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The number of migrants intercepted at the US southern border reaches an 11-year high—“a border security and a humanitarian crisis.” 1/18

When the New York Times says it’s a crisis except when Trump says it is, a reader asks, so is it a crisis or not? 2/18

The American consensus is that immigrants strengthen the nation (62%). As a generation, only those born pre-1945 disagree (44%). 3/18

Homeland Security created a clandestine database to track journalists and activists focused on the Central American migrant caravan. 4/18

White supremacists have a new strategy: targeted messaging that's not always overtly hateful. 5/18

Federal disaster funds favor the rich and the white over minorities and those with less wealth. 6/18

A massive research project involving over half a million children in Denmark confirms—again—that vaccines don't cause autism. 7/18

New cameras reportedly can spot shoplifters before they steal, or identify people behaving like they might commit suicide. 8/18

"Emotion detection" is a $20 billion industry that relies on markers like ethnicity, "suggesting a future of automated physiognomy." 9/18

Watch: If you want to prepare for the day when robots get emotional (and sing opera). 10/18

Introducing the 2019 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes. Let the madness begin! 11/18

Sixty finalists in Smithsonian magazine's 16th annual photo contest. 12/18

All of us are part of Google’s image machine, “harnessed inside its cycle of creating and managing company data.” 13/18

A question for Google: How quickly can you update a disaster site? (A question for us: How long will we watch the world melt?) 14/18

Protesting environmental impacts of a new battery plant, Belarussian activists devise a novel tactic: Feeding pigeons. 15/18

A note for consumers: the prices you pay for eyewear "in no way reflect the actual cost of making frames and lenses." 16/18

A dataset of all of the people executed by the state of Texas includes their last statements. 17/18

Here is "every rule listed in each dress code” at 481 public high schools in 36 states, plus the words used in their rationale. 18/18

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