Black and white and sand.

Just days after the US and Taliban announce a peace deal, “Afghanistan is once more embroiled in deadly violence.” 1/19

Iran has fuel for a bomb again, though evidence suggests it’s mainly to pressure Trump and Europe. 2/19

California declares a coronavirus state of emergency.  3/19

Lawrence Summers: Just as the 2008 financial crisis upended the 2008 election, coronavirus may upend this presidential campaign. 4/19

Gmail has 1.5 billion active email addresses—so when it changes its algorithms, it changes how a ton of political emails get seen (or not). 5/19

The Trump era's first big case over abortion began yesterday. Lawyers for the Center for Reproductive Rights say they're hopeful. 6/19

Senate Judiciary members like Cornyn, Cruz, and Graham routinely get significant campaign contributions from judicial nominees. 7/19

Shell expects to profit off the climate crisis it helped to cause—and many activists see its profiteering as necessary. 8/19

Plastic was industrialized in the early 1900s. Since then, Big Oil and Big Soda have kept its environmental devastation a secret. 9/19

Air pollution is taking more time off of people’s lives than tobacco smoking, a study finds. Fossil fuels are the primary culprit. 10/19

A surprise jump in life expectancy rates in England prompts fresh debate about the impact of austerity. 11/19

Your weekly white paper: 1,375 surveys of bugs killed on car windscreens finds a dramatic reduction in flying insects. 12/19

Six of the seven birds native to Kauai’s forests are in a state of precipitous decline: a study in disappearing birdsong. 13/19

Watch: John Collins, who set the Guinness World Record for farthest flight by a paper aircraft in 2012, demonstrates how to fold three planes. 14/19

By supporting artists' films, sites like Pornhub attempt to whitewash over years of making money off other people's content. 15/19

Actress Marj Dusay dies at 83, famous for playing the alien in "Spock's Brain," the worst Star Trek episode ever. 16/19

A catalog of Jazz Age experimentalism tries to loosen songs from the dictates of cultural segregation. 17/19

“The desert looks best in black and white.” Portraits by Bryan Schutmaat of people in the American southwest. 18/19

Film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900, now colorized and restored. 19/19

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