August 18, 2016
- By pairing up with Bannon, Trump abandons centrists to focus on winning over those who already supported him.
- The RNC can't pull funding from Trump without risking low turnout and losses down the ballot.
- Paul Manafort further tied to facilitating secret lobbying by Ukrainian pro-Russian parties.
- Squatter sells ClintonKaine.com to Trump's marketers.
- Countries all over the world have walls at their borders, and none of them work.
- Drones will soon be cheap enough for any militarythey'll all cite Obama's policies as international precedent.
- The IRS is allowing depleted water resources to be deducted, but doesn't have any hydrologists on staff to root out fraud.
- Women are the fastest-growing incarcerated segment, and struggle with environments and services designed for men.
- Social media survey shows white people don't talk about race.
- Twitter's dismal record in curtailing abuse is even worse in light of its rapid removal of Olympics content.
- Against digital media.
- Related: NPR ditches comments.
- New York businesses will no longer have to individually contract out trash pickup, leading to major efficiency gains.
- Los Angeles's psychics, illusionists, and fortunetellers trick writer into becoming a better person.
- Science isn't driven by curiosityresearch is leashed to military and institutional strictures.
- Dutch could ban new gas-powered cars in the next decade.
- Florida prosecutor declined to charge George Zimmerman but has no problems sending kids to jail for life, even in murky cases.
- Profile of an architect who builds off-kilter Lifespan Extending Villas designed to destabilize inhabitants.