Enjoy today's cultured protein.
Some inside the Thousand Oaks, Calif., country bar attacked by a shooter were also at last year's Harvest music festival in Las Vegas. 1/18
With the midterms over, the media is no longer breathlessly covering Republicans' racial-anxiety-stoking story of the migrant caravan, which has now arrived in Mexico City. 2/18
Despite disappointments in Florida and Georgia, pro-choice Democrats didn’t lose a single governor’s seat and picked up seven more. A post-election outlook on abortion rights in America. 3/18
It's unwise to use the midterms to read the tea leaves on 2020, especially considering 2016's unpredictability, but here we go. 4/18
According to exit polls, native Texans voted more for Beto O'Rourke than Ted Cruz. 5/18
Since the Kavanaugh hearings, Dr. Ford has had to move four times, pay for private security, and still can't return to her job. 6/18
Video: A short movie about two women—a mathematician and a plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court case—fighting racial gerrymandering in North Carolina. 7/18
Illiberal groups and parties in Europe begin to hit some small but significant stumbling blocks. 8/18
“We’re dancing with the devil here.” Neurochemical events may underlie the placebo effect—which suggests it's manufacturable. See more in The Editors' Longreads Picks. 9/18
Universally, it is agreed they are massive and preternaturally strong—the kind usually dubbed mitts or hams. The fingers are the size of ballpark franks swollen on a hot grill. Journalists and internet commenters alike enjoy talking about rock climber Alex Honnold’s hands. 10/18
Berlin raves traditionally feature white men with laptops. Some interviews with female, non-binary DJs diversifying the scene. 11/18
"Clean meat." "Cultured." "Lab-produced cultured protein." Businesses struggle to brand synthetic beef. 12/18
A surgery professor says recent students have good grades but little tactile knowledge. They're good at swiping, not stitching. 13/18
The National Institutes of Health needs someone to roll joints "within a range of varying concentrations of delta-9-THC." 14/18
“Perhaps the worst thing for creativity is dogma. Dogma delights in nothing; it insists on its own rigid ways.” “Creativity” has become an obsession across America. Which would be great if we actually wanted to foster inventiveness. 15/18
Performances of Bach have gotten faster, speeding up as much as 30% in the last half century. 16/18
Video: Here’s the current World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen playing “bullet chess.” 17/18
Identical twins in Fresno each gave birth to a daughter on Sunday night. 18/18
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