April 27, 2016
By The Morning News
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- US destroys $800m of the Islamic State's cash reserves with air strikes.
- Big strike at UK's National Health Service results from a plan to make doctors work Saturdays without extra pay.
- Lucid, entertaining John Lanchester piece on what money is exactly and what it will become next.
- Startup culture is based on the fantasy of employee as entrepreneur—but there are still plebes and patricians.
- In 1980, LA had the most engineers in the world—why did the Bay Area end up the home of tech?
- Latest music video from M. Sage features a strange, beautiful trip to a botanical garden.
- In New York, kids enter foster care when their parents, too poor to afford legal help, can’t keep up with fees.
- Belgium extradites Paris attack suspect to face trial in France.
- Lawyer for suspected Paris bomber says his client "has the intelligence of an empty ashtray."
- Results from Tuesday's northeast primaries: Trump rolls, Clinton nears clinching.
- Clinton campaign accused of bumping Bernie's Facebook groups offline at key moments.
- Trump passes Romney’s popular vote total, and is likely to break the GOP record.
- When Trump dumps on Clinton for being a woman, Chris Christie’s wife is amused, not annoyed.
- IUDs as preview to the cyborg future.
- Representation of women and minorities in government-commissioned oil paintings restricted by Congress.
- What it's like to paint a president who can't escape his smirk.
- Man attacked in New York for looking exactly like Shia LaBeouf.
- RIP original Polvo drummer Eddie Watkins—here is “Tilebreaker” from the band’s second album.
- Smart people are frequently unhappy because they choose stupid methods for measuring success.
- Interval training, even down to a single minute of sprinting, may equal forty-five minutes of moderate exertion.
- Twelve-year-old girl runs half-marathon by mistake.
- William Finnegan on surf writing.
