Another white male.
Jeff Sessions, ousted as Attorney General, is expected to be only the first Trump Cabinet member to go in a post-midterm shuffle. 1/18
Hundreds of protests planned across the US “to demand Acting US Attorney General Matthew Whitaker recuse himself.” 2/18
Some animations help answer the big question: So was it a blue wave, or what? 3/18
In 2016, Donald Trump won Texas by nine points. “Ted Cruz’s winning margin this year sits at about 2.7.” Texas is a purple state now. 4/18
After the election, the percentage of women in the US Congress still only ranks around 80th out of 193 nations worldwide. 5/18
Trump is just the third president in 100 years to gain Senate seats in a midterm election, but lose House seats. 6/18
Everything you need to know about Trump revoking White House credentials for CNN’s Jim Acosta. 7/18
"Donald Trump doesn’t so much name his kids as brand them." A quick essay on Trump's love of marketing. 8/18
A white male shooter kills 12 in a country bar full of college students outside of Los Angeles. 9/18
Reports say the S&P 500 has a higher daily return when the McRib is available from McDonald’s. Actually, the truth is much messier. 10/18
A proliferation of odd terms in cryptocurrencies is a sign that new ideas and possibly important new technologies are afoot. 11/18
Cadavers are still used to perfect future generations of crash test dummies. 12/18
Sarah Hepola on our “new age of fertility enlightenment,” in which an egg-freezing revolution has come to pass for millennials. 13/18
A new book about very old bodies offers surprises from the lives of medieval dentists, doctors, quacks, and artists. 14/18
Teenage and college bedroom decor really hit its stride in the 1970s when the poster industry exploded. 15/18
Without much evidence, a claim says Brutalism is back in architecture, though not "your grandparents’ Brutalist housing schemes." 16/18
Japan’s dry humor is on display in some examples of everyday cosplay—e.g., “man who spilled coffee on himself”—from a recent Halloween event. 17/18
“I’m a very quiet person with strong opinions.” An Australian train driver spends his free time building a fake island world. 18/18
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