* New video finds Pussy Riot claiming Putin and cronies have looted billions of dollars of Russia's oil wealth. * Cuba admits being behind a stash of weapons found on board a North Korean ship seized in the Panama Canal. * Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, in response to Zimmerman'
* What happens when we catch Snowden. * Making sense of China's GDP growth: Thanks to Wikileaks, we can guess the numbers are artificial. * Most fake negative reviews of products on the web are written by devoted customers who want to vent. * A catalog of natural and man-made sinkholes.
* George Zimmerman faces at least three more trials in the death of Trayvon Martin—but it's likely he won't lose any of them. * Abortion is unlike any other issue: Both sides have equal support and face their share of internal challenges * Let's abolish the
* Trials like this one can never...act as moral surrogates to resolve the national debates they trigger. * David Simon takes to his blog after the George Zimmerman verdict. * Must-read: Louis Menand on voting rights and the Southern way of life. * Vallejo, Calif., is the most diverse city in the
* Cord Jefferson on the Zimmerman trial. * The most damning element here is not that George Zimmerman was found not guilty: it’s the bitter knowledge that Trayvon Martin was found guilty. * As abortion laws tighten in Texas, the popularity of "abortion pills" from Mexico may increase. * From September,
* Why black colleges might sue the Obama administration: The rhetoric and the policies don't always match. * Toshi Seeger, who married Pete nearly 70 years ago, died this week at 91. * PBS's Off Book explores the question of what happens to human brains in a world of
* Russia's Federal Guard Service places large order for typewriters to steer clear of digital eavesdropping. * The Arab Spring will take decades to succeed; Egypt's coup is no death knell. * On Marie Colvin, the difficulty of reporting in Syria, and why Sebastian Junger quit the war-news
* Muslim Brotherhood issues a statement pledging to continue its "peaceful" resistance to the army's removal of Morsi. * Paul Ryan makes the case for an “economic-based immigration system”—i.e., sensible immigration reform. * See also: "The re-emergence of George W. Bush." * Round-up
* Approximately 29,000 prisoners join hunger strike in California to protest system conditions. * The dream of eliminating infectious disease—e.g., MERS, SARS, AIDS—is dead. * Egypt's political cartoons increasingly stifled. * Police report shows there are now more elderly shoplifters than teenaged ones in Tokyo. * World's
* Egyptian photographer Ahmed Samir Assem films the gunman who ended his life. * Stop watching CNN. * Iceberg the size of Manhattan breaks from Antarctica's Pine Island glacier. * Cross-sections of bullets reveal the intricacies of modern munitions. * Nobody's managed to adequately remove the swastika-shaped tree formation
