April 25, 2016
- Obama meets with EU leaders to address unity problems, nixes the idea of a UK-US trade agreement.
- Cruz and Kasich join forces, each to bow out in certain states to let the other go alone against Trump.
- America should embrace Europe's "right to roam" laws, where hikers don't get in trouble for trespassing.
- Clinton campaign coordinates with PACs to spend millions of dollars on social media commenting.
- Latest Republican excuse on climate change: Palestine.
- Clandestine club for Hollywood conservatives dissolves; speculation says infighting over Trump drained commitment.
- “Game of loans: Westeros finds itself in a sovereign debt crisis.”
- Hollywood complains about needing to cast white people to play Asian characters, blames Asian actors for not being bankable stars.
- Fascinating window into Prince’s home with the Los Angeles Jehovah’s Witnesses.
- “A short film about a birthday party you weren’t invited to.”
- Story of an American soldier who became a brutal enforcer for an international cartel.
- In case you haven't been told to read it yet: Tiger Woods and the Navy SEALs.
- When the FBI’s bluff is called on flawed hair forensics, doubts grow about thousands of past convictions.
- If you're wondering why Goldman's mortgage-securities bankers didn't go to jail for the "big short"—read the SEC emails.
- In a harrowing United Shades of America, black comedian W. Kamau Bell joins the Klan for a cross burning.
- Harriet Tubman once led Union gunboats into Confederate waters to free 750 slaves—and other badass feats from the new face of the $20 bill.
- Poet Eileen Myles’ biggest payday came when she was fictionalized on a TV show.
- Your Monday poem: "Halloween in the Anthropocene, 2015" by Craig Santos Perez.
- Ninety-year-old ex-senator tells the story of how he lost a wife and found a husband.
- I wish my fellow Christians would resist the urge to spice up the Seder with a hearty dose of the New Testament and Jesus.