democracy

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A new report on Russian election-meddling finds a big emphasis on Instagram, with twice the audience engagement found on Facebook.

↩︎ National Public Radio 20h

"None of this means Trump will lose in 2020." A guide to the remarkably large field of Democrats planning to run for president.

↩︎ Vox 1d

From Dec. 12, 1986: The Smiths play their final show as a band.

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Between 2012 and 2017, the number of male domestic-abuse victims recorded by British police each year more than doubled.

↩︎ The Economist 1d

"I was just sitting at the bar," Barkley said. "And me and your dad were the only two people in there. And we just sit down and started talking."

A wonderful story by reporter Shirley Wang about how her family became friends with Charles Barkley.

↩︎ WBUR

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A look at the year in K-Pop as the genre struggled to adapt to its global prominence.

↩︎ i-D 1d

The most Googled TV show of 2018 is the Chinese period drama *Story of Yanxi Palace*.

↩︎ Sixth Tone 1d

A Swedish university sent a team of mercenaries to rescue a graduate student from the Islamic State.

↩︎ TheLocal.se 1d

"Facial boarding" has arrived in airports, and it's already caught an imposter trying to fly.

↩︎ Language Log 1d

The post–World War II, post–Cold War order cannot be restored, but the world is not yet on the edge of a systemic crisis. Now is the time to make sure one never materializes.

How the world ends—if we’re not careful.

↩︎ Foreign Affairs

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Gun deaths in America reach a record high with 39,773 people killed in 2017—an increase of more than 10,000 from 1999.

↩︎ CNN 1d

A simulation of 255,168 tic-tac-toe games shows the first player often wins if they go for the center square first.

↩︎ Stack Overflow 3d

Explained: Elizabeth Warren's Accountable Capitalism Act, intended to shift huge amounts of wealth to the middle class.

↩︎ Vox 3d

Joseph Thompson, a spokesperson for the Mesquite Police, said, “The suspect did use some racial slurs in each one of them, but it was insufficient to be able to prove that the offenses were motivated by racial bias.”

The number of hate crimes in the US is artificially low, and one reason may be that police don’t correctly classify attacks.

↩︎ BuzzFeed News

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The Editors' Longreads Picks

To bring Trump believers back to reality, look to cult deprogramming techniques.

↩︎ The New Republic 3d

Today's Republican Party is the product of a series of anti-establishment insurgencies, and it began with Goldwater in 1964.

↩︎ The Atlantic 3d

An awesome interactive map of the universe. (Which we're at the center of, naturally.)

↩︎ Chrome Experiments 3d

"I mean, before I thought the 900 was actually a real trick, but then I figured out it's just as fake as someone landing on the moon." Thrasher's hilarious spoof exposé blows the lid off how skate videos are really made.

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