August 9, 2016
- Senator Collins of Maine says she won't vote for Trump over "his constant stream of cruel comments."
- Fifty former national security officials say Trump would be "the most reckless President in American history."
- Nine beliefs of the neo-liberal.
- How Paul Krugman made Trump possible: by wasting purple prose for years on mainstream Republicans.
- Fox News executives reportedly ignored harassment complaints brought directly to them.
- Suicide bombing at Pakistan hospital kills dozens of human rights advocates.
- Chinese tourist spends two weeks in German migrant hostel after mistakenly applying for asylum when he only wanted to report a stolen wallet.
- In previous Olympics news, let's relive Mary Carillo's amazing badminton rant.
- How the media is covering the Hungarian swimmer rumored, never alleged, to be doping under the abusive influence of her husband-coach.
- "Lilly King's improbable journey to the finger-wagging frontline of swimming's Cold War."
- Why it's hard to regulate payday loans: short-term lenders adapt too quickly.
- Hackers shift their attention from retail to healthcare.
- Apple applies to receive utility license to sell excess solar power.
- Xavier University in Cincinnati installs North America's first pizza ATM.
- Industrial "avocado time machine" will keep guacamole green for up to 10 days.
- Cage-free eggs were a big victory for animal rights groups, but only a marginal improvement for hens.
- Study finds that if you appreciate trashy films, "you have varied and refined tastes and are of above-average education."
- Objectively, intellectuals arent like everyone else, but that doesnt invalidate their ideas.
- Now that Im no longer obsessed with getting fucked up enough to die, the question of finishing school has resurfaced.
- Informed by his own experiences, professor argues Nabokov had a peculiarly hallucinogenic form of epilepsy.
- Eight examples of the new sound of the guitar in 2016.
- Close reading of the expectations already foisted upon Frank Oceans follow-up.
- Koreas most epic tale of royal linguistic heroism.