Headlines from June 22, 2012

What you need to know about Fast and Furious and Eric Holder.
Looking to end the Syrian conflict, world leaders offer Assad a peaceful exile.
Every human being lives in his or her era. The current one is of infinite change. Excerpts from Castro’s newspaper column.
Up to 95 million workers could be unemployed by 2020 because the current number of low-skill jobs will no longer exist.
I don’t hire anyone who doesn’t speak a second language fluently. #video
The world’s oddest job interview questions, answered. #tmn
Gov. Christie champions New Jersey’s halfway houses, where abuse is rampant and criminals have easy access to their old lives.
[We’re not] poor, because we can afford to pay 98 bucks to him to see his show. Christie’s Springsteen love is unreturned.
Our latest TMN Weekender: LeBron Wept.
Some college baseball coaches are dropping hand signals in favor of calling an audible.
The last four years have created what economists call a “natural experiment” in economic policy.
Eight months after OWS, the movement is divided between anarchy and hierarchy. #longreads
Snack foods originally sold as medicines.
How a search engine “chooses” to answer queries is a form of free speech for computers. #opinions
Two-wheeler Lionel Shriver reveals her disdain for dilettante cyclists and overzealous motorists.
Related: How to not kill a cyclist. #tmn
If I work six-hour days with no breaks, it takes 28 days to grade essays for my 159 students. Why a public school teacher quit.
The real-life origins of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Don’t miss TMN’s Rosecrans Baldwin with Eleanor Friedberger of the Fiery Furnaces on Monday in NYC.
As U.S. politics tosses around immigration reform, high numbers of migrants are still dying while trying to cross the border.
In blackout-prone Baghdad, residents call on the “generator man” to deliver much-needed electricity. #video
Former KKK leader David Duke endorses anti-semitic former Black Panther for Brooklyn’s 8th Congressional district.
It takes a rare skill to be named “America’s Most Reckless Billionaire.” The schadenfreude sports fan.
U.S. viewership for Euro 2012 is up 82%.
Monty Python’s Greece vs. Germany. #video
The War of 1812, told three ways.
In 440 BC, Herodotus paid for his own book tour around the Aegean. Infamous book promotions.
After working at the farmers’ market, I’ve come to love fresh local food—and hate the people who buy it. #tmn
Our food is cleaner than ever, and our bodies are breaking down as a result. #opinions
Plus-size gym in Canada bans skinny people.
Olympic legend Jim Thorpe’s records should be recognized, not tarnished by petty bureaucracy. #opinions
The favorite shape assumed by the goblin fox for the purpose of deluding mankind is that of a beautiful woman.
A state-by-state breakdown of where not disclosing your HIV status is a crime.
Pigeon-winged books died on the ground, their pages lifting like feathers. Bradbury’s Economist obit.
Some women may perceive millions of colors the rest of us don’t see. via
“Modest proposals that can change the world” in the Atlantic’s Ideas Report.