April 26, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Turkey arrests another European journalist for insulting Erdogan, second time in recent weeks.
- In a free speech showdown, Egypt doesn't just deny it murdered a student—it’s investigating a Reuters journalist over the very suggestion.
- Audio from a news report about Kim Jong-un's birthday applied to a parade held to honor Queen Elizabeth.
- Obama pushes Germans on TTIP, the EU-US free trade deal.
- See also: Only a fifth of Americans oppose TTIP, opposite of the situation in Germany.
- America spends much more per-capita on prison guards than does the rest of the world—and 35% less on police.
- Saudi Arabia plans to sell shares in its state oil company to pay for its renewable energy transition.
- Western women who move to Syria to join ISIS are given one job: recruiting more Western women.
- A shooting victim reunites with the man who helped save his life—who is later shot and killed.
- Sebastian Junger will no longer write about war.
- Primer on the buzz around Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Rachel Roy, Rachael Ray, and the ongoing war of hair and brunch.
- Roundtable on Beyoncé's Lemonade, a glimpse of the “Black Girl Magic Kingdom, where thrones are made for sharing.”
- "Rando non-New York" northeastern states cast their presidential-primary votes today, aka Super Tuesday IV.
- An hour with Donald Trump’s campaign strategist.
- Related: "Universe Feels Zero Connection To Guy Tripping On Mushrooms."
- Men read horrific tweets to women sports journalists—watch it for at least 45 seconds.
- We may interact with reality, but we don’t experience it, says evolutionary biologist.
- What happens when a “hard-line, religiously oriented organization inserts itself into a gaping hole in the United States’ mental health system.”
- Report from a convention of people who choose to live in vans.
- See also: Love in the time of #vanlife.
- Sheepdog travels 240 miles in two weeks to return home to its previous owners.
- Impossibilities in Google Earth.
- The playoffs need reform.
- A mini-doc about a National Geographic photographer and why he does what he does.
