August 11, 2016
- Away from Rio, Brazil's Senate begins impeachment against Rousseff.
- Philippines presidents latest bad idea: calling the US ambassador a gay son of a whore on TV.
- There's always a bit of truth to a dangerous punch line, especially when it's joking about taking up arms against a political rival.
- Democratic outreach to Asian Americans in this election may tip Georgia to Clinton.
- The anti-terror security state at age 15.
- DEA to reveal its long-awaited decision on whether to regulate marijuana differently.
- FYI: Marijuana is legal in some form in 24 states.
- Drug cartels recoup profits lost to legal marijuana by pushing heroin instead.
- Economics the discipline is to the economy... as chess theory is to medieval history.
- Fewer American women than ever are having babies.
- University of California spends $9,000 on chancellors office escape hatch in case of student sit-ins.
- Justice department finds widespread racism in Baltimore PD.
- When mental health professionals systemically misdiagnose patients of color, treatment looks more like punishment.
- Three of the top medical journals rejected 14 out of 14 of the top-cited articles of all time in their discipline.
- Baseball treated A-Rod like "an unwanted dog" while he was at the top of his game, in part because he acted like one.
- British police investigate possible poisoning of a Wimbledon player, potentially by an organised crime betting syndicate.
- Girl Scouts introduce two new s'mores cookies with the same name.
- Facebook unleashes update to block ad-blocking software.
- A case of digital misidentification can sometimes translate into an intimate connection with others.
- We should give up on trying to make people less prejudiced and make our systems less open to bias.
- Man becomes new wine queen for German town of Kesten when no woman wants the job.