April 11, 2016
- Government surveillance planes routinely circle over major American cities, but don't fly much on weekends.
- The CIA's venture capital arm—who knew?—invests in a skincare start-up that collects users' DNA.
- UK spy agency helps prevent leak of the latest Harry Potter.
- David Cameron faces questions from Parliament over the Panama Papers.
- You don’t have to support fracking to be a liberal, but you are not a shill for the fossil fuel industry if you do.
- Jill Abramson: The appeal of Sanders is the spirit of protest.
- Surprising nobody, Donald Trump’s philanthropic claims turn out to be wildly inflated.
- JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon dismisses Trump extensively in the bank's annual letter to shareholders.
- A Malaysian stock scam paid for The Wolf of Wall Street, a movie arguably celebrating stock scams.
- Facebook is an oddly good marketplace for illegal weapons in the Middle East and North Africa.
- For many rising female architects, losing Hadid is like seeing a beacon in the field extinguished.
- Twenty percent of unaccompanied, undocumented minors are deported from the US because they don’t have access to legal counsel.
- Jakarta quits 20-year traffic rule—cars must have three or more passengers—because kids were being rented out as riders.
- Nudes are gone from Playboy—and so is a softness sought by many contemporary soldiers.
- Baseball’s perceived whiteness is the fault of reporters who fail to cover Latino players fairly.
- Related: Story behind the beeping baseball, which enables visually impaired players to bat.
- Ben Cohen on the Warriors' "death lineup" business strategy.
- Dispatch from a Welsh rally, or the worst spectator sport in the world.
- Profile of Es Devlin, set designer extraordinaire.
- Man breaks into Washington DC Five Guys branch to cook himself a cheeseburger.