August 2, 2016
- Philippines files landmark human rights case against 47 major carbon polluters.
- International court orders former Chadian dictator Hissèn Habré to pay his 4700 victims up to $34,000 each.
- Polls show that Turks are suspicious of every country that isn’t Turkey, but "levels of anti-Americanism are particularly high."
- Obama can break with tradition and choose to not allow Trump to receive classified intelligence briefings.
- Harry Reid advocates giving Trump false information at briefings.
- Khzir Khan is now being smeared by Trump-linked conservatives as having Muslim Brotherhood ties, which he does not.
- Trump begins to lay groundwork for delegitimizing a loss in the general election.
- Profile of Trump's favorite economist, who says that future war with China is “very likely.”
- See also: The economics of university presses.
- What editing Snopes is like in 2016.
- Interactive tool demonstrates the economics of why affordable housing is so scarce.
- America's increase in violent crime is taking place in a small group of neighborhoods—not an across-the-board spike.
- Jails now give released inmates prepaid cards with the cash they had on them when arrested—without telling them about the cards' sky-high usage fees.
- The war on doping in sports has been about as effective as the War on Drugs: not at all.
- South Africa offers marathon through a park filled with leopards, buffalo, elephants, and lions.
- Harvard's single-gender "final clubs"—frat houses by another name—face extinction.
- Sales of cargo shorts have fallen over the past year for the first time in a decade.
- Common cooking mistakes that drive professional chefs crazy.
- Your Tuesday moment of clarity: Peter Thiel wants to stay alive forever with young people’s blood.