August 1, 2016
- Locals will be left with a still-toxic water supply after the Río Olympics.
- The "Movement" is a vast Olympics bureaucracy that rewards higher-ups and treats athletes "like replaceable cogs."
- Olympians complain about Río's lack of Pokémon Go.
- Russia hosts the "Military Olympics," with no NATO countries participating except Greece.
- Russia is breaking Geneva Conventions in Syria, and the State Department refuses to answer questions about it.
- Profile of a former Guantánamo detainee trying to build a life in Estonia.
- Uber uses a CIA contractor to try to bust unions in Seattle.
- The so-logical-it-hurts case for more female law enforcement officers.
- Kansas judge strikes down rule preventing over 17,000 people from voting in state elections.
- Skydiver falls 25,000 feet without a parachute and safely lands in a net at terminal velocity.
- In a centuries-old tradition, some parents in rural India let their babies be dropped 30 feet into a sheet.
- International adoptions by Americans dropped 75% in the last decade.
- Historical pictures of different dogs show that breeders "have intentionally selected for traits which result in diseases."
- History of the dietary supplement industry, which has been shady and full of lies since day one.
- See also: It's horrifyingly easy to make your own dangerous-but-legal dietary supplement.
- Pharmaceutical companies initially didn't market in-home pregnancy tests for fear that women would get hysterical and kill themselves.
- In Argentina, psychoanalysis is standard mental health treatment for kids.
- We don’t remember Roberto Clemente’s game-winning, walk-off, inside-the-park grand slam because baseball has long been racist.
- One reason Franzen hasn't written a book about race: he's never been in love with a black woman.
- Cynthia Ozick responds fabulously to a negative book review with a poem to the editor.
- Cynthia Ozick explains publishing to Robert Birnbaum.