The Morning News

Agnes Giberne's *The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars* (1879) is "the foundation for a phenomenological star wisdom."

Abortion providers have been bracing for this. Here's a guide on how to access abortion services in post-Roe America.

↩︎ BuzzFeed News 2d

"Each...stage of the systematic stripping of people’s rights can be framed as 'not that bad' if viewed in contextless isolation."

↩︎ The Real News 2d

During a night out drinking, a worker lost a USB stick with the personal information of an entire city's half-million residents.

↩︎ BBC News 2d

"Compared to a lot of other things I have done, this was easy." How a hacker accessed personal details of Jacuzzi SmartTub owners.

↩︎ Motherboard 2d

If you played with a guy who was a better volleyer than you, you knew you needed to work on your volley. I remember helping Ashe with his backhand. We would play at Columbia or in the park. Once in a while we got a few beers afterward.

A Q&A with Dick Savitt, the self-taught tennis player who won the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 1951.

↩︎ The New York Times

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The fact that a social crisis of this scale is not constantly at the forefront of the national conversation is indicative of a pervasive elitism in many of the institutions on which the public sphere is grounded. This elitism may like to see itself as sophisticated and urbane, but it is simply brutish.

Thirty years after the Boipatong massacre, reflecting on how South Africa’s ANC degenerated from aspiration into corruption.

↩︎ New Frame

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In a new study on trust in journalism, only 26% of Americans trust the news, the lowest in all sampled countries.

↩︎ Reuters Institute 2d

By taking advantage of certain areas' lax labor laws, Amazon successfully mounted an unprecedented expansion into central Europe.

↩︎ BuzzFeed News 2d

Nguy Thi Khanh won a Goldman Prize for stopping new coal plans. Vietnam continued a pattern by arresting her for tax evasion.

↩︎ The New York Times 2d

A playlist by author Carlene Bauer of "songs about girls—about women. Mothers, daughters, sculptors, Jolenes."

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So far this year, male pro tennis players have earned 75% more prize money than women—it's the widest gap since 2001.

↩︎ Financial Times 2d

Wimbledon's requirement that players only wear white is ridiculous, and asks too much of women on their periods.

↩︎ The Telegraph 2d

"If you’re a fan of OXO, the very mention of the Good Grips handle has likely sent you into a Proustian reverie.".

↩︎ Slate 2d

He said [hoarse, Miles-ish whisper]: “I don’t pay you to just play to get applause.” He told us he paid us to experiment on stage... And I told him, some of it’s maybe not going to work, so what about the audience then? He said: “Don’t worry about it. I got the audience.”

Herbie Hancock on how Miles Davis pushed him to experiment in both music and technology.

↩︎ The Guardian

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When Power asked about banking records, Georgette indicated that most of the transactions were done in cash. Power asked how it was possible that hundreds of thousands of dollars were going back and forth in cash. “I keep it in my house,” Georgette said.

A fascinating look inside a scheme that used multiple businesses to steal millions through tax credits.

↩︎ Maclean's

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Jia Tolentino: State-level anti-abortionists are working to criminalize pregnancy—with Roe overturned, it will get worse.

↩︎ The New Yorker 2d

Recommendations for the tete-a-tetes—aka "gossip chairs"—that various talk shows should include in their sets.

↩︎ Dirt 2d

As Americans become more and more numbed to gun violence, we need emotional reaction videos to express what we often cannot.

↩︎ The New York Times 2d

"Management may regain the upper hand...as the Great Resignation becomes the Great Labor Slackening." A recession could end WFH.

↩︎ The Atlantic 2d