“People were scared, and that manifested as either a widening of their arms, or a defensive shutdown. The fight-or-flight urge had been flattened to just ‘fight’. And sometimes, it just looked like lashing out.” Lessons learned by a black British writer while touring post-Brexit America. / BuzzFeed Do
Putin was among the first to send congratulations after Trump declared victory—by telegram. / Reuters We read pretty much the whole morning edition of our nation’s top newspaper. Here’s how to make a good start, especially if you’re interested in things to do with President Trump. 1.
“The most disturbing lesson about this election is that the United States is a good deal less open to women in positions of power than it would like to pretend that it is.” Malcom Gladwell tells fellow Canadians about sexism and elitism in America. / The National “While everyone I met
Hong Kong may cool off after record highs, but temperatures are going to be higher than ever after China flexes unprecedented power over the island, claiming ability to remove insubordinate lawmakers. / scmp.com Saudi Arabia is obviously a theocracy. South Korea, more so than you may know: an investigation is
Approaching America’s abysmal voter turnout as a user-experience challenge led a Y-Combinator-backed nonprofit to a simple solution: to text unregistered voters. / Backchannel RJ Reynolds is spending $12 million in Arkansas to support a ballot initiative to raise the cigarette tax. / NPR A frightening new statistic: as
Existing laws in North Carolina make it easy to manipulate someone into being purged from voter rolls, a trick Republicans recently used to keep thousands—mostly black Democrats—from voting. / Slate You may have heard that if the popular vote gets within two percent, Trump has a much more reasonable
“For radical general semanticists the overcoming of racism, sexism and other ‘traditional’ attitudes can only occur by way of working through the past; and in order to do this we need to embrace some of the the most radically modern of scientific discoveries.” Some linguists believe teaching general semantics to
“ISIS commanders can discover, in real time, where the Iraqis are advancing; they can watch their mortars landing, and recalibrate them to be more accurate next time. Why incur all this risk, unless the live streams aren’t a minor feature of the battle, but somehow the whole point?” Live
The W.H.O. knows that the Syrian government is cutting off blood donations from reaching rebel-held areas, but they refuse to hold back donations entirely, even helping Syrian government hospitals obtain supplies that sanctions are supposed to keep them from buying. / foxnews.com Due to President Obama’s
Liberal governments with just as many check and balances as ours have fallen to authoritarians before. In the event of a Trump presidency gone bad, bureaucrats could resign, and the Supreme Court could rule against him, but the only thing that could really stop him would be public opinion—and
