Don't blame avocado toast.
It’s been 30 years since the massacre in Tiananmen Square. Hong Kong maintains its annual vigil. 1/17
In a rare acknowledgement from the Chinese government, a minister actually defends the murder of hundreds or perhaps thousands of unarmed protesters. 2/17
Answers from inside Venezuela to uncomfortable questions about a suffering nation. 3/17
If the US had followed California's path to energy efficiency, our greenhouse gases would be almost 25 percent lower. 4/17
As the American West enters fire season: Humans cause the vast majority of California's wildfires, but about a quarter have “undetermined" starts. 5/17
A lovely short essay about falling in love with life in the West. 6/17
See also: Stylists and fashion designers can't get enough of 1970s rock climbers. 7/17
New York infrastructure has gotten wildly expensive. E.g., the city regularly spends up to $5 million on freestanding bathrooms. 8/17
“Data humanism,” as performed by Giorgia Lupi, has created a hand-drawing trend in the field of information design. 9/17
Women, women everywhere: Paintings by Chicago's Laura Berger. 10/17
Some millennials went looking for people leading activist lives full of purpose, devotion, and ritual—so they moved in with nuns. 11/17
Only 12 percent of millennials call themselves consistently conservative or mostly conservative, the lowest of any American generation. 12/17
Don't blame the avocado toast: Millennials aren't so different from their parents in how they spend their money—they just have less to spend. 13/17
In 1963, an American artist drew the modern "smiley face" for $45, then a French journalist secured the trademark and made millions. 14/17
Jay-Z is hip-hop’s first billionaire. 15/17
The food media world has become addicted to stories of male chefs redeeming themselves of past sins. 16/17
Fiction by newsletter: After government-by-algorithm goes wrong, a truth and reconciliation commission harbors dark secrets. 17/17
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