Headlines from August 6, 2015

Kerry sees everybody winning in the Iran deal—if Congress can keep its finger off the trigger.
He can’t just spend four years upsetting Latinos and veterans. What Trump would do as president.
The CIA said it was getting out of the torture business, but Panetta’s correspondence suggests otherwise.
David Graeber: To overcome the circle of violence, we must scrub our culture of the notion that cruelty is admirable. #longreads
Ambrose Bierce’s “devil’s dictionary” updated for the 21st century.
Before Ferguson, families grieved anonymously for victims of police brutality; now that grief is public, but no less challenging.
The truth is I am not ashamed of my two targeted, nonviolent, singular and specific acts of revenge.
Three employees of Rand Paul’s PAC slapped with bribery charges for scheming to bribe an Iowa lawmaker in 2012.
First appearances of Jon Stewart’s many proteges. #video
See also: Where Stewart went wrong.
What’s the silliest thing I can think of, and then let’s take that thing really seriously. The pathos behind BoJack Horseman’s comic genius.
Social-media articles are normally about white teenagers—how does the rest of the world share online?
New Yorkers explain the ways they like to experience their city alone.
Sarah Hepola: Here is everything I learned in New York City.
Straight men having sex with one another isn’t historically aberrant, but so taboo that people assume it doesn’t really happen.
Remarkable five-year turnaround for theme parks culminates in a record-breaking 2015.
Photographs of a young Oliver Sacks, including his weightlifting days.
What happens when Oliver Sacks responds to your fan letter.