August 4, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Trump racks up $64 million in small donations during biggest fundraising period yet.
- Citizens United turns the legal wall against foreign money in US elections into something more like a sieve.
- Clinton could defeat Trump with capitalism, simply by pledging to grow the economy.
- European-style welfare found to provide middle-class security without sacrificing GDP.
- Profile of Clinton's economists and financial policy advisors, who see her as one of their own.
- Hedge funds have given Clinton-backing groups about $48.5 million; for Trump-backing groups, about $19,000.
- Democratic and Republican fund managers tend to do equally well.
- Classic children's literature A Wrinkle in Time soars in sales after mention by Chelsea Clinton at the DNC.
- The World Bank runs an excellent bookstore in Washington D.C., but not for much longer.
- Tokyo has a growing population of over 13 million people, but house prices have barely increased in 20 years.
- Government policy and cultural imagination see a curiously pastoral future for post-nuclear site in Washington.
- Related: So Below, a web comic about territoriality, identity, and sacrificing land to capitalism.
- Many Silicon Valley giants are headquartered on toxic waste sites.
- Ikea is so disorienting it triggers fights in couples with communication issues.
- France proposes financing mosquespossibly with taxes on halal foodto prevent investments from radical overseas benefactors.
- Pope commissions research on role of deaconesses in early church, possibly to set stage for women to re-enter clergy.
- Reparations, investment, and police: Official Black Lives Matter platform signals new chapter, greater sophistication.
- Your Thursday Olympic oddity: Olympic pools need lifeguards, too.
- Reporter attempts to relax and become a better athlete by wearing a hoodie in Baker-Miller pink.
- Prenatal depression is just as common as postpartum depression, but much less discussed.
- Is mental illness an adaptation that guards against suicide?
- Millennials having less sex shouldnt avoid intimacy and the growth it encourages.
- Redditors encourage a mom to bond with her son by taking up competitive Super Smash Bros.
